On the global stage, America doesn’t have a centralist party. It has a right party and an extreme right party.

For comparison, the UK is relatively right leaning. The democrats are comparable to the UK conservative party. They are the most right leaning ‘main’ party.

As painful as it is, this is both what the high road actually looks like, and how we win, longer term. We need to bleed off those we can from the echo chamber of insanity. The more ‘moderates’ we can strip off, the more obvious that insanity becomes.

Mockery feels good, but it drives them back into their group. Kindness and understanding gives us the cracks we need to start deconverting them.

It’s also worth noting that he fell on his own sword, politically. He knew that Briton needed a strong leader, with the people unified behind them. Churchill could do this, he couldn’t. He took the blame to keep the rest of the party clean.