Miles, there is one particular thing Solzhenitsyn used to speak of — what one ordinary person can do to resist tyranny, someone not an elected official, nor a writer or artist. Don’t lie for them. Don’t use their language of lies.

He said it so much more eloquently, but pointed out political violence and degradation cannot exist without “the lie.” They go hand in hand. So don’t lie. If evil is to reign in this world, he said, so be it, but NOT THROUGH ME.

Whenever the next mass demonstration in Washington takes place, my hand-written sign will simply say:

NOT with my consent!

NOT through me!

NOT on my goddamn watch!