Governing over gaslighting

While Republicans struggle to get to Square One in the House Speaker vote, it was refreshing to hear the new minority leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, go full alphabet on them:

House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry, the Constitution over the cult, democracy over demagogues, economic opportunity over extremism, freedom over fascism, governing over gaslighting, hopefulness over hatred, inclusion over isolation, justice over judicial overreach, knowledge over kangaroo courts, liberty over limitation, maturity over Mar-a-Lago, normalcy over negativity, opportunity over obstruction, people over politics, quality of life issues over QAnon, reason over racism, substance over slander, triumph over tyranny, understanding over ugliness, voting rights over voter suppression, working families over the well-connected, xenial over xenophobia, ‘yes, we can’ over ‘you can’t do it,’ and zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation.

Even learned a new word, "xenial"! We'll need all resources we can find to resist the toxic dysfunction on the other side of the aisle, where a fringe of a fringe is holding hostage a paper-thin minority committed to paper-thin principles and intent only on disruption.