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Tamlin Day's avatar

This is terrifying as I watch things unfolding back home in the US. My nightmare recurring is that refugee claim is reflected (transgender person fleeing the states) and that upon return I’m sent to one of the camps the state is using.

To anticipate the possibility something like that could happen here, for him to even point in that direction, is horrifying.

What I have learned from 2020 is that it’s not enough to just defeat the candidate who says these things. The defeat has to have a wide enough margin to become a mandate for the opposition. Otherwise, the Overton Window drifts further toward a the conservative side of things.

As always, I appreciate your blog.

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Tamlin Day's avatar

This is terrifying as I watch things unfolding back home in the US. My nightmare recurring is that refugee claim is reflected (transgender person fleeing the states) and that upon return I’m sent to one of the camps the state is using.

To anticipate the possibility something like that could happen here, for him to even point in that direction, is horrifying.

What I have learned from 2020 is that it’s not enough to just defeat the candidate who says these things. The defeat has to have a wide enough margin to become a mandate for the opposition. Otherwise, the Overton Window drifts further toward a the conservative side of things.

As always, I appreciate your blog.

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Cedric Richards's avatar

This column is very good; we must never take our rights for granted.

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Chris Oster's avatar

This is PP’s equivalent to Trump saying he would be a “dictator on day one”. He cannot be allowed to gain power.

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