Garcia Martinez: Old left and new right share anti-U.S. foreign policy
Antonio Garcia Martinez · #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks · May 25, 2022 · at 14:47
Antonio Garcia Martinez analyzes ideological convergence between Bernie Sanders-style leftists and populist right-wing figures regarding foreign intervention during a debate with Glenn Greenwald.
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“The last thing I would say is, I think one thing that unites, I think, the old left that you would probably put yourself into, in with Glenn, like a Bernie leftist, and the new right, is that both consider two key things. One, the US can never act abroad in a legitimate good way. Everything the US does abroad is always a fiasco, and then two, everything that happens abroad is our fault.”
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