As the deluge of probably illegal executive orders continued into Trump’s second week, I kept finding myself in conversations about 2028 candidates and campaigns that I had no interest in. So I figured I should explain why. That’s the subject of the featured post “Campaign or Movement?”, which should be out around 9 EST or so. The gist of the post’s message is that I don’t want to be trapped in a game-player mentality, where the focus is on replaying the 2024 campaign, but winning this time.
Instead, I think we need to fight the politics-as-game framework, and focus more on what our politics is about — which should be more than just winning. Fighting MAGA is going to require a movement, not just a campaign.
The weekly summary also has a lot of week-two notes: tariffs, Elon’s takeover of government computer systems, and a few other things. It should be out between noon and one.
The Weekly Sift 
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you woke folks lost and people of our country heard and voted for promises Trump gave and now is keeping no matter how much you whine and complain – you are no longer opposing only him whom you hate but you are opposing the vast majority of citizens who opposed e v e r y t h I n g you represented
Almost 51% of the people voted for somebody other than Trump.
By any objective standard, that means Trump voters are not the majority nor was the election a mandate. Wishful thinking won’t make it so.
In all that nonsense, you managed one capital letter (for the name of the Orange Felon) and one punctuation mark, used incorrectly, but took the time to place a space between every letter of “everything” and then bolded the entire post, as if that makes it more valid, or something.
When your cult leader says he loves the poorly educated, he’s clearly talking about you. But when it finally dawns on you (if it ever does) you’re nothing but another gullible mark used to empower and enrich a handful or so of oligarchs hijacking our nation, do not worry. A Democrat will be along to, once again, clean up the mess a Republican has created. Assuming there’s anything left to fix.
I estimate that you MAGA folks represent about 20% of the nation. Those who went along with you are having second thoughts and will have substantial buyers’ remorse as this coup moves along. As an ordained Presbyterian minister I offer forgiveness to all who voted for Trump, on the condition of full repentance for the ignorance and mob mentality to which they succumbed.
Here is some one who has an Idea of a plan. So far what I have seen of Dems is wimpy burger material. https://substack.com/inbox/post/156384212?r=3nm35j&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true&just_subscribed=true&fbclid=IwY2xjawIN3cJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTc4UdM0foBmNASLPwBr5JO2mOX_dRuzqN5QOxkqyT3QwLoVpZ4-xc5zLg_aem_X_LnMzyRRqqo6G0lHoeq9w