Luke Thomas

And, you know, I feel like, isn't this great for my side?

I think there's a natural part of certain people that can see that, but you have to stop and take a breath and say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, dude, this was murder.

This was murder on, I wasn't live television, but you know, almost brought to you live on your phone, some, some kind of, you know, close, um, uh, analogous process.

And it's,

letting that kind of a thing wash over you and bring you joy, to me, will corrode your soul over time.

You have to have a modicum of respect for just the decency of human life.

I'm a father.

I know he had a young daughter.

I think he had a couple of kids.

Yeah.

But I know for a fact he had one young daughter.

I have a daughter.

You know, now they are left fatherless.

How can you not have deep sympathy for the life that they're going to inherit as a consequence?

Like...

You have to hold, again, the political project doesn't work if we don't collectively hold on to human decency in the process.

That doesn't mean we have to agree with this person or that person, but it means we have to respect the dignity of human life along the way.

It's a weird question to ask me that.

I mean, sorry, it's a perfectly reasonable question, but it's a hard answer to give because the way I try to explain this to people is, it's like, do you feel safe?

It's like, well, sort of, because if you walk outside...