This is the time for freedom-loving people to coalesce around principles upon which we can all agree. This may be America’s only hope of survival. The ground isn’t going away any time soon but America’s first principles are. Just as we did in the Cold War era we need a broader coalition. We have a common foe.
Our unification is necessary. That means we must have tolerance. But freedom-loving people do have tolerance naturally. We will include a lot of people. Many will disagree on a lot of particulars. But they all understand freedom is the greater good.
We will have to come together to work out our strategies and points of agreement. This is preliminary to fighting not against each other but against our common foe. Who is that foe? Our enemy is the ideology of the totalitarian left. We need more conversation not less.
Shutting people up because we disagree with them is always wrong
We need to engage more points of view. Being willing to let more people speak, not fewer, shows strength not weakness. We need to not be primarily attacking. The people of goodwill who love our country who understand first principles will stand. We must stand primarily facing outward at the barbarians. We must understand they now control the gates and want to destroy our country.
This doesn’t mean there are no morals. It means people should bear of the burden of proving their assertions. We should not elevate the voices of people who believe things that have been proven to be wrong. Yes, that includes Holocaust deniers and those who deny the Armenian genocide. We need more conversation not less.
It means instead of banning them from the Internet we should listen and correct what is factually incorrect. We should not refuse to allow them to air their ideas. They should be engaged with facts, logic, and tolerance. Their ideas may not be correct but as humans they should not be cancelled. Our primary orientation should be persuasion, conversion, discussion, and openness, not eradication.
Shutting people up because we disagree with their conclusions is wrong always. People we disagree with often tell us truths our friends will not tell us. We should ask them to prove their assertions. There must be an open invitation to explain what led them to their stance.