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.
Holy shit - that’s an awesome essay.
And so on and on.