Worse days are ahead. So are better ones
A battle has been lost in a great cause that has broken many hearts, deeply disillusioned others, and shattered the perception of America all over the world.
There are 725 days until the midterm elections and MAGA’s first referendum. Every second will be needed to excavate the ruins, level the ground, pour a foundation and start building again. No rational person can look at the results through the prism of this chart shared by my friend
over at So What, and not appreciate the repudiation of the Biden presidency and the Democratic Party:
It raises a question, which must be put forward with no pity: what is it about the Democratic Party of Joe Biden that the country found so repugnant that they would not just hand the presidency to Trump, but give him a decisive mandate? The political failure is beyond epic. There is nothing comparable in American history.
During the days ahead, The Warning will speak directly to the failures and hypocrisies that have so deeply endangered our country. The brutal days ahead did not have to be, but now they are here, and they must be faced. We can only move forward if we learn from them.
The vast and ludicrous “democracy” grift industry, which has rooted itself like black mold in America’s political firmament and is as grotesque as MAGA, needs to be talked about.
Chuck Schumer, James Clyburn, and every Democratic geriatric who is gripping political power like a corpse holding on, needs to go. This needs to be talked about.
What Joe and Jill Biden did to the country, with the help of Anita Dunn, Steve Ricchetti, Bob Bauer, Mike Donilon and a few others, needs to be talked about. The gaslighting of the country about the president’s fitness and condition ceded honesty as an issue to Trump, burdened Kamala Harris, and denied Democratic voters the chance to vote for a candidate who could defeat Trump. This must be talked about.
The American media has functioned as Trump’s indispensable, co-dependent and abused spouse for nine years. The result is a collapse of trust between the American people and reality, along with the absolute obliteration of the reputations of most media organizations, though not yet all journalists. This needs to be talked about.
When Trump looks out at the press pool covering him, the simple truth is that he couldn’t have done it without them. He doesn’t want to shoot them. He wants to keep working with them everyday for the rest of his life because he knows who the violin is in the relationship and he loves to play it.
All of these things can wait.
We have lost an election, not the country. The question about who we are as a country will never be settled in these United States because America is always in a state of becoming. For much of my life, I liked what America was and was becoming. Now, not so much, but the point is that this moment is fleeting. It may not seem like it, but Trump’s apogee will be as fleeting as the moment, and then down he comes. What we will become along the way is a mystery, but somewhere out there is the mountaintop from which King prophesied about the just society. We will reach it, someday.
For now, let’s embrace an old ethos, which is that if trouble must come, let it be in our day and time, not in that of our children.
Let us remember to make “good trouble” as we oppose the coming assault on our values, laws, institutions, fellow citizens, and the rule of law. For awhile, Trump will roll forward, propelled by zeal, arrogance and victory, but then the road will get muddy and his wheels will get stuck.
Donald Trump is every bit as dangerous as I have warned. What I have warned about will largely happen, and it will be terrible, but it need not be permanent.
Remember that.
Fight on.
Hang tough.
Worse days are ahead. So are better ones.
No matter what, do not be afraid of MAGA or Trump.
Americans don’t tremble when they see a dime-store Mussolini win an election. They take a look in the mirror and get on with it.
Let’s do that.