Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replies to George Takei’s concerns deserves our attention, on this day when as happens far too often Donald Trump’s self serving words and his antics dominate the news.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ability to keep everything in perspective and stay focused on the underlying structural problems, is a breath of fresh air.
“But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified+reanimated.”
From Masha Gessen at the New Yorker:
After the Mueller Report, the Dream of a Sudden, Magic Resolution to the Trump Tragedy Is Dead
The Mueller investigation, as a media story and a conversation topic, has been irresistible largely because it promised a way to avoid thinking of Trump as an American development. The Russian-collusion story dangled the carrot of discovering that Trump was entirely foreign to U.S. politics, a puppet of a hostile power. It also held the appeal of a secret answer to our catastrophe, one that would make the unimaginable suddenly explicable.
The truth about Trump has been in plain view all along. The President has waged an attack on political institutions, the law, and culture, and has succeeded to an astonishing extent. We are no longer surprised, for example, that more than a month passes between White House press briefings, or that the President and his spokespeople lie openly and routinely. The assumption that the Administration should at least act as though it were accountable to the public has vanished, and we barely took notice.