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As dark as all this news is, and it's pretty damn dark, right down there with the two weeks before Christmas in 1776, when it looked to any knowledgeable person that the only question regarding the surrender of the colonial revolutionaries to the British Army was when it would happen; or the months after Second Bull Run when everyone expected Lee to take Washington; or the first five months after Pearl Harbor when it looked like defeat after defeat. But in all those times, the solution to the problems was right there in the midst of the doom and gloom, people with their backs to the wall did extraordinary things they would never have thought themselves capable of before. And that's so now. That spirit of John Lewis is loose in the land, and it's stronger than the Traitor and all his minions. There were no stormtroopers on the streets of Portland tonight, though the people were there. The BLM, and the Wall of Moms, and the Leaf Blower Dads, and the Wall of Vets all came together and defeated the fascists.

It's time to remember Napoleon's advice: "Never interrupt and enemy who is defeating himself." Trump's BS about the election today was proof how weak and terrified he is. The big bad wolf who huffs and puffs and can't blow himself. The Republicans in the Senate just signed their own death warrants. All 23 up for re-election are going to be defeated in November. Trump isn't ahead anywhere that matters. And every time he opens his mouth he loses another point. They're headed for a more thorough defeat than they suffered in 1932. Or they are so long as we all stick to our guns like the people in Portland did.

Go over to MSNBC and listen to Morgan Freeman read John Lewis' final words. Go stream "The Return of the King" and re-watch it.

And don't worry, all those people who did all those great things were scared too. You think John Lewis just walked up the Edmund Pettus Bridge thinking he was going for a walk in the park? As a guy who knew what he was talking about once told me in the Navy, "heroism is when you're so scared you've pissed your pants and shit your drawers and your brain is frozen and you do your damn job."

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Don Palumbo's avatar

The national discourse has turned ugly the past 4 years. Today’s ceremony for John Lewis was refreshing. It was filled with respect, honor and decency which has been lacking for some time.

Also, learned my best friend from childhood died of COVID 19 this week, and his elderly mother is in the hospital with the virus. When it hits close to home like this, it makes the the ineptness and political posturing of the Trump administration that much more maddening.

Can’t wait to vote.

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