Republicans believed they had the winning formula, which was really a regurgitation of an old playbook: Create panic in schools over what “they” are doing to “our” kids, and you win back the suburbs and those white moms who earlier deserted Trump’s GOP in droves. They tested that play out in the Virginia governor’s race, won a close race they usually win after the other side takes the White House, and from there apparently decided to double down. Now it’s not just “Critical Race Theory.” It’s gay “groomers,” trans girls on school athletic teams, and “woke” books that need to be excised from libraries. It’s even about canceling Mickey Mouse.
We're mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Striving for bipartisanship is fine when the other side is reasonable and civil. When they're consistently unreasonable and uncivil, we need not stoop to their level, but we can proudly show everyone who we are and challenge the opposition to rise to that level or suffer the consequences at the voting booth. That is why Mallory McMorrow strikes a chord. She voices so eloquently the frustration of the vast majority of Americans who are sick and tired of being victimized by people who are neither civil nor reasonable yet act as though they're the only people worthy of respect and admiration.
The "politics of punishment" is all the GOP has. Everything is about hurting people they feel are the "other."
During the Trump Government Shutdown, I saw an interview with a Trump supporter, who was getting hit financially thanks to his shenanigans. When asked about Trump and the shutdown she said that Trump, "wasn't hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting." That kind of sums up the GOP's narrative and "governing" philosophy, really.
Spot on. Don’t forget Ohio’s Tim Ryan, who has a solid shot of winning Ohio’s Senate seat, and gave a powerful floor speech in the House last week, quoting JFK’s “pay any price for freedom,” speech. Here’s my recommendations for a muscular Democratic (Democracy) Party platform for 2022: https://villano.substack.com/p/i-am-a-thinking-muscular-democrat?s=w
Keep an eye on Sen. McMorrow. That lady is going places (maybe WH). Also, I'm so happy to see fellow Dems grow a spine. Hit back and hit the Nazis hard.
I’m thinking that the response to GOP and Dominionists is to repeatedly and emphatically point out their lack of humanity, and that in a just world, they will be going straight to hell, no matter what their church & leaders tell them.
We're mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Striving for bipartisanship is fine when the other side is reasonable and civil. When they're consistently unreasonable and uncivil, we need not stoop to their level, but we can proudly show everyone who we are and challenge the opposition to rise to that level or suffer the consequences at the voting booth. That is why Mallory McMorrow strikes a chord. She voices so eloquently the frustration of the vast majority of Americans who are sick and tired of being victimized by people who are neither civil nor reasonable yet act as though they're the only people worthy of respect and admiration.
The "politics of punishment" is all the GOP has. Everything is about hurting people they feel are the "other."
During the Trump Government Shutdown, I saw an interview with a Trump supporter, who was getting hit financially thanks to his shenanigans. When asked about Trump and the shutdown she said that Trump, "wasn't hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting." That kind of sums up the GOP's narrative and "governing" philosophy, really.
Spot on. Don’t forget Ohio’s Tim Ryan, who has a solid shot of winning Ohio’s Senate seat, and gave a powerful floor speech in the House last week, quoting JFK’s “pay any price for freedom,” speech. Here’s my recommendations for a muscular Democratic (Democracy) Party platform for 2022: https://villano.substack.com/p/i-am-a-thinking-muscular-democrat?s=w
Keep an eye on Sen. McMorrow. That lady is going places (maybe WH). Also, I'm so happy to see fellow Dems grow a spine. Hit back and hit the Nazis hard.
I’m thinking that the response to GOP and Dominionists is to repeatedly and emphatically point out their lack of humanity, and that in a just world, they will be going straight to hell, no matter what their church & leaders tell them.
Je suis Mallory!