It's good to see protests, but I wonder if the pro-democracy, anti-billionaire framing is right for this moment

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14. I'm more inclined to let those folks define what they're protesting for

...we're essentially seeing federal workers and their communities showing up at these rallies.

That should increase in the weeks ahead as they grow more desperate about their jobs and futures. It's their independent voices which define those protests.

A decentralized movement like this is going to produce the broadest political outreach, essentially encouraging disparate groups to coalesce behind resistance to what affects them, which is a nebulous wave of actions by this administration against essentially blue collar workers.

We all saw Trump line up a deep bench of rich republicans to stand behind him at his inauguration. Then he invited these people who have reaped the lion's share of our tax dollars for their already fat bank accounts, injecting those same wealthy moguls into our government to strip working class Americans jobs away from them.



I can't think of a more jarring rallying point than the gold-plated Trump reaching into struggling families homes to take food out of their children's mouths.

The Constitution is a document. It's not self-actualizing. We need to speak to each other about what our needs are and how our federal government is going to address those.

Trump's entire strategy is to tell Americans that their states are responsible for things our Federal government has been responsive to for decades and decades, like flood relief that Trump is insisting is a state concern, or hurricane relief which he's saying Georgians should expect no help from their president.

We have potential epidemics on the horizon and he's shutting down our disease control and info centers; historically dangerous weather affecting millions around the nation and he's looking to close the National Weather Service...

We need to speak to where people are struggling, and to where their anxieties are growing about a nation that at least pretended in the part to care about the struggles where they live, not just in words someone can distort and manipulate in their interest.

We don't need rhetorical fights with an idiot. We need to speak to where Americans are right now, That will give us our messaging.