5. All of that is what many people will face as the country enters a second Trump Administration. Only this time, there is the hope of, we’ve seen this movie before.
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6. But. Chaos can cut both ways. The far right may be good at inciting chaos. But they’ve caught up to the bumper. &, till Midterms, they’re going to be digesting a metric shit ton of bumper breakfast, lunch, & dinner. & chaser. & midnight snack.
6. So. Yes. Chaos can cut both ways. But everyone is exhausted. And filled with unacknowledged grief. And unacknowledged Long Covid deficits. No judgement. Everyone has lived thru more deaths than WW1, WW2, and Vietnam—combined.
7. Everyone has lived through a decade of rotting out, online silo’ing, and more loss than anyone can process. Or fully face. The hope, however, is in that very cataclysmic grief, which turns to anger, and then to rage. And which can then be channeled into resistance.
8. It will be helpful to remember that the U.S. has been a volatile experiment its entire life. The Haymarket Riots. Cuba. The Rosenbergs. McCarthyism. Kennedy, MLK, Kennedy, Nixon, Vietnam. Philadelphia. The spate of pipe bombings in the early 1970s. On and on and on.
9. Violence has been a feature, not a bug—the entire existence of this nation. Even as it’s made astonishing course directions that remind everyone the arc of history, long, bends toward…not inauguration speeches. But something like a long memory that can be tapped into, and used.
10. Used as remembrance, used as necessary grief, used as collective psychic mutual care and mutual self-care. Remember that as this hollowed out ceremony we approach will happen in 2 days. It’s all theater—bad theater—of American institutions that have been hard won. They’ve all been burned to the
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