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This election showed that the Resistance is alive and well, and stronger than ever [1]
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Date: 2022-11-17
By 2018, the ranks and resolve of all these people had completely solidified as the extent of Trump’s criminality and the existential threat Trump posed to the country, its traditions and its institutions became more and more obvious. Those people gathered themselves up, went out and voted in 2018, to express their revulsion not only towards Trump but also towards the Republicans who had embraced him. Their anger swiftly produced a Democratic-dominated House. Then, over the next two years, Trump’s egregious mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the concomitant rise of Black Lives Matter protests against rampant systemic racism by law enforcement further cemented that resistance. While these movements all had different goals and motives, they were all united in their fundamental opposition to Trump and Trumpism. What also served to unite them was the disparaging, derogatory treatment afforded to them by the right, as represented by a Republican Party that now had become fully weaponized against them.
In 2020 the Resistance finally delivered the harshest rebuke possible, tossing Trump out of office (after a single term), in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, electing a Democratic president and, in 2021, electing a Democratic Senate for good measure. But Republicans by this time had irrevocably and suicidally committed themselves, hitching themselves to Trump’s preposterous Big Lie and challenging the very core of our country’s legitimacy: it’s free and fair elections. The violent insurrection Trump instigated on Jan. 6 — in full view of the entire nation — was the final straw, as the craven reaction of Republican politicians showed they’d learned nothing from the voters’ verdict. To add further insult, the Trump-polluted Supreme Court weighed in, blithely yanking away a basic constitutional right that women in this country had counted on for half a century.
So, in 2022, the same Americans, their numbers now grown from a homegrown resistance movement into an unstoppable Democratic force, brought the hammer down once again, marching into the voting booths and thwarting, in historically unprecedented fashion — and against titanic economic headwinds — those same Republicans and the man who still leads their party, Donald Trump. But now they had even more allies: their own children, many of whom were voting for the first time, some whose political education had begun with the Woman’s March back in Jan. of 2017. They denied the Republicans the Senate, and left Republicans with a razor-thin, effectively unworkable House majority.
The media are still shaking their heads in bewilderment. But the answer was always there, right before their eyes.
The Resistance is alive and well. It’s not loud, it’s not performative. It’s not playing for the cameras on Fox News. The marches and demonstrations may be in the past now, but the movement remains. Having now grown to an unfathomable size, and taken stock of its own power, its resolution remains, stronger than ever.
And it’s not going to go away.
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