Steve thank you for this concise description of where we’ve been and where we are headed. Please submit this OpEd to every newspaper in America. We must help those Trump supporters understand the cost we will pay for the destruction of the underpinnings of our safety as a nation and influence as a world power!
"If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door." General MacArthur at the end of WWII
Steve asks, "is humanity’s most deadly war in front of us, or behind us?"
If we allow Trump and his mobsters to remain in power the "most deadly war" will be "in front of us." Trump and his abettors do not want a "more equitable system." Trump is demanding access to Ukraine's mineral resources as payment for him forcing Ukraine to accept peace on Putin's terms. That makes no sense unless we understand that Trump's foreign policy favors the strong and advantaged exploiting the weak and disadvantaged; just as his domestic policies do.
"Imagine", op ed in the NYT, Nov., 2028, written by Marco Rubio.
"In November, 2024, the American people made a momentous and fateful choice. They, like myself, were deluded by a demagogue and a traitor to America. Now, 4 long years later, we face the loss of 2 million souls, the destruction of much of eastern Europe, the end of the NATO alliance, the collapse of our economy, and a crushing of our souls. And for what? Why did this happen? History will remember that is was a phalanx of factors that led to this horrible, tragic outcome, but when it was up to us, the people, we failed our families, our great nation,and the world, and thus unleashed an indescribable evil upon mankind. May God show us mercy.
The sci-fi nerd in me has me thinking about the 2003 re-boot of Battlestar Galactica. The saying throughout was, “ All this has happened before. And, all this will happen again. “
Steve 100% touched on this as he stated that we have forgotten the horrors of WWII.
It’s a shame how humanity gets infected with 100 year amnesia.
The presidency gave him a business. That's all. Everything he does is for business success. He isn't negotiating among countries for good outcomes, he's making deals. He doesn't care at all about us. Just look. He's not raging. Self-satisfaction beams from him. What happens to the country is not his concern, but the byproduct of doing things on behalf of himself.
There is a fraud on the American people being played. Distracting us with hundreds of line item veto “ex post facto” savings, all of which are illegal. I call for Musk’s certifying the cost and pricing data. That must be required. I call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress. I call for him to divulge the truth of what he found. Spare me the BS braggadocio crap. I don’t buy crap when we are talking about a $4.5 trillion tax cut. I say Musk’s ploy is all a fraud founded on a bag of smoke and mirrors and a “bury you in paper” con job. Let us see it. Empty the DOGE bag.
"I call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress."
I agree with you, but he won't show up. We can subpoena and call for and demand. They demonstrated they could get away with ignoring the norms and even laws the first time around. And when they do show up, they lie with impunity.
My dental appointment was just confirmed. So next Tuesday, I'll be sitting in the chair of my hygienist. When we're done, I'm going to break our rule of not talking politics (she and her police lieutenant husband are in the thrall of the orange menace) and ask her what she's going to tell her grandchildren about this time in history. I'll report back on her answer.
Good luck. I’ve tried talking to a dear friend, but now she’s accusing me of harassing her. So, I can’t share anything with her that doesn’t fit her MAGA thinking.
I am not usually an optimist. I've spent fifty years teaching and writing about genocide. For some time, I believed that this country was on its own death trip and, at core and not always consciously, welcomed the satanic Trump and destruction. But I now see the protests, demos, and similar actions all over the country. (watch Rachel) We are NOT ready to go down. And, frankly, we don't need more warnings. We know the threat, the hell already wrought, and how much worse can come. What we need is to get better and better at creatively coordinating our resistance initiatives, think well strategically, and never give up. We are in this together. I am more proud to be an American--a real one--than I have ever been.
I am thoroughly disappointed in Democrat Senators and Representatives.
Of note, I am a life-long Democrat. (The last time I voted for a Republican was Charles “Mac” Mathias (Maryland), who was in the House and Senate from 1961 to 1987.)
At last night’s SOTU address (I should say, Liar Trump’s “MAGAt Rally), I had posted THIS on SUBSTACKS I subscribe to and had emailed THIS to my Senators and Representative (below is the updated post, including the initial post and a follow-on post):
All Democrats in the House and Senate MUST boycott Trump's State of the Union address, adhering to this “procedure”:
• All Democrats should show up for Liar Trump’s SOTU address.
