The failure of a container does not invalidate its message

Evidence

Still, we glimpsed what was possible, and we learned a critical lesson: An election is too fleeting and unstable a container to hold a message as important as “Not me. Us.” But that doesn’t mean the message was wrong. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1094

Categorization

• XREF: Connects forward to the book’s likely conclusion about building durable movements; also echoes the reader’s interest in whether the device holds into the final chapters.