Okkalm wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 8:01 amYes…although a clearly biased one. From a fellow rightie...
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-ri ... llenbergerI’ve written quite a bit about the right’s fake news problem. Influencers who just make stuff up have built massive followings. But there’s another kind of analyst that is many ways more annoying, and perhaps more pernicious because this type tends to get taken seriously by those who should know better.
In the minds of many critics of the left, Michael Shellenberger is the answer to the mainstream media. He is the CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin. As Jesse Singal recently showed in a two-part series, Shellenberger often plays fast and loose with the facts, and is hesitant to correct his mistakes. Even setting that aside, there’s a kind of hollowness to his enterprise that reflects quite poorly on the current state of right-wing and anti-establishment discourse.
There are many things that might be said about Trump’s recent cabinet appointments. Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F Kennedy, Jr are quite unusual picks. How to make sense of them, especially in light of more conventional selections like Rubio for Secretary of State? According to Shellenberger, though, you don’t need to worry about any of the issues involved. As he wrote on Twitter at the beginning of a recent thread,
Trump's nominees are weird, say elites. But it was the elites’ weird ideas that caused wars, addiction/OD crisis, Covid lockdowns, trans madness, censorship, and worse. Trump's nominees trigger the covert narcissism of elites who are rightly defensive at their appalling record.
