John Nichols at The Nation writes—Women Aren’t Just Marching Against Trump—They’re Running Against Trumpism:
If Trump is ever on the ballot again, it will not be until 2020.
What matters now is who else is on the ballot. The 2018 mid-term elections will be a critical test for the president’s Republican Party and, if patterns hold, they could see a turn in the electoral math sufficient to check and balance the president in Washington while removing his allies in the states. That’s an essential combination because it is not just Trump but Trumpism–as practiced by presidential allies such as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker–that must be addressed if the crisis of conservative hegemony is going to ease.
Walker suffered a severe setback on the Tuesday before Trump’s one-year anniversary. In a historically Republican state Senate district–where Trump won by 17 points in 2016–political newcomer Patty Schachtner swept to victory in a special election that saw a 37 percent swing to the Democrats. (The outgoing Republican who had held the seat for years won a 2016 race by 26 points. Schachtner won her 2018 race by 11 percent.)
If Democrats are half as successful in moving numbers next November, they could surf a “blue wave” election that makes all sorts of political change possible at the national and state levels. And if the wave rises, women are poised to sweep into positions of power–to such an extent that Time magazine suggests the electoral phenomenon might better be referred to as “a pink wave.”
[With the Women’s March as a hook Emily’s List mounted] a “don’t just march, run!” campaign–and hailing the fact that 26,217 women (as of Friday afternoon) say they plan to answer the call. The group is partnering with the Latino Victory Fund, Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute, the New American Leaders Project, Higher Heights for America, the Asian American Action Fund, and Emerge America to train first-time candidates like Wisconsin’s Patty Schachtner.
It was not a coincidence that the winner of the Wisconsin special election that’s become the talk of the nation was a woman. Of the 34 Democrats who have flipped state legislative seats in the year since Trump took office, 22 have been women.
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On the day before this date at Daily Kos in 2013—‘Pro-life’ terrorists super excited about this year’s Fetuspalooza:
Ah, January in Washington D.C. Bare trees, icy sidewalks, inauguration plans underway—and terrorists dressed up like sweet little grandmothers busing to the nation's capital, ready for their annual celebration of restricting women's access to health care.
That's right, it's time for Fetuspalooza 2013!
Ever since the Supreme Court held in 1973 that yes, women have the right to decide whether and when they want to have children—a right that has been redefined, restricted and outright denied ever since—the fetus fetishists have gathered for the "March for Life" to either celebrate or mourn, depending on just how successful their war on women and doctors has been in the preceding year. In 2012, 19 states passed 43 new laws restricting reproductive rights, so you figure there will be an awful lot of celebrating at this year's march.
Sarah Kliff at the Washington Post writes about one such fetus fetishist who has devoted her life to terrorizing the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center in Pennsylvania and is very excited about her upcoming four-hour bus trip “to spend the day with 100,000 other people who feel the same way that I do”—meaning, of course, a big group hug with thousands of other like-minded terrorists.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, zOMG Stormy Daniels! And much more Wolff and/or Steele dossier-bolstering material! Yet another horrific Trump appointee is rooted out. The shutdown still looms. Armando rants regarding today’s DNC meeting to vote on the Unity Commission report.
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