It's about choosing, and acting on, a set of ideas.
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White supremacy represents another set of ideas that Americans have never conquered.
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In sum, the wave metaphor suggests the idea that gender activism in the history of the United States has been for the most part unified around one set of ideas, and that set of ideas can be called feminism.
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The rupture he's opened does not divide one set of ideas from another.
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Congressional Democrats need to offer a more balanced set of ideas on trade.
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ISIS is — at its most basic — a set of ideas and motivating principles.
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That's why I'm a Democrat, that's the set of ideas that I believe in.
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Republicans have attacked a basic set of ideas that Mr. Obama tried to promote.
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Some set of ideas commands public support but lacks purchase in elite policy debates.
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They are supporting a tribe with a strongman leader, not a set of ideas.
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Not locked to damaging defaults in its haste to impose a limited set of ideas.
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In the abstract, harassment is non-ideological — a behavior rather than a set of ideas.
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How do you define nationalism and what set of ideas do you associate with it?
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Germany has committed itself to this set of ideas in its constitution, the Basic Law.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has, so far, suggested the most moderate set of ideas.
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The party's proposal to reduce the cost of living was its freshest set of ideas.
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"I think Mr. Bianchi will come in with his own set of ideas, and the reason they're bringing him in is because he has his own independent set of ideas that he's gleaned from working in his related, somewhat similar categories," Mr. Chatterjee said.
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Military force can't totally kill ISIS — it is at its most basic a set of ideas.
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It was a competing set of ideas, not teams, and we were all working on it.
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So I have a set of ideas that I've worked out, which I think is important.
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From the beginning, Upworthy's social-justice curation machine was based on a specific, paternalistic set of ideas.
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Mr. Trump has repeatedly emphasized a set of ideas that would reduce America's role in the world.
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Like any great ideas or set of ideas, an organization is needed to put ideas into action.
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And a diverse set of ideas comes from a team with a diverse set of experiences and backgrounds.
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There's a set of ideas that I was wrestling with and trying to get to the bottom of.
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And so the faculty must cut at the root of a set of ideas that are wholly illiberal.
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His foreign policy is incoherent as it lacks a set of ideas with diplomacy and goals in mind.
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I am interested in someone who has a different talent, different set of ideas, different visions to me.
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"It reflects a very old set of ideas about the meaning of the Civil War," Mr. Blight said.
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Democrats scoffed at the latest Republican outline as another vague set of ideas that would benefit the rich.
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Instead, it's that The Legend of Zelda, as a set of ideas, is fungible on a core level.
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In short, it was a set of ideas remarkably similar to what Trump is proposing in his presidential campaign.
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This fear and set of ideas that we only get from the worst possible news, it's tearing us apart.
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They will want an antidote to Trumpism, a set of ideas that manage to be conservative and anti-Trump.
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Our system is the result of a debate about a set of ideas about how to structure political debate.
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He entered the Oval Office with a clear set of ideas he had developed over a lifetime of study.
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It also rests on a common set of ideas: faith in democracy, freedom and respect for the rule of law.
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And it's certainly not a legitimate set of ideas to be sending out to a huge swath of your coworkers.
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So I felt like, let's minimize and just see what I can do with a very minimal set of ideas.
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He has a certain idea, or set of ideas, already in mind — about the 2017 Frieze Art Fair, for instance.
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But we have to accept that Islamism is a set of ideas, and the violence is a symptom of those ideas.
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After selling the first company, he started another one on a new set of ideas, again heading for a big sale.
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Trump entered the room as the defender of a distinct set of ideas that blame America's problems on immigrants and multiculturalism.
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Ms. Rooney felt something unusual, that she was part of a coherent group of people who shared a set of ideas.
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Does he represent a populist tide that will only grow or is some other set of ideas building for his overthrow?
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Zoom out: "Putinism is a new set of ideas that is exportable," McFaul says, noting the rise of Europe's far right.
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And he goes to the fair to find the "material" that justifies the worthiness of his idea or set of ideas.
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It was invented for the purpose of conflating criticism of the faith, a set of ideas, with bigotry against Muslims as people.
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And rightfully so, it's probably the most interesting set of ideas and the strongest few minutes of tone in the entire film.
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And if anyone can give Democratic voters hope that they'll bring a fresh outlook and set of ideas to D.C., it's Oprah.
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Schultz is considering a run as an ideological entrepreneur, an independent who would bring a new set of ideas into American politics.
