" But it came as a surprise to me, and I found it interesting, when this nice and presumably liberal woman suddenly lurched off toward, I guess, a sort of suburban fascism. In the end, she pulls herself back, but we might imagine other people who wouldn’t be able to, whether because of their disposition or the extremity of whatever it was they felt victimized by. What turns a person into an extremist? It often seems to originate with some small thing that happened to her personally, which then gets projected out onto the culture. "

― George Saunders