Now, We Crush Trump: 100 Days to a Better World
As I Write This, Election Day is 100 Days Away. Does Trump Even Know What Happened This Past Week? Welcome to the New American Majority, Mr. Trump. Here’s How Your Next 100 Days Are Going to Look…
It took just 5 days.
Nothing like it had ever happened before in American history.
And yet, by this past Thursday, a mere five days after President Biden’s 1:46 pm Sunday afternoon announcement of him ending his re-election campaign and handing the candidacy over to his Vice President, Kamala Harris, the Wall Street Journal (no friend to women, People of Color, young voters, the poor or the working class), WSJ — this grand oracle of Capitalism, conservative ideology and the force that is Rupert Murdoch — ran this stunning historic headline, truly one for the ages:
Kamala Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, two genius parents, one a Stanford economist, the other a brilliant Berkeley scientist, both active in the 1960s civil rights movement of their beloved adopted country, America, and proud to have their children be among the first to integrate a public school in California — that Kamala Harris was now, in 2024, accepting the all-but-certain nomination to be the Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States.
And, it should be noted, the chance to become the first woman ever to hold this esteemed office.
Yes, that was just one week ago. A euphoric nation exploded in a joyful belief that finally the promise of the American Dream was no longer just a “promise” nor a “dream” but a roaring reality that immediately took off like a rocket.
And each day this week has seen a new record set for a Presidential campaign:
A Record-Smashing Surge of Volunteers Signing Up Across Key Swing States (a total of 170,000 throughout the nation as of this morning);
The Biggest One-Day Haul of Campaign Contributions Ever, 60% of them from first-time donors (the total overall take is more than $350 million as of today);
The Largest Zoom Call Ever for a Campaign Meeting (160,000 participants, with more than double that expected on Monday night’s “Women for Harris” Zoom — feel free to join in, click here);
The Most People Ever to Register to Vote Over a 48-Hour Period: Almost 40,000 New Voters!
85% of all Convention delegates (3,404 of them) endorsed Harris after she had only been a candidate for three days — and all this 4 weeks before the Convention even starts!
Historians and political scientists agree that this level of enthusiasm this quickly is unheard of in modern American politics. Trump is furious. He is planning to sue to “keep Harris off the ballot.”
Good luck with that. It won’t work. Apparently, somewhere along the way, Trump Van Winkle must have fallen into a deep sleep and missed the memo that many white men like him also seemed to miss:
“America is no longer your America, the exclusive club for the gender missing its second X chromosome, which then makes you prone to war, violent outbursts, something called ‘mansplaining,’ harassing the other gender, dying on average 6 years before that other gender — and yet still holding the majority of the wealth, the property, the tee times and most of the seats in Congress (72% of those seats at last count are yours).”
That America is being shown the door.
Here’s what the New America looks like:
Seventy-nine percent of the United States is either Female (51% of the country), Persons of Color (42% of the country is now Black, Brown, Asian or Indigenous), or Young Adults between 18 and 39 (the Gen Z-ers and Millennials now make up 42% of the country!) — or some combination thereof of these three demographics.
This Country Is Female, Young and Not-So-White Anymore.
Not the best place to run for President if your three main personality traits are misogyny, bigotry, and sounding like everyone’s Uncle Don.
Oh — and then there’s this…
Here’s the truth about who our fellow Americans really are (and here’s the list nobody has bothered to show you because, well, we need to keep perpetuating our own belief that we are stuck living in a white, Christian Nationalist, conservative, red-neck, deep-fried-Oreo-loving country — when, in fact, the vast bulk of the United States is not like that anymore):
69% of Americans support legal abortion.
72% of Americans don’t own a gun.
90% of the country wants more gun control laws.
72% of us believe the Climate Crisis is real.
71% of all Americans approve of labor unions.
79% of us insist the rich must pay more in taxes.
76% of us want a much higher minimum wage.
70% of all voters believe marijuana should be legal.
73% of the country want student loan debt relief.
74% of Americans want more affordable homes.
65% support term limits on all Supreme Court justices.
84% of Americans want free Pre-k and 3-k.
69% of Americans support same-sex marriage.
65% of Americans want to end the electoral college.
89% of Americans oppose gerrymandering.
70% of us are demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza NOW!
72% of all Americans want money removed from politics!
70% of Millennials say they would likely vote for a Socialist candidate.
THAT is who we are.
Mr. Trump — how do you expect to win when what you believe in is the opposite of what more than two-thirds of the country believes regarding many of the major issues of the day?! You are running as a right wing whackadoodle in a country that has seriously become more open and progressive. The majority of Americans HATE what you stand for. Just look at those poll numbers I listed above. Those percentages don’t come from me, they come from Gallup, the Associated Press, PEW Research, CNN and others. They come from the American people.
And finally, one last powerful fact:
The Republicans have LOST the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 Presidential elections! Since 1988, the American people have made it abundantly clear: They don’t want a Republican running the country. The ONLY reason we were stuck with Bush and Trump is because the Founders created the Electoral College in order to appease the slave states and try to avoid a Civil War (and that seemed to work out ok).
But here’s the kicker: The majority of these 3 groups — women, young people, People of Color — vote Democratic in every election! The statistics don’t lie: 51% of women are Democrats, as are 61% of young people, and 83% of African Americans. Those facts alone should guarantee that the Democrats hold a majority of political power in the United States. But as long as there is gerrymandering, the Electoral College and voter suppression, the concept of “one-person, one-vote majority rule” — the singular underpinning of a true Democracy — is sadly missing as the “Democracy” is still yet to be realized.
