Sublime

Roosevelt empowered Garner to work out a compromise. When it evolved—an agreement to recommit the court-reorganization bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee with the understanding that when it reappeared on the Senate floor, all mention of the Supreme Court would have been removed—it was an almost unmitigated defeat for the President, one which al

radical antithesis

Similarly, Lasch’s richer conception of obligation means that power implies care for others. Just as property rights are neither absolute nor free from duties, so too political authority requires popular consent and compassion for the most vulnerable. In functioning democracies, power received from the people has to be returned to them by promoting

To play is to see, hear, and feel the opponent as a partner versus an enemy.

I am on record in this fractured political era as a proponent of maintaining connection across gulfs of understanding, with the caveat that this civic burden falls to people whose social privileges allow them to engage safely with the other side. But seeking to understand dangerous behaviors and beliefs is quite different from permitting them.

A negative mimetic cycle is disrupted when two people, through empathy, stop seeing each other as rivals.

And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.

condition of opposing fields,

Along with his partner and co-author Chantal Mouffe, he provided one of the earliest foundations for what would become identity politics. In their 1985 work Hegemony and Socialist Strategy