Trump Has Shown Us Who He Is. Time For Us To Show The American People And The World Who We Are (Video and Analysis)We are the patriots. They are the betrayers.Morning all. Yesterday was an important day. Dems clearly found a higher gear, jumped up another level in our ambition and willingness to challenge Trump’s ruinous regime. In statements and committee hearings House Dem leaders reminded those enabling Trump’s escalating illiberalism that we will be in power again soon and will have subpoena power. Senate Dems, led by Senator Chris Murphy, introduced a new bill, the No Political Enemies Act. Here’s Senator Murphy yesterday talking about why it is needed now: We’ve seen other signs of our movement growing stronger and more ambitious in recent days. Barack Obama has been very vocal this week, forcefully speaking up, on social media and in his public appearances. The new House Dem national security working group put out smart and aggressive statements condemning Trump’s selling out to Putin and his lawlessness in the Caribbean. Democratic leaders in New York City aggressively challenged DHS’s illicit detention facilities last night, drawing international attention to the regime’s ongoing human rights abuses and violation of law. New public health alliances that will continue to make science based - not fucking whack job based - recommendations to Americans have sprung up in the West and here on the East Coast this week. Here’s the Baltimore Banner this morning:
In the past few days Dems have offered their own plan to fund the government after September 30th, rejecting what the Republicans have offered. Here’s Senator Schumer in a new interview with Punchbowl News:
As we often discuss here you never know in politics what is going to cause people to rise up or find a higher gear. Moments present themselves, leaders lead, and things just change as we saw with the Texas Dems, Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker this summer. The right’s wild and dangerous reaction to the Charlie Kirk’s tragic murder last week has forced Democrats to more forcefully confront the undeniable descent of Trump into Putinist authoritarianism. This is the next moment. For as we say here two things have become very, very clear these last few weeks: 1) Trump’s government is failing, foreign leaders keep refusing to bend the knee, his health problems are clearly growing more severe, and he and his rancid agenda have become wildly unpopular. A majority of the country just isn’t buying into his strongman act, and continue to want an American President not a bloody dictator. 2) He is responding to the failure of his government and political project by going full-on paranoid tyrant, threatening us/his opposition with state-sponsored and vigilante violence and launching what has to be understood as an early stage crackdown. I’ve called this dangerous dynamic the vicious cycle of a failing strongman. Democrats have been right to respond to Trump’s dangerous escalation and increasing madness with an escalation of our own. For there is an unambiguous lesson we must carry with us from history - every inch a dictator takes encourages him to take more. It is why our opposition movement simply now must find a higher gear, organize ourselves to challenge him 24/7/365 in far more sophisticated and ambitious ways, and not just comfort ourselves that we are leading in the November elections and will likely win next year. We must also develop muscular strategies to mitigate the damage that he is doing to the country and ensure there will be free and fair elections next year. We are here now. We know who he is and what he wants. Now the nation, and the world, must come to know us, what we want and what we are fighting for. It is time for our pro-democracy movement, and all of us, to reach deep and find the courage to honor this great country’s historic mission and fight every day for our democracy, rule of law, freedom and opportunity for all. That is what the moment requires. That is what we, the proud, plucky, patriots of Hopium, must do, and encourage everyone we know to join us. That is what I talked about last night in our weekly gathering. You can find the video and transcript above. Watch when you can. Share it with others. Hit like so it triggers the algorithm to bring it to more people. And let people know they can watch and listen to our discussions here at Hopium but also on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify too. In my talk last night I referenced these three recent Hopium memos and essays:
I also find myself frequently drawing from the insights we received from Nathan Heller and Leon Krauze about the need for the pro-democracy movement to be fiercely, loudly, comprehensively challenging Trump in the information domain every day. If you haven’t spent time with these important commentators would encourage you to do so in the coming days. A few more notes from our discussion last night….. Yesterday Trump admitted that he misjudged Putin, and believed that his relationship with him would bring about an end to the war. This is an admission that he has committed one of the greatest foreign policy mistakes in our history, one that would in most democracies lead to his resignation, removal of a fall of his government. I am not fond of the “soft secession” narrative that has begun to take hold on our side. I think we should come to understand that it is Trump and MAGA that are seceding from:
We are the patriots, fighting to hold the line, defending America. They are the betrayers seeking to undermine our democracy and America itself. Public polling and sentiment continues to be grim for Trump. He hit his lowest level ever in the Economist/YouGov track this week, and this morning he hit his lowest level yet in the Civiqs daily tracking poll: Friday’s U of Michigan Consumer sentiment survey came in the lowest reading in the last 50 years!!!!!!!!!!!! A New Virginia poll finds strong Dem statewide leads:
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Trump Has Shown Us Who He Is. Time For Us To Show The American People And The World Who We Are (Video and Analysis)
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