I watched the Rubin Report. I saw 4 men who are valorised for their positions and who've decided that they recognise threats to western civilization.
DM's response about the winnable battle didn't have a timescale attached (fair enough). But I look at recent items about girls being killed because they are attending a school - women because they have jobs.
In the UK, I look at the in-school sex abuse of children from when I was a child and I'm horrified that this is still a reality for so many girls and young women.
I look at the attempts to erase women as a sex class even if it takes interfering with instruments of measurement and reality such as the Census or even just the recording of crimes.
For me, the speakers in the Rubin Report are not looking at this battle from the point of those who are sustaining heavy losses and multiple pincers of attack. Despite the discussion of the greek virtue, "Speaking truth in the face of danger," as a class, they're relatively safe (I'm not commenting on them as individuals). They have a discussion and then drinks (as PB says).
I enjoyed the brief asides about the hyperinflation of currency and televangelists wrt rhetoric. I'm not sure that all classes are confident that (TB), "We know how to fight these injustices, we learned from civil rights. We have the liberal values that we need to pushback and to unify" - because right now, it feels as if women were given concessions, not recognised as having rights.
I did like the closing remarks about the redemption narrative being available v. those who would demand abasement and acknowledgment of wrongs forever (I paraphrased the latter and embellished a little).