Forecast: Haze
The coup is still going to fail and 2021 starts in 13 days
I was very excited about the email I’d planned to send yesterday celebrating the triumph of organizing (and some signs of rejection of Trumpism) in Georgia on Tuesday, what the wins might portend for governing this year and elections next cycle, and the very real evidence that the deep south isn’t made up of red states but of voter suppression states. There’s a pretty cool Everything is Politics conversation to have coming out of Georgia — one that links to lots of things that aren’t obviously politics, like higher education, corporate engagement, and an ecosystem of startups and investors led by Black Georgians.
But that email is going to wait because, as I’m sure you were also watching in horror, years of incitement to violence, winks and nods to neonazis and white separatists, normalization of extreme right-wing ideology, normalization of despotic and patently false speech coming from the highest levels of government, a complete breakdown of anything resembling a shared reality across our populace, and constant attacks on the value of government and the fundamentals of our democracy blew up in an armed insurrection on our Capital yesterday.
I’ve been telling you confidently since Trump’s attempted coup began in the hours after the election on November 3rd that it…
