The Democratic Leader You Did Not Know We Had

The growing representative of the Progressive Star Latefah Simon, which changed Barbara Lee to present Ouckland this year, fought on whether to visit Donald Trump’s address on Tuesday to Congress even after I talked to her on Monday. The first member of the congress, born legally blind and the first representative of Muslim California, Simon was subjected to party families to make the “previous” before Trump’s speech.

“I think it’s my duty to be in this building,” Simon told me. “But I certainly do not want to hear his racist, mysogony rhetoric. I certainly do not want to hear the lies that are wicked in this country that work most. But I believe I need to be there. This is our home. The president is a guest.”

Then she switched. “I am deeply fighting it. We’ll see. I don’t want to turn my back on my duty. ”

In the end, Simon decided that her duty means visiting, while other progressives are not – and some, like Al Green and Maxwell Frost, came out early. But “Prebuttal” Simon emphasized her conviction that regardless of the fireworks, she knew that Trump would not say anything in her pretentious speech that he could not predict. She was right.

The Trump Horror show was the way we expected. “America woke up more,” he said as if to sleep better. He boasted about the tragedies that he caused the tragedies. He told us that “the days of unleashed bureaucrats were over” when he greeted the unbroken boy Dogel Elon Musk.

He brought a sad spectrum of “guests” he presented to the victims, including the family of the poor Cora of the Competers, who died last summer in an attempt that Trump survived in Butlers, Pennsylvania. Honestly, the family did not look at all the happy, but I feel them. It’s hard to be happy after your husband and father die, somehow inexplicable. And Trump said hello with a young cancer survivor who would not survive under the control of his administration’s health and research, and which also did not seem happy. It was awful.

Simon’s reaction emphasized her difference from other Congress.

It is the most effective national progressive activist you may not know: it manages non -profit organizations on social justice in California since the age of 17. She is the daughter of a single mother with Jim Krohu South. Simon, which is the mother -mother, is a public activist, widow and reformer of criminal justice. Trained by the then prosecutor of the district of Francis Kamala Harris, she moved to the office of DA, working in the center of freedom of the young woman. Trained by Barbara Lee, she got up in her seat.

I’m sorry that the left does not like what they call “identity policy”. Simon’s identity makes her unusually equipped to understand the needs of Americans aimed at the current administration. She is also a working class warrior.

She talked on Tuesday evening her life as a mother, as well as a widow. “You can’t fight cancer for the budget … I know how it was to hope for help after my husband died in the early 40s … (and) Hope for help. Donald Trump and Elon Musk and others should never return the groceries to the shelf.”

Simon looked at Trump’s perfect America, which comes at the expense of all but the rich ones where “they cheat on Americans from the functional budget … ready to reduce cancer research … School classes from 60 kindergartens. Working people in their 70s and 80s without hope for retirement they paid for their lives …

Distopia if you are Trump and Musk. This is Tech Bro Bro Network State Utopia.

Trump presented a mask at the address with greater warmth than he introduced to Melania’s wife. This Bromance is not going anywhere, though Trump is reduced.

After all, Simon came out on Trump, about halfway through his tedious speech. I am sure that Melania was jealous of her freedom.

I asked Simon ahead of she feels the leader of the minority of the House of Hockey Jeffries, who called for the decor in his members, and seemingly scared either boycott or walk.

“I have a different job than leader Jeffries. His task is to carry us through this chaos. Trump has flooded the space with ridiculous antics. We all have different vocations.

“As a leader, (Jeffris) negotiates with the speaker (Mike) Johnson. He is extremely disciplined with his conversations. In conversations with me, even about whether I should be in the ward or beyond, he very much supports what I need to lead, and that every district will require our voters.”

She hinted at the battle, which many progressives campaign: resist pressure from the destroyed GOP Congress to help them avoid shutdown in the next 10 days.

“What Leader Jeffris told me: we will get to March 14 and we will fight.” Meanwhile, she added, “I go with my bull, and my Bible, and my Quran, and my briefings every day.”