This is horrifyingly correct.

Pop intellectuals spent decades luxuriating in smug, performative detachment - flirting with reactionary ideas, indulging in conceited contrarianism - because they believed history had a progressive safety net. They thought their equivocations were harmless because progress was inevitable. They sold their Airport Book devil’s advocacy from a place of perfect safety. Now the devil’s at the door, and they want to pretend they weren’t complicit.

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