Brogressives

Adele Stan with a serious takedown of the obnoxious, overrated, and generally awful David Sirota, who attacked her with a typically aggressive, sloppy, and falsifying column when she questioned progressives who ignored all the terrible things Rand Paul stands for to support his grandstanding and almost meaningless filibuster over extrajudicial killings, even though his stand was in fact completely related to all those terrible things.

Sirota is the typical brogressive, as Stan and Megan Carpentier call them–hypermasculinized self-described progressive men like Greenwald who trivialize any concern outside of their own definition of what is important and then taunt everyone who disagrees with their tactics as apologists for killing Yemeni babies, falsifies their arguments, papers over nuance in favor of denunciation, and generally channels sexist and misogynistic values of shouting and exclusion over debate and inclusion.

As Stan says, “So much easier than organizing!” Indeed.