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One candidate needed a lozenge. The other needed a reminder that he’s not running for dictator. [1]

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Date: 2024-06-28  

Last night, one candidate needed a lozenge. The other one needed a reminder that he’s not running for dictator of North Korea. Today, the stakes in this race—freedom, democracy—are the same as yesterday.

What to do? Recommit.

It wasn’t Biden’s strongest night, especially at the start. Then, right after the debate, he gave a fired-up speech at a debate watch party. And then, today in North Carolina, he was on fire:

x Folks, I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to.



I might not debate as well as I used to.



But what I do know is how to tell the truth.pic.twitter.com/ep5D0EhT5P — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 28, 2024

Back to last night. Was it the world’s greatest debate? No. One candidate had a cold. The other lied his face off. Did it change the stakes in this election one iota? Also no.

Trump refused to accept the result of the election—three times. Trump waxed poetic about his nostalgia for January 6. Trump couldn’t contain his enthusiasm for killing Roe v Wade.

We know what Trump will do if he gets back into power—because he’s told us. For details, read up on Project 2025. The national abortion ban is just the start.

Biden, too, has both a track record and a vision for the future. Defending freedom. Upholding democracy. Delivering for working people. That beats Trump’s record—ripping away freedom, attacking democracy, shoveling trillions of dollars to billionaires and huge corporations—every step of the way.

Our job is to make the election about that. The actual stakes in people’s lives. We can’t let Trump’s nightmare vision become our waking reality.

You can’t wring your hands if you’re rolling up your sleeves. Become a monthly donor here.

Each of us is going to wake up each day for the next 130 days and decide what to do with each precious minute. Each of us has a choice to make. And the sum of those choices is going to determine the fate of American democracy.

When pundits panic, I sometimes reread the great Thomas Paine quote:

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Dig deep. Focus on the stakes in people’s lives. If you’re feeling anxious about politics, there’s no better treatment than political action.

Sign up to knock on some doors this weekend.

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Ask yourself how you want to feel on November 6.

Make the decision.

Do the work.

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