The right weaponized legitimate surveillance fears that liberals abandoned

Evidence

Bannon has other, more unsettling mirror tricks. These relate to the way he latched onto legitimate fears of surveillance and Big Tech, and the way those surveillance fears were going largely unaddressed in liberal circles. That is far from the only liberal failing on which he has pounced. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 384

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates the book’s core ‘Mirror World metabolizes real grievances the left abandoned’ thesis — the load-bearing claim the reader is assessing. — connects to: Russiagate drove the left to embrace the very intelligence agencies it distrusted — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 946; Left and right criticized federal surveillance for opposite reasons — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 374; Right-wing detention-facility claims began from genuine liberal civil-liberties concerns — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 377