I get the feeling they are just disappointed in where liberalism has shifted and their recent work is calling out that discomfort. My reading of both is quite

I get the feeling they are just disappointed in where liberalism has shifted and their recent work is calling out that discomfort. My reading of both is quite honestly the exact opposite of what you describe, they tend to call out the authoritarianism they see no matter the side. Frankly even Taibbi’s recent foray into Government and Twitter is more an indictment of a government’s overreach into controlling speech which is very authoritarian in action. That series spoke about both Trump and Biden’s administrations attempting to control public discourse. It certainly feels like it was more critical to the Biden admin, and that might help the GOP…but that might be because there was a lot more evidence of it provided to him.