“This country is full of people today — and I’m speaking specifically of leaders and elites — with opportunities to form some sort of resistance to the loss of democracy in this country. Our elite, including some of the people we’ve talked about today, is full of people whose grandfathers stormed Normandy and who are lionized in those families and who don’t have the bravery, as the grandchildren of those people, to put out a statement at their law firm…If I owned a law firm, I would think that would make me more courageous. But we found otherwise.

…And then you look at these people in Minneapolis whose names no one even knows, except for the two who were shot. And people who, after they were shot, go out again and again and again, and you look at their courage. And it’s incredible that all of these people in academia, in law firms, in corporations — you and I go out enough, we hear these people talk about Donald Trump at parties. They have the same contempt for him that you and I might have. But no courage.” - Anand Giridharadas on Ezra Klein