With narcissists, whatever you allow becomes the new normal.
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If you push back and create discomfort, they buckle and retreat.
If you do not... if you acquiesce without a fight... that new WORST thing will be tomorrow’s BEST thing.
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You gave an inch, they took a yard, and then they’ll move on to trying to take the next.
And on and on and on.
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If people quietly go away, he will militarize the response over and over.
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He needs to be made uncomfortable.
Absent pushback, he will get worse. Possibly far, far worse.
We cannot allow DC to be cleared as a protest space.
We cannot.
It is deeply dangerous to allow that.
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