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Remember This Night ... [1]

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Date: 2023-08-03  

I’m quoting (typed it word for word!), Michael Beschloss from this morning, 8-2-23, on Morning Joe. Short and sweet, but serious! Obviously they had lots of folks to interview about their takes on the new indictments, but I really liked what Michael had to say. He always gives us insight on history, and maybe a little hope too?

That criminal SOB better get convicted or we will lose this democracy for sure. I think we’re really teetering on the edge with all the crazies we have now who are part of his destructive cult that wants to destroy us. Please, please, please help GOTV for our next election!

Remember This Night

“I think one thing we’ll remember is how last night, and the twelve hours since Jack Smith delivered that indictment, with the help of a courageous grand jury, you know, how does this fit into the larger American story? I think the last 12 hours fit perfectly into the American story. And that is this:

From time to time America faces threats from monsters who want to destroy our democracy. That happened in 1861 with the confederacy. Abraham Lincoln and, you know, northern soldiers and northern voters came to our rescue, saved the union.

The same thing happened in 1933: Almost at the last minute, Franklin Roosevelt came to power, saved our economic system.

Pearl Harbor, 1941: We were bombed, our system was very much in danger. Our democracy? Many people were giving it up and saying that, you know, the democracy had seen its last days. Franklin Roosevelt had to put a coalition together at the last minute to save democracy and freedom around the world.

911, 2001: Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists hated our democracy, tried to destroy it. You see where I’m going.

What we see in this indictment is that on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump, just like those other threats to American democracy, tried to destroy our system. To take away our rule of law. Came very close to doing it.

To take away our system of elections. To take away our tradition of peaceful transfer of power to a new elected president. It almost happened. And the thing is it’s almost happening again this morning.

Who is the Republican front runner? Donald Trump, threatening to do it all again, but even more effectively. Saying he’s going to institute a presidential dictatorship that we may assume is gonna take our democracy away.

And this indictment is coming at almost the last minute. I think if it had come 2 or 3 months later, we’d be a lot less optimistic about the chance that a trial can take place before next year’s election.”

And we all really need that to happen, on TV!

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