And Contra is 1000% a bougie liberal. PT only like, uh, 98%. But if V**sh counts (and OOP counts him), then it's not like the men aren't reactionary slop-gourmands, with the better among them* just limiting what they say to the more pure expressions of that in media criticism rather than pretending to really do politics.
Turns out liberalism is a fucking problem that needs to be combated!
*This being a highly relative superlative