I firmly believe a pivotal moment that breaks the fever of Trumpism will come

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19. As did McCarthyism from the get go...

... But it took a moment that crystalized the magnitude of cruelty and put it on display for the American people to turn the tide on a dime. There was a build up to that moment that was not really visible.

I don't know what our "moment" will look like, but I have lived through seismic shifts. It can appear it all happens in a moment, but the reality is that things build toward the shift -- it's an accumulation until you hit the straw that breaks the camel's back. That's an old adage for a reason. It is how things often work -- an event, unremarkably like so many prior events, triggers a collapse.

As long as good people stay engaged and push back -- and as long as they continue their reign of intolerable cruelty (and they will) -- we will reach that moment.