magnanimity

Ford’s pitch for magnanimity echoes similar calls for normalization, if not direct acquiescence, that some of America’s least compelling pundits have issued over the past 12 hours or so.

I feel pretty safe in saying that “magnanimity” is not one of them.

To counsel magnanimity from the left is to smarmily suggest that Democrats ought to just ignore Trump’s manifest unfitness for office, the ethical bankruptcy of his campaign, and the dark promises he has vowed to keep upon retaking the presidency.

In times of true crisis, magnanimity is the privilege of those happy collaborators who are secure in the belief that they will be OK no matter what.

For all the rest of us, now is not the time for magnanimity.