What to Remember When You Protest
People need to be won over
Today is another designated “day of action” protest against, hopefully not just Donald Trump and his entire neo-fascist regime, but in favor of democracy and the rule of law.
This is a great and necessary thing. We live every day with their increasingly blatant and cruel agenda and increasingly ridiculous lies.
But as much as it pains us, about half the voters chose this, and him, less than six months ago. There are lots of things to blame for this, from the constant lies of the Fox network to the failure of civic education, but we have to win over the people who we can persuade, those who voted for Presidents Obama and Biden.
Trump’s moronic policies are already beginning to do that, though it will take time. What we need to do is be witnesses for why democracy matters, find a way of explaining this, and point out all Trump’s failures and obvious lies.
Egg prices are up more than 20 percent since he came in; unemployment in Michigan is 5.5 percent and rising, and America says it’s giving up on ending the war in Ukraine the Marmalade Monster said he’d end in a day.
But unless we preserve democracy, none of this will matter. I don’t think many things are worth dying for, but this is one. Actually, the sooner we act, the more likely it is that large numbers of us won’t have to die.
But in any event, never give up, never give in, refuse to normalize this, and call out those, who like Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, seem to have a deficiency of backbone. And laugh at the MAGA clowns when you can.
They really hate that.
Yes remind of trump tendency to overreact. Especially to young not born when Central Park 5, was the rape trump took out an entire news page condemning 5 young men. They were eventually freed and determined not guilty. Trump has always blamed without evidence.
I have to push back on your statement that " about half the voters chose this, and him, less than six months ago. " The truth is, more people voted for someone other than Trump—Harris or third party—than for Trump. But beyond that, close to 90 million of the ~245 million Americans who were eligible to vote in the election DID NOT VOTE. So about 2/3 of the country did not vote for Trump, his stated agenda, or his hidden agenda. And were the folks who voted for him consciously voting for "this"--an autocrat who would ignore the Constitution and dismantle democracy? I don't think so. Trump's so-called mandate is a myth.