Rule or Ruin

Thomas Zimmer: “The American Right is fully devoted to a fundamentally anti-pluralistic political project. They steadfastly refuse to accept the complex, complicated process of balancing interests, of reconciling different ideas, values, and aspirations that a pluralistic society necessarily depends on. They believe they shouldn’t have to, because they regard it as their prerogative, as the sole proponents of ‘real’ (read: white Christian patriarchal) America, to shape the nation in their image and to define the boundaries of what does and does not count as ‘American.'”

“If they don’t get to dominate America, then America as they conceive it is no more; they will rule – or might as well ruin.”