The Georgia Trump Indictments Started a Fight That Democrats Will Win

For ten years, I was as a professional LGBTQ activist, working primarily in religious communities during the peak of the same-sex marriage battles. Most of the work was extremely gratifying, but at many events I was cat-called, heckled, and interrupted. I was told that my relationship with my partner was the same as bestiality. And, to this day, I receive hateful messages telling me that I’m not a real Jew, not a real rabbi, not even fully human.

But during the many activist trainings I did during that period, I learned a central lesson: The point is not to persuade the haters (which is usually impossible) but to persuade the “movable middle” that you are more reasonable than they are.

I was reminded of this basic activist principle hearing the pro-Trump right’s responses to the State of Georgia’s indictment of Donald Trump. And I say: Bring it on.

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