Back to the resistance in 2022
The monsters are driving decent people out of politics so these miserable fools are going to be in control of massive portions of the US state and local governments.
Life in the remainder of the 21st century is really really going to suck. Our job is to figure out how to make it suck as little as possible for the frail and innocent.
We need government employees to do what they can in anticipation. We need to accept that America is no longer a nation, we are going to be Balkanized.
To me one thing we really need to do is quit focusing on Trump and start focusing on the meanness, the pure rudeness of trumpism. Quit hiding the worst of them and instead put them on front display. Let people understand that these are the people that will be running things. And somehow get them to understand that their life will be worse not better.
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former student council presidents and the Republicans of this era are stone cold killers." He and Rick Wilson were discussing the response of Democrats to the threat of fascism and those intent on overthrowing our government.
Your call to resistance, yes! We must do better and more -- by being much smarter.
However, the notion that we're no longer a nation will not do as a call to arms to save it. 
We are still the envy of the planet and have everything to lose. Resistance must focus persuading people to save themselves and their nation from destruction.
Let Steve Bannon tell people their lives are going to suck if they don't tear the nation down, burn it up, and hand it over to tRump. He is doing exactly that.
Our message must be that the future will bring unprecedented wellbeing, if we protect it. It's true! Even with the climate crisis upon us, and it's critical that people be able to imagine good futures so they'll fight for them.
Most Republican voters support what we're trying to do through the infrastructure bills. We MUST be able to run on real achievements in 2022, and that means we must pass as much as we can and begin turning it into achievements people can see, including jobs, childcare, new skills training, money in their pockets.
That means we MUST pass the infrastructure bills. Pramila Jayapal threatened to refuse to pass anything rather than to accept less than demanded. A threat of zero achievement must have had McConnell and McCarthy practically hyperventilating, wondering if it might be possible that our grand plans for progressive action could end up under the bus again, and what can they do to help that dream, and with it theirs to once again control congress, come true...?
We MUST get working on real achievements so that by November 2022 people can see change happening in their own towns and jingling in their own pockets, already changing lives, creating good jobs people are already arranging to train for.
THAT's where our most fearsome resistance lies: Coming through with what people need.