This is my Mayor Culper.

Oh, baby, don't lie for me.

If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.

I did my time that's fun by me.

This is my...

That's fair to me.

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Now, look, I've been called a lot of things in my life.

Some fair?

Most not.

I've been judged for my past, interrogated for my motives, and rightly challenged

for decisions I've owned publicly and repeatedly. Accountability, it's a word I understand. What I did not

anticipate, what no one truly prepares for, is what happens when your own side decides that you've committed an

unforgivable sin. That's called independent thought. You see, there's a quiet lie we tell

ourselves in democratic and progressive spaces, that we are immune to the very behavior that

we condemn. That because our intentions are righteous our methods

must be too that if the enemy is authoritarianism cruelty or extremism then anything done in the

name of opposing it is justified i believe that once i'll, I don't anymore. Because over the past month,

I found myself on the receiving end of something that has absolutely nothing to do with Donald

...