I’d love to be wrong but I just picture the crowd I hang with. Some are MAGA and let’s say their argument is Trump made us safer by deporting criminals. My comeback of “yeah but what about Corey Booker standing for 25 hours holding the senate up” just wouldn’t hit. Again Wisconsin hit. That worked.
I did listen to snips my friend, I do like Booker but here was nothing new or revealing. Same old outrage that lasts only as long as the next cycle. I’m not sold that it did much. It was staged to beat the record of the last guy who also did it to no avail and perfectly timed to end at prime time.
"the last guy who beat it" was Strom Thurmond and he was doing to block Civil Rights. Booker's gesture, as a Black man, did it to block Trump's agenda. That is significant and isn't lost on a lot of people in this country who needed to hear that we can and will fight back and prevail.
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And MAGA isn't who we need to court. It's the uninformed voters who don't fully understand the stakes. MAGA people don't care.