Thread by @AlexandraErin

“Rage” is the thing with talons -
That courses through the soul -
And hunts the prey without a trail -
And never stops - at all -

And fiercest - in the Malestrom feared -
And swift must be the storm -
That could unleash the anger reared
To make our numbers swarm -

I’ve heard it roaring high above -
from Sea to shining Sea -
Yet - now here - in Extremity,
we ask what we - will be.

Credit to Emily Dickinson for the original.

I'm having a hard time getting my thoughts in order these days, but for what it's worth:

I do not feel hopeless and I don't think nothing matters.

I think we are on the cusp of a new phase of *gestures at everything* all of this.

I suspect the next five days will very likely end in a predictable acquittal but along the way there will be specifics that no one could predict, with ramifications that will not be fully apparent until later, in retrospect.

President Obama said something in 2016 that I think will come to be said as prescient: we don't look to be ruled.

And if there's anything the US electorate hates more than a king, it's the thought that someone, somewhere got away with something.

For Donald's base, they feel like they're getting away with it, too. They will be happy. He won, so they won.

But his base isn't the whole electorate. It's not even the whole Republican Party... though the party as it exists now is clinging to him, propping him up, shielding him

They have three quarters of a year, give or take, to contextualize all this, rationalize it, justify it.

We have the same amount of time to drive the point home, to those in the GOP who might yet break away and to all of those in the Mild Moderate Middle watching.

I will have more to say about this later.

But for now, neighbors, I say that hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing, and no good thing dies.

And hope has two beautiful daughters, and their names are anger and courage.

And we will need all three of them in the coming days.