I see a lot of liberals using language like, âWeâre on the cuspâ and âif we donât fight now, we could loseâ. But it it likely that weâve gone over the falls. The time to fight, the cusp period, was November 2016. This isnât a movie where you get saved at the last minute.
â Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 10, 2018
Which isnât to say that we donât fight. But thatâs why the resistance language is so important. Resistance starts when the fight is lost, when the Nazis have already taken Paris. Itâs not the cusp anymore.
â Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 10, 2018
I just worry that failure to understand how fucked we are could make this worse. If we keep thinking this ship turns around, that safety is near, we may fail to fight correctly. The bad guys won. Roe is over. It's time to get out of the typical political fight thinking.
â Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 10, 2018