Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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How dare you seek to find common ground with Republicans?
And I think when you go out into the real world, Democrats, independents, and Republicans, there is a hunger for some level of grace, for us to just not be so angry at one another and miserable.
They want to see and know that we actually do have more in common.
And therefore, it gives you hope that persuasion is not only necessary, but can actually still be effective.
I think grace in politics means, one, creating room for disagreement, assuming good intentions, assuming that the people who are on the other side of an issue from you aren't automatically hateful, horrible people.
I think it means creating some space for disagreement within your own coalition.
I think it's a kindness that just feels so missing from our body politic and our national dialogue.
And look, I saw it in the Delaware State Senate on both sides of the aisle, whether it's in Republicans in Delaware joining on to be co-sponsors on an LGBTQ panic defense bill that I was the prime sponsor of.
whether it was the discourse being much kinder and more civil on a whole host of even culture war issues, I saw that grace have the effect of lowering the temperature, removing some of the incentives to go after vulnerable people in this country, in our state.
I saw it with my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle who didn't vote
For bills that were deeply personal to me, and yet we still found ways to work together.
We still found ways to develop friendships.
And look, I know that that places more of a burden on me than it does on them, right?
I know that when you're asking a marginalized person to extend grace in a conversation, you're asking much more of that marginalized person.
But change-making isn't always easy and it's not always fair.
And why would we expect that the extra burdens and barriers of marginalization would cease at the point of overcoming the marginalization, of creating the change necessary to eliminate prejudice and create equal opportunity in our society?
No, that's where the barriers are gonna be greatest.
That's where the burdens are gonna be greatest.
It's an understandable frustration.
But it's the only way forward.
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