Thread by @jennycohn1

Not really, but I sincerely hope he comes through. I feel we’ve been burned by blind faith in institutions too many times before for me to have blind faith now. 1/

https://twitter.com/nathaliejacoby1/status/1478849031073935366

A speech was never going to win me over. Until there are indictments against those who orchestrated the insurrection, I will remain skeptical. 2/

I’m still waiting for transparency re: the 2016 election. So yeah, I’m not going to lead a cheer for anyone in government until a lot changes. I just can’t. 3/

It doesn’t mean I will bash Garland either. I’m just very skeptical after what we’ve been through. It took a lot of failure in our institutions to get us here. The notion that institutions will now save the day seems a stretch. But I very much hope they do. 4/

The 2000 election is a startling example of the failure of US Institutions. So is what happened to Don Siegelman. Ditto the 2016 election. Unless & until we see indictments, why on earth shld I have faith? 5/

We need action & transparency, not unearned faith. 6/

Someone was in charge of this. We need transparency & indictments. 7/

https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1454601866021462028

Again, we need transparency & indictments. 8/

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1458139441151705091

But at this point, we still lack answers about the pinging between the Trump Tower server & Alfa Bank. We still don’t know the names of the vendors (other than VR Systems) that were breached in 2016. We still don’t know if the FBI conducted a forensic analysis of that election.9/

I wrote about 2000 here. 10/ jennycohn1.medium.com/the-2000-u-s-p…

I wrote about what the GOP did to Don Siegelman (Alabama’s last Democratic Governor) here. 11/ jennycohn1.medium.com/if-you-think-y…

I wrote about the misinformation we were fed in 2016 here. 12/ jennycohn1.medium.com/why-have-so-ma…

Does lack of “faith” mean we give up? Of course not. It means the opposite. It means that we must continue to demand transparency & action & that we must involve ourselves in our democracy & monitor our institutions to make sure they do what they should do. 13/

Where we see failures, we raise awareness. The court of public opinion can effect meaningful change. 14/

Supporting local journalism is in my opinion crucial to this effort. If we’ve learned anything these past several years, it should be that local politics are national politics. 15/