Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.

This is Sam Harris.

Okay, well, it has been two weeks since the election.

And those of you who don't spend a lot of time on social media may not be seeing how

crazy it is out there.

All I can say is we appear to be living through a very dangerous moment.

And Trump and his enablers in their desperation to hold onto power are making our situation

much more dangerous.

I want to elaborate on something I tweeted after it became obvious that Biden had won the

election.

This was around November 6, I think.

I wrote, there's a needle that we really must thread successfully.

Contempt for Trump and his enablers in government is a patriotic necessity.

Contempt for 70 million Trump voters is a serious error.

Life is complicated.

So I want to spell this out a little more because very few people are threading this needle

successfully or even attempting to thread it.

And some people have confused what I was saying there with people like AOC seeming to

call for vengeance against Trump supporters.

She went so far as to encourage people to keep lists of everyone who had supported Trump

in any capacity.

I think it's quite clear that nothing good is waiting for us down that path.

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