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[Bread and Circuses]

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Democrats need a platform for the midterms, an agenda

They'll have one at some point and it will oppose Trump's policies, tariffs, but local candidates will run their own races and pick and choose based on their polling. Don't forget how skillfully Dems won in 2018 ... every House race fell their way by small margins. This time around they have more potential.

[Scrivener7]

5. The midterms are too far away.

[Bread and Circuses]

7. Yes. But so many are responding to wait for the midterms.

I’m exhausted . I think many people are fooling themselves. This NEVER Ends with an election.

This is a COUP.

[WarGamer]

2. Time. It ends in 3 years and a day.

Anything else is fantasy.

[hlthe2b]

3. If there is anything left... At this rate, there won't be, for those who care about democracy.

Trump's demise (rapid, whether physically or irreversibly mentally) may give us hope. Vance is horrible, but I don't think he has MAGA's full loyalty and there are dynamics between his TECH BROS, and the Stephen Miller full-on Hate crowd, not to mention little Marco and his Southern Hemisphere dreams.

[Bread and Circuses]

8. Thanks, but I disagree

It’s NOT just Trump, there are thousands who are fully on board with ending the Constitution.

[J_William_Ryan]

4. "I feel this is hopeless--that the time to counter this criminal and violent coup is gone."

It is hopeless, nothing can be done.

We must suffer another three years of the Trump nightmare.

The original blame lies with the Founding Generation and their unwarranted fear of the people, their wrongheaded creation of an ‘indirect democracy,’ denying the people the means by which to remove a despotic tyrant such as Trump from power, and failing to foresee the likelihood of the rise of a despotic tyrant.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. There is always something to be done. Some actions that aren't protesting or voting:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSWxykA1WHOi0vTPLAJDaCeVhR3uSfh7PhlCj4t4yT0/edit?tab=t.0

Pick one and work locally.