Of course, we can find cases of heinous situations, people perhaps who deserve to die. I've just never met anybody who deserves to kill. - Pete Buttigieg

It was actually Thomas Jefferson himself who said 'we might as well ask a man to wear the coat that fitted him when he was a boy' as expect future generations to live under what he called 'the regime of their barbarous ancestors.' So even the founders that these kind of dead-hand originalists claim fidelity to understood better than their ideological descendants — today's judicial so-called conservatives — the importance of keeping with the times. And we deserve judges and justices who understand that.

Little cruelties add up. And of course, the worst thing about them is that they can drain, not just the person who was targeted by anything from a mean little tweet to a violent attack - but they also drain something out of someone who was the aggressor.

playing to an audience’s distrust of others, you can more quickly secure their trust in you.