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It is a set of ideas that can be simple or complex, but the ideas must be expressed in a unified structure.
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That's because Trump's executive orders should be interpreted as the outgrowth of a coherent ideological framework and set of ideas about American democracy.
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Can such a space accommodate a wider set of ideas of what art can be and how it is presented and interacted with?
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To come back, Clinton will need to develop a more coherent and more compelling set of ideas that she can call her own.
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If culture is the set of ideas and arts that comprise a society, pop culture is the superficial, cotton candy version of that.
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"The old set of ideas aren't worth retreading," he said in a reiteration of answers he gave at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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HOLMES: What -- what you&aposre seeing right now is all of the energy on the left focused on a very radical set of ideas.
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But there are a few dozen physicists who instead think that a set of ideas called "modified gravity" might one day explain these mysteries.
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It doesn't define a particular style, or a set of ideas about what it means to be a woman or an artist, or both.
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A progressive set of ideas about governance was at stake in the 1968 presidential election, and the hope for their fulfillment was instantly dashed.
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"Most of the album I'm working on is, in some way or another, trying to operate in that set of ideas," Ms. Stamper said.
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The exercise was also a musical articulation of a set of ideas that Giddens has been developing for the past four or five years.
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Yet it's not a nostalgic throwback but a forward-looking set of ideas and policies building out of the failures of the old paradigm.
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One year ago, Macy's bought Story, a New York retail store founded by Rachel Shechtman that curates merchandise around a theme or set of ideas.
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The strength of an organization comes from bringing together a diverse set of ideas and approaches to find the best one for any given situation.
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The company decided that it did not, since it attacked a religion (ie, a set of ideas) rather than the people who held those beliefs.
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"The release of the memo, and the fabrication of a set of ideas around the memo, empowers Trump to go after the FBI," Goodman says.
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All sorts of different presidents come into office with one set of ideas about policy and change their minds based on new information or events.
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In a study of 500 innovation topics across 1.53 firms Ninety, a consultancy, finds that many insurers are working on the same narrow set of ideas.
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Though Trump comes from the ruling class, he is not of the ruling class, coming in with a wholly different and more authentic set of ideas.
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For those backing Clinton, her low favorability ratings are evidence that she has fought for a set of ideas that nearly half of the country opposes.
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It was a set of ideas that emphasized speed and intimacy in combat, rewarding you for your daring with more health, more ammunition, and more excitement.
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Our culture could sorely use a common set of ideas about male decorum and restraint in the 21st century, along with role models for those ideas.
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"With them it is an instinct rather than an ideology — a culturally shaped set of beliefs and emotions rather than a set of ideas," Mead writes.
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What's wrong is the set of ideas, which have allowed us to have incomes that become unequal, but you have to go back to the 1980s.
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For Trump, it's a set of ideas that provided the justification for his presidential candidacy but have proven to be out of step with the country overall.
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No matter how creative your showrunner, how original your premise, it is hard to wring seven seasons of original stories from the same basic set of ideas.
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It found that in one experiment, traders surrounded by a diverse set of ideas — good and bad — returned 30% more than their friends in an echo chamber.
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Beyond that, what feminism and queerness seem to offer is a historical set of ideas, tools, and strategies that can be adapted or rejected for the future.
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All one's habits, possessions, way of life, set of ideas were called into question, above all one's critical detachment — I had not realized how detached I was.
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The slogan was dreamed up when Brazil became a republic in 1889 under the influence of positivism, a set of ideas associated with Auguste Comte, a French philosopher.
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The most energetic coalitions come forth, as was the case in 2008, when they have someone to believe in and a set of ideas for which to fight.
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The possibility that one of the two parties has developed a set of ideas that are incompatible with legitimate opposition is one that deserves scrutiny and possible alarm.
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Placing yourself the shortest ideological distance from middle-of-the-road voters only works if there's a fixed set of ideas and values that make up a middle.
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A third set of ideas suggests that what really defines and produces change in American politics is clashing political orders, or the underlying belief systems behind political institutions.
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To the fist-shaking Red Guards of Trumpism, Mr Flake's crime is to argue—perhaps even to remember—that their movement once held to an enduring set of ideas.
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The "medieval times suck" horse has been well and truly beaten, and Game of Thrones now needs a fresh set of ideas to make the action seem worth it.
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The America they were keeping faith with was not so much a people, or even a country, as it was a set of ideas that elevated and transcended both.
