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There are 48 granite peaks in the presidential range of New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
Granite is a hard rock, and America’s presidents in the national mythology were men carved from granite. Their character was impermeable.
Of course, the truth is always more complicated and nuanced. Ordinary people rise to become great leaders, and great leaders are ordinary people.
Character is not to the manor born.
The mountains of the Presidential Range carry the names of seven presidents, including Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Monroe, Eisenhower and Pierce.
Amongst these mountains is one that stands apart from the rest.
Mount Webster carries the name of a United States Senator: Daniel Webster.
The United States Senate was once famously known as the world’s greatest deliberative body.
Today, it is Donald Trump’s Politburo. It is a rubber-stamp caucus of pretentious yes men and women, who have yoked themselves to all manner of indecency to be in the room where you get screwed without ever saying a word, lest they be kicked out of the room.
Senator Markwayne Mullin is a spectacular example of the spineless strivers and trail horses that stay in line no matter what.
This is a classic:
The Democratic minority is filled with appeasers, and is as poorly led as any institution could conceivably be that is not run by a Trump.
Here is the Senate Democratic leader:
Here he is on “Meet The Press,” lost as can be about what he is facing:
He has no plan, no ability to communicate the magnitude of the crisis, no campaign acumen, and no ability to fight back.
Here is Kristi Noem, wearing a $50,000 Rolex, standing in front of an El Salvadoran concentration camp to which the United States government sells human beings, 61 days after her confirmation:
Why was there no serious moral or philosophical questioning by any Democratic senators about the use of police powers? Why was there zero depth involved in the queries?
Why has there been no plan for anything?
The answer is an appalling lack of leadership.
In fact, the only examples of political leadership in America that are more abysmal than Chuck Schumer’s can all be found on the same Signal chain.
This is why what Senator Cory Booker did was so important and vital in this moment.
Of course, per usual The New York Times and Washington Post diminished the importance of an act of conviction and opposition, dismissing it as a something that happened — not seeing it as the beginning of something happening.
First, the history of the moment must be appreciated.
Senator Booker broke Strom Thurmond’s Senate filibuster record in favor of American apartheid and brutality in the name of American liberty, while rising to oppose a descending tyranny on all Americans.
It was a dramatic moment to say the least — far more compelling than “Brat Summer.”
Any Democratic senator could have done what Cory Booker did, but only Cory Booker did it.
He was lifted up and supported by fighting Democrats like Chris Murphy.
We saw something that hasn’t been seen in Washington, DC, in quite a long while.
The whole world needed to see what Cory Booker did on the floor of the US Senate.
What did he do?
He took a stand.
He endured for 25 hours, and made clear that in America we have no king, but we do have a very grave crisis.
Cory Booker made clear that Donald Trump will have to fight to destroy this country.
Trump will be opposed, and not just in the streets.
What Cory Booker showed the whole world was that American values aren’t dead, but rather in a period of great contestation.
Some years ago, Cory Booker ran into a fire to save a woman trapped inside a burning apartment building.
Some people run into the fire.
Other people run away.
Cory Booker ran into the fire again because that is who he is. On the whole, it is also who the American people are, though we suffer from a brutal procrastination syndrome that demands our response comes after the conflagration begins — not when the smoke signals its imminence.
Trump and Musk lost an election last night in Wisconsin.
They lost big time.
The ground rumbled last night under the feet of every Republican member of Congress who is running in a swing seat. They know that the clock is ticking in their careers.
The Trump backlash has begun, and it will build.
Six weeks ago, I said that hundreds of thousands of people would be on the streets by spring.
Spring has arrived, and so has that moment.
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey made his state proud. It’s a tough place, and not a roll-over state.
Yesterday, Cory Booker sent a message to Trump, and also to two gentlemen from Brooklyn. It was simple and overdue.
The appeasement needs to stop at the Brooklyn border. Cory Booker held the line on the Hudson, and so much more.
He did more than his part to wipe the grime off the luster of our fallen US Senate.
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Well said Steve. Sen. Booker's stand should be seen as THE call to action, for all Democrats. They need to follow his lead and grow a pair. They have the support of the massive and rapidly swelling ranks of an outraged public.
Bravo to the honorable Cory Booker! I'm marching Saturday, I hope you all will too.