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[frazzled]

62. I've disagreed with his political views for eight years

I realized that with his first book, in 2006, which I actually was stupid enough to buy at the time. (I gave it away after reading the intro.) So it's largely ideological: he's closer to a Ron or Rand Paul for me than to any kind of liberal. His support for the Citizens United decision did not help. He seems to me the male Ayn Rand of the new millennium. I've made my opinions of him known for many, many years, well before he left for the Guardian and long before the name Edward Snowden was known.

But then there's the sleazy stuff I didn't like on top of it: the behavior during his defense of the truly scum neo-Nazi. The self-promotion, the coy dissemblings about not being able to come back to the US (first because he couldn't get married here, then because he would surely be arrested: not).

In general, why should I like someone with whose positions I disagree and who rubs me the wrong way as a huckster and zealot and not quite honest person. And I'm ENTITLED to my opinions about this. You're entitled to yours. I don't even know why this question should be asked.