For good reason.
But that doesn't forgive the behaviors.
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Somehow you seem content to forgive the behaviors of the folks on the right…who have actually murdered people. We seem to have missed your outrage about that; probably because you never expressed any.
I've seen him do exactly that, and several times.
However, he reserves his most scathing judgment for those on the left, or at best blames both sides equally (no matter the differences). Now, while I disagree on most everything in Mac's two-years-and-counting shtick, I agree with him, wholeheartedly, on one count: Having positioned himself on the moderate left, his first order priority is, and ought to be, to clean up in his own camp. Tearing down the other camp is easy, and there's a myriad efforts to that effect out there. Most aren't worth reading.
Where Mac goes wrong is not in scrutinizing "the Left", it's his belief that such thing as "the Left" even exists in a way so that it can be addressed in bumper-sticker judgments, and that every crackpot and goof he finds spouting crap is evidence for the insanity of "the Left". That's pushing generalization to such extremes as to be bordering on the insane.
Where he further goes wrong is to use every warning voice reminding him where he goes wrong as further evidence supporting his own shtick. That's when his world-view is becoming immune to criticism and hermetically sealed off against reasonable scrutiny.
Where Mac goes wrong, yet again, is by whining about the divisions in the country as fueled by the insane Left or Right, and leaving it at that. Fostering unity would be furthered by looking for common ground wherever it can be found, and letting even shreds of reason (on either side) stand. Instead, he condemns all sides (equally), and so roundly, even aspects that would be worth evaluating prudently won't escape, if he pays attention to that at all.