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But by the end of the nearly 30 individual stories in the collection, the cyclical returns to the same set of ideas start to feel repetitive rather than iterative.
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At this point, it's simply an aspirational set of ideas -- not even a piece of legislation -- that sets out an ambitious initiative to address the dangers of climate change.
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"Suddenly the set of ideas that landscape is working with is much more interesting than the set of ideas in architecture today; they just fit the time," she told The Financial Times in 2013.. In 2005 she realized a long-deferred plan proposed by the earthworks artist Robert Smithson, who in 1970, three years before his death in a plane crash, sketched out an idea for a garden that could travel by water around Manhattan.
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One big thing to watch going forward is how activists groups, and allied think tanks and lawmakers, begin to propose more specifics around what's now a broad set of ideas.
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Each issue of the magazine is themed, and a theme usually arises from us seeing strong bodies of work that are delving into a specific area or set of ideas.
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The task for Democrats seems simple: unite around a shared purpose and a set of ideas with broad appeal, then begin to claw back territory lost during Barack Obama's presidency.
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"The public seem to be more comfortable with Muslims as individuals, but less comfortable with Islam as a set of ideas and teachings," the co-authors wrote in the study.
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In a sense, Fujimoto's is the conceptual art of contemporary architecture, born out of a relentless desire to interrogate, in building after building, variations on the same set of ideas.
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Another set of ideas is rooted in progressive messages that uphold an ideal of racial egalitarianism — an ideal of seeing each other as full humans, not limited by our color.
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He described a set of ideas that he said the Palestinians had received from the Israelis and the Americans; he did not confirm the main points of the Saudi proposal.
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Islam is a set of ideas, and the question is, are there any ideas within Islam that are sufficiently animating to people that we should care about them and criticize them?
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And part of the innovation that has been developed over years, decades, at Silicon Valley, is how do you use the Silicon Valley network to decision on some set of ideas.
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"In essence," as Goetzmann memorably puts it, "financial technology is a time machine" — a set of ideas and practices that enable us to shift economic value backward and forward through time.
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And I have a very clear set of ideas about what should be done to try to provide more support, including trying to cut poverty in half in the next years.
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One thing foreign policy watchers love to do, especially with new presidents, is identify a capital-d Doctrine — a coherent set of ideas that defines this president's approach to the world.
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In many ways, she has been the candidate with the highest character and the best set of ideas and policies to carry out the kind of transformational change the country needs.
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Trump's plan is still just an early set of ideas — it's a single page, not some complex, comprehensive piece of legislation — and it's already drawing complaints from Congress about its cost.
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And a former army chief of staff, Benny Gantz, barged into the political center with a vague-sounding new party — Israel Resilience — and a still-to-be-announced set of ideas.
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The document sets out not only a remarkably ambitious program for a rapid transfer to renewable energy, but also a broad set of ideas on how society should be fundamentally rebuilt.
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"Gender is not sex, gender is a set of ideas, or traditional values — formed over time — about the role of men and women in society," the group said in a statement.
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Nor does the network have any fixed set of ideas that it seeks to champion or disseminate, other than an ostentatious patriotism that has the distinct feel of a marketing campaign.
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Five years ago, in a presentation to partners at Brunswick titled "Five Myths, Five Truths," Mr. Parker outlined a set of ideas that would have been worth reviewing in recent months.
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He has a set of ideas that seem obvious to him and a small number of people like him but have no grounding in an American intellectual tradition or mass politics.
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Xi Thought is now being "hammered home harder" than any set of ideas since Deng launched his "reform and opening" policy nearly 40 years ago, says Kerry Brown of King's College, London.
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Although complication isn't necessarily bad in itself, and Wray's previous work demonstrates his power and facility with complexity, here it doesn't always feel anchored to a central idea or set of ideas.
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"In an effort to move the discussion forward, we are asking for feedback on a diverse set of ideas to tackle the challenges of catastrophic wildfires," said Cantwell, the panel's top Democrat.
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We had created a journalistic culture with a distinct set of ideas, values, and approaches, and we could use it to build things that were new and valuable almost wherever we chose.
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The policy platform, he said, is an extension of a promise he made when he became speaker to provide, along with his House colleagues, a new set of ideas for the GOP.
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Warren is presumably hoping that the early announcement of a campaign will let her draw more attention to the set of ideas she's running on and orient public perception more around that vision.
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Graham and Livingston took a set of ideas that had been bouncing around the industry and turned them into a playbook for would-be founders: The team is more important than the product.
