Mary Trump - Where Things Stand
On Monday, Hakeem Jefferies, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, was asked if Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader of the Senate, was 1) effective, and 2) should keep his job. Jeffries said “yes” and “yes,” which I find troubling. We learned a lot of things about the Democratic Party and the Democratic base over the last week.
On election day, we learned that not just the Democratic base, but Americans more broadly, understand what’s happening to and in this country.
Last week’s blue wave was not an accident. The New York mayoral race, the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, the statewide Georgia elections, the elections in Pennsylvania for state Supreme Court seats, and more were not isolated incidents. They were all of a piece. Donald can say all he wants that he “wasn’t on the ballot,” but the fact is that Democrats ran the table exactly because he was on the ballot. Turnout was high and the margins of error were resounding.
Even though a not-insignificant minority of people in this country will believe anything Donald tells them, no matter how at odds with their day-to-day experiences, there are many more who value their reality-based experiences over the lies they are being told by the Trump regime—and they’re paying attention. They know inflation is up. They know that the cost of their groceries, and their gasoline, and their rent, and the products they buy at big box stores and Amazon are going up. They know that it’s wrong to murder people on boats in the Caribbean or in the Pacific Ocean, regardless of what crimes they may or may not have committed. They know that it’s wrong to deny people the right to due process in this country, whether they’re an American citizen or not.
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