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How We Fight Back In Trump’s Second Term
A lot of people would like to know why people are not more outraged right now, why they are not fighting back like they should. By fighting back, they mostly seem to mean increased outrage: a circular strategy which hasn’t worked for the last nine years and seems unlikely to work now.
This is not the time for shouting. We need to get calm and focus our efforts, because we don’t have a lot of resources right now and we need to deploy them carefully.
US military fighting doctrine rests on the assumption that we will always outnumber the enemy 3:1. Liberals have operated on a similar assumption for a long time, and for a while it was true. Corporations started celebrating Pride Month and greenwashing because the vast majority of consumers either believed LGBT+ acceptance is good and that climate change is a problem or didn’t care enough to make a stink about it. North Carolina’s first trans bathroom bill attempt resulted in so many corporate boycotts that they had to walk it back; those corporations did not boycott out of the goodness of their hearts, but because they didn’t want to take a financial hit.
That pendulum has swung. Zuck kisses the ring. Target pulls its pride displays. Disney eliminates a trans character from one of their shows. Elon Musk makes a gesture that sure looks like a textbook Nazi salute…
