The antidote to fascism

 

Sting like a butterfly, indeed

In light of Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow's fiery speech excoriating republicans for selling hate in lieu of having an agenda to actually help Americans, I came across this passage from Tom Sullivan of Digby's Hullabaloo:

Democrats think politics is about good policy and good governance. It is. But only if you win the power to make it happen. Elections are not about good policy. If Trumpism has not disabused Democrats of that fantasy, there’s no hope for them. Voters want leaders — even phony ones — willing to fight for them and to risk themselves in the effort. Wimps need not apply. Stern words do not count.

While promoting the good we've done in the past two years will help, it is crucial that we stand toe to toe with republicans on their culture war, reminding the sixty percent of Americans who aren't batshit crazy that republicans are coming for your birth control, are going to shove gay Americans back in the closet, are going to increase suicide among trans youths, that their grooming schtick is all bullshit to take away from the fact that republicans have done nothing ever to solve the problems of everyday Americans, and that fascism is their calling card.

Debating their talking points isn't enough--we need to take a baseball bat to their lies and their fealty to fascism.  Our very existence depends upon it.

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

Down and dirty

A win is a win

 Michelle Obama has famously noted that when republicans go low, Democrats should go high...and it's past time to admit that in our current political climate that is a losing strategy.  I have the utmost respect for the Obamas (and I thoroughly believe Barack Obama will eventually go down in American history as one of the five greatest Presidents ever), but it could be easily argued that President Obama went high in the Supreme Court battle with republicans over the open Supreme Court seat after Antonin Scalia's death...and made a mistake (perhaps colored by believing Hillary Clinton would win the Presidency) that ordinary Americans will still be suffering from a generation from now.  

Tom Sullivan of Digby's Hullabaloo wrote this week (at the risk of losing his progressive credentials) that when it comes to the upcoming midterm elections that if Democrats think they're going to win in 2022 by focusing solely on what they've done for the economy (which will be great) and undoing Donald Trump's executive orders (also great), they are kidding themselves.  He suggested that Democrats should hammer republicans for the insurrection and remind people of exactly what their party attempted to do on January 6th.  I think they should remind voters again and again just what a horrid human being Donald Trump was (there have been a plethora of books recently that have plenty of ammunition) and that republicans have yet to stand up to him.  Republicans should also be excoriated for voting en masse against the Coronavirus Relief Plan, which has helped working class Americans financially more than anything republicans have ever done in our lifetimes.

Sullivan is exactly right--sometimes, you need to punch a redneck.

You Have a Choice:  Pass a Voting Rights Bill, or Welcome Fascism to America

Peace,

emaycee