• All Democrats should show up wearing blue and yellow armbands.
• All Democrats must bring different placards with them; placards printed with these individual statements:
Liar Trump
Fraud Trump
Con Trump
Grifter Trump
Putin’s Puppet Trump
Traitor Trump
Hitler-lover Trump
Convicted Felon Trump
America’s Disgrace Trump
• As soon as Liar Trump begins his address, all Democrats to stand up and hold up their respective placards…… and shout out the messages on their placards.
• Four minutes after Liar Trump begins speaking, all Democrats to walk out of the chamber
THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
With one exception, Democrats who did show up looked pathetic. (You have to be an idiot to carry a tiny round sign that says “false” instead of “LIAR TRUMP”.)
That one exception was Representative Al Green (D-TX). “Good Trouble” Al Green did exactly what every Democrat should have done! (I’m donating to his re-election campaign.)
My main point being that……. we cannot come off as pansies if we want to win elections. To hell with “decorum”.
Joel, you are correct, as is Steve Schmidt about the precipice we are up against and the history that’s been largely forgotten. The thing that makes absolutely no sense about the Democratic non-response to Trump’s MAGA pep rally is this. If, as virtually every Democrat has claimed, we are facing an existential threat b/c of Trump and his henchmen, why are Democrats not responding with similar force - or to put it another way, with something besides platitudes on little signs? It’s a huge non-sequitor and so far, with rare exception (see Bernie Sanders), the Democrats appear to have turned tail and run for the hills. “Fight back” is all over the emails I get from various politicians, pundits and the passel of organizations I try to keep up with, but there’s very little concrete advise for HOW to fight back in a way that might be effective with Trump voters. (NOTE: You know what they say about repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result …) Down here in central Texas, the MAGA crowd continues to dig in and justify their vote for the likes of Trump, Ted Cruz, Chip Roy, etc etc. We are desperate for strong leadership and a way to break through the MAGA blinders, but it appears there’s no one out there providing either. As a friend of mine too-often notes these days, “We’re doomed.”
China's official response to Hegseth/Trump/America/us is more than chilling and ominous: the use of slang shows that China "gets" Trump in the same mafioso style that he wants to portray. China said,
"Intimidation does not scare us. Bullying does not work on us. Pressuring, coercion or threats are not the way to deal with China. Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy and miscalculating."
. . . and, as I write this, China has iterated the stance that wars are not worth their perceived gain (paraphrase). China's not a hawk, unless you have anything to do with Asia. Overall: thin veil of diplomacy over very very loud saber-rattling.
Wow! After reading your article today, you laid it all out there for everyone to see. This truly is a very dangerous, precarious time we are in. I am part of the Democratic Party in my community. All I see around are MAGA. It’s difficult, but I will not give up or be silent. The gloves are off. Thank you for your writing this. It propels me to be more vigilant.
Protest is vital. But let’s not overlook the need to educate. Millions love Trump. They believe in him. They want a whiter, male-dominated, English-speaking Christian country that takes what it wants. They don’t care about ‘democracy,’ the Constitution, or helping others here and abroad. Ironically, and here’s the rub: they don’t care about what has made this country great. Screaming won’t help. Education might. That and a very big stick.
Steve mentioned the coming spring weather and accompanying street protests, along with a likely brutal crackdown by the military. We should be thinking about how this might play out because the other side is planning it carefully. When Dan Caine (nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) told Trump "I'll kill for you, sir," it is obvious to me that he was very specifically talking about killing American protestors, not foreign enemies. Trump noted Caine's statement at CPAC, and added that when Caine said it, Caine then put on a MAGA hat, then had all his troops put on MAGA hats. That was not coincidental. Trump then said when he joked that "you're not supposed to do that", the response was "we don't care." Caine knew he would have a moment with Trump, and Caine planned to make clear that he and his troops would be more than happy to both disregard the law and also to serve as hybrid political/military henchmen willing and eager to kill domestic civilians. I do not see a single leading Democrat anticipating and planning for this.
With rare exception, I don’t see Democrats planning to do much of anything to counter Trump, except mouthing platitudes mildly objecting to what Trump and his MAGA minions are doing to destroy this country. Out here in the deep red hinterlands, we do what we can to resist, but so far, it doesn’t appear to have changed anyone’s mind (meaning the minds of the 75% in these parts who eagerly voted for Trump and refuse to re-consider whether they would do so again, given that he’s actually doing what they all denied he’d do in the run-up to last year’s election).
