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This is how you build a bigger tent.

I and quite a few other ex-Republicans have a bottomless well of righteous rage toward the current regime. It's political and moral horror mixed with personal betrayals and shame for past complicity. I hope we can be useful.

(Not for nothing, but plenty of anarchists were the backbone of community defense to ICE. They may not be doing mass protest, but they didn’t go anywhere…)

100%. This is NOT a diss on anarchists, who have been doing good and have been right about so so much. This is just a gentle reminder to welcome in the slow to understand (myself included).

Totally. It’s also been super annoying seeing No Kings is a cringey waste of time takes, as if all the protestors vanish at the end of the day

Acute targeted rage vs. continual underlying anger. We have to remember that the normies still think that this is all just because of a few people or even just Trump. The lefties are mad bc we could "go back to normal" and lose ~80% of these people. I hope they're wrong but history shows otherwise

FWIW, after Trump's *re*-election I think most of the people you talk about see the problem as bigger than one man and his entourage.

I hope so. I really do. Just hasn't been my experience

If it wasn’t clear, this is not an endorsement of centrism/centrist Dems. Nor is saying they are more viciously angry a value judgment. It’s probably just because centrists have a more carceral mindset and feel more recently betrayed. Hence the opportunity to welcome them to go further. ✌️

Bluesky: The place where we could all be happy and defeat fascism if we could just figure out good-faith reading comprehension. ✌️

I think a lot about this moment during the Jerry Rescue in Syracuse in 1851. This local rich guy had been persistently antagonistic to abolitionists. He was like, “Yeah slavery is wrong, but asking for immediate emancipation is too radical, and you guys are a bunch of hysterical lunatics.” …

Then he saw Jerry, a self-emancipated neighbor, getting beaten by cops and taken to jail. Jerry was gonna be sent back South the next day. The rich guy saw all the abolitionists rioting, trying to get Jerry out, and he became a radical abolitionist on the spot.

What did the people who’d been right all along do? They didn’t lecture him (or if they did, they didn’t record it for history). They said, “Great. We’re hiding Jerry at your house, because the cops’ll never suspect you!” And they did. They hid Jerry there for four days and then got him to Canada.