"Time marches on, and yesterday’s concerns almost always fade as new ones crop up. But one particularly sticky issue ebbs and flows with the times. The Trump MAGA Movement is “conservative” in only one meaningful way. It seeks to turn back time. There is bitter resentment for social justice, equal rights, and global inter-reliance. There is nothing new about that. "

"Many have tried to stop progress. The Confederacy was dedicated to maintaining a slave-holding nation; Jim Crow laws tried to ensure that Blacks remained second class citizens forever; the John Birch Society tried to keep us out of the United Nations; one hundred years after the Civil War, George Wallace and the Dixiecrats tried again to leverage Southern political power into permanent White supremacy; the 1968 Nixon campaign had a name for its divisive plan: “The Southern Strategy;” White supremacist militias stormed the Michigan capitol. It is easy to find the through line from Jim Crow to Selma, Memphis, Charlottesville, Lansing, and now Washington, D.C.”

"Maybe we need to set our sights on striving again for the “Superman Paradigm” of Truth, Justice, and the American Way."