For millions of Americans who are now desperately refusing to return our democracy from the plutocratic vandalism of the second Trump administration, the main problem for us is simple: we must combine and fight back. This is not new, and it is not a missile science-one that we know from historical battles with authoritarians, it is that success depends on persistent, courageous, broad and united opposition. What it should look like, and what each of us requires is the heart of a new movement to defeat the more disciplined and lawless Trump of the White House, but before we get to where we go, we must start with where we are.
We have been holding a national organization about a democratic grassroots movement that helps Marshal of local volunteer groups against Trump for almost ten years. Trump’s innovation in the second term – its strategic alignment with Neo -raw powers Personalized in Elon Musk. As one Underground Recently, circulating in the pro-democratic circles, which is an unacceptable goal “replacement of the existing constitutional system with a privatized state structure similar to a corporation, with a monarch similar to the figure at the top modeling after the CEO.” Not surprisingly, historians like Timothy Snider and Heather Cox Richardson Increase anxiety regarding the boiling of the constitutional crisis.
It is difficult not to sound anxious about such anxious events. Do we call it a state coup, constitutional crisis, hostile absorption or something else, we are on the side of two -thirds of the Democrats who want the Democrats in Congress to oppose Trump at every turn rather than reassure it.
From our point of view of political organizers, the most important thing on this agenda is that it is surprisingly unpopular. The 2025 project, the managing plan for the una -raided ideology, Interviewed only in 4 percent support Before the election. The marginal voters who gave Trump another term wanted the lower prices for bread, and instead they serve a hot dish of techno-Distopian fascism with lack of eggs.
For those who want to break the coalition, it must be a major political opportunity. Trump and his allies in the White House are sharply overcome. And instead of acting as a check on executive power, there are Republicans Congress rubber nominees and assist Trump and Musk consolidate their power.
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So far, they have not paid a great political price. To change this, we need an opposition capable of making Republicans possessing their complicity.
A week after the election we published Indivisible: Democracy Guide at the borderOpen source manual to create a future authoritarian absorption throughout the country. The first step: Full opposition to Trump’s 2025 project.
The Democrats in Congress must head this accusation, but so far their reaction has been sluggish, insignificant, ineffective and – absolutely murderous responsibility in our algorithmically managed world. The Senate Democrats accepted “Strategic silence“On Trump’s nominees. A lot of domestic Democrats focused on Finding powerlessness And to voice interest in reasonable two -party compromises. It didn’t work. Still before Trump’s inauguration, too much Democrats helped speed up the Immigration bill on your desk. The Democrats gave votes for almost all the nominees on Trump’s office. There were moments of combat, but they were not related to a comprehensive strategy to make the Democrats an effective opposition party.
Democrats seem make their unpopular. We can’t wait. We need a single, aggressive and creative opposition in this country. Here’s how this federal opposition may look like in practice:
Slow the Senate. Legislators in the upper house of Congress do not have a large red button “Stop everything”, but a minority of a democratic senate can slow the business, as usual dramatizes its opposition. One expert in Congress procedure, Oremtein’s norms, has Detailed this tactic-The famous Philibuster to simply force the Senate leaders to read a daily magazine before the legislative business. One specific example: Senator Brian Shats posted a “content” for all appointed State Department – the main obstacle to the Senate who want to accelerate diplomatic confirmations. The Democrats in the Senate must do this for all the nominees that have hundreds.
To force Congress -Republican voices to work for democratic voices. If their votes are not only symbolic, the Democrats must be possessed where they can, make the Republicans squeeze as many hours as possible and get a serious political price for standing. The next obvious point of leverage for the Democrats here is March 14 Financing Term. Republicans will inevitably not be able to gather the majority to finance the government on their own, and the Democrats must extract everything that the speaker Mike Johnson can come.
Disrupt the norms around the Congress’ collegiality. Usually, as one member of the congress is considered rude, to resist the other in public. But these are not typical times. Congressional republicans in the breakdown of our democracy screams for such a loud and frequent confrontation that will lead to members Washington Post The editorial board is to grasp their pearls. For those Republicans who refuse to face their constituents, the Democrats must travel to their constituencies or states in order to publish real spending on the comparison for working families. For those members who share problems privately, refusing to say something publicly, the Democrats in Congress must subjugate them. Show creativity – and give the participants a rally and activists a morally righteous conflict to unite.
Work with a new jump in Anti-Musk, Anti-Trump Lassroots Energy. Democrats in Congress must consider current historical popular protests against Trump-Mask as an opportunity, not threat. Since November, we have observed a record number of new local indivisible groups that form new members. These local volunteer groups focus on their elected officials, Democrats, independent and Republicans. They make calls, protest, show at the congress offices, visit the town halls and require accountability from their representatives.
This is what democracy looks like. And the only pro -democratic party in the country should enthusiastically include this energy.
We have no illusion that any senator or representative can cause the opposition on their own. We need to try, learn, improve, and build. The company must organize in its communities as employed neighbors, pro -democratic volunteers and educators. Democrats with ranks must feed this energy and use their strength. And the Democrats in the leadership must thwart their cans to create a single front with aggressive, creative tactics and messages. No one has all the answers, and we all have to try, fall, go back to the drawing board and try again.
These are terrible times, and the terrible time requires an active, courageous guidance. Moscow and Trump really seek to involve the activities of the state in their projects, fanatics and conspiracy theories, but our enemy is not one or two people. Our enemy is apathy, cynicism and fatalism; The committed, authoritarian belief that we are simply victims of world events, not active participants in global warfare and justice. Whenever one of us is a family member, a community organizer, a representative, a senator – takes a step forward in this struggle, a thousand pairs of eyes look and study. Courage is contagious.
Take this step and have become yourself, knowing that you are a 250-year-old defender in self-government-real pluralistic democracy, imperfect, trying to be more sophisticated. Our predecessors abandoned the king with the brain; They defeated the rigid rebels of the robbery; They forced the robbers to fight workers and unions; They expelled the Nazis across Europe; They broke the back of the political bloc of South segregation; They reflected against the terrorized forces in Stonewell. We put ourselves in the stubborn opposition by a monomonymous fascist for a quarter of the millennium. No one called “Reality-TV” has been supported by a billionaire-billionaire that is cheating in video games, now it will roll over us.
We will not finish this fight, but we can be damn sure we will do our part as long as we are here. Together we are opposition and that’s so Our republic – if we can save. This is the part where we keep it.
