https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bellows-trump-2024

Bellows Is Right: Use Every Tool Available to Defeat #Trump
NANCY BRAUS
Dec 29, 2023

..."Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is crystal clear: Donald Trump is not qualified to run for or hold office in the United States. The language is very specific, and if we lived in a nation where fairness was valued, this would not even be a question.

The situation we face now is that the Trump cult is ready, willing, and able to cheat in any and every way to take over power in the United States. It is way past time for the center and the left to use every tool we have available.
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As 2024 begins, the coalition of those who understand the peril of another Trump term should be organizing poll watchers for every site with non-white #voters. We need to be the eyes to the system. Lawyers, or those trained by lawyers, need to be available on call to assist those who are being denied the right to register or to vote.
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we need to begin inventing some smart ways to call out these guys for who they are. We need to make public Trump's most vile and violent insults every time they come out of his mouth. The corporate media and the court system has given this guy a pass. Almost anyone else would be serving time in prison for the constant death threats to those he dislikes. The press allows the life-long racist Trump to call strong Black women like Fani Willis and Letitia James racists without a direct challenge—a use of the term that is totally bogus, as true racism is part of a system of oppression of the powerless by the powerful. This nonsense needs to be countered whenever it comes out of his hateful mouth with tough talk about real racism.

The fascist movement in the United States has come a very long way in the past 10 years. It is clear that the Kochs and the other oil, gas, and chemical barons have been planning this takeover for a long time—the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and lots of other secretive organizations have plowed the ground for a cruel, hateful, and corrupt Donald Trump. Large corporations have basically decided to go along with Trump in exchange for eliminating regulations and taxes. And these corporations largely own the media. So we, every one of us who is committed to protecting our ability to speak freely, to welcome immigrants into our country, who believe in a multicultural democracy, had better get out and get voters to oppose Trump. Because we may never get another chance."...