The refusal to attend the speech would be the first testimony that the Democrats are not just playing politics – and they play badly, but also resist.
Donald Trump applauds by delivering the union to a joint Congress session in the US Capitol in 2018.
(Win McNamee / Pool via Bloomberg)
Donald Trump’s speech at a joint session of the Congress – this summer version of the Union State on Tuesday. Democrats should not visit; They should boycott it.
Since Trump returned to power, the Democrats told about Trump (and the true president Elon Musk) in the most aggressive conditions: they called him a liar, fascist and a direct threat to democracy; They claim that he is an authoritarian dictator who came to violate the government for the service of white-sum-press. But they acted as he was the ordinary president, in his respect, privileges and respect, showed the remaining 45 people who held the position. Now they are going to stand when he comes to turn to them in the Capitol – the same Capitol, which broke his pursuit four years ago – and clap like prepared cats when he throws authoritarian clap in front of the American flag.
The incompatibility between the words of the Democrats and the actions of the Democrats only serve to emphasize the weakness of the Democrats. A reasonable observer will not be able to distinguish the Democrats’ reaction to Trump and their reaction to George W. Bush. If anything, the Democrats looked less weak under the Bush – even when they were fully engaged in complicit with their plighting regime – because Bush was at least treated as a legal party. Trump ignores them, leaves them, and then calls them to kiss his ring on a personal golf field in Florida -and still the Democrats do not take any action against him on the usual, expected political obstacle, affordable minority party.
The boycott of the union will start to change it all. First, and perhaps most importantly, this is new. This is not what was done before. Without pointing to the speech, the “norm is violated” at a time when everything is certainly abnormal. This would be the first visual testimony that the Democrats put their bodies where their lips were. The image of the naked emperor, who protrudes with a half-monthly camera, applauded only by his Sicafant and owners, is exactly the scene that the country should see.
An alternative visual visual for Democrats is incredibly bad. When they go, Trump will look like any other president: the leader of the whole country. Democrats will mostly sit in their hands and stew, but they will look small and unhappy if they do not stand and clap over the above -mentioned flaptrop, which Trump spits on them. Trump is likely to redeem some family members who have been killed by an “illegal” immigrant. Will the Democrats honor the mourning mothers? Trump offers one of his ridiculous banalness about the greatness of the US military (which he denudes all LGBTC people) – Isn’t the Democrats to “support the troops”? Visiting speech not only gives Trump a legitimacy he does not deserve; It also puts the Democrats in an undesirable position to try to choose which parts of Trump’s agenda they support. All this will look like politics, not resistance.
Democrats have to boycott, but that does not mean that they all have to go home and drink, crying in their bodies for Kamal Harris. Instead, they need to countergraver the whole speech on YouTube, Tiktok, Twitch and any other social media platform, which serves millions of young Americans who are still not damn about the state of the union (which is What i will do). Traditionally, the party from the power gives the “answer” after the union’s state, and it is almost always a complete disaster. This is always a cotton mouth of Rubio, which grabs a bottle of water or Katie Brit as a intoning as a Stepford’s wife. The work behind the podium – or at your kitchen table – will definitely look out of place after the president is a bewildered speech to all Congress.
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But, in the boycott scenario, Trump does not perform with the full home, and the Democrats are not after the fact. Democrats must live all the time, ignoring a purely political speech and emphasizing the real influence of what Trump has already done. I want to tune in to fired federal workers, especially air traffic controllers, telling what they did to support the country. I want to listen to the people who predict the fever who predicts Musk, telling how Musk writes us in the prequel before the World War. unfairly and illegally Trump fired for black crime, defending the rights of labor rights.
I’m not the only person who thinks in this direction. I was told that some members of the Democratic Cauk desperately try to push the party to deny Trump their audience, and their efforts from the full boycott of the union to the actions of civil disobedience during the speech.
I am not sure that civil disobedience is the right way if the Democrats are not ready to go all the way and force the Capitol’s police out of the ward (which, for justice, is simply dangerous, especially given the age of some members of the Democratic Party). The delay, the Democrats, risk just talking like Marjari Taylor Green or Lauren Bobert in recent years. While I am all because the Democrats give up the traditional rigor of the decor, I am not sure what to look like bold and scary, because these two are the right path. It is better not to appear than to show and behave the way you have no home preparation.
However, this is not enough not to appear enough. Again, Democrats who want to contact their constituents must show some real form resistance Trump and Musk
I can imagine that this is a difficult choice for the Democrats in Congress. These are the people who spent all their careers trying to enter this room and did not appear, should feel them as giving up their duties. But the state of the union is not a proclaimed “room where it happens”. Sitting and listening to a speech is neither activation nor propaganda. It does not manage. At this point, it’s just rank complicity.
The state of the union is always a pure political theater. Before television and radio presidents did not even appear in Congress to speak with a speech; They just filed a letter to Congress on how things are going. The current state of the Union State is a demonstration for the president.
When the story excites photos of Trump’s first dictatorial speech to Congress, let this record show that the room was half empty. On Tuesday, Democrats can tell our children that half of us fought with this man, and the evil he represents.
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