It Will Take Organizing To Expand Our Political Imagination
Source: In These Times
To overcome the insistent messaging of the corporate media and Democratic establishment, we need grassroots people power.
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign with impossible promises, from erecting a massive, Mexican-funded border wall to revitalizing dying industries. Instead of being dismissed as a huckster, he raised Republican voters’ expectations of the possible and normalized the party’s shift to its extreme. Trump’s victory seemed to turn on its head the conventional wisdom that only centrists win general elections.