"Do you look at the rollback on abortion rights or the incoming attacks on gay/interracial/interpolitical marriage and think we need more absolutism and to spend less time listening to each other?" No. I look at our lost progress and see what listening to each other is not working. Edit: I need to be honest here. I think the idea that decisive majorities on the right can be reached and persuaded is just plain starry-eyed. Yeah it would be great if people listened to each other but it's the Trump trash who are managing to conscript the decent people, not the other way around. I have run into too many people I used to know who I don't know anymore, including some of the very last I would have expected to become so vile.