Sarah McBride is a member of Congress, representing Delaware. She’s the first member of Congress to be openly transgender, and the highest level elected official in the US to be so as well. Earlier this week she had this to say as part of a conversation on Ezra Klein’s podcast:
“On social media, we have come to this conclusion, rightfully so, that people’s grace has been abused in our society. That the grace of marginalized people, the patience of marginalized people, has been abused, and that is true. But on social media, the course correction to that has been to eliminate all grace from our politics. It’s, “how dare you have conversations with people who disagree with you?” “How dare you be willing to work with people who disagree with you?” “How dare you compromise?” “How dare you seek to find common ground with Republicans?” And I think when you go out into the real world, Democrats, independents, and Republicans, there is a hunger for some level of grace for us to just not be so angry at one another and miserable.“
Via Matt Birchler and original in this podcast.
