Holy shit - that’s an awesome essay.

This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because “we are going to have to live here with each other” is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about…

In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is the problem to solve.

The Republican position is supremacist, and supremacism is fundamentally anti-human, so eventually the Republican position will come for us all, just as when Charlie Kirk was murdered, the Republican position came for Charlie Kirk.

When Klein scolds that “we have to live here with each other” he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and most gallingly he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along.

And so on and on.

Ezra Klein has never been anything but a quisling for the US oligarchy & empire.

I would like to write today about what it is that I find so frustrating and toxic about [Ezra Klein]'s approach, and how if we are going to escape from this horribly fraught time, we are going to defeat the current dominant cultural belief of supremacy with a vision of unified human solidarity, and that means we are going to have to be better than Ezra.

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And wait, it’s not just cute.

The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying “we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.”

You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.