"... Force and intimidation are not strategies we associate with American presidents. Those are not constitutional prerogatives the Founding Fathers assigned to the president. That is how dictators operate. That is how Trump operates. Let’s call it what it is. There is no reason to pretend that this isn’t happening.
"This is the moment to stay dialed in to what’s happening around us. The effort to overwhelm us with so much—a week’s worth of news and trouble on a Monday—is a deliberate attempt to get us to give up because it’s too much. Instead of doing that, look for the common thread, the theme that runs through it all. On every front, Trump is trying to take hold of power that belongs to others—to Congress, to the courts, to independent agencies like the Fed, most importantly, the power that belongs to us, the American people, the power to vote. It’s time for all of us to stand up." -- law professor and former Federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance, in her "Civil Discourse" Substack, writing last Monday. Well, since Monday we've had even more of the Malignant Fascist's "news and trouble," 6 weeks of it packed into 6 days. Enduring that barrage of "news and trouble" is taxing all of us, but as Vance notes, we have to stay dialed into the theme running through all of the noise: the Malignant Fascist's power grab. The more of us that stand up and fight back in the face of it, the more we see we're not alone. In fact, we're the majority, the Americans who want to save our democracy from the Malignant Fascist's tyranny. The ones who will save our democracy and make it better and more permanent in the bargain. (Remember pendulums?)
"It's time for all of us to stand up."
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