“Agree with Your Adversary Quickly”?
5 min readJul 9, 2022
Pre-paid forgiveness.
Not too long ago, writer and activist Wendell Berry mentioned having a friendly conversation with Trump voters at his local farm-supply store in Port Royal, Kentucky. He explained that this type of cordial behavior is required in a small town: “If two neighbors know that they may seriously disagree, but that either of them, given even a small change of…