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Times have changed, but they were already shifting during the actual Gilded Age.

An actual U.S. senator walked right past us, exchanging nods with Kirk, but no one paid any attention to him.

As rapidly as the grizzly video of his killing circulated online, many across the political landscape worked to sanitize his legacy of inflammatory rhetoric without interrogating his actual arguments.

You’ve done the work, you’ve put the practice in at this point and now you’re ready to hit the court or the field to do actual work in the game of making good legislation.

Yes, we still see political activism, but it’s the activism that doesn’t leave any room for actual debate.