Don't forget this: He wants anschluss with Canada and we're hosting the world in 2026 for the World Cup. He was elected by a tiny margin and is acting like he won in a landslide. He's lazy and stupid and failed at everything he started till he got on TV and got elected. He wants to change the world in his grotty cheap image. He has weaponized nostalgia. He's surrounded by losers who owe everything to him. If you're not terrified you're not paying attention. If you are paying attention and are okay with this, you want the ovens to sing.
His father wanted him to be "a killer". He is going to push his plans to the only end that a true psycho/sociopath can envision. We can talk all we want about his faux "presidential orders"-- those are just more of his comb overs. He is in fully fury.
Steve - We very much appreciate your warnings and the clarity with which you spell it out. We’re headed for hell and it’s already a disaster that has many of us stupefied, yet we need to act. I wish you would say more about the obvious useful idiot that is running our country. It seems more than just plausible that he was recruited years ago and has been an asset since the previous time in office. Why isn’t everyone saying that every single day? Why don’t we call him out for being Putin’s puppet? It’s the supine Republicans that are confusing us - but it should no longer be that way since his power and influence has them all scared into submission. Following his every step is the right wing media megaphone that only wants to make money. It’s all part of Russian state policy now. Putin’s puppet!!!
Steve wrote “ amnesia and anesthesia have descended over the American people.” Such amnesia and anesthesia caused too many voters to look only inward at their individual situations and thinking that he might help, choose the malignant Trump, thereby avoiding consideration of the implications of their vote for our nation, our humanity and the world’s. We’re seeing the consequences of that amnesia now. It’s not too late to counter this. But we must act now: protest, protest, protest. And never vote Republican again.
All of these questions you asked above were put to thinking Americans in a pamphlet from 2017 called INDIVISIBLE: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda. It worked in 2018 and it can work again. Its premise has not changed but has become harder to implement because now, as then, local Democratic machines denied us newcomers, "Progressives", a seat at the table. A perfect example was the treatment of 2018 candidate Liuba Gretchen Shirley in NY02 in her battle to unseat Peter King. The local Democratic committee and its chair, Rich Schaffer, threw up every roadblock they could to prevent local progressive INDIVISIBLE groups from building a Demodratic bench on Long Island. It's the same reason Nancy Pelosi denied AOC as minority chair on Oversight. Democrats need to clean house locally and nationally and put gutless, jaded antiques like Pelosi, Schumer, Clyburn out to pasture and let new people with fresh ideas and energy a chance to defeat MAGA and Trump in 2026.
Another example - way back in 2016 when the Democratic Establishment (led by Donna Brazille and the female congresswoman from Florida with very curly hair whose name I cannot recall + the rest) decided that Hillary Clinton would be the candidate, as opposed to Bernie Sanders, not just b/c of her resume but to a significant extent b/c she “deserved” it. Sanders was the populist candidate on the left, and he very likely would have banished Trump’s misguided brand of “populism” to the waste bin of history (as they say)… in particular, by the voters who had voted for Prez Obama but switched to Trump. My favorite “new person with fresh ideas” is Wes Moore, the Gov of Maryland, but there are probably more who could successfully lead us Dems out of the wilderness… along with Bernie, as our Candidate Emeritus of course (-:
If not for "Superdelegates" Bernue would have won. I phoned the Democratic Chairs of all 50 states and 4 jurisdictions begging them not to pledge their "superdelegates" to Hilary and to honor each states primary results. Hilary was an unpopular "flawed" candidate. Institutional Dems didn't want to hear that or acknowledge any progressive candidates. We know how that all worked out. Abolish the Electoral College and shitcan the Two Party system. The British Constitutional Monarchy works better than the US. One person, one vote.
Steve thank you for this concise description of where we’ve been and where we are headed. Please submit this OpEd to every newspaper in America. We must help those Trump supporters understand the cost we will pay for the destruction of the underpinnings of our safety as a nation and influence as a world power!
I second the motion for getting this out to a wider audience.
"If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door." General MacArthur at the end of WWII
Steve asks, "is humanity’s most deadly war in front of us, or behind us?"
