Per a friend-
”There are only two ways to win a fight. You can bring your opponent to submission or your opponent can bring you to exhaustion. Submission, think Germany and Japan in 1945. Exhaustion, think of the United States and Vietnam in 1975. We cannot become exhausted in this fight or we will lose the country and American democracy. We have to bring the forces that Trump has let loose to submission. What I would say to Congresswoman AOC, is we have to bury this together, all of us. The militia groups, the people who storm the Michigan capitol, right, the sentiment that it is OK to arrest and kidnap governors and try them in basements, the idea on Fox News that a kid who picked up his AR-15 and shot three people in Wisconsin looking for trouble as some sort of national hero. We need the forces that Trump has whipped up to recede, to shrink, and we have to beat them at the ballot box or we will lose the country. Trumpism wasn’t repudiated in one election. We’ve had America’s greatest conman in history. One of its greatest demagogues in history assume the power of presidency and he vandalized the country politically. It is polity. He works for self-interest. He poisoned the public good. He’s a consequential president. It will take us a long, long, long time to recover from this as a country, both in spirit, physically, from a disease, from a pandemic and from our animosity towards each other that he has stoked.”
