A few days ago, I published my open letter to Nancy Pelosi, in which I said, in part:
In my decades of following the political conversation, I’ve never seen a headline that contained the phrase “Democrats fight.”
My brother recently sent me this screenshot, which contains those words, but with a niggling detail between:
This isn’t a dilemma, Democrats. You fight all the way. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of compromising too far. If you’re at B and the Republicans are at H, it’s OK to compromise at D or so. But if you’re at B and Trump’s at Z, you’ll end up compromising somewhere around M. Not cool.
The late Ron Silver, playing Bruno Gianelli and speaking words written by the inimitable Aaron Sorkin, said it best years ago:
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“No more” should be the Democratic rallying cry. Instead, it seems to be “Please don’t hurt me.”
(P.S. Please buy my short story “The Ghosts at 95” before 1/31/17 — all proceeds go to the ACLU.)