If we allow Trump and his mobsters to remain in power the "most deadly war" will be "in front of us." Trump and his abettors do not want a "more equitable system." Trump is demanding access to Ukraine's mineral resources as payment for him forcing Ukraine to accept peace on Putin's terms. That makes no sense unless we understand that Trump's foreign policy favors the strong and advantaged exploiting the weak and disadvantaged; just as his domestic policies do.
"Imagine", op ed in the NYT, Nov., 2028, written by Marco Rubio.
"In November, 2024, the American people made a momentous and fateful choice. They, like myself, were deluded by a demagogue and a traitor to America. Now, 4 long years later, we face the loss of 2 million souls, the destruction of much of eastern Europe, the end of the NATO alliance, the collapse of our economy, and a crushing of our souls. And for what? Why did this happen? History will remember that is was a phalanx of factors that led to this horrible, tragic outcome, but when it was up to us, the people, we failed our families, our great nation,and the world, and thus unleashed an indescribable evil upon mankind. May God show us mercy.
Marco Rubio. Former Secretary of State.
Chillingly accurate.
The sci-fi nerd in me has me thinking about the 2003 re-boot of Battlestar Galactica. The saying throughout was, “ All this has happened before. And, all this will happen again. “
Steve 100% touched on this as he stated that we have forgotten the horrors of WWII.
It’s a shame how humanity gets infected with 100 year amnesia.
If I were setting the "atomic clock," it would be one second to midnight.
Our Democracy sure is.
https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/the-democracy-death-clock?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2o7uvb
The presidency gave him a business. That's all. Everything he does is for business success. He isn't negotiating among countries for good outcomes, he's making deals. He doesn't care at all about us. Just look. He's not raging. Self-satisfaction beams from him. What happens to the country is not his concern, but the byproduct of doing things on behalf of himself.
exactly
There is a fraud on the American people being played. Distracting us with hundreds of line item veto “ex post facto” savings, all of which are illegal. I call for Musk’s certifying the cost and pricing data. That must be required. I call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress. I call for him to divulge the truth of what he found. Spare me the BS braggadocio crap. I don’t buy crap when we are talking about a $4.5 trillion tax cut. I say Musk’s ploy is all a fraud founded on a bag of smoke and mirrors and a “bury you in paper” con job. Let us see it. Empty the DOGE bag.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/empty-doges-bag?r=3m1bs
"I call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress."
I agree with you, but he won't show up. We can subpoena and call for and demand. They demonstrated they could get away with ignoring the norms and even laws the first time around. And when they do show up, they lie with impunity.
My dental appointment was just confirmed. So next Tuesday, I'll be sitting in the chair of my hygienist. When we're done, I'm going to break our rule of not talking politics (she and her police lieutenant husband are in the thrall of the orange menace) and ask her what she's going to tell her grandchildren about this time in history. I'll report back on her answer.
Yes, wait till after she has finished before talking to her of politics. When she no longer has those sharp instruments in her hands.
I was going to say exactly that!
Good luck. I’ve tried talking to a dear friend, but now she’s accusing me of harassing her. So, I can’t share anything with her that doesn’t fit her MAGA thinking.
I am not usually an optimist. I've spent fifty years teaching and writing about genocide. For some time, I believed that this country was on its own death trip and, at core and not always consciously, welcomed the satanic Trump and destruction. But I now see the protests, demos, and similar actions all over the country. (watch Rachel) We are NOT ready to go down. And, frankly, we don't need more warnings. We know the threat, the hell already wrought, and how much worse can come. What we need is to get better and better at creatively coordinating our resistance initiatives, think well strategically, and never give up. We are in this together. I am more proud to be an American--a real one--than I have ever been.
I’m very proud of Representative Al Green!
Don't you think it would have been so much more impactful if the entire Democratic horde had walked out with him? That would have made me proud.
I am thoroughly disappointed in Democrat Senators and Representatives.
Of note, I am a life-long Democrat. (The last time I voted for a Republican was Charles “Mac” Mathias (Maryland), who was in the House and Senate from 1961 to 1987.)
