Sam Harris is a globalist, pure and simple. He likes globalism. He actually had a guy on where they discussed how to make globalism more appealing, and how to get rid of any negative connotation it had.

It seems like he's a highly intelligent man who is still ideologically possessed by narratives that are being spoon fed to him, or worse: are a part of his self-identity now.

I've seen it a few times in academia, by people who I would say are genuinely brilliant, but still manage to be leftists. Sometimes it's an identity crisis issue where someone demands to hold onto a label as part of their personality, and sometimes they've mapped a narrative onto their perspective. That last one is particularly tricky, but I normally see it in racialists who see everything from the Racial Theory of HIstory. You'd have to shatter both their self-identity and their narrative perspective of the world to get them to think outside their own narrative limitations, which is very hard without significant personal exposure/experience. Effectively, they have to be deconverted. Unfortunately, Harris knows exactly what a deconversion is, and how hard it is to go through for the person deconverting.

Another part of this might be that highly intelligent people are easy to manipulate when it comes to authoritarianism. The kind of Technocrat fallacy. "Because I'm a smart person who is normally right, it must mean that I know what the right thing to do is for everyone else." If you're a literal genius, and everyone around you appears genuinely less intelligent than you, you could easily fall into the trap of assuming that you know what's right for them, because you're so often right about other things. It builds a bit of an ego that they might not actually know how/when to control.

Yeah, I quit listening to Harris entirely right around inauguration day in 2017. He'd been pretty insufferable throughout the election season but his takes on Trump were ridiculously uncharitable tripe that I had no interest in.

And somehow he brought up Trump in nearly every context I heard him in. I don't need to listen to Harris work out his own personal psychological demons.

I stopped listening to Sam after his ridiculous attempt to try and frame Clinton as being better than Trump in 2016. He was full of emotional bullshit, and certainly not rational. It was probably the first time I seen the tribe member in him. A year or two later he famously said: "white identity politics is the worst identity politics", which reveled his hand even further. A Jew can only be rational when removed from his tribalism, and Jewish tribalism is at its worst when it comes to Europeans. They hate us more than Muslims even though Muslims would be far quicker to physically destroy them if they had their way.

If they had been broken, they'd deny that the media lies and claim that Hunter Biden did nothing wrong. There is still some good in them. This is why I always caution against judging people based on their politics.

The Trig truther was broken long, long ago.