A newly elected Dem called Trump a motherfucker (which, in addition to being a lying bitch, he is), and the world yawned. Why? Tom Levinson writing at explains why.
It hasn’t sunk in yet for the political establishment — and by that I mean not just the electeds, but the whole infrastructure of consultants and wingnut welfare types and staffs and so on — and the elite political media ecosystem, that they are a day late and a dollar short in the face of those who simply don’t accept their asserted authority.
AOC and many more did not come to the arena to play. She is no where near dumb enough to acquiesce to the pre-existing “rules”. Those norms are intended both to constrain policy, but, as important, to channel political warfare into forms that favor incumbent power.
This is the one true lesson Donald Trump absorbed, and now others have learned: don’t apologize. Attack.
Which is, of course, ever more vital when you are on the right side of history.
I’m pointing and laughing at Kirsten Gillibrand’s presidential ambitions.
Writer Monique Judge of The Root explains that Maryland decriminalized cannabis, but really only for white people.
