On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” New York Magazine Writer-at-Large Andrew Sullivan argued, “Liberals have to be careful not to sound so f*cking condescending and smug, as if they know it, and start actually engaging the other side and persuading people.”

Sullivan said there was a “giant cloud of smug” above MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow during her Trump tax story.liberals have to be careful to not so fucking condescending and smudges if they know it and start engaging the other side and persuading people.

He continued, “Liberals have to be careful not to sound so f*cking condescending and smug, as if they know it, and start actually engaging the other side and persuading people.”

Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett