Schumer Sees Americans Rising Up If Trump Defies Court Orders

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18. Despite Schumer's Senate vote, I think he's right on this one

Ultimately, it will take public resistance to belie the nonsense that Agent Orange has a mandate or that 'this is what the American people want, this is what they voted for'.

There are pockets of resistance all over the country. We've seen the huge crowds coming out for Senator Sanders and AOC. The push back is starting even in Republican districts where Reps are afraid to hold town halls, and those who do are being blasted to Kingdom Come.

That sort of push back reverberates even in the sound-proof halls of Congress.

Today I read a subhead about a rally in Michigan. The chant? Get Your Hands Off Our Social Security. That demand has heft and reminds me of the Tea Party marches. This time it's actually true.

There's a reason SS, Medicare and Medicaid are regarded as the third rail in American politics.

Touch it and you'll burn in political Hell because Americans depend on those services to survive. We've worked for them, paid for them and the majority of recipients and their families will blow a gasket over them.

Will there be violence? Quite possibly. We've all been schooled on the line: Freedom has never been free.

We're beginning to learn that in real time.

Americans are waking up and they're angry as hornets. If that's what it takes to rouse the rest of our representatives? So be it.