@Xistance I hate to say this but I have no way of arguing with you, and it’s ent

@Xistance I hate to say this but I have no way of arguing with you, and it’s entirely possible that you’re right. It’s certainly an explanation that many on the right would accept. And it would certainly absolve me of some blame. But in all things I try to take responsibility for my actions. And I say instead that I was so desperate for political victory that I let my optimism override my skepticism, and took a risk I shouldn’t have, to reach outside of my intellectual work, into activism – something for which I”m entirely unsuited, and only did out of a feeling I had to protect my people. So you could be right. And in some ways I think you might be. And in others I hope you are. I don’t mind being fooled as much as being undermined – because it hurt my ability to help my people.