You're somebody who teaches us over and over again the way to understand what's going on in the world is to synthesize a real engagement with contemporary, political, immediate events and then also a knowledge of history. That it's through the combining of these things that we arrive at the roadmap into the future.
Tony is one of my lifelong heroes, someone who I've learned more from than almost anyone in public life anywhere, and who still inspires me to try to be better than I am.
It's never going to be just one blow that takes down the demagogue. It's going to take more than that. It's going to take 10 blows or 100. But not a million. The American system of government is strong, too. It just needs brave Americans to believe that and to show it and to step up, despite the costs.
If democracy is absolutely always going to be about making compromises with people with whom you are in radical disagreement, what are you willing to give on? How do we make common cause?
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