The biggest mistake you can make as a conservative is to minimize, justify, or even celebrate this destruction of our democratic foundations in the name of conservative values, because by the time you realize that your own house is about to get bulldozed, you will be powerless to stop it. (11/11)

Make no mistake: what we are witnessing today in the United States is not a healthy democratic shift towards conservative values. It is a reckless bulldozing of rule of law, checks and balances, healthy debate, scientific thought, human dignity and the most basic rights of citizens. (10/11)

It won’t be long before there will be no more civil servants left in the government. Only loyalists to a dictator or passive accomplices afraid of retaliation. I’ve seen it happen first hand several times, I can see the patterns, and it makes me deeply sad. (9/11)

And that is the problem with our current political crisis: the basic ground rules have been broken. The separation of powers has been broken. Fact checking has been broken. Empathy has been broken. Human dignity has been broken. (8/11)

But revenge is not progress, it is a never-ending spiral of destruction. Progress is having enough trust with people we disagree with to be able to learn from each other and set some basic ground rules for coexisting together. (7/11)

As someone who personally knows many people on the left, the center and the right who have been unfairly persecuted and/or imprisoned by dictators or corrupt justice systems in several countries, I can understand that it can feel like progress to see the oppressors become the oppressed. (6/11)

You may feel strongly that this administration is simply correcting the unjust abuses of power of previous liberal administrations. But when the tyrants we are empowering in the name of reform finish crushing every opposing force, you will realize nobody is left to defend you (5)

But when one group tries to squash the other permanently, and the pendulum stops swinging, the escape valves shut off and society becomes a pressure cooker that is about to explode. (4/11)

A healthy democracy allows for mutual learning, and necessarily swings back and forth between progressive and conservative leadership, to provide an escape valve for the negative consequences of each ideology’s shortsightedness. (3/11)

Liberals and Conservatives have always needed each other. Liberals can see and feel things that Conservatives can’t. Conservatives can see and feel things that Liberals can’t. (2/11)