Sublime

Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.

“The frame has shifted from ‘I’m going to bring about that change by being someone who looks for opportunities to work across the aisle,’ and more ‘I’m going to disrupt the institutions and systems that are allowing the other side to continue to prevail.’ ”

hortatory

hard-bitten

5. Follow with your verbal “Why it matters”— short context for your Big Thought.

Power politics

But this sudden flush of power in time proved perilous for the Federalists, for they were henceforth to lack the self-restraint necessary to curtail their more dogmatic, authoritarian impulses, thus paving the way for abuses of power.