At last night’s SOTU address (I should say, Liar Trump’s “MAGAt Rally), I had posted THIS on SUBSTACKS I subscribe to and had emailed THIS to my Senators and Representative (below is the updated post, including the initial post and a follow-on post):
All Democrats in the House and Senate MUST boycott Trump's State of the Union address, adhering to this “procedure”:
• All Democrats should show up for Liar Trump’s SOTU address.
• All Democrats should show up wearing blue and yellow armbands.
• All Democrats must bring different placards with them; placards printed with these individual statements:
Liar Trump
Fraud Trump
Con Trump
Grifter Trump
Putin’s Puppet Trump
Traitor Trump
Hitler-lover Trump
Convicted Felon Trump
America’s Disgrace Trump
• As soon as Liar Trump begins his address, all Democrats to stand up and hold up their respective placards…… and shout out the messages on their placards.
• Four minutes after Liar Trump begins speaking, all Democrats to walk out of the chamber
THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
With one exception, Democrats who did show up looked pathetic. (You have to be an idiot to carry a tiny round sign that says “false” instead of “LIAR TRUMP”.)
That one exception was Representative Al Green (D-TX). “Good Trouble” Al Green did exactly what every Democrat should have done! (I’m donating to his re-election campaign.)
My main point being that……. we cannot come off as pansies if we want to win elections. To hell with “decorum”.
Joel, you are correct, as is Steve Schmidt about the precipice we are up against and the history that’s been largely forgotten. The thing that makes absolutely no sense about the Democratic non-response to Trump’s MAGA pep rally is this. If, as virtually every Democrat has claimed, we are facing an existential threat b/c of Trump and his henchmen, why are Democrats not responding with similar force - or to put it another way, with something besides platitudes on little signs? It’s a huge non-sequitor and so far, with rare exception (see Bernie Sanders), the Democrats appear to have turned tail and run for the hills. “Fight back” is all over the emails I get from various politicians, pundits and the passel of organizations I try to keep up with, but there’s very little concrete advise for HOW to fight back in a way that might be effective with Trump voters. (NOTE: You know what they say about repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result …) Down here in central Texas, the MAGA crowd continues to dig in and justify their vote for the likes of Trump, Ted Cruz, Chip Roy, etc etc. We are desperate for strong leadership and a way to break through the MAGA blinders, but it appears there’s no one out there providing either. As a friend of mine too-often notes these days, “We’re doomed.”
China's official response to Hegseth/Trump/America/us is more than chilling and ominous: the use of slang shows that China "gets" Trump in the same mafioso style that he wants to portray. China said,
"Intimidation does not scare us. Bullying does not work on us. Pressuring, coercion or threats are not the way to deal with China. Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy and miscalculating."
. . . and, as I write this, China has iterated the stance that wars are not worth their perceived gain (paraphrase). China's not a hawk, unless you have anything to do with Asia. Overall: thin veil of diplomacy over very very loud saber-rattling.
Stand and fight. We cannot accept the destruction of our country. It’s up to us, the people.
Wow! After reading your article today, you laid it all out there for everyone to see. This truly is a very dangerous, precarious time we are in. I am part of the Democratic Party in my community. All I see around are MAGA. It’s difficult, but I will not give up or be silent. The gloves are off. Thank you for your writing this. It propels me to be more vigilant.
Protest is vital. But let’s not overlook the need to educate. Millions love Trump. They believe in him. They want a whiter, male-dominated, English-speaking Christian country that takes what it wants. They don’t care about ‘democracy,’ the Constitution, or helping others here and abroad. Ironically, and here’s the rub: they don’t care about what has made this country great. Screaming won’t help. Education might. That and a very big stick.
Steve mentioned the coming spring weather and accompanying street protests, along with a likely brutal crackdown by the military. We should be thinking about how this might play out because the other side is planning it carefully. When Dan Caine (nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) told Trump "I'll kill for you, sir," it is obvious to me that he was very specifically talking about killing American protestors, not foreign enemies. Trump noted Caine's statement at CPAC, and added that when Caine said it, Caine then put on a MAGA hat, then had all his troops put on MAGA hats. That was not coincidental. Trump then said when he joked that "you're not supposed to do that", the response was "we don't care." Caine knew he would have a moment with Trump, and Caine planned to make clear that he and his troops would be more than happy to both disregard the law and also to serve as hybrid political/military henchmen willing and eager to kill domestic civilians. I do not see a single leading Democrat anticipating and planning for this.
