your thoughts on, one, this moment, and two, the tactics being deployed by trump and his allies in this moment. i would zoom out pretty far. please, that s why you re here. i m going to zoom really high up and think about the fundamental different ways that we as human beings can live together. and historically, one way is a state of nature. might makes right. it you re strong enough to go punch another kid in the schoolyard and take their milk money, you go ahead and do that. some people have no compunction operating that wit. they have no morality. they find that because they are willing to punch the other kid and take his milk money, that their opponent is the rules. for the rest of us, we don t. want to live in a that state of nature where we re constantly