Building Back Better

@marwilliamson

IN RESPONSE TO A GASH ON the body, white blood cells rush to the site of the wound. They work vigorously, the body’s immune system alert to threat and activated to protect bodily systems from further harm.

So it was that in response to the Trump administration’s authoritarian tendencies, made clear from the earliest days of his presidency, millions of Americans became members of “the resistance.”

People who were already involved in politics, as well as many who were not that particularly interested at any time before, became acutely aware that damage that could become irreparable was being done to our democracy. There was a vast realization—on the left and also on the right—that this damage represented