Cory Booker probably needs a nap. I’m sure conservative media have had a field day, downplaying and ridiculing Booker’s 25-plus hour marathon on the Senate floor, perhaps calling it melodramatic grandstanding, hypocritical, or some such thing. I choose to see it differently.
I see Booker’s efforts as a sign of the times, a response to constituents who wanted him and every other member of Congress to do more in the face of the wanton destruction unfolding in Washington and around the country. What Booker did was extreme but necessary, given that Trump, Musk, and the rest are obviously running with the (nonexistent) mandate theme and doing their best to tear bone and sinew limb from limb.
If the goal is indeed privatization, and the rich getting richer while the rest of us are left to gather the crumbs and offer ourselves to the Almighty Market forces, then the rest of us need a champion or two. And the rest of us will inevitably need to get involved, try to send a message to an administration that has made it clear it neither appreciates nor much heeds messages being sent its way.
It’s feeling more like, sooner or later, the streets are going to heat up.
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