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The earliest anti-fascist movements were made up of very strange bedfellows - communists, socialists, anarchists, republicans (small r), trade unionists, and even monarchists in some instances.

They were “big tent” organizations with the specific purpose of driving out the authoritarian rulers.

36/ I believe our—the left’s—inability to focus on a primary goal without litigating and relitigating *every other issue we’re exercised over all the time*—is, to be clear *along with* apathy, what will destroy the United States. Not Trump: us.

*We’re* the reason, I believe, that America will fall.

35/ We all have a decision to make in these final months of American life. No one can make that decision for you. I’ve no interest in haranguing people about that decision—because candidly unless you come to a position on your own, you’re not really there, anyway. So I’m just telling you where I am.

34/ Metamodernism is about having hope even when it’s hopeless—a paradox, but metamodernists learn to live this way.

I believe America will collapse. Whereas a binary-/dialectics-oriented poststructuralist says, "Then you’re giving up," the metamodernist says, "No, I’m getting ready to *stand* up."

30/ The person next to you in the trenches is likely *not* someone you would befriend, sleep with, or even necessarily trust in certain *other* settings.

But they’re your fellow traveler on *this* task, this task *right here*, the *only one urgently before you this day*—and that *has* to be enough.

28/ And bluntly, 90%+ what I am seeing on the left right now is people using the Big Cause (rule of law and democracy) as a backdrop for their personal causes—which, to be clear, are often entirely just, even as they’re incompatible with the sort of massive coalition-building we need right now.