30th January 2021, 8:06 PM
A new political reality. One, it is clearer than it has ever been that the specific things that Trump cultists want are entirely morally impossible to compromise on. We can't give them "half racism". We can't give them half of anything they want. What we CAN do is do our best to pursue what we actually want and try to convince these lost people to join our side.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)