Role Call
Remember to Resist
Memory already is a dangerous item to bring to Mar-a-Lago. In Trump’s Project 2025 world accurate recall is not welcome. It can lead to public utterances of unvarnished fact. And that may become a prosecutable offence along Trump’s sliding scale of justice for sale.
It’s wrong to pretend the insurrection attempt and Donald Trump’s role in inciting it didn’t occur. David Frum, writing about the insurrection of 06 Jan 2021 for The Atlantic on 06 Jan 25, in an article entitled “Don’t Mention the Coup!” stated:
“Not all of us have to live in world of Washington transactions. Some of us need to volunteer to keep talking about the inconvenient things.
“Trump really did try by violence to violate the first rule of constitutional democracy: Respect elections. Constitutional democracy matters whether or not the theme helps Democratic candidates for federal office; whether or not it energizes media consumers; whether or not it advances the lobbying agenda of the National Association of Birdhouse Manufacturers. Those volunteers don’t need to blame those other Wahington players for doing what they feel they need to do. The volunteers need only to remain faithful to their purpose to push back against the Draper doctrine that the unwanted past can be made to disappear. It did happen. It should still shock us how much of it did happen.”
Today our Senate will perform a roll call ratifying the 47th president of the United States of America under terms and process of a fair and free election. It will conduct this solemn proceeding to the benefit of the man whose actions caused it to flee en masse for safety from the mob he called and urged to storm the very same chamber precisely one year ago. The irony of the moment begs for more than passing regret. It demands active and continued resistance to the muddled thinking and wrong action that allowed the assault to occur.
Be brave enough to remember.
Keep fact alive. Embrace that scary role.
Demand reform.
Do not just survive Project 2025.
Prevail.
So far, today, this January 6, the Democrats seem to be the adults in the room, showing all elected officials what the Constitution means and what transfer of authority looks like.