Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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We have to recognize that there's complexity, there's nuance, and that means not just in the policy space, but in the political space.
And
That's authentic.
To say these are some really difficult conversations, and sometimes I'm going to get it right and sometimes I'm going to get it wrong.
And sometimes I'm voting exclusively with what I think is the right thing to do, even if my voters disagree.
But also sometimes I'm going to have to take a balanced view of this.
And that's democracy.
I
I think, look, there is no question in my mind that the vote is much more important than the rhetoric that they use.
We have sort of discoursed our way into like, if you talk about this issue in a way that's suboptimal from my perspective, you're actually laying the foundation for oppression and persecution.
And I just think like,
Maybe academically that's true, but welcome to the real world.
we are prioritizing the wrong thing.
And it's an element of sort of virtue signaling.
Like I'm showing that I am the most radical, I'm the most progressive on this issue because I'm gonna take this person who does everything right substantively and crucify this person for not being perfect in language.
It's a way of demonstrating that you're in the in-group, that you understand the language, that you understand the mores and the values of that group.
And it's a way of building capital and credibility with that in-group.
I think that's what it is.
And I just think it's like, it's inherently exclusionary.
And I think that that's part of the thing that's wrong with our politics right now, which is that all of our politics feel so exclusionary.
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