"...What makes me angry rather than sad is that it did not have to be like this. Trump should have been removed when he was impeached in January of 2021. Republicans scuttled that, but Democrats should immediately have had Trump prosecuted for his crimes, but they didn’t. They should have made sure Biden was a caretaker president and elevated a younger party member, but didn’t. In their complacency they thought the evil witch was dead and that they didn’t have to do anything else. As all of the current collaboration shows us, our elites are very good at climbing the greasy pole of success, and will throw their souls in the gutter in order to stay on top of it. [snip]
"On the other side, the right wingers understand how power works. Instead of reading Robin D’Angelo they were forging alliances to get Silicon Valley money and planning Project 2025. They didn’t just go home after 1/6 like Democrats did, which is why today the January 6th criminals are walking free. The Revolutions of 1848 failed for much larger structural reasons, the changes of 2020 failed to stick because the people responsible for seeing them through didn’t bother to do so. It’s a both an embarrassment and a crime. Future generations will not look upon us kindly." -- historian and teacher Jason Tebbe, in his Substack, articulating what many of us have been thinking and saying for years now. It's not enough, though, to remain bitter about what did or didn't happen in the past 4 years. It's important that the lessons Tebbe discusses are incorporated by a muscular resistance to the Malignant Fascist and his American fascist movement, a.k.a., MAGA. The go- along careerists and institutionalists who sleepwalked us into the situation we're in -- and we all must take some responsibility for that -- must not be counted on as leadership in this moment. We need fighters ("brawlers"), and anyone not ready for that must stand aside.
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