Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And when he sort of succeeds, the owner says to him, basically, you have to understand that when you are a first, if you respond to a slur with a slur, they'll only hear yours.
If you respond to a punch with a punch, they'll say you're the aggressor.
If we go in and say to these folks, we're never going to work with you because you're never going to work with us, then we get the blame for never working with them, not them.
If we go in and we respond to their hatred with vitriol and anger,
They're going to blame us.
And that's the reality of the double standard in our politics.
That's the reality that a first always has to navigate.
Let them put their anger, their vitriol on full display.
Let us provide that contrast with our approach.
Look, it's not going to
always work out and it's not always going to create the outcome that you desire.
But people need us to demonstrate that contrast to them for them to truly see it.
No.
I believe that you can tell a compelling story with an enemy.
There's no question.
It sometimes is an easy out in our politics.
But I think that there's something to be said about a politics that is rooted in opposition to an enemy.
is fundamentally regressive, that anger is fundamentally conservative in its political outcome, Barack Obama
and Bill Clinton for that matter, did a good job of putting forward an aspirational politics that wasn't defined by who we are against, but by what we are for and about who we can be.
And I think that that is a more successful path for progressive politics than an enemies-based politics, which so often devolves to anger, which I think more often than not
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