A lot of ppl on this platform are talking about what they'll tweet about after "this" is over & how much better they'll feel when "things go back to normal." What they don't realize is that things will never be "normal" again because "this" will take a minimum of 20 yrs to fix...

Democratic backsliding has been a thing in the US for overly a quarter century now and Bush v. Gore, Citizens United, the gutting of the VRA (and the consequent voter suppression campaigns), and Mitch McConnell's extrajudicial theft of a SCOTUS seat only accelerated it...

We will have to play the long game, ladies and gentlemen. We have to play the long game because Vladimir Putin plays the long game and will keep playing it until he dies. We have to play the long game because Republicans, who have consistently put party over country play it.

One of the easiest things we can do is vote in EVERY SINGLE ELECTION from now on. One of the many reasons Mitch McConnell got away with this level of fuckery for as long as he has is because liberals and leftists DID NOT SHOW UP at the 2010 and 2014 midterms.

And we have to abandon the idea of bipartisanship. Because of asymmetrical polarization (the GOP went sharply to the right while Democrats tiptoed to the left), it is impossible to find any common ground w the Republican Party in its current form. Until the GOP dumps all the...

The Tea Party crazies, we have to operate under the assumption that they are acting in bad faith.

The Electoral College has to be abolished. @NatlPopularVote is working w state governments to get them to adopt the National Popular Voter Interstate Compact. If your state hasn't yet adopted the compact, leaning on your state's legislators is something you should work on...

And because a democracy can't adequately function when large numbers of people are simply not allowed to vote, we have to prioritize voter registration. All too often, we only focus on voting rights every four years and disenfranchised voters have to sit out local and state...

Contests which have a much more immediate impact on their lives...

And we have to keep power once we get it. For the past seventy years, the US has done this thing where every four to eight years, we swing to the complete opposite of what we had in office previously. Whoever succeeds Biden MUST have two consecutive terms. And that person's...

successor must have an 8 year term. Because GOP successors to Democratic presidents--from Nixon to Trump--spend a significant part of their terms reversing progressive gains attained under Dem presidents, progress in this country is all too often "2 steps forward, 1 step back."

After we do the work of throwing Trump out on his ass, we should take a few weeks off to rest and recharge. But make no mistake, our fight isn't over. It won't be over just bc we didn't allow a complete fascist takeover.