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Republican staffers worked throughout the weekend to hammer out a final proposal on health care, with the hope of presenting an updated set of ideas to all GOP members during their Tuesday luncheon.
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This is because the obvious is, essentially, a shortcut: It appeals to a set of values we'd formed some consensus around, a set of ideas we once agreed no serious person would question.
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The claim that a huge tax cut for the wealthy and corporations would trickle down to everyone else was based on an outdated and discredited set of ideas for how the economy works.
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And the predicate for enacting it isn't to sell a set of ideas to the public, but to steel the spines of legislators to vote for Ryan's ideas no matter what the public thinks.
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So what I really wanted to contribute to is the start of a conversation about an intellectually coherent set of ideas that would advance the interests of the people who have been left out.
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The 6.53th president has proved, again and again, that he is a sui generis character whose appeal is predicated more on his own colossal selfhood than on any definable set of ideas or positions.
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Another positive stress influencer is Ryan Holiday, who wrote several books in an attempt to revive a 2,000-year-old set of ideas called stoicism, which advocates self-control and a lack of indulgence.
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Amazon, by contrast, always seems to have a new set of ideas for where to spend its profits, and investors are happy to trust its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, to reinvest those profits wisely.
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The whole book is just panting with the desire to shock — but because all the grotesquery and the sadism isn't emotionally grounded in a psychologically coherent character or set of ideas, the shock doesn't land.
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As a result of this prejudice, the more powerful group exploits the less powerful group for their own ends and also adopt a whole set of ideas about the inferiority of the less powerful group.
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Named after Romantic poet Lord Byron, these characters are charismatic, driven by their own set of ideas and more dangerous than they may appear at first glance—a reflection of the band's subtle-but-nasty music.
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And that was intentional — even though Dow has his own set of beliefs, he says his goal is to be a "dispassionate advocate" for the people he interviews, rather than promoting any one set of ideas.
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His team wanted to explain counterintuitive aspects of quantum mechanics using a new set of ideas called causal modeling, which has grown in popularity in the past decade, advocated by computer scientist Judea Pearl and others.
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So it remains to be seen whether the obviously very different set of ideas, if you can call them that, that Mr. Trump ran on will change anyone's mind or whether they'll have to be assimilated.
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Beauvoir believed there was a way out of the roles that society might try to impose on a person, by articulating a set of ideas about one's life and refusing to accept evidence to the contrary.
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Within Labour, the grainy left-wing argot that Corbyn speaks—of "industrial democracy" and the "propertied classes"—recalls a set of ideas that were last abroad in the Party at the turn of the nineteen-eighties.
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The metaphysical gymnastics required to become Steve Bannon have little to do with any commitment to a set of ideas, and a lot to do with making oneself a figure about whom a movie could be made.
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With a bit of luck, genuine ferment and debate among Democratic candidates and officeholders over the right direction on issues like trade and immigration might result in at least one party oriented around a set of ideas.
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The glaring problem with attaching a set of ideas and principles to Mr. Trump is, of course, Mr. Trump, a man with a notoriously fickle and unpredictable nature who has always preferred the transactional to the ideological.
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"The release of the memo, and the fabrication of a set of ideas around the memo, empowers Trump to go after the FBI," Ryan Goodman, a former Defense Department special counsel and current editor of Just Security, said.
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What I thought I could do was, could I put out, rather than a bill, a set of ideas, put it into the idea-sphere that would allow people to pick and choose from this menu of options?
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He leaves both the actors and the audience a lot of space for interpretation, and he likes to walk the line between the fascinating and the ludicrous, just where a set of ideas might turn into a mess.
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Much like the Kremlinology of the Soviet years, "Pekingology" has relied on secondhand and indirect information filtered through a set of ideas and assumptions of the way Chinese elite politics functioned, in order to assess intent and purpose.
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We're seeing these weird hybrids coming out between print and screen, art and design, static and animated, sonic and visual... the way a single set of ideas can slide around through all these different image environments is insane.
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One set of ideas is rooted in racist stereotypes that just about all of us raised in the United States have deeply internalized — messages that paint brown and black people as somehow criminal and suspect, lawless and undeserving.
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That would suggest that there is more going on here than Trump's unique personality and unusual celebrity — that there is a set of ideas and arguments and rhetorical appeals that can be picked up and used by others.
