"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course." – Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III
But embracing adversity does not require the abandonment the principles that brought us this far.
A gentle reminder:
once we’ve forgotten how you got here we are doomed.
“If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.” — Justice George Sutherland (1862-1942)