Rob Lund

“If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too.”
― Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

“What Joe McCarthy had done to try to stir up fear and suspicion in the general public about the Commies in the 1950s, Agnew was effectively trying to replicate a decade and a half later when it came to members of the press.”
― Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

“Why sermonize about the superiority of your ideas and values when it was so much more effective to attack the motives and character of your opponents, to call them names, to question their love of country.”
― Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

“Trump and his allies in Congress who voted not to certify actually thought that someone could get out there and disrupt the constitutional process of the United States of America... They underestimated their own country and the people in power. They underestimated the strength of the legislature. They underestimated the vice president to do his duty, Georgia representatives, the judiciary. They didn't understand their own country.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year