Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 04:21:56 JST

@seachanger Agreed. Where I’m going with that is that those of us left of the Democratic Party median aren’t making a compelling case with “they’re stupid, they’re corrupt” — even though both are sometimes true. If we want to persuade these politicians, we need to treat this deference to process and norms as a •sincerely held• belief that in principle is reasonable, even admirable. From there, it’s just as you say. But to make the case, we can’t skip the “find the sincerity” part.