Here's my choice of excerpts:

Greenwald has experienced his own share of criticism, but is not known for showing kindness to critics. Michael Hayden, the former director of the C.I.A. and the N.S.A., has written that debating him was like looking “the devil in the eye.” Leading American progressives—speaking off the record, and apologizing for what they describe as cowardice—call Greenwald a bully and a troll. One told me that “he makes everything war.” The spouse of one of Greenwald’s friends visualizes him as the angry emoji. On Twitter, he has little use for agree-to-disagree courtesies, or humor: he presses on. More than one tweet has started with “No, you idiot.” He’ll tweet “Go fuck yourself” to a user with twenty or so followers. A few years ago, Greenwald had a Twitter disagreement with Imani Gandy, a legal journalist, who tweets as @AngryBlackLady; another Twitter user, in support of Greenwald, proposed to Gandy that “Obama could rape a nun live on NBC and you’d say we weren’t seeing what we were seeing.” Greenwald replied, “No—she’d say it was justified & noble—that he only did it to teach us about the evils of rape.”

After having some hours to let thoughts sink in overall what I am most amazed about is that he has such a large loyal and fervent fan base that fights on social media for his honor, even though the persona is screechy, obnoxious, preachy, humorless, loud-and-proud gay. Brand Outrage in Dear Leader form sells, looking back now it seems all along he is a precursor warning sign of Trumpism. So many try so hard to dissect Trump fans, sturm and drang about white working class whatever. It could be just something more like at the start of the blogosphere age, a lot of people start looking for a dear leader to put everything in an ideological package for them so they know where to focus their "mad as hell not going to take it anymore" outrage? Even if it is idiosyncratic and not a rational ideology.  And they become loyal followers. No coincidence that Greenwald felt after a while that the Wikileaks paradigm was not a good fit because it didn't "curate"? He is an authoritarian libertarian!