I talk openly about the mistakes I’ve made in my life, and have apologized when I’ve been wrong. Contrition is part of who I am. It always has been. It was taught to me at a very young age. That’s why I deeply distrust those who ruined our world and who have never once apologized or renounced what they did. The necon arsonists monetizing themselves as firefighters. The Obama folks who betrayed their promises, created the Trump backlash, and then got rich suddenly pretending to lead a resistance to the crisis they manufactured. These people have never once bothered to take responsibility for what they did. They exemplify the elite impunity destroying our society. They don’t actually care if Trump’s authoritarianism is stopped. They don’t actually care about extinguishing the infernos they ignited. They care only about themselves and their lucrative grift — and when they effectively scream the quiet part and admit that, we should listen. We can perhaps welcome their momentary and fleeting support of a popular front against Trump, but we absolutely should not trust them with our political future. They rely on the culture of elite impunity never holding them accountable. That culture is the crisis fueling every other crisis in our society.