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Over the coming months and years, the Met Society is going to be hosting policy events, producing papers and engaging New York City and New Yorkers to involve a new group of people in a new set of ideas.
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So we had a set of ideas and plans about what we could do and then we lined up our set of plans, risks discounted, amount of work, what we'd get there, versus what we could do with Microsoft.
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The result is a great American story that left its mark on a range of policy topics without having an incredibly clear throughline as a set of ideas that can or will be carried forward by a successor generation.
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While many of Nadja's releases are centered in doom metal and ambient music, the ways these sounds present themselves varies wildly from album to album, providing a wholly new and engaging set of ideas for the listener to explore.
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The Squad's platform is not a mainstream set of ideas that could carry a party to a national election victory; it's a far-left socialist dreamscape that will be rejected by voters in the states that Democrats need the most.
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He said the administration "has been working on a set of ideas" for Middle East peace "that we hope to present before too long," adding that he hoped they would provide a basis for discussions on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Some women feel better about themselves if they wear makeup, or lose weight, or shave their legs — even though they do those things, at least partly, in response to an internalized (patriarchal) set of ideas about what makes women desirable.
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For the CEO and President of New America, and former director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, Slaughter wants to hire somebody who can come to her with a set of ideas, while independently making their own connections.
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But it's also because the set of ideas he claims to represent, a sort of generalized "centrism" untethered to either party, does not exist outside of an echo chamber made up of a small number of America's wealthy, educated elite.
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That would be really hard even if he had a new set of ideas to offer: There are deep structural reasons for the party duopoly, with both the setup of America's electoral system and powerful interest groups supporting the status quo.
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With its Material Design guidelines, Google set out to create a unified set of ideas for how it wants developers to think about all the different aspects of their applications' design, ranging from the basic layout to how to use animations effectively.
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By the time Trump actually ran in 2016, he had assembled an inchoate set of ideas for voters: the nation's elite have failed us, foreign countries are taking advantage of us, trade deals are hurting us, immigrants are attacking us, and so on.
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At the same time, you are quite critical of the status quo in venture capital, and seem to be arguing that too much capital is chasing the same narrow set of ideas and solving problems for a narrow "upper middle class" demographic.
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On the other, it's simply not "against Enlightenment values" — nor is it a critique of the Enlightenment itself — to question what is lost when we think of something as variegated and influential as the historical Enlightenment as a "handy rubric" for a generalized set of ideas.
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While demographics like age, gender, race, and sexual orientation don't negatively affect the quality of ideas, being a token does, because what is noticed first is the "otherness" of being different rather than the distinct set of ideas that the person has to offer, their "onlyness".
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But in that era you had a president who had spent years and decades arguing for and debating and honing the set of ideas called Reaganism, and so when his White House strayed from those ideas an appeal to the president's true beliefs was a reasonable response.
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Yes it mapped on to Thomas Jefferson's thinking about this, but to summarize what I'm doing with the slaveholders of our distant past and talk about these things as though it's a single set of ideas, it's completely unfair journalistically, and it has the consequence that I've described.
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I do think there were a set of ideas (as distinct from a well-honed ideology) were part of that transformation, but the driving force was the pressing need to restore the competitiveness of the US economy, that was seriously challenged from Japan and Europe at that time.
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That binary imprisons all of us within a limited set of ideas of who we can be and what we are capable of, and many of the rules that govern it are arbitrary and invented by a society built by cis men for the benefit of cis men. Okay.
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While it could be an opportunity for Trump to expand his appeal beyond his conservative base, a feat he's seldom tried since taking office more than a year ago, it also was clear Thursday he is far from settling on a clear set of ideas to address the crisis.
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For better or worse, Mr. Heikal "remained the intellectual godfather of a set of ideas and a period in history that many Egyptians perceive to be one of progress, dignity and national prestige," Steven A. Cook, a scholar of Egypt at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in an email.
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"The problem is trying to do everything at once: hire a national staff, hire state organizers, raise money, talk to media, talk to influencers and electeds, devise a political strategy and articulate a narrative and set of ideas," said Matt Bennett, who served as director of communications for Mr. Clark's campaign.
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"More than any other presidential candidate, Senator Sanders has built a historically inclusive and forward-thinking movement: one that represents America as a set of ideas grounded in the belief that all humans are equal and worthy of a dignified life," Wa'el Alzayat, Emgage PAC's CEO, said in a statement.
