Mystery:Neocons Vs. Classical Liberals

Why do we hate the establishment right, but like the moderate left?

I think I'm the most peculiar example of this. On my User Page, I describe myself as a "Trotsky sympathizer," but I posted a paragraph on the talk page expressing my agreement with Why I no longer support Breitbart. Also, my username is "BernieandTrumpFan." But I don't like George W. Bush. Or Fox News Channel (or Breitbart, for that matter). Or the GOP. But it's not just me.

Alex Jones interviewed Carl Benjamin [Sargon of Akkad] for an hour, agreeing with many of his positions even though he is a classical liberal, and acting respectably toward him. However, he and Vox Day referred to Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson as controlled opposition (a statement which I strongly disagree with).

This encyclopedia has criticized Breitbart multiple times, in two Essays --- Essay: Why I no longer support Breitbart, which I agree with, and Essay:Why Breitbart is not family friendly, which I disagree with --- and on the Breitbart article: "Despite being a conservative news outlet, [Breitbart] has taken certain liberal positions at times, such as firing an editor in June 2017 for posting Tweets in opposition to Islam and Islamic immigration." But it still, for example, refers to Chris Wallace as a Democrat In Name Only (although in my opinion he takes many positions which seem to match those of a neoconservative), and in Breaking News, has said, "AOC continues to defy the Dem establishment...by requesting to be sworn in for her testimony...despite the waiver for members of Congress. Many prefer AOC to Nancy Pelosi's self-serving liberal claptrap," and earlier, when AOC accused Nancy Pelosi of being racist, said, "AOC harshly criticizes Nancy Pelosi, calling her "outright disrespectful" to women of color. Pelosi's style of liberal censorship is apparently not working!"

And President Trump has gotten into disagreements even with formerly strong allies like "Sloppy Steve" Bannon and the late Roger Ailes, and has rightly called out establishment conservatives such as his primary opponents, both of Barack Hussein Obama's former opponents, and Former President George W. Bush. (Trump is even finally wising up to the globalism and neoconservatism of Fox News Channel, and he will hopefully condemn establishment con Neil Cavuto for attacking him.) However, his son-in-law Jared Kushner is a registered Democrat, as is his associate Alan Dershowitz. In fact, before the 2010s, Donald Trump himself had been a lifelong Democrat. However, after becoming a right-wing populist, a nationalist, and a movement conservative, he severed ties with people like the Clintons and Al Sharpton. He has not severed ties with Jared Kushner or Alan Dershowitz.

This probably has something to do with fairness and not being an ideologue. I do this, too! But I don't know why. My theory would be that it doesn't matter where two people fall on the political spectrum, they could even have wildly differing opinions, but as long as they can agree on a few central tenets (free speech is good, globalism is bad, bigotry is wrong, etc.), then they will be able to respect each other. Neocons are globalists, they don't respect or even care too much about free speech, and sometimes they play the same identity politics game as the establishment and progressive left (i.e., the Leader of the Opposition in Canada insisting for half an hour straight that he isn't racist). In contrast, even the classical liberal show The Simpsons, despite taking various liberal positions which I disagree with, appears to support freedom of expression and recognize when the progressive left has gone too far. Even Family Guy, whose creator recently worked on a miniseries demonizing Roger Ailes, has released an episode making fun of Twitter's outrage culture, and an episode making fun of millennials. Even Bill Maher, who is not at all respectable politically, has criticized Islam and "Palestine" for their authoritarianism; ironically, he has now been the target of Rashida Tlaib's advocated boycott for criticizing BDS (this didn't faze Maher; he insulted BDS again on his show the next day). Maher has also, to an extent, advocated for free speech. CNN's Fareed Zakaria has also advocated for freedom of expression.

Bernie Sanders has advocated protectionism, criminal justice reform, and lowering prescription drug prices. And many classical liberals, such as Carl Benjamin and Tim Pool, unerringly defend free speech, capitalism, and Western values. Registered Democrat and "factual feminist" Christina Hoff Sommers disbelieves the theory of the "wage gap," and another registered Democrat, Alan Dershowitz, has also narrated a video for PragerU (Sommers narrated at least three); Dershowitz' video defended the State of Israel (even though he advocated for a Two-State Solution).

The establishment has two faces, one of which is swallowing up the moderate and populist left (although Sanders, Warren, and even Harris may put the dagger in it if Biden keeps falling in the polls); the other had been expanding until the 2016 election, after which point it began to stagnate (however, it still has a large and significant presence, but is continually being thwarted by the Trump administration).