Jimmy Dore makes the same mistakes Zak is making. He makes the occasional critique but still prefaces it with platitudes and capitulation "I'm still leftist but y'know maybe corps have too much power over left wing debate. But also some people are still mysoggyknees and problematic." He still uses the dumb leftist language and group think. And still thinks he's part of the club despite being completely disowned. These people are all still so in the cult they have a cognitive disonance over what caused them to be ostracized. My point is they SHOULDN'T believe in tenets that actively contributed to their downfall but they do.
Also reading through that essay Zak wrote I can already see the double standard. He thinks all these hate mobs are bad when he still goes out of his way to encourage censorship of stuff he doesn't like. He has no self awareness at all. Even when presented with people who did the exact shit as him to him he can never think that maybe his own actions have affected people in similar ways.
Zak and Jimmy Dore both have the same problem of coming from the old Gen X left and not even being able to fully comprehend that the left are entirely the new moral guardians and that they need to abandon the leftist framework if they want to fight against it. The right-wing that they rebelled against is either dead or irrelevant.
Generation X'er liberals and leftists who aren't woke tend to have that problem and think that becoming non-leftist means they have to wind up as some kind of old-school fundie, neoconservative, or traditionalist from the Reagan and Bush eras.
So they still kinda have these subconscious biases and try to do the bare minimum of virtue signaling and leftist framing as a way to keep themselves from being seen as right-wing, because to them a right-winger (or non-leftist) is either a batshit insane /pol/ tard, a Randroid lolbertarian midwit, or far most likely, a Bible-thumping traditionalist redneck or suburbanite neocon.
Millennial and Zoomer leftists also have a similar issue in thinking the Religious Right is still relevant in any form other than a mere historical footnote. However, Late Millennial and Zoomer leftists also tend to be the biggest zealots of leftist beliefs and prone to the left-wing version of puritanism.
Outside of edgy and impotent /pol/ tard "traditionalists" who LARP as Puritans and a few Silent Gen geezers and Boomer fundies who are remnants of the old Reagan/Bush era right, the Religious Right is dead and buried and even their neocon benefactors threw them under the bus over a decade ago.
Guys like Zak and Dore are still operating on an old mindset that is largely irrelevant and only is propped up by the corporate elites that control the country. They still believe the fundies are something other than a pathetic and impotent relic these days.
Even if they focus on other things nowadays, that's probably one of the biggest reasons they still throw their lot in with the left, even if it's now a largely subsconscious motive.
