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It'll be very interesting for me to get reports from you on how your Thanksgiving went with relatives and or friends with whom you differ. | |
Because to differ today, you see, it's not like differences of the, let's say, more than 25 years ago. | |
You know the old story? | |
What is it? | |
Ronald Reagan would go to have a drink with the Speaker of the House who was a Republican. | |
Tip O'Neill. | |
It was well known. | |
He was a Democrat. | |
He was a Democrat. | |
Yeah. | |
I think you said Republican. | |
Oh, if I said Republican, I blew it. | |
Yeah, he was a Democrat and Reagan was a Republican. | |
The differences today are, to use one of the most preferred words of folks on the left, is existential. | |
If you actually think that it is okay to open the borders, there's not much you have in common. | |
If you think that America is systemically racist and that the primary problem of American blacks or black Americans is Racism, white racism. | |
These are pretty unbridgeable gulfs. | |
If you believe men give birth and children should have life-changing, body-changing hormone blockers at a prepubescent age and then be allowed to have their genitalia surgically changed or their breasts removed if they're girls. | |
What exactly is the middle ground on that? | |
If you think that Israel and Hamas are both committing genocide, that they're somehow moral equivalents, it's not going to be a very pleasant conversation. | |
So it's tough today. | |
The difference is... | |
are unbridgeable and enormous. |