He was smiling with that eye dimple all the time! Having fun! Telling the story of working class NYC!

Because what Rosa Parks was doing—and what Brad Lander was doing—was refusing to accede to unjust state action. That's not a stunt, that's exercising your moral rights as a human being.

I want to say a little more about this. If we call what Lander did a "stunt," it seems to me that we have to call what Rosa Parks did a stunt too, and that seems to me to be patently ridiculous.

And honestly, the fact that so many high-ranking elected Dems don't know that there's a difference between a "stunt" and throwing your body on the gears with the cameras rolling—and that the latter is what our moment calls for—is a big part of the problem in the party right now.