A nation isn’t destroyed when its systems are bulldozed or its laws are perverted, but when its collective compassion is eradicated—and you and I are here in these dark, bleak, unthinkably painful days to protect it; to hold it close to our chests and to make sure that it survives.

Fascists don’t win when they dismantle the scaffolding of government, when they wage war on the Arts and Science, or when they eradicate long-standing rights under the law.

They win when good people give up; when they become too tired to push back, when apathy and hopelessness snuff out the spark inside them, when the emotional cost of giving a sh*t feels too high.

They want you to become as nihilistic, miserable, and internally broken as they are—and so you need to refuse.