Notorious 'progressive' anti-Hillary conspiracy blogger has pivoted to pro-gun and 'Trump 2020'

[Soph0571]

He was described by The Washington Post as “the unofficial scribe of Sanders’s most hardcore voters” and he was invited on CNN and MSNBC to advocate for Bernie Sanders.

Goodman has since changed his tune. He now has a pro-Second Amendment YouTube channel and is now openly supporting Trump’s 2020 re-election bid on his Twitter account.
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Goodman pushed the scandal about Hillary Clinton’s emails, the debunked conspiracy theory about a uranium deal and even Benghazi. He wrote that Hillary Clinton was certain to be indicted for deleting her emails, and that she should therefore concede to Bernie. After Bernie lost to Clinton, Goodman urged Bernie to contest the Democratic convention and then, finally, urged fellow die-hard Berners to vote for Jill Stein.

Now, while he calls himself a “former liberal” on his Second Amendment channel, Goodman is arguing to fellow “progressive” followers that the Mueller investigation is bunk.

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/notorious-progressive-anti-hillary-blogger-now-pivoted-pro-gun-trump-2020/|

Heh....this is what white male privilege can look like

[Croney]

1. Pardon me while I scrape him off my shoe.

[JI7]

2. he was always a right wing piece of shit and never progressive

[yardwork]

6. True that.

[EffieBlack]

17. Yup

[Ferrets are Cool]

38. Ding Ding. You nailed that one.

[stonecutter357]

3. H.A. Goodman #1 BBRO !

[Mike Nelson]

4. Goodman has since changed his tune?

...looks, to me, like he's been playing the same tune all along...

[DanTex]

5. I remember when this guy was the #1 hero of all the Hillary haters here.

[OneBro]

7. My fear is that progressives won't accept that they were duped.

Thus leaving them vulnerable to a repeat in coming elections.

[EffieBlack]

18. Reminds me of some other folk ..

[Captain Stern]

8. What was his username here?

Just kidding, of course....but it's really not that much of a reach.

[betsuni]

9. I had no idea what he looked like.

Now it all makes sense.

[Mc Mike]

10. I backed Bernie in the primary, and never heard of this butthole.

But I do recall how Jimmy Dore was pretending to be a 'fighting lefty', then switched over to openly backing dRump.

Cenk's refusal to address that made me swear off TYT, though I love Ana.

[RandiFan1290]

11. I still proudly support Bernie

I never listened to this moron and it dosen't surprise me that trump's pals at msnbc and cnn propped him up.

DU is jam packed with trolls pretending to be Democrats.

[Codeine]

12. White Male Privilege looks a little doughy

and soft. Little Lord HaHa needs to lay off the white bread and mayonnaise sandwiches before bed methinks.

[c-rational]

13. That made me lol.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

22. Stay Puft marshmallow man. nt

[Oneironaut]

14. A lot of Bernie supporters were extreme Libertarians.

They were neither left or right, and definitely weren't Liberals or Progressives. That's not to say that all Bernie supporters were extreme Libertarians, but a lot were. That explains why many shifted to supporting Trump when Bernie lost the primary.

They didn't care for the typical Democratic platform. I think many were previously Ron Paul supporters.

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[Me.]

15. And Yet He Was Featured Here On DU

by supporters of the Senator and God Forbid a voice be raised against him

[nini]

16. It boggles the mind how many were played like a fiddle by these types

It woukd be funny but it's not.

[Me.]

19. Quite Right

and the blinders are still on

[dalton99a]

21. They want to keep them on

for fear of knowing the truth

[ismnotwasm]

23. How the fuck did that asshole get in the news?

Even if it’s Rawstory? This is not exactly new and he was clearly full of shit throughout the primaries, I have better writing talent, and I’m not a writer. Fuck this guy. I will never understand why anyone listened to him in the first place.

[ucrdem]

24. Calling out haha and other fake-left wingnuts was "hippie punching."

Which is funny because haha doesn't look like a hippie.

[ismnotwasm]

28. He looks like the opportunistic little putz he is

His crap was so completely ridiculous during the primaries I still can’t get over people taking him serious. Then again, millions of people voted for Trump, so critical thinking is purely missing in large swaths of our population

[yallerdawg]

27. He was all over Huffington Post.

Not anymore.

[ismnotwasm]

31. Oh yeah

Sigh. You are right. I even had people in RL thinking he was legit. Just UGH—gives me a headache.