With rare exception, I don’t see Democrats planning to do much of anything to counter Trump, except mouthing platitudes mildly objecting to what Trump and his MAGA minions are doing to destroy this country. Out here in the deep red hinterlands, we do what we can to resist, but so far, it doesn’t appear to have changed anyone’s mind (meaning the minds of the 75% in these parts who eagerly voted for Trump and refuse to re-consider whether they would do so again, given that he’s actually doing what they all denied he’d do in the run-up to last year’s election).
Don't forget this: He wants anschluss with Canada and we're hosting the world in 2026 for the World Cup. He was elected by a tiny margin and is acting like he won in a landslide. He's lazy and stupid and failed at everything he started till he got on TV and got elected. He wants to change the world in his grotty cheap image. He has weaponized nostalgia. He's surrounded by losers who owe everything to him. If you're not terrified you're not paying attention. If you are paying attention and are okay with this, you want the ovens to sing.
His father wanted him to be "a killer". He is going to push his plans to the only end that a true psycho/sociopath can envision. We can talk all we want about his faux "presidential orders"-- those are just more of his comb overs. He is in fully fury.
Steve - We very much appreciate your warnings and the clarity with which you spell it out. We’re headed for hell and it’s already a disaster that has many of us stupefied, yet we need to act. I wish you would say more about the obvious useful idiot that is running our country. It seems more than just plausible that he was recruited years ago and has been an asset since the previous time in office. Why isn’t everyone saying that every single day? Why don’t we call him out for being Putin’s puppet? It’s the supine Republicans that are confusing us - but it should no longer be that way since his power and influence has them all scared into submission. Following his every step is the right wing media megaphone that only wants to make money. It’s all part of Russian state policy now. Putin’s puppet!!!
Steve wrote “ amnesia and anesthesia have descended over the American people.” Such amnesia and anesthesia caused too many voters to look only inward at their individual situations and thinking that he might help, choose the malignant Trump, thereby avoiding consideration of the implications of their vote for our nation, our humanity and the world’s. We’re seeing the consequences of that amnesia now. It’s not too late to counter this. But we must act now: protest, protest, protest. And never vote Republican again.
Wise and honest!
All of these questions you asked above were put to thinking Americans in a pamphlet from 2017 called INDIVISIBLE: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda. It worked in 2018 and it can work again. Its premise has not changed but has become harder to implement because now, as then, local Democratic machines denied us newcomers, "Progressives", a seat at the table. A perfect example was the treatment of 2018 candidate Liuba Gretchen Shirley in NY02 in her battle to unseat Peter King. The local Democratic committee and its chair, Rich Schaffer, threw up every roadblock they could to prevent local progressive INDIVISIBLE groups from building a Demodratic bench on Long Island. It's the same reason Nancy Pelosi denied AOC as minority chair on Oversight. Democrats need to clean house locally and nationally and put gutless, jaded antiques like Pelosi, Schumer, Clyburn out to pasture and let new people with fresh ideas and energy a chance to defeat MAGA and Trump in 2026.
Another example - way back in 2016 when the Democratic Establishment (led by Donna Brazille and the female congresswoman from Florida with very curly hair whose name I cannot recall + the rest) decided that Hillary Clinton would be the candidate, as opposed to Bernie Sanders, not just b/c of her resume but to a significant extent b/c she “deserved” it. Sanders was the populist candidate on the left, and he very likely would have banished Trump’s misguided brand of “populism” to the waste bin of history (as they say)… in particular, by the voters who had voted for Prez Obama but switched to Trump. My favorite “new person with fresh ideas” is Wes Moore, the Gov of Maryland, but there are probably more who could successfully lead us Dems out of the wilderness… along with Bernie, as our Candidate Emeritus of course (-:
If not for "Superdelegates" Bernue would have won. I phoned the Democratic Chairs of all 50 states and 4 jurisdictions begging them not to pledge their "superdelegates" to Hilary and to honor each states primary results. Hilary was an unpopular "flawed" candidate. Institutional Dems didn't want to hear that or acknowledge any progressive candidates. We know how that all worked out. Abolish the Electoral College and shitcan the Two Party system. The British Constitutional Monarchy works better than the US. One person, one vote.