James Talarico

But then the revolutionary part is that you are called to love your opponents and your enemies just as you love yourself.

It's easy to say in church.

I try and fail every day to do that in the legislature, to see my opponents as children of God, to see Donald Trump as a child of God.

I'm probably going to get a primary challenge right there for saying that.

But he is.

He is.

And that's a hard thing for progressives and Democrats to get their head around.

Dorothy Day, who is this great Catholic activist for the poor and labor organizer, she had this great quote where she said, you really only love God as much as you love the person you love the least.

You only truly love God as much as you love the person you love the least.

In other words, the test of Christianity is not do you love Jesus, because Jesus is pretty lovable.

The test is do you love Judas?

I mean, now that is radical.

Yeah.

And I think that is the key to saving this whole American experiment.

Is how do you love your enemies?

So I actually had – this happened to me in my first campaign.

Facebook was the main platform at that time.

And there was a guy who had written kind of a snarky comment about how I was a Democrat who wanted to take away everybody's guns.

And I, again, I wanted to respond in anger, right?

Because that's always your first instinct.