Charles Blow: Our future "belongs to an America that looks absolutely nothing like Trump's America"

[kpete]

Count Me Among the Mob
If it means people who stand in opposition to Trump’s degradation of the country.

By Charles M. Blow


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.....count me among the mob, if that means people who stand in opposition to Trump’s degradation of the country in all ways. If the mob stands up for women and stands up to the National Rifle Association, I want in. If the mob hates corruption and loves the increasing diversity of this country, then it is for me. If the mob finds it abhorrent that during the same week that it became clear that a Washington Post columnist had been killed in a Saudi Arabian consulate, Trump praised an American politician who assaulted a journalist, then yes, yes, yes to the mob.

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This election and indeed all that follow it must no longer be about reactions, but about realignment.

We must conceive of the country we want and drive relentlessly toward it, not because we are thunderstruck by the sheer immorality that has risen to the pinnacle of power, but because we know that power is in fact a possession of the people in a democracy and we can both harness it and assert it.

Trump is going to be Trump. Stop playing by his rules. Don’t allow him to dictate the terms of the debate. Let him call you whatever he likes. If he says you are part of a mob, so be it.

Stay focused on the future. It belongs to an America that looks absolutely nothing like Trump’s America. Vote!


the rest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/opinion/trump-midterm-mob.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[cwydro]

1. Good article. He also thinks we need a clearer message.

Everything should not be reactive to the blotus.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R!!

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t