This piece isn’t about one president. It isn’t about one political party. It isn’t about one ideology. Hate has been with us a long time. It crosses elections, administrations, movements and generations.

What should terrify us is how comfortable we’ve become with it, how quickly we excuse it when it comes from our side and how easily we wield it against anyone on the other.

I have seen this hatred for a long time. It didn’t start with this president or this party. But in this moment, it feels sharper, meaner, more corrosive to our country than at any other time in my lifetime. This commentary is my line in the sand: we need to do something more than hate.

This is not about whether democracy is on the ropes. It is about whether decency in our democracy is gone.

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