This is wrong. So many of these people were first-timers, coming in through groups like Indivisible. My experience of what cut the legs out from under the resistance movement were court cases (which looked like victories!) that nullified the travel ban.https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1205880686961418241 …
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But all that aside, the idea that the resistance movement wasn't "authentic" because the opposition party tried to make use of it and help organize it is not just silly, but harmful. Lots of great people got into political activity for the first time through this work
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my sad belief is that if the economy had been worse there would have been lots more overt dissent and protest, including on issues like kids at the border and impeachment, and we'd be talking about "the conscience of a nation" rising up in moral outrage. But the conscience rests
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But I think anyone who got involved in resistance stuff in late 2016/2017 can attest that it was not liberal elites, but people from all walks of life coming together in a sense of shared emergency, and finding comfort in that attempt to do something
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The institutional Democratic party everyne maligns so much did a good job converting that energy into a large midterm victory and I think gets unfairly maligned (including by me in the past, a lot)
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Speaking for the tech world I know, a lot of the stuff that we were so scared of in late 2016 ended up happening in 2019 (deportations, facial recognition, tech government contracts, war on encryption) but with a fatal lull in enthusiasm and appetite for organizing in between
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Except you're still right it's just the authoritarians are playing a much longer game (Supreme Court and judiciary) which is hard to capture in a Moment of twitter rage.
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Has there been any good postmortem written on WTF happened with the women’s march? That was…certainly a thing that had a moment and then suddenly vanished.
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1) where do you think the 2018 majority came from? 2) there was internal implosion at the top. There have been good things written, but I’d have to dig up a citation. 3) see point 1.
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