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New interview with me on the movement for impeachment hearings, the new reps who joined the call, Trump's disregard for term limits, and autocracy in America -- past and present
"Yes, more reps may join the call for impeachment. If you're an ordinary person, if you're not from some millionaire family, and if you're a person who won't give up your values to serve a regime -- you're going to want to stop this dead in its tracks."
"If you value independent thought, this is not an administration for you, whether you're a Dem or in the GOP. And America will become a country that's not for you. People who take the long-term view understand that, and they are fighting back."
"What's been very sad is to see all these people who are directly targeted by the Trump admin -- immigrants, LGBT folks, anyone not white -- come out in droves to vote because they deserve protection, they expect Dems to fight for them, and Pelosi won't."
"You have to look for the people actually trying to save this country, and support those people. Don't put faith in false saviors. Officials have to earn our respect. These are public servants. They serve the public -- that's us. We deserve better."
"The fact that Trump talks on a near daily basis about how he's going to extend his terms and not leave office and people don't take it as a warning -- that is bad. They need to take it seriously. This is what happens in autocratic states."
"People forget that history of the US is full of 'respectable' people who sat around debating things like 'Is a black person fully human, or just 3/5?' That was considered a normal debate. State-sanctioned autocracy has happened here without mass outcry."
"When officials say they're making a 'political calculation', I see a dehumanizing calculation. When someone decides to look at a poll number instead of a human being, I don't know what's wrong with them. There are lives on the line."
"Pelosi is striking a bad-faith bargain with a broken system and appeasing an autocrat."
