"The denialism exists on so many levels. You know, there is just complete denialism then to say, look, this is a court," she says. "After the leak, one of the big messages, don't be over dramatic." 'They're not coming for those other things,' he adds about marriage equality and contraception. "'There's no satisfaction in itt' - I've been told you're over reacting when something that you have been saying is on the table happens?'"
Rebecca Traister is a writer for New York and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Her latest article is "The Necessity of Hope."
“A big motivation of this piece, which I think is framed in this there’s still reason to hope is actually the inverse of that. Which is: Let us be crystal clear about what is happening, what is lost, what is violated. The cruelty, the horror, and the injustice, and that is it only moving toward worse right now. And to establish that to then say that it is the responsibility to really absorb that, and then figure out how to move forward.”
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