Mary Trump - Back from the Abyss

I know last week—a week that started with the debate (which included President Biden’s rough performance, Donald’s outright fascism, and the media’s insistence that only the former matters) and was capped off by a corrupt Supreme Court declaring my uncle above the law—felt like a perfect storm of horrible.

But we’ve had enough time to freak out. It’s clear that much of the corporate media is not on the side of democracy so we factor that in to every decision we make going forward. Today, Pres. Biden declared definitively that he’s running. We need to take him at his word, and pull together. We’ve got a lot of work to do.

The Supreme' Court’s immunity ruling was a chilling but compelling reminder that, while stopping Donald is our most immediate task, we also have to stop the people who enable him. They are arguably even more destructive to our country and, unlike Donald, their plans to dismantle our institutions go far beyond putting him back in the White House. Now that the Supreme Court has removed the guardrails, we need to factor in the need to build new ones. That starts by putting the same amount of care, attention, and energy into down-ballot races as we do the presidential race.

The only thing scarier than the idea of my uncle being in the Oval Office again is the idea of the Republicans controlling the Senate and the House of Representatives. Both, the House in particular, would very likely be filled with even more extreme sycophants who hate the Constitution with the same blind passion with which they hate women and minorities. All the worrying in the world won’t stop that from happening.

https://marytrump.substack.com/p/back-from-the-abyss