Neil Faulconer

“We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse. We shiver. We struggle for release, and then it pecks out our eyes and intestines for sustenance and we die the death of field mice.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“Trumpism is a somewhat ambiguous concept. Trump is not a philosopher. He doesn’t have a political theory or any underlying beliefs. The only -isms that he has ever been associated with are racism and narcissism. The best summary of Trumpism is “billionaire-funded racial grievance politics.”
― Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

“We have to match the Republicans not in cynicism, but in strategy and toughness. Like John F. Kennedy, Democrats need to become “idealists without illusions.”
― Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

“Gradually, however, the liberal story expanded its horizons, and at least in theory came to value the liberties and rights of all human beings without exception. As the circle of liberty expanded, the liberal story also came to recognize the importance of communist-style welfare programs. Liberty is not worth much unless it is coupled with some kind of social safety net. Social-democratic welfare states combined democracy and human rights with state-sponsored education and healthcare. Even the ultracapitalist United States has realized that the protection of liberty requires at least some government welfare services. Starving children have no liberties.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century