This is all 10 times worse than Watergate and we'll never recover to where we were, never. Like a catastrophic accident where you're in the hospital bed for months and years, you might eventually get out, but you'll never be the same. It wasn't just Trump. It was the Federalist Society, Kochs and associated Mercers and other dark right wing money, Leonard Leo, McConnell, Murdoch. The heritage of the unwon Civil War. They have come back and won, like a fire in the Oakland hills or Lahaina not quite put out. It will never be the same, and the fire is still raging, in fact, it's just entered a new stage of conflagration. Where will the firestop be? Certainly not Big Law. Not Columbia. Maybe the courts? We don't even know who the firefighters are yet, and who is part of the fire -- let me have my little house and I won't join any fire brigades.
So it's important for public figures to constantly point out the extent of the devastation, and the ongoing nature of it. So far, it's Bernie and AOC. They understand the moment. The rest have to join in, emulate the energy and the alarm. Beat them back, mobilize the country, don't bring cupcakes to a gunfight. Don't allow the ill-taken prisoner, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to languish in San Salvador, without massive resistance, shutting down the Senate and having massive strikes throughout the country.
I don't have to cite chapter and verse of what has happened, it's so clear. Everywhere, it's that bad.
Budd Shenkin
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