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There are a lot of folks, too many, who would rather be lied to about everything than be told the truth about race from anyone.
That’s my takeaway from conversation with Trump-voting close relatives.
We’re going to have to recalibrate for the moral conflict of our lifetime.
That’s my takeaway from conversation with Trump-voting close relatives.
We’re going to have to recalibrate for the moral conflict of our lifetime.
This is not going to be a classic left versus right thing. One party has been taken captive through the hearts of voters who were ready to have resentments exploited.
This is going to be populist authoritarianism versus a broad coalition of folks committed to America.
This is going to be populist authoritarianism versus a broad coalition of folks committed to America.
This election has bought us time. We need to use that time to reinforce democracy. It will be tempting to see it through the old lenses of left/right. We need to prepare now to see it as something much more profound. This is the sad culmination of an authoritarian project.
We might want to fight about policy differences and I hope good policy comes in the year ahead. But Donald Trump opened the floodgates. We’re going to face misinformation and disinformation that will make what we’ve seen already look like baby steps.
Our priority is going to need to be building the breakers that can hold back a tide of untruth. Democracy stands imperiled by an absolute crisis of truth. I think 2016 was the first battle and it was like Pearl Harbor — it opened the way for a much longer conflict.
I do not consider other Americans to be enemies — I do consider many captive to a twisting of the truth that is jeopardizing not just our rights but our souls. We cannot stand as a people let alone a nation in the grip of such falsehood and at the mercy of such manipulation.
