> Anything you build can be exploited against you when you're on the other side of the power balance.

You're responding to someone who's explaining to you that this is exactly the problem.

If an extremist can do whatever they want if they happen to excite people with a "platform that broadly appeals to enough Americans", then the problem is structural, and has to be addressed there, or literally everything you do and have can be undone by the next moron that riles people up again.