Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. I was asked to speak to a group, mostly Republicans. I gladly accepted & adjusted my schedule.

Weeks later, some of them revolted. They feared I might say something they disagreed with. Triggered, they ran to their safe space & threatened to resign if the group let me speak..

2...these were grown ups, professionals. They had a tantrum that they might hear words they disagree with. They behaved like the college student they belittle as snowflakes for refusing to hear different thoughts. Adults, afraid of words with no knowledge of what was to be said..

3...the person who invited me, also a Republican, was devastated with embarrassment. I told him not to worry, it wasn't his fault, but that the snowflake, safe-space conservatives in his group had proven the point of what was to be my speech.

What was the topic?.....

4....how blind partisanship has placed America on the edge of destruction. How the blind certitude of both sides that they have a monopoly on truth, and the childish inability to listen to those who might disagree, has left us incapable of addressing policy issues. How the....

5....raging at others without listening, how running and hiding at the prospect of hearing words that might make you question your certitude, is a sin of both sides, and one that is both a reflection of intellectual shallowness and cowardice. And how that mindset is....

6....leading us to destroy this nation, and if not stopped, will result in our children suffering amid the decay caused by absolutism.

Republican adults threatened to resign their group rather than hear those words. You won't see this story on @FoxNews. But the next time that..

7...you hear some commentator on @FoxNews bemoaning some liberal who was too afraid to hear a someone like @benshapiro or @RubinReport speak, remember this:

I agree with that comment. And they will never mention the conservative adults who did the exact same thing, hiding in....

8...their safe space. These were professionals, too frightened to hear words. Too incapable of the mere chance that they might be exposed to a thought they didn't like.

They are childish, without the excuse of being children. Shame on them....

9...I will post my speech in a few days. Everyone can read it. See if there was anything to terrify GOPrs in it. And then I want @RubinReport and @benshapiro and others who should be heard, whether you agree with them or not, condemn this group of adult conservative snowflakes.