U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito expressed skepticism about the possibility of peaceful coexistence between the political left and right in the country.

Alito shared his candid views during an exchange with liberal documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor, who posed as a religious conservative and secretly recorded the conversation.

“I don’t know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that needs to happen for the polarization to end,” Windsor told Alito at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3. “I think that it’s a matter of, like, winning.”

“I think you’re probably right,” Alito responded. “On one side or the other — one side or the other is going to win. I don’t know. I mean, there can be a way of working — a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised. So it’s not like you are going to split the difference.”

“People in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that — to return our country to a place of godliness,” Windsor went on, NJ.com has reported.

“I agree with you. I agree with you,” Alito responded.

Windsor shared her story and recording with Rolling Stone.

Written by B.C. Begley