Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

This is the standard line of the Trump side of the party, that us who oppose him are just a bunch of elites who live in the Acela corridor in this bubble of unimaginable wealth. I wish I had been born into an extremely wealthy New York real estate family and been given multimillion dollar loans to get my start in life.

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

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