Don't Cry for Julian Assange

Julian Assange finally got kicked out of the Ecuadoran embassy in London and was promptly arrested. Assange and Wikileaks helped Trump get elected in 2016. Various numbskulls, like the ones on counterpunch, are taking umbrage. These are the same imbeciles who still believe that Hillary Clinton was a greater evil than Donald Trump. Nobody who helped Trump can call himself a progressive. Wikileaks merely engaged in exposure for the sake of exposure: tabloidism. Wikileaks is another symptom of the tabloidization of the culture which made Trump possible. Of course if Assange is convicted by the Trump administration it will be a bitter irony. But then irony is the central principle of the universe.