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Danny Miller Profile picture
@DanielMillerEsq
Jun 29 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The reason I remain hopeful about the future of our country, despite all that is unfolding in America today, is that everywhere I look I see people acting with the courage and heroism that this moment requires.

Whether it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers or the 60 minute anchors...
1/5
Whether it’s faith leaders standing up for immigrants. Whether it’s universities that have refused to bend the knee to Trump, like Harvard. Whether it’s attorneys like Danielle Sassoon, Hagan Scotten, and so many others who have taken a stand for the Rule of Law… 2/5
Whether it’s the ordinary Americans who flooded the streets for #NoKingsDay. Whether it’s lawyers who took part in #ReaffirmTheOath…

Americans of all political stripes are not acting like our democracy has died or is dying. Far from it. 3/5
In the face of unprecedented attacks on the Rule of Law, when the DOJ has been weaponized against American citizens, when Trump is bringing tremendous pressure on so many people to capitulate. When the military has been deployed in our cities… I do NOT see Americans hiding. 4/5
What I see is Americans standing tall. I see Americans rising to this moment. This isn’t to say there isn’t fear. Fear is natural. Fear means this is serious. And this is the most serious threat to our Republic since the Civil War. But we’re not backing down.

We never will. 5/5

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Jan 19
My 2 yr old dismantled a remote when I wasn’t looking and pointed at a circuit, asking me what it was. As someone who spent years studying physics, I could answer that question, not that she understood.

But beyond just a technical explanation, a circuit represents progress…1/
… Thousands of yrs of human progress that led to the Scientific Revolution and the rejection of superstition, conspiracism, and cult worship in many parts of human civilization.

Certainly, those kinds of “thinking” were not totally abolished. In many places, they never left. 2/
You can probably see where this is going. This moment in our society, we are seeing an explosion of the conspiracism, superstition, and cult worship, the kinds of behavior that have historically made scientific achievement, and really achievements of all kinds so much harder. 3/
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Nov 28, 2024
The whole “The Rule of Law is dead” narrative is so toxic because if we’re supposed to give up here, what about people in Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, and nations far more authoritarian than those? What about Black Americans decades/generations ago in the Jim Crow South?

1/🧵
It’s just kinda gross as privileged Americans to be complaining so much about our supposed plight.

You know a country where the Rule of Law is dead? North Korea. Other than some Republicans pathetically treating Trump like Kim Jong Un, our countries have no similarities to one another.

2/
I don’t begrudge people for being sad and angry and having doubts about our path forward as a country. I have felt and feel those emotions. But as flawed as our democracy is, I refuse to give up hope in it. I refuse to give up hope in America. I refuse to give up hope in my fellow Americans. 3/
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Nov 17, 2024
I’ve been thinking a lot about our country recently given the the quite deliberate attempt to dismantle it. Well, here are my thoughts:

Our country isn't just our government, even when the government is acting for the common good… and especially at a time like this. 1/🧵
Our country is not just our institutions. Or our democracy overall. It’s not just the collection of 50 states across America or our political parties. It's not all the people who voted in the election or even all the people who live in our country... 2/
Fundamentally, our country is so much bigger than how we’re made to feel at a time like this.

Our country is everyone who lives in it and their relationship to one another. Families. Friends. Communities. And yes, towns and cities and states and so on and so forth... 3/
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Nov 11, 2024
In case anyone is struggling with what happened last week, like I am, I’ve written ten ways we can take care of ourselves. I sent it to my friends, but posting here as well. I hope it's helpful. Be well, ya'll.

#1. Exercise. At a time like this when the world feels so uncertain, when we can’t help but let our thoughts get carried away with themselves, and when reality itself is pretty stark, we have to do what we can to get out of our own heads. Meditation could work, but I’m not good at that. I know how to exercise. Exercise also helps make our bodies strong to persevere through a highly unpredictable future.
#2. Meals with friends and family. I could have said time with friends and family, and of course, that’s a good idea as a general proposition. But I like big meals to balance out exercise. I also think there’s something very joyful about eating with people you love. We also need to create environments that are conducive to real laughter and meals are perfect for that.
#3. Shift your time horizon for change. Don’t get me wrong, doing well in the midterms is important, but we (everyone who cares about democracy) are not going to fix our country in the next two or four years. It could actually be far longer than that. This is about making sure America is strong, prosperous, and free for the next generation. Think long term. We won’t feel so tethered to any given election outcome, and it’s a more realistic perspective.
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Nov 4, 2024
The truth is, it was apparent from the beginning that Trump was a fascist. And it was apparent that many of the same dynamics that led to Nazism were enabling Trump's rise. These labels and comparisons could have been powerful tools to nip this threat in the bud 9 years ago. Instead, those that saw the truth were dismissed or ignored.

1/🧵
Even now, when Trump is quoting Mein Kampf ("poisoning the blood") and praising Hitler, when his enablers bear a striking similarity to those who enabled the rise of Nazism, when Trump is running to lead his country even after a failed coup, like Hitler with the Beer Hall Putsch, when Trump is promising violence and mass camps, when racism and antisemitism are defining features of his movement, even now, we are told by many mainstream voices that drawing these kinds of comparisons is unacceptable.

2/
The fact is that we will likely prevail over this threat, for now, with one arm tied behind our back. We will likely prevail over this threat, for now, without even being able to call it what it is. What's more, we are told "People don't care about democracy. They care about about gas prices." I don't agree, but even assuming this is true, fascism isn't good for gas prices. It's not good for inflation. It's not good for the economy.

3/
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Oct 29, 2024
Keep trying to explain to people how this election could be so close. Has Trump broken something in the electorate or did he just reveal something that was already there?

I think both. But remember, this is the country that elected W president. Twice...1/🧵
And as good as W looks compared to Trump, it was fairly insane that he was ever considered to be a serious candidate. I mean, let’s be honest. He had no business running our country.

2/
So the question isn’t: how is this particular election so close. It’s how has the electorate been so polarized, misinformed, and propagandized over decades? How did W beat Al Gore and John Kerry, two people of great dignity, intelligence, patriotism, and accomplishment? 3/
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