My recent post (below) urging you Democrats to leave ideology aside for now and deal in proposals and programs that address people's life problems: e.g., accessible and affordable healthcare; universal preschool and day care; affordable housing; education expense and quality; inflation and the cost of living; protections of alien residents from arbitrary deportation; -- these issues that effect people's legitimate pursuit of happiness each day.
Now, some have responded that they do care most passionately about threats to our democratic-republic's institutions and rights. I certainly agree that these are critical issues that must be addressed, just not now at the cost of investing our resources, energies, and voices to winning back the power of majorities in the House and Senate. Win back the power and you can roll back the autocracy.
But, for those of you to whom the threat to democratic-republicanism is uppermost, and for all of the rest of us, here is a sort of primer cobbled together from recent and forceful commentaries. Read these, ye who care. (To open these, click on each and then on re-direct; you will get the article in a new page,)
- An Extraordinary Opinion for Extraordinary Times from Preet Bharara
- Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. from Tomas Edsall
- There’s No Precedent for This Shutdown from Michelle Goldberg
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