On: Punching Nazis

[A Black Falcon]

That's where it started, but hasn't it expanded into a general insult for any man they think of as insufficiently masculine or ideologically pure by their standards?

What I can say is acting the way they do is a good way to make enemies, and acting the way we do is a good way to make friends. In the fullness of time, I think that having scruples wins out. To use your analogy, if someone sets your house on fire, you don't play chess and you don't set more things on fire. You put out the fire. I think that would represent ground level politics, getting as many people with views you support in every level of office so the arsonists can't keep at it.

That is definitely important, but putting out the fire by starting from ground-level politics will take a long time to get far, thanks to major problems such as gerrymandering and the sheer number of states they control. I don't know if we can wait that long, not with them blocking anything good from happening in DC and also doing bad stuff beyond that too, as we see from the things Trump is managing to accomplish and not mess up...