During the GWB admin, a lot of really great people wrote a lot of stuff online about how to think about what was happening in politics and the war, and the real-life friendships I got from that period of blogging with anti-fascist anti-war anti-racist people are still most of the best relationships in my life.
What didn't happen was ending facism, or the war, or terrible things happening in our communities. Those who leveled up to MSM jobs from that group are the worst people in media today.