My opinion of him has been and continues to be that he’s a very clever small-L libertarian hacker who also holds himself in extremely high regard. I suspect he developed Wikileaks as a tool he wanted to use to exempt himself from the rules and norms of Western society while also demonstrating to the world how smart he was.
Whatever grandiose claims he makes, in the end he’s only on one team: his own. For a decade that worked out for liberals and progressives.
Then Clinton supported the case for his extradition to Sweden (which he correctly assumed would result in his further extradition to the U.S.) and he started engaging in false equivalencies between her and #nextpresident. The Russians saw their opportunity for a conduit and took it.
