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GIRIDHARADAS: “I think in terms of regular people and voters who don’t want Trump to become a permanent American dictator, don’t want him to win in 2024, people are getting way too excited about this. This is trying to win a sports game by praying for rain and hoping for injuries, right? Those things may happen. If they do happen, great. But they are not a substitute for building a bigger, better movement than his movement and defeating him in the marketplace of ideas. And I think, when I look at regular people’s excitement about this, when I look at how ablaze social media gets when these kind of state ballot decisions are made, people are a little too excited because it’s becoming an alibi for actually building a more powerful movement. When I have these conversations kind of privately on the Democratic side, on the left more broadly, I think there’s a real acknowledgment right now that in that real competition of ideas, there is not a bigger, better movement right now. There is not a bigger, better message right now. There is accomplishments. There’s reality. There’s a belief in democracy, compared to what Donald Trump offers. But right now, the only thing that matters in 2024 is building a bigger, better, more galvanizing, thrilling movement than his movement. And I think if you’re a regular person, all this stuff is a distraction. Let it play out, but let this not be your politics. Your politics needs to be part of building something bigger."