Don't Give Up on the Truth

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump isn't only winning politically; he is winning culturally in shaping America's manners and mores.
63% : But America has survived horrific moments, such as the Civil War, and endured periods of horrific injustice, including the eras of slavery, Redemption, and segregation.
61% : "The preliminary data show that Trump won the support of about 80 percent of white evangelicals.
57% : Trump wasn't a felon eight years ago; he is now.
57% : If Trump is the man Americans chose to be their president, if his values and his conduct are ones they're willing to tolerate or even embrace, so be it.
53% : We should acknowledge when Trump does the right thing, or when he rises above his past.
48% : But it's also possible that the concerns I have had about Trump, which were realized in his first term, don't come to pass in his second term.
43% : So how should those who oppose Trump, especially those of us who have been fierce critics of Trump -- and I was among the earliest and the most relentless -- think about this moment?
43% : In 2020, Biden and the Democrats were the vehicle to punish the incumbent party; in 2016 and again in 2024, Trump and the Republicans were the vehicle.
40% : Yet I cannot help but fear, too, that Trump will ultimately win by wearing down his opposition, as his brutal ethic slowly becomes normalized.
39% : It's little surprise, then, that many critics of Trump are weary and despondent.
38% : Intense feelings about politics in general, and Trump in particular, have divided families and split churches.
37% : And even if he doesn't, unsparing and warranted condemnation of Trump and MAGA world shouldn't descend into hate.
30% : We shouldn't ignore Trump, but neither should we obsess over him.
26% : Others who have been critical of Trump are considering leaving the public arena.
23% : But that doesn't mean that a party defeated in two of the previous three presidential elections by Trump, one of the most unpopular and broadly reviled figures to ever win the presidency, doesn't have to make significant changes.
19% : And even those who resolve to stay in the public arena will be tempted to mute themselves when Trump acts maliciously.
18% : The challenge for Trump critics is to call Trump out when he acts cruelly and unjustly without becoming embittered, cynical, or fatalistic ourselves.

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