Where are The Democratic Warriors??

Monday morning MSNBC and CNN (and, presumably, Fox, etc.) gave Trump roughly 40 minutes of live television time to rant and lie, threaten an Iowa newspaper and pollster, propose privatizing our Post Office, and muse about ending schoolchildren’s vaccine mandates for polio.

Everybody watching cable TV probably saw it; it was later the topic of numerous newscasts and newspaper articles that are still echoing across the news space.

Around the same time, President Joe Biden spoke at the inauguration of the Francis Perkins National Monument to FDR’s famous Labor Secretary and principal author of the New Deal. He truthfully pointed out that his one four-year administration had helped create 16 million new jobs, more than any single presidential term in history (and more than the jobs created by the Bush Sr., Bush Jr., and Trump administrations combined).

The cable networks chose to completely ignore Biden’s speech. As did the rest of the nation’s media. So, I get it, there’s a strong media bias in favor of Trump (“What new outrageous thing will he say? OMG! Click bait!!!”) and generally against Democrats.

That doesn’t mean, though, that elected Democrats should run and hide. Americans across the country are terrified, particularly in Red states where women are bleeding out, while the morbidly rich and religious fanatics are licking their chops.

So, where are the Democrats? What happened to “When we fight, we win!” ???

Even when the media would rather ignore you, political theater still works. Standing up to bullies still works. And fighting back becomes even more imperative.