Sarah Longwell

But like I said before, we clearly were not in this spot because we weren't correcting people and shaming people and excommunicating people enough. I think what happens, what human nature is, so if you're 90% with someone, but we excommunicate you because of 10%. The right's very good about saying, well, welcome on in, right? Welcome on in. You're being oppressed by the left.

You're being silenced by the left. You're being punished by the left because of your, quote, common sense. Welcome into our club. We'll look past the 90%. And then you go into that club. And then human nature is you start to then adopt those policies and those beliefs too. And instead of being against us on 10% and with us on 90%, then you flip to being against us on 90%, maybe with us on 10%.

You're being silenced by the left. You're being punished by the left because of your, quote, common sense. Welcome into our club. We'll look past the 90%. And then you go into that club. And then human nature is you start to then adopt those policies and those beliefs too. And instead of being against us on 10% and with us on 90%, then you flip to being against us on 90%, maybe with us on 10%.

That is human nature. And, you know, we can continue to shed allies all the way until we have an exclusive morally pure club at the gulag we've been sent to. And it won't even need to be that big. Right. It'll have a cap on 29% basically. Yeah. I mean, how are we going to defend anyone, including trans people, if...

That is human nature. And, you know, we can continue to shed allies all the way until we have an exclusive morally pure club at the gulag we've been sent to. And it won't even need to be that big. Right. It'll have a cap on 29% basically. Yeah. I mean, how are we going to defend anyone, including trans people, if...

We don't include a portion of the people in the 70% who oppose trans participation in sports consistent with our gender identities. The math just doesn't add up. And I'm not saying we should nominate those people. I'm not saying we should change our votes on blanket bans that are both invasive and treat trans experience like it's one size fits all and every trans person is exactly the same.

We don't include a portion of the people in the 70% who oppose trans participation in sports consistent with our gender identities. The math just doesn't add up. And I'm not saying we should nominate those people. I'm not saying we should change our votes on blanket bans that are both invasive and treat trans experience like it's one size fits all and every trans person is exactly the same.

But when we're talking about an electorate, We have to be willing to have people in our coalition who are not all the way there, not only to win, but if we want to be in conversation with people to ultimately get them to our side on all of the issues.

But when we're talking about an electorate, We have to be willing to have people in our coalition who are not all the way there, not only to win, but if we want to be in conversation with people to ultimately get them to our side on all of the issues.

Democracy only works if you're willing to have conversations across disagreement and if you are willing to join forces with people who might agree with you on most things, but maybe disagree with you on some things.

Democracy only works if you're willing to have conversations across disagreement and if you are willing to join forces with people who might agree with you on most things, but maybe disagree with you on some things.

It absolutely is. And I think we are so it cannot be a binary choice between either you are with us on everything or you are a Nazi.

It absolutely is. And I think we are so it cannot be a binary choice between either you are with us on everything or you are a Nazi.

We have been the most consistently oppositional to Trump in polling. And look, let me just say this. I get why people would be skeptical of this theory of change.

We have been the most consistently oppositional to Trump in polling. And look, let me just say this. I get why people would be skeptical of this theory of change.

I understand. It hasn't delivered enough change, and it certainly hasn't delivered enough change fast enough. I get it. But we've been trying something different for a couple of years now, and it hasn't worked. And I might be wrong, right? This theory of change might not work, but I do believe that if you look through our history—

I understand. It hasn't delivered enough change, and it certainly hasn't delivered enough change fast enough. I get it. But we've been trying something different for a couple of years now, and it hasn't worked. And I might be wrong, right? This theory of change might not work, but I do believe that if you look through our history—

you do see that it is the theory of change that most consistently works. I mean, the civil rights movement, and I'm not talking about trans rights, right? I'm talking about sort of this broader moment in our politics. The civil rights movement was incredibly strategic.

you do see that it is the theory of change that most consistently works. I mean, the civil rights movement, and I'm not talking about trans rights, right? I'm talking about sort of this broader moment in our politics. The civil rights movement was incredibly strategic.

Incredibly disciplined. They picked their fights. They picked their battles. They didn't take every battle. For instance, you didn't see, despite the fact that bathrooms were segregated... You didn't see the civil rights movement choose to fight the fight in bathrooms. There's a reason for that. People are really uncomfortable in bathrooms.