[Kirk Lover]

25. He is an opportunist that capitalized. That is all.

[Stallion]

26. The Huffington Post Should Take a Lot of the Blame

they created him and gave him a platform

Here's his HuffPo Profile page

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/h-a-goodman

[Iliyah]

29. He was never a "progressive"

Inside man pretending to be one. Supported Sanders was his job inorder to bring division.

[honest.abe]

30. I hope those who posted articles from this guy back during the election..

now realize they had been duped. An mea culpa to DU members would be appreciated.

[MineralMan]

32. Some people spotted him long, long ago.

For that, they were harshly criticized right here on DU, by people who, oddly enough, are no longer here.

[SidDithers]

33. I've said it before, but it's great fun to read through some of the HA Goodman threads at DU...

from 2015 and 2016.

He had so many fooled.

Thankfully, there were just as many who knew he was a doofus from day 1.

Sid

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. He was obviously never a progressive.

I don't know why liberal-leaning publications used his stuff; it was so apparent where he was coming from.

[Downtown Hound]

35. Dude looks like he's never had a date in his life.

And "former liberal/progressive" my ass.

[stevenleser]

36. Orwell talked about transferring allegiances in his Notes on Nationalism

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat

Orwell talked about the instability and transference of nationalistic political allegiances. I’ve often said that the anti-Democratic party bent of some self-proclaimed progressives has a ver nationalistic feel , specifically what Orwell in this same piece called negative nationalism:

Instability. The intensity with which they are held does not prevent nationalist loyalties from being transferable. To begin with, as I have pointed out already, they can be and often are fastened up on some foreign country. One quite commonly finds that great national leaders, or the founders of nationalist movements, do not even belong to the country they have glorified. Sometimes they are outright foreigners, or more often they come from peripheral areas where nationality is doubtful. Examples are Stalin, Hitler, Napoleon, de Valera, Disraeli, Poincare, Beaverbrook. The Pan-German movement was in part the creation of an Englishman, Houston Chamberlain. For the past fifty or a hundred years, transferred nationalism has been a common phenomenon among literary intellectuals. With Lafcadio Hearne the transference was to Japan, with Carlyle and many others of his time to Germany, and in our own age it is usually to Russia. But the peculiarly interesting fact is that re-transference is also possible. A country or other unit which has been worshipped for years may suddenly become detestable, and some other object of affection may take its place with almost no interval. In the first version of H. G. Wells's Outline of History, and others of his writings about that time, one finds the United States praised almost as extravagantly as Russia is praised by Communists today: yet within a few years this uncritical admiration had turned into hostility. The bigoted Communist who changes in a space of weeks, or even days, into an equally bigoted Trotskyist is a common spectacle. In continental Europe Fascist movements were largely recruited from among Communists, and the opposite process may well happen within the next few years. What remains constant in the nationalist is his state of mind: the object of his feelings is changeable, and may be imaginary.


But for an intellectual, transference has an important function which I have already mentioned shortly in connection with Chesterton. It makes it possible for him to be much more nationalistic — more vulgar, more silly, more malignant, more dishonest — that he could ever be on behalf of his native country, or any unit of which he had real knowledge. When one sees the slavish or boastful rubbish that is written about Stalin, the Red Army, etc. by fairly intelligent and sensitive people, one realises that this is only possible because some kind of dislocation has taken place. In societies such as ours, it is unusual for anyone describable as an intellectual to feel a very deep attachment to his own country. Public opinion — that is, the section of public opinion of which he as an intellectual is aware — will not allow him to do so. Most of the people surrounding him are sceptical and disaffected, and he may adopt the same attitude from imitativeness or sheer cowardice: in that case he will have abandoned the form of nationalism that lies nearest to hand without getting any closer to a genuinely internationalist outlook. He still feels the need for a Fatherland, and it is natural to look for one somewhere abroad. Having found it, he can wallow unrestrainedly in exactly those emotions from which he believes that he has emancipated himself. God, the King, the Empire, the Union Jack — all the overthrown idols can reappear under different names, and because they are not recognised for what they are they can be worshipped with a good conscience. Transferred nationalism, like the use of scapegoats, is a way of attaining salvation without altering one's conduct.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Second former Salon columnist that turned out to be a fake liberal

The first was Glenn Greenwald.

[dalton99a]

39. +1

[JI7]

43. although it was always obvious they were not liberals

[Turbineguy]

40. It's the smart move.

It's where the money is.

Anybody think this POS can hold a real job?

[John Fante]

41. I have seen Jimmy Dore's future... and it looks a lot like this clown's.

[Gothmog]

42. goodman is an asshole