The two big tells for me are how hard people flip-flopped on Greenwald and how he has to 'defend' himself with his past accomplishments. Leftist Twitter was a

The two big tells for me are how hard people flip-flopped on Greenwald and how he has to 'defend' himself with his past accomplishments. Leftist Twitter was a huge Greenwald fan when he was breaking the Snowden story. Then when he does something they don't like, suddenly he was just "handed the story" and people are acting like he was always a subpar alt-right grifter who just got to where he is by luck. "Bah, we never liked you anyways!" has the same feel as "We have always been at war with Eurasia!" And yes, in their eyes, it doesn't matter if you're a gay reporter exposing government secrets and vocally supporting progressive candidates, if you wrote one article which could be seen as supporting Trump, you're out of the club, full stop. Years of progressive reporting don't matter once you've got the Black Mark. This was a beautiful takedown, if a little bit overdramatic.