Glenn Greenwald and MAGA Populism: A Socialism of Fools.

MAY 26, 2023 Recently, Jonathan Cook published a piece in Consortium News defending Glenn Greenwald and Russell Brand from claims that the two have been pandering to the far right by appearing on the now former Tucker Carlson Tonight program on Fox News and other right-wing media outlets. Anyway, the following month, Greenwald said this: "I think people have forgotten just how radical Trump's administration could have been if he had followed through on the populist politics of those advising him. But that was what Trump ran on and that was the plan " It is touching to think that Greenwald really believes that the economic populist noises emanating from Trump's 2016 campaign were really "the plan" for his administration- until Jared Kushner proved better at factional infighting that Steve Bannon. [Extracted from the article]