Elijah Dougherty

“Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“It suddenly becomes inefficient to say: Elect us or else they will abolish abortion rights; elect us or they will put more migrants in concentration camps; elect us or they will make your lives so much worse. What is the use, once elected, of doing anything of substance when what was necessary, the negation of some other hypothetical outcome, has by definition already been achieved?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“The alternative -- that millions of Americans want desperately for people who don't look and live and believe the way they do to suffer without end -- was too unpleasant to consider, too much an indictment of something bigger than one man's campaign. Even years later ... there is great care on the part of many mainstream liberals to focus on the destructive potential of Trump as a singular entity, a freak accident.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“But to say this -- that mainstream liberal parties will never develop a moral compass until they are punished for not having one -- produces a level of antagonistic vitriol unmatched in almost any other context. Waves of progressives will take time out from pasting MY RELIGION IS LOVE stickers to the bumpers of their Teslas to let you know that advocating this position makes you the enemy, that they hope you're happy when Trump takes power and makes your life even more miserable, that you should just go back to where you came from.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This