So what’s the takeaway here? It’s quite simple:
THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM!
We are now the majority.
We are a Liberal Nation.
We are going to elect the first woman — a Black woman, no less! — to be the President of the United States.
So what could possibly go wrong?
THE ONLY WAY TRUMP CAN WIN IS IF LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS STAY HOME.
But why would that happen? The unthinkable — a certain skill set many Democrats have repeated ad infinitum — would have to take place:
For instance, if the candidate, Kamala Harris, suddenly starts taking “centrist” positions in order to not offend anyone — yet in doing so she ends up offending everyone, i.e., the MAJORITY of Americans who are liberal, Left and progressive women, People of Color, young people, and the working class. That is not going to happen.
Or, if Harris continues Biden’s embrace of Netanyahu and America’s funding of, and the arming of, the slaughter in Gaza, this will hand Michigan over to Trump and put him in the White House. Michigan has 200,000 registered Muslim voters, and 300,000 Michiganders are of Middle Eastern or North African descent. Plus, 13% of young voters in Michigan have already declared they will leave the Presidential line on the ballot blank. In fact, I think one way to fix things in Michigan would be for Vice President Harris and her running mate to make a major announcement in Detroit, on a stage with numerous area Arab Americans, Muslims, and leaders of a wide-ranging coalition of Jewish peace groups, to offer her action plan as to what she and Biden can do now to keep their initial promise to Netanyahu — that if he uses American tax dollars or weapons to violate international law and human rights, such “assistance” will be withheld. Said Biden to Bibi in October: “When America experienced the hell of 9/11, we felt enraged as well… [and] we made mistakes. So, I caution the government of Israel not to be blinded by rage.” In other words, Biden’s warning to Bibi was this: Do not do what we did to Iraq — and to ourselves.
Netanyahu refused to listen — and then did the opposite of what Biden warned him not to do. And after each round of carpet bombings, obliterating hospitals, schools, childcare centers and refugee camps, with hundreds and then thousands of Palestinian bodies piled higher and higher, Biden would admonish Netanyahu and tell him that we were going to have to cease gifting him with an unlimited supply of American tax dollars and weapons. And each time, President Biden, already in obvious decline, seemed not to know what to do or how to handle the horror he had personally unleashed on the good people of Palestine. And so it continues to this day. There is no place anywhere on the planet outside of the Arab and Muslim world with as many Arab and Muslim souls than in the state of Michigan. That is why I will keep talking about this until I am heard. The Party doesn’t get it. In 2016, Hillary lost Michigan when she didn’t need to. I will not sit by and let the same fate befall Kamala Harris — which perhaps, after she refused to sit on the dais with Netanyahu at his speech to Congress last Wednesday, hopefully this seems unlikely. And, after her one-on-one meeting with him the next day, there was no hug. She walked out and addressed the gaggle of cameras and microphones with this steely direct statement regarding the suffering of the Palestinian people: “I will not be silent.”
Likewise, if Vice President Harris appoints Josh Shapiro as her Vice Presidential candidate, this too may result in losing Michigan. Shapiro said it’s “antisemitic” for anyone to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel in order to convince them to stop their apartheid behavior. He also cruelly compared peaceful college students to the Ku Klux Klan because they were calling for an end to the slaughter in Gaza. Actions like these will diminish the Arab American vote for Harris and depress a large swath of the youth vote throughout the country. As Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times has said, “Biden is in danger of losing Michigan and, with it, the whole election.”
Also, more than 2 dozen public education advocacy groups have asked Vice President Harris not to choose Shapiro as her running mate because, as they stated in their letter to her on Wednesday, “we respectfully ask you not to select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who has supported education policies mirroring Project 2025.” As we Michiganders gave the world Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, we are especially concerned about even the slightest whittling away of our public schools, and we, too, ask Vice President Harris to pick a running mate who is a million miles away from any of these efforts.
Finally, should Harris decide to do the bidding of the wealthy who are lining up with big checks so they can try to control her, this would clearly put her on the side against the workers and consumers. Case in point: This week Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, gave her $7 million. What will he want for his money? He’s already revealed the quid pro quo: He wants the removal of one of Biden’s best appointments, the head of the FTC, Lina Khan. She is on a mission to break up monopolies and to police Corporate America in the hopes of stopping them from doing more harm. Hoffman and other Big Money donors want to stop her. Hoffman has no shame in stating what he expects in return for his $7 million “donation” to the Harris campaign: “I would hope that Vice President Harris would replace her.” Will Harris do what she is told? My hope? Absolutely not.
But as many have said, the Dems are pros at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
So, as I see it, that’s the only way we can lose. If too many people sense it’s the same old political hoo-ha, the Democratic vote will be seriously depressed, millions will stay stuck in their despair, and all of this may lead to a Trump victory.
This must not happen. The overwhelming jolt of joy from this last week must continue, but with ACTION — and that is where you and I come in!
In my next letter to you, I will reveal the blueprint/playbook/ battle plan for what we millions — the Majority — must do over these next 100 days. I think you’re going to like it. It includes simple things we can all do. It will be fun. You’ll meet new friends. There are Door Prizes! You might become a local hero. And we’re all gonna party like it’s 2029!
Stay tuned…
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