continuum

“I view what’s happening today as part of a continuum,” Gould told me this week.

If we’re to figure out how to meet this moment, we need to explore the full continuum of protest ideas and, in doing so, sustain our republic.

But they occupy points on the same impossible continuum, issuing from the same source: lawmakers stripping autonomy from those whose identities, priorities and values don’t align with their own.

“We have a continuum of activity, some of which we rightfully tolerate, such as boisterous and passionate protests,” said Brian Levin, a professor emeritus at Cal State San Bernardino and an expert on extremism.

“You can look at anybody in the world and we all fall within that continuum,” Kaufman reflected with somber acceptance.