C’mon Democratic Party!! Don’t waste time trying to convince Schumer to pull his thumb out of his a$$. For everything there is a season and the MAGA win in the November 2024 election marks the end of Schumer’s season and the freshening spring season for MAGA. Out to pasture he needs to go. Maybe he can get an adjunct professor slot at a university teaching economics recitation sections.

It is time for Democrats to match the ferocity of MAGA’s political rhetoric. Being polite, using history and logic or even shaming them is a complete waste of time. They are on a libertarian high from years of carrying forward Reagan’s antigovernment rhetoric.

Civility should always be tried first in any conflict, but continued civility is a fool’s errand in the face citizens who voted for and continue to support Trump’s authoritarianism.

It’s time to get mad. Very mad. Not with violence but with pressure and votes. What the MAGA GOP is presently doing to our beloved country may well be irreversible to some extent. I don’t care to live in a country satisfied with Trump authoritarian leadership. Trump is replacing what he calls the “deep state” with an even darker deep state of his own design. The cult of the Orange Jesus needs to be driven out.

It all boils down to votes. The Dems need an effective ground game to get people to the polls. Political actions that do not produce more liberal or at least anti-MAGA votes is a waste of effort.

Each voting Dem should bring along one liberal non-voter or at least anti-Trump non-voter to the polls the next few elections. The mantra for Democrats should be- “Anti-Trump + 1”.

ANTI-TRUMP VOTER + 1 Encourage a non-voter to vote Democratic!

Robet Reich pointed out in today’s (3/25/25) Substack email that what he calls the Pillars of Civil Society are under attack by the Trump administration. The pillars are- the universities, science, the media and the law.

The legacy media, at least, is covering Trump at roughly the level of entertainment news. There is some tut-tutting and rubber necking by the big news shops like NBC, CBS and ABC. NPR continues to try to be as neutral as possible allowing listeners to decide for themselves what is outrageous. The well-known MAGA friendly broadcasters are