THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS

It's time to have them--with the people on "our" side

It’s another Manic MAGA Monday as unelected Nazi bureaucrat Elon Musk is trying to gain access to the IRS. Apparently, that’s NBD to the GOP because they’re compromised AF.

I figured that would be the main hot topic for my usual Monday appearance with our pal Hal Sparks on his Megaworldwide podcast. But that didn’t come up until the end of our extended conversation, which began a little bit early and ran a little bit late.

Instead, we ended up talking about how the right has become so successful at weaponizing the Left’s empathy, to the point where too many people who are allies to marginalized communities are paralyzed into silence out of fear of being wrong or being attacked.