And now look at the Trump administration's policies and reactionary edicts, and you'll see what their goal is.

I should also add

8. Targeted environmental degradation
9. Dissolve public education
10. Restrict access to information

time to connect with them as human beings and encourage them to care about other people's suffering, we might be able to help them see that the policies they had originally supported are wrong. But we have to do so without drifting to the right. We're going to need to build community to do it well.

They have to find their tragedy to unlock their empathy. And while I don't judge people's personal reactions to MAGA's FAFO moments, how we respond to them interpersonally matters. My inclination is that if we rub their noses in it we will alienate and further polarize them. However, if we take the

I think that being plain-spoken and authentic is a good place to start for our own sanity and for building a community of resistance. As for getting through to MAGA, the ONLY thing that opens their ❤️s and 👁️s is their own tragedy. Only when they're suffering do they become open to the truth.

Sounds like we're on the same page. I really appreciate you taking the time to say all of this. Fascists doesn't play by the rules and they love using asymmetric tactics to flood the zone and gain the upper hand. If we don't call things out for what they are then we're left with a weak narrative

Jon Stewart is NOT the political savant some seem to think he is, and the arrogant, privileged attitude he's modeling here promotes ignorance and complicity.