There Will Not Be Pink Hats & Hillbilly Elegy This Time

Here are Houston Democracy Project notes & observations for November 7th. I'm still processing the election. You may be doing the same if you can bring yourself to do so.   

*There will not be pink hats ( I did not make light of the pink hats back at the time and still don't. Women wearing those hats did a lot of work against Trump.) or suggestions to read Hillbilly Elegy this time. (I was always dubious about that book.) There will be a hardness and awareness that comes from the clarity of the choice made at the ballot box, full responsibility to those who made those that choice and frank discussions of self-defense.   

We don’t owe allegiance to institutions or standard ways of doing things that can’t deliver results or keep us safe. Trump & the right are aligned with Musk and a global authoritarian movement. We're in a fight for our freedom. Trump is returning to the White House after having inspired and encouraged an insurrection attempt on January 6th, 2021. How was this allowed to happen? 

​Our Texas/local Democratic Party political and consultant class is not getting the job done. We’ve been at war with Trump for nine years & we see the absence of results in Texas and the significant backsliding in Harris County.

So much money and volunteer effort expended over recent years. These resources must be more successfully employed. Where does all the money go? It's all just extracted from donors-many of them small donors- &  leaves nothing permanent for the next campaign. And we don't win. We don't win and we aren't safe.

There won't be pink hats and Hillbilly Elegy this time. We'll fight as required and demand that the political structures that exist off us fully join the fight.     

*For anybody who needs to hear it--You don't need to seek unity or understanding with Trump supporters in your life. It's your business how you mange them. But you don't need to not let politics come between you and them & you don't have to sit at a Thanksgiving table with them. Trumpism will always be cultish and cruel. It's not looking to make peace with you.   

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