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Doing so is a pragmatic as well as a moral necessity lest the voters’ patience and generosity run out.

Put another way, Taylor explained to me, today’s acceptance of climate change on the far right — and, inevitably, he said, among conservatives writ large — is ushering in a more clear-eyed view of what lies ahead for America, one that accepts the possibility, even the necessity, of sacrifice.

Sidoti offered an example, referring to the standards of reasonableness, necessity and proportionality mentioned above: “When Israeli authorities say they have found three armed terrorists in a hospital, that is not sufficient to justify the total destruction of a hospital, killing hundreds of people.”

It is essential to recognize that antebellum Black liberals consciously mainlined a tension between advocating for broader systemic social change and the practical necessity of remaining defiantly entrepreneurial in a hostile environment that resisted their inclusion into the upper ranks of society.

As mentioned, Black liberals operated through a critique of the existing order from within, rather than assuming the necessity of its wholesale destruction.