Sarah McBride
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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I think it is the allowance of that disagreement in the public square and the tussle of that disagreement in the public square.
And that is uncomfortable.
That is not easy.
And yes, there are going to be people in that conversation for whom it's going to be more difficult and more uncomfortable.
But in the internet world, you can't suppress diversity of thought.
It will always bubble up, but it will bubble up if suppressed with an extra bitterness and an extremism fostered in that echo chamber that it's been suppressed to.
It'll inevitably bubble up like a volcano.
And I think that's what we're seeing right now.
I will say, I think...
While the left made this mistake of fostering an illiberalism based on a sort of false sense of cultural victory, I think now the right is making the exact same mistake.
I think they're overplaying their hand.
I think they're interpreting the 2024 election
to be a cultural mandate that is much greater than what it actually is.
And I think that if they continue to do that, there will be a backlash to the illiberalism, the cultural illiberalism, not just the legal illiberalism, the cultural liberalism of the right, in the same way that there's been a backlash to the cultural illiberalism of the left.
heard that?
One, that it wasn't the language that I would use.
But I think it came from
A larger belief that the Democratic Party needed to start to have an open conversation about our illiberalism, that we needed to recognize that we were talking to ourselves.
We were fighting fights that felt viscerally comforting to our own base or fighting fights in a way that felt viscerally comforting to our own base rather than maintaining proximity to the public and being normal people.
The sports conversation is a good one because I think
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