kids up. i said, you know, i came home from college, from law school, had a job with a really prestigious law firm, and i quit to become a public defender because my city was occupied by the national guard for ten months. i became a public defender, and i thought things were never going to get better. and i said, guys, look, i stood here 40 years ago this month and look what's happening. don't tell me things can't change. and then what i misunderstood was, you know, hate only hides. it only hides. it doesn't go fully -- it never goes away. as a friend of mine, jon meacham says, you know, it in fact -- the history of the united states of america is not a fairy tale. and so to see those folks come out of those fields carrying torches and chanting the anti-semitic bile with faces contorted and the head of the ku klux klan, the former head, saying, you know, this is why we elected him. and then him being asked when a