A Life Of Its Own

When you're doing the good work of democracy and civil rights etc, and you've gained a following which kinda turns into a movement, there's something gratifying and reassuring about how the thing could become self-sustaining, and go on without the need for your own personal involvement. It's pointed in the right direction - equal rights and the expansion of democratic principles within democrat institutions.

'S'all good.

When you're doing the work on the other side - anti-democracy - and the groups of shitty-thing-doers start to show signs of taking on a life of their own, defying your attempts to bend them to your will so they'll turn in service to your own ambitions - that's always a big fuckin' problem.

It's like these idiots never saw Disney's Fantasia.

Amanpour & Company on CNN - Michel Martin interviews Mike Giglio of The Intercept.