A long-shot campaign to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot in states across the US raises an important question about the best tactics for fighting the right.
I am torn because the way the liberals (I live in Maine) will do it is explicitly opposed to mobilizing from the left. And, as RWE said, “when you strike at a king, you must kill him.” Liberal elites are good at killing Paelestinians but not good at defeating the far right. (Although they have handed down heavy sentences like after Oklahoma City). In my view, not a principle, just a question of balance of forces.
I'm in camp 5 for the case against removal. I think the reaction to Trump+MAGA+Jan 6th, as has been prosecuted by the state and media under the ideological leadership of the Democrats, is at least as undemocratic, authoritarian, and disciplinary as anything Trump and his cavalcade of clowns have done.
Moreover, I think our primary focus, the magnetic pull, the guilt we feel to "fight the right" is not the way forward to socialism. It keeps us in a reactionary and defensive position, and it muddies and mystifies our priorities and purpose. It keeps us in the culdesac of the Democratic Party.
I am torn because the way the liberals (I live in Maine) will do it is explicitly opposed to mobilizing from the left. And, as RWE said, “when you strike at a king, you must kill him.” Liberal elites are good at killing Paelestinians but not good at defeating the far right. (Although they have handed down heavy sentences like after Oklahoma City). In my view, not a principle, just a question of balance of forces.
The legal case seems too flimsy...
I'm in camp 5 for the case against removal. I think the reaction to Trump+MAGA+Jan 6th, as has been prosecuted by the state and media under the ideological leadership of the Democrats, is at least as undemocratic, authoritarian, and disciplinary as anything Trump and his cavalcade of clowns have done.
Moreover, I think our primary focus, the magnetic pull, the guilt we feel to "fight the right" is not the way forward to socialism. It keeps us in a reactionary and defensive position, and it muddies and mystifies our priorities and purpose. It keeps us in the culdesac of the Democratic Party.