‘If you want to win the country back from the right, and bring about lasting change for the people you care about, ‘it’s time to descend from the pulpit.’
As Mark Lilla has it; https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n23/james-meek/against-passion
'You need to visit, if only with your mind’s eye, places where wifi is non-existent, the coffee is weak, and you will have no desire to post a photo of your dinner on Instagram. And where you’ll be eating with people who give genuine thanks for that dinner in prayer. Don’t look down on them. As a good liberal you have learned not to do that with peasants in far-off lands; apply the lesson to Southern Pentecostals and gun owners in the mountain states … Impose no purity tests on those you would convince.'
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