Roxane Gay
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So let them stay in the sort of nurture of home a little longer and start them in school at five.
Come on.
What's the harm?
Well, I mean, I firmly believe we can do multiple things at the same time, first of all.
One of the key challenges we're seeing in terms of progressive and or liberal candidates is that they are basing their entire campaigns on, I'm not Trump, I hate Trump, Trump is bad.
Like, yes, we know.
We know, no shit.
What are your policies?
And for whatever reason, we are seeing a real impoverished...
level of policy articulation among progressive candidates, because I think they feel that Trump is so bad that all I have to do is be not Trump.
But voters deserve better.
We deserve more.
We deserve robust policy.
And I also think that a lot of politicians are cowards and they're afraid of alienating
voters by taking a stand.
But for me, what I vote for is people who take a stand.
I don't even have to agree with your entire platform.
But do I agree with the things that are most important to me?
Yeah, that's good enough.
And