Broken Glass

[matt819]

10. There is some comfort. . .

There is some comfort in knowing a couple of things.

First, the Democratic-majority House will spend the next two years holding hearings that will likely bring to light that which has been hidden. From Ivanka Trump's e-mails to Jamal Khashoggi's murder to treason to all manner of corruption throughout the Executive Branch, the House will shine a light on all the crap. What happens from there, who knows. Maybe resignations, maybe legal action. Don't know, but it will help Dems in 2020.

Next, when a Democratic president is elected, in 2020 I hope, of course, the primary objectives should be to undo the damage that has been done, via EO or via legislation, assuming a fully Democratic Congress. Actions on Saudi Arabia. Reversals on tariffs. DOJ and IG investigations with teeth. Restoration of our relationships with allies and renewed commitments to treaties, including, NATO and non-proliferation. Climate change action on a fantastically broad scale. Reverse the anti-immigration policies and craft a path to citizenship among all immigrants, legal and not. (Yeah, yeah, that may suck, but we can't go on as we have with 12 million people here but not quite part of our society.) Renewed and restated commitments to the LGBTQ community and to women's reproductive rights.

Frankly, it's extremely difficult to picture the task of undoing the damage, and I can only hope that Democratic legislators and liberal think tanks are compiling the damage that has been done and developing a program, from day one, of undoing it.

Well, there is some comfort in this. But for now, I wake up every single fucking morning wondering what fresh new hell awaits. The truly astounding thing is that we all have confronted a fresh new hell every single day since January 2016. Every single fucking day.