Unfortunately, as is now being borne out daily, Democratic Party officials and journalism outlets did not spend so much as a single moment actually listening to the warnings of disinformation experts and researchers of the far right
Still not over Trump referencing that Snopes story at the debate either. I can't get over the fact that my sense that the dam was being plugged by maybe ten people working themselves into burnout (that would be me and my cohort) was entirely correct
Every day I am struck by how precisely on-point our reads of the situation were, and how much contempt they were met with by the professionally "smart" commentators.
Who are still mostly paid very, very well and still mostly keep ignoring us.
And, in the impotent, performative, infuriating words of Joe Biden himself?
"I concur with what Justice Sotomayor wrote regarding the Supreme Court's dangerous decision on Presidential immunity:
"With fear for our democracy, I dissent."
I dissent. We all should."
I hope Joe Biden writes an angry letter to his political representative about this situation, as both he and I are equally powerless in this situation.
::holds up finger to earpiece::
You're joking. The *President*? And just how long is Biden into his term?!
What do you want them to do? Actual D lawyering can’t start unless Trump wins & Rs start start implementing/codifying stuff, if Rs have the House.
There are likely strategy discussions abt that.
But how is “here’s our D plan to fight your R plan, if we lose” a campaign message?
Imagine a nimble, prepared Party leadership with contingency plans, PR strategies, coordinated social media blitzes, substantive interviews, and smart ads!
They didn't even have a plan for the world's oldest president being 4 years older. At least W. Bush's handlers put him on TV every day so when he got to the debates his gibberish sounded familiar.
"Fixing stuff is somebody else's job. We're here to raise money on the problems. More problems ==> more fundraising. God bless America!"--the Democratic Party
If I were a member of the Old Guard or a vampire or some other immortal killing machine, my list would be long and thorough.
If I were POTUS, I’d start testing the bounds of immunity and unleash full powers on a more refined list.
It is an event horizon in American politics and it isn’t possible to plan for. There is no plan that will work within the bounds of what any activist and legal organizations have ever done when fascists have captured the courts and the White House.
One of the things I've loved about the way Pritzker has governed in Illinois is that he's been unabashedly liberal. His social media feeds are full of just blatant statements about LGBTQ+ rights, unions, abortion access, voting rights. I'm not talking about who should be president or not -
fascists don’t get dethroned with clever lawsuits pointing out that the things they’re doing are illegal. the only remedy after they take power is death, and for obvious reasons the ACLU isn’t going to be organizing that
You don’t start a political project when you’ve won. You spend decades planning it and then you use a terror attack or an upset electoral win to pass it all hastily before anyone knows what’s in it, in the 30 days any D president has to accomplish everything he’s going to.
They aren't. They are using it as a marketing gimmick in an attempt to scare people into voting for them. It won't work. Look for "Agenda 47" to be added to it now that Biden is slipping hard in the polls.
I honestly don’t know what to say to you if you think it’s possible they’re not.
The project is a *900-page* white paper. Until a Trump cabinet is named, until Ds have a read on which things his admin was moving, & how, talking publicly abt their likely “response” is unhelpfully guessing out loud.
Please. I've warned about this exact thing for years. I named the groups and networks and financiers, I explained their plans and intentions, I wrote article after article on it starting well before 2022. There was ample warning
The January 6th coup attempt and its preceding actions were not a formally published and legally approved plan either, but it happened and nearly succeeded.
