Hey, MAGA, listen up!

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5. Not so "easy" -- more than 30 years and billions invested in...

... reactionary think tanks that fed phony "research" and messaging (i.e., lies) that were fed straight into FOX News and reactionary radio. It took decades to move the Overton window further and further and further into crazy town -- so far that "center" today is further right than Richard Nixon.

And sadly, as the reactionary media bullied and battered our Democratic electeds, inside the beltway battered Democrat syndrome took hold. The word of the day -- the excuse for inaction, when action was a moral imperative, win or lose -- was "backlash." We'll be hammered. That was the answer to calls to action to protect our most basic constitutional rights -- like the right to cast our vote and have that vote counted by standing up and objecting to the Florida electors on 1/6/01, or impeaching Bush and Cheney for war crimes, or filibustering Alito. The backlash will kills us, where "backlash" meant one thing: being called names by the reactionary media empire.

Like a battered woman, too many of our electeds came to believe they could save themselves from the blows and reactionary name calling by somehow "keeping their heads down."

Things have gotten so bad that I think the message is actually getting through. And that message to our electeds is this: They'll try to beat you to a pulp whatever you do so you might as well take a stand and speak out for what you ACTUALLY believe is right, win or lose. Gather allies. There are millions of us out here. We've got your back, whatever they come at you with.