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Jay Scott's avatar

The perpetrator of terror against so many families can never be the “ victim”.

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elliott oberman's avatar

Folks Aren't Buying What Trump Is Selling, Dems Are Hurdling Into A New Era!

Trump is struggling and unpopular. Despite his efforts to wag the dog - immigration escalation, his sad parade, Iran - his poll numbers just keep dropping and he just had the worst week of polling of his second term. The circle of defiance keeps growing, he keeps losing in court, the people of America and the world aren’t bending the knee, and he looks far more like a painted clown than an American President. While he will need new things to restore what his budget bill, due to a large degree to all of our work degrading it, is very unpopular (appropriately so) and is unlikely to give him a lift even if they can manage to pass it.

Trump’s weakness and decline is big deal folks. Whatever scenario one can imagine for beating him and mitigating the damage he is doing starts with his losing his grip on the public - and right now we are there. The immediate rejection of his Iran ploy by the public is a sign of how much opposition there is to him now, and it appears that a clear majority of the country is no longer willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. However we got here this is a huge movement wide achievement, and we just need take credit for it, celebrate it, and keep working to further define and degrade him.

We are clearly now entering a new post-Clinton/Obama/Biden political era in the center-left, pro-democracy coalition - We are in the early stages of this new era, and it is likely to feel “messy” as new leaders emerge, new ideas tested and new tactics are tried - We should welcome this “messy” period of experimentation, competition and debate as it is the only way we can effectively grow, evolve and improve - there is far more experimentation and innovation happening in our coalition today than is widely understood.

New leaders are emerging, rising to the moment, breaking though (Newsom, Pritzker, Crockett, Murphy, Frost, AOC, Booker, Slotkin, Mamdani.

We are communicating who we are right now through our opposition to Trump and our work to prevent his assault on the middle class, weakening of our health care system and abandonment of the Constitutional order. I think these fights are helping connect us to the core of who we are - champions of every day Americans, proud patriots who love this country and are willing to fight for it.

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