These are dark times—dark times welcomed by the bigoted, the hateful, the narrow-minded, the incurious, the fools. The sort of people who need a cable network to tell them how to think. But evil like this is winning because there actually isn’t a group of Good Guys on any sort of national scale.
The Democrats have willingly abdicated this responsibility. And so it is left to us. Every act of Republican politics is an act of violence. Every single tenet of Republican politics demands nothing else; political violence, social violence, racial violence. It is murder all the way down.