QOTD -- "Fight Like Our Democracy Depends On It"

 

"The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts, in which he and his appointees can override written law when they want to. It is precisely the autocratic approach that this nation’s founders sought to prevent when writing the Constitution. [snip]

"The past 100 days have wounded this country, and there is no guarantee that we will fully recover. But nobody should give up. American democracy retreated before, during the post-Reconstruction era, Jim Crow, the Red Scare, Watergate and other times. It recovered from those periods not because its survival was inevitable but because Americans — including many who disagreed with one another on other subjects — fought bravely and smartly for this country’s ideals. That is our duty today." -- the first and last paragraphs of the editorial board of the New York Times' "Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It" (gift link), book- ending an uncharacteristically direct and detailed indictment of the Malignant Loser's first 100 days of his second term, and their prescriptions for fighting back.  Those prescriptions, though at times gauzy and broad, will likely need re-calibration as the delusional Malignant Fascist continues to undercut our democracy regardless of tanking poll numbers and with a supine Republican Party/ cult unable to break ranks with him.