The hits just keep on coming, don’t they? Most days I wake up and check my standard list of news organizations for the morning status report. Inevitably I get an overwhelming feeling of doom. BUT, I do my best to squish that feeling and decide which topic to focus on just for the day. Where are my efforts best applied?
The ongoing Muslim Ban, the reinstated global gag rule, the re-initiation of work on the Keystone pipeline, the continued fight to keep cartoon super villains out of the Cabinet, and now the nomination Neil Gorusch to be a Supreme Court Justice…it all makes my head spin. Thank goodness for the comedic stylings and wise words of Jon Stewart. Jon visited Stephen Colbert last night and did a dead-on impression of the 45th president reading a few of his upcoming executive orders. And there in the midst of the ridiculous costume, the jokes about narcissism, and off-script banter, came the words that settled me. Jon was speaking in the third person as DJT, so I cleaned up a few of the pronouns to make it easier to understand. Here is what he said:
It is going to take relentless stamina, vigilance, and every check and balance this great country can muster to keep DJT from going full Palpatine… We have never faced this before – purposeful, vindictive chaos. But perhaps therein lies the saving grace of [Trump’s] presidency. No one action will be adequate. All actions will be necessary. And if we do not allow DJT to exhaust our fight and somehow come through this presidency calamity-less and Constitutionally partially intact, then [Trump] will have demonstrated the greatness of America…just not the way [he] thought he was going to.
Yes, we have a really hard road ahead. Yes, it is going to be exhausting. But when you think about these words, and when you watch people from all walks of life coming together in protest, and when you see the support of organizations all across the country and around the globe…you can use that warm and fuzzy feeling as fuel to keep pushing forward. Keep resisting!!
Now We Stand 