Miles Taylor:
Well, I think, until it affects you personally, it’s really, really easy to justify looking the other way.
And I will give you a very personal example, is, there are very close friends and family members that have watched us go through what we have gone through over the past few years in trying to speak the truth about this president, and even some of them have come to us and said, hey, listen, maybe you should keep a lower profile because they don’t want to get pulled into the crosshairs.
There’s this very built in self-interest of folks to try to look the other way because they don’t want to get hit by this. But once you do, once you’re affected, it’s tough to turn back. I mean, I’m sure, a few weeks ago, the board of trustees at Harvard had no interest in going to war legally with the president of the United States.
But now the existence of that institution is being tested, and they’re forced into it. So I think Americans will wake up the bigger impact this has on their lives. But the hope is that we can draw a line to keep that from happening, whether it’s misaligned tariffs or whether it’s retributive actions against the news organizations they watch every day.
Eventually, if this isn’t stopped, it will start to affect every American. But, by then, I think, in some ways, it’s too late.