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Castro is wary of being pegged just as the Latino candidate, or the immigration candidate, not someone with a broad set of ideas to offer (he acknowledged that some of this is "a two-way street," because he was the first candidate to put out an immigration plan and has focused on it).
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The point is not that everything on the spectrum is the same, but that it's all the same spectrum — a range of expressions that trace to a core set of ideas, namely that women are objects, adjuncts to men, there to soothe, coddle, please, or serve men, subject to their control and abuse.
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And even those of us who don't find this brand of conservative nationalism appealing ought to hope that someone steps up to give voice to those who do, because it turns out that if nobody credible will stand up for this set of ideas someone who's not credible will — with terrifying consequences.
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" This set of ideas would have collectors do their best to "identify distinct classes of object" but to acknowledge that "such classifications were to some extent arbitrary; they did not adhere to the true order of nature because it remained beyond human knowledge to apprehend the real essences of things as God created them.
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"This is post-backpack, post-swag rap, the end of trap, and it's not wack," Tunji raps on "Fired Up," and it's a neat encapsulation of his sound: The kids who might have fallen into the world of Native Tongues or Rawkus Records acts in past decades are working with a broader set of ideas about the genre now.
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He inspired two of his students, Mr. Duany and Ms. Plater-Zyberk, to formulate what would become New Urbanism, a set of ideas and practices that returned city planning to traditional patterns of streets and defined public spaces — a movement so successful that it is hard to imagine a developer trying to build a conventional strip mall ever again.
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"I think what's happening is we may have a better understanding of the dynamics of these lagging regions, and we may be able to better describe what is contributing to that, but we don't have a new set of ideas policy-wise to address them," said Amy Liu, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
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Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Parliament, described a similar set of ideas that he said the Palestinians had received from the Americans and Israelis: a Palestinian state with only "moral sovereignty" and noncontiguous territory and without East Jerusalem as the capital; no Israeli settlement evacuation; and no right of return for Palestinian refugees.
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If you thought of his coalition, there would be more unity around an infrastructure set of ideas — both from businesses who think it's good for the economy, and more of the blue-collar support you've got because it's going to put blue-collar people to work building these roads, building these schools, building these mass transit systems, the airports, etc.
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You just walk in and those things are erased completely, and you're on this living soundstage, like the entire museum becomes a soundstage, a set of ideas and encounters, and there's no one way to go, and the viewer is completely empowered on their own to make their own narrative, create their own experience out of it—that's what we're doing.
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Just track how often the Final Fantasy series has changed its battle systems and settings from entry to entry, a kind of general constant riffing on a big set of ideas that really do get refreshed and changed up from entry to entry.. Dragon Quest XI is the promised media object that unites these two forms of blockbuster, the film and the game.
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In this context, China is a threat to the liberal world order not because it has anything close to a set of ideas and attitudes that the outside world might be easily able to adopt, and that compete with enlightenment universalist liberal values, but because of its clear stance under Xi of allowing non-Chinese to hold these values, while resolutely rejecting them for itself.
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"What I think is we were able to ground test a set of ideas about racial justice, about the challenges of monopolies and automation in the economy and of rising debt that I think are the next generation of conversations, and I think a politician more talented than me will come along and be able to learn from both things we did well and things we didn't do well, and come back that much stronger," he told the New Republic.
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Whereas today "let Trump be Trump!" is a much emptier appeal, because on the available evidence this emptiness simply is Trump: A talented mountebank with zero policy knowledge who exploited a set of ideas with underappreciated appeal but lacks the aptitude or zeal to implement them, preferring to rage against his cable-news coverage while House backbenchers write "his" budget and the Pentagon conducts "his" foreign policy and the Freedom Caucus amends "his" health care bill to make it still more politically toxic.
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The pessimist in me says there's this generations-long project on the right to try to inculcate a certain coherent set of ideals and values of limited government, of government within its constitutional bounds, of a society that is as much as possible a colorblind society, of America's place in the world, that all of that is in jeopardy and losing to a competing set of ideas that I think are far worse for American life, far more divisive and antithetical to the true spirit of the American experiment.
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I could convert to Islam right now, it's a set of ideas, and so these are just ... There's so much confusion, both moral and conceptual, around this issue, and yes, it's being amplified by people being emotionally hijacked, I mean, people just ... Again, on the left here — the right has its own problems, don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the right — but the pathology on the left is that when these topics trigger this emotional response, whether it's around sex, gender, wealth, power, and all of these topics, but here we're talking about a group that's perceived to be an embattled minority, right?
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