#leftists are so good at circling the wagons and shooting inward

[ageofgeek]

Every scholar, expert, experienced person, journalist - foreign and domestic - that you read, who talks about the way to fight fascism, says that you need to built the largest coalition possible, from the socialists to the Never Trump Republicans. You don't have to love Liz Cheney.  You don't have to like her dad, or think the war in Iraq was a good fucking idea, to think she's running a good hearing.  Can we all just be adults and hold two things in our heads at one time? ... If I was living in 1930s Germany, and the Social Democrats weren't getting along with the Conservatives, and were like, "We can't possibly unite with them against this guy Hitler and their crackpot group of extremists," I'm sure those people lived to regret that.  I want anyone who wants to fight the fascists to be a part of this emergency movement.

Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, Pod Save the World, “Jesus take the wheel (before Trump does)”