Watching the far-right, as embodied by the Republican Party under Donald Trump, redefine who is a legitimate subject and object of violence… it’s something. It seems increasingly trite and naive, but I can’t stop thinking about my internal “kindergarten book” rubric for social values. Is anything coming out of the mouths of this vindictive, reactionary movement something you would want to have in a book you’d read to your kids before bed, hoping even a fraction of it rubbed off on them, and would be there to help them navigate the moral complexities of the world in a courageous and principled way?