Back in the early 2000s, I listened to the talk host Ron Smith in Baltimore. He was a conservative who wasn’t fond of W and opposed the Iraq War from the beginning. Shaller was a frequent guest and was a caricature of a leftist academic on all topics. He always sounded like a ridiculously overmatched adversary against Smith’s calm responses. It seems Shaller has become only more hysterical.
I’d not heard of him before this. He has all the arrogance of a NYC jerkoff. Like my BIL.
Smith was generally good. But even he had some shibboleth touchstones.