Keepin' the energy up.
Still on vacation (take heart, Roy Edroso Breaks It Down readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in.
I see that DeSantis’ creeps removed the rainbow-colored crosswalk by the Pulse nightclub in Orlando (scene of a homophobic attack in 2016) -- and that activists accompanied by anti-fascist politicians have painted it back. Good for them!
This reminds me that a lot of what’s going on now is a kind of cat-and-mouse game with the Trumpkins. Every week brings more lawsuits and street protests to fight back against Tubby’s illegal acts. This also applies to his absurd D.C. takeover, which also has given rise to legal challenges and street defiance with or without the aid of hoagies. We even have at least one Supreme Court Justice basically filing protests in the form of dissents.
Of course the goons have all the advantage, being in charge of the three branches, so this back-and-forth can be wearying. But while extra-political actions is mainly what’s left to us now, new political opportunities are arising. Democrats, feeble as they are, keep on winning special elections. I note that the Texas legislators’ walkout over the GOP gerrymander appears to have bought time for California to get its own counter-gerrymander going, which makes me suspect that was at least part of the plan.
The bad stuff I talk about most of the time -- the Republicans’ increasingly obvious fascism, racism, and outright criminality, with the support of the complaisant and incurious Prestige Press -- is still bad, and getting worse, but it’s good to remember that it’s not only resisted but also unpopular, and maybe unpopular because it’s resisted, because visible resistance defeats the tendency among some of us to just shrug it all off and increases the will to say, you know what, no. Hang tough and see you later.
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