From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
This week as I giddily watched a small army of superheroes on-screen, laying aside their petty squabbling, past disagreements, and warring egos in order to defeat a delusional madman with contempt for half the planet, because they understood the moment and the stakes—I thought about the moment before us.
American Democracy is in the endgame now.
Our leaders are woefully failing us, our checks and balances are nonfunctioning, and our systems of protection have been compromised. We need to stop warring with one another because that has always been the supervillain’s game: get the good guys to turn on each other, divide and conquer, focus them on the wrong fight.
Progressives have a cancel culture, purity problem and if we don’t get over it—it’s going to destroy us.
Trump’s no supervillain or evil genius, so it’s all the more troubling that we’re in this state. If one vicious, loudmouthed idiot can do this, what could someone more clever and measured do?
Alternatively: just how vicious and idiotic must one be to lose Republican support?