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An inspiring conversation about democracy

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Tough Love Framework in Politics

I think tough love is actually a very useful concept here, because something that is difficult in politics is people want to map the nature of your position onto the way you advocate for that position. And I would say that that boundary setting work has to attach to the basic rights framework. But then beyond that, when people sort of cross what we ourselves think are sort of good politics, we attach such stigma to them that they become a different kind of thing. That's the way that we need to walk back from.

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