We must keep thinking for ourselves. We most reinforce our values and our commitment to them. This is the beginning of sustained, robust opposition to the Republican Party’s domination of the federal government and its supporters’ practices, objectives, and worldview. I am not “coming together” with them. I am not going to be wholly civil. I hold myself apart, to think and to act as oppositionally as I can, within the bounds of reasonable prudence. 4/