I read Chuck Schumer’s Op-Ed in the Times about how Democrats need to stand strong and delay the new Supreme Court Justice appointment, and it read like trying to rally the people to a lost cause. The Nuclear option is gone, and the Republicans only need 51 votes and they have them. I am also tired of hearing that Collins and Murkowski will come and save us all by blocking the vote. They will be offered something and fold, or the pick will do the “I don’t know how I will rule” dance, which for those two Senators will suffice. In this, I am a pessimist, and we are all screwed.
But there is a mid-term coming. That is what our hope rides on.
I read this Op-Ed on the way into work today; Women Might Save America Yet. As the piece tries to stay optimistic, it had a very telling line in it, “It’s too soon to tell whether America will survive Trump in any recognizable form.” That I think sums up the America we are living in now; Will there be anything left that will resemble to Old Republic?
I do think that this midterm and general election in 2020 is the opportunity to make the changes that need to be made. I think it is pointless for liberals to try and restore a pre-Trump America. I think we have to establish a post-Trump America. There is so much that needs to be changed, and if there is a blue wave, then engage these votes in making a more perfect Union.
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