Worst widely held-belief among Dems: The only that matters is beating Trump. Beating Trump is essential. Urgent. But it is far from the only thing that matters. The GOP majority in the Senate must be defeated. The House must be held. The next president must drive change.
Trump is just a symptom. McConnell would have defended any GOP president as he did Trump, forced through any Supreme Court justice as he did Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. The president who takes office in 2021 must not be Trump, but she must be able to undertake...
...the massive transformational changes require to both undo the work of the right and fix the problems (the inequality, the corruption, etc.) that have brought us to where we are. If everything you do is just about what happens on November 3, you are making a big mistake.
Vote not just for the president you want not on January 20, 2021, but for the country you want on January 20, 2025. Work for the Democratic majority in Congress. And demand the changes we need, don't settle for a return to the status quo, to just turn back the clock.
Turning back the clock will only bring us back to the crisis in which we find ourselves now soon after. Trump must be defeated. But so must Trumpism. So must McConnellism. So must the corrupt, serve-the-few, gut-the-Constitution, racist, nationalist, policies of the right.
One without the other is not enough. And if you think Trump is the architect of the most serious damage the GOP has done to the US, if you think he is the root of the problem rather than just its disposable,bloated, con-artist front man of the moment, you're not paying attention.
(Note: Yes, I would like an edit function on Twitter. Of course, what I meant at the top was that the worst widely held belief is that the only THING that matters is beating Trump. Missing word: "thing." Sorry.)
