QOTD -- Never-Ending

 

"The lesson I took was that it’s never going to end.

"Republicans are never going to stop warping reality in a funhouse mirror of fearmongering, and voters are never going to stop falling for it.

"I guess I had imagined that, once we emerged from the Trump Era — a.k.a. the Factchecker Era — we’d be able to rest a little easier. Once Democrats had ousted Donald Trump and won a majority in the Senate, we could start improving people’s lives unimpeded (okay, less impeded) by a party whose chief goal appeared to be keeping government from governing (side project: keeping voters from voting). I thought, given the chance, Americans would approve of this refreshing approach and stop buying the lies, and that finally the worst would be over.

"That’s how I pictured covid-19, too: After we’d suffered through this terrible, havoc-wreaking, life-altering epidemic, there’d be an economic mess to clean up, losses to mourn and trauma to overcome. But there would be an “after.”

"I was wrong on both counts." -- Kate Cohen, in today's Washington Post, on the lesson she took from the recent off- year elections.  We have a lot of work to do to keep our democracy in the face of the seemingly inexorable Republican march toward authoritarianism.  The fact that that march didn't end with Trump's ouster just means we have to be as resolute as they are and not give into despair or defeatism, as hard as that may be at times.