I think a lot depends on how the Dems can organize themselves in resistance. Leaders must be allowed to emerge. Congressional Dem leadership now is old and abysmal. They need a War Council, and regular Addresses to the Nation analyzing what's going on, and how it's a coup, an autogolpe, or a revolution, and pointing out in detail what they're doing and how they're lying about it.
Who can do this? Buttigieg can explain it, others are eloquent and passionate, but they are all either backbenchers, or sometimes governors. They need to organize themselves as The Democratic Resistance, and challenge the rest of the Dems to follow and join them, or not. That would capture the country's attention, give media somewhere to go, and set up for the lawsuits which are already progressing, and most importantly, for 2026 elections. Each Dem would have to choose, are you an active resister, or not? Through this, the candidate for the 2028 election, should there be one, would emerge.
What they obviously cannot do is to rely on their current congressional leadership. Schumer and Jeffries might be effective insiders, but Schumer is an awful public speaker -- reads his remarks into the rostrum -- and Jeffries struggles. Their task is to hold the Dems together within their chambers; swaying the nation is not in their remit.
Anyway, that's my take. Even this might not work, because SCOTUS has already been captured, so many other courts (Aileen Cannon, Judge S. in Amarillo, etc.). This War Council, plus the states, with active AG's and Governors in the blue states, are the last hope. Popular movements, demonstrations, etc., I would think would only arise with good leadership explaining what is happening and gathering adherents that the people could rally around. Remember what Allard Lowenstein had to do -- find a candidate.
Budd Shenkin
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