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Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit Module 2 - Building the Movement
“This report is the second component of a three-part toolkit... informed by CPD, NILC, and Vera’s experiences advancing the universal representation movement. These experiences have been guided by the expertise of advocates, organizers, legal service providers, and policymakers... who have led publicly funded deportation defense efforts” (Berberich et al., 2018).
Tyrants gaze with glee at what Trump has done to American democracy
Trump’s “incitement of the violent assault on the US Capitol was the savage consummation of the four years of vandalism he has unleashed on America’s body politic” (Andrew Rawnsley, 2021).
The age of national self-interest must end if we are to vanquish the pandemic
“Libertarianism has led to rich countries vying for vaccines. Collaboration, not competition, is the only the way forward” (Will Hutton 2021).
How Trumpism May Endure
“One hundred and fifty years after the emergence of the Confederate Lost Cause ideology, a new Lost Cause invaded the U.S. Capitol with the incitement of the president of the United States. Waving American, Confederate, Gadsden and, especially, Trump flags, Donald Trump’s loyalists desecrated the greatest symbolic edifice of America” (David W. Blight, 2021).
The Myth of American Innocence
“This willful act of forgetting — compounded by the myth of American innocence — has shown itself to be dangerous...it allowed many Americans to view the president’s insistence that he had won an election in which he was actually trounced, and his simultaneous embrace of right-wing extremism, as political theater” (Brent Staples, 2021).
Shaken Nation Needs to Reinvent Democracy
“It has been the erosion of these mediating institutions in modern democracies that has led to the all-out partisanship and stark polarization that today puts republics at risk just as the founders rightly worried” (Nathan Gardels, 2021).
Trump’s legacy—the shame and the opportunity
“The election myth that Mr Trump has spun may thus have broken the feedback loop needed for the party to change. Ditching a failed leader and broken strategy is one thing. Abandoning someone whom you and most of your friends think is the rightful president, and whose power was taken away in a gigantic fraud by your political enemies, is something else entirely” (The Economist, 2021).
Can Regulation Douse Populism’s Online Fires?
“The storming of the U.S. Capitol should not come as a surprise to those who have been tracking the impact of social media on activism and political campaigning...what has happened in the United States can happen anywhere in the world, and many democratic countries are sitting on a tinderbox” (Nikhil Pahwa, 2021)
How to Ensure This Never Happens Again
“With even the soon-to-be Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, now conceding that elections are not supposed to look like this, the months ahead may present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix what’s wrong with American democracy — or risk losing it altogether” (Gage and Bazelon, 2021).
The Big Bounce-Back?
“Following the 2008 financial crisis, many policymakers failed to focus sufficiently on securing robust, inclusive, and sustainable long-term growth. To avoid repeating this mistake in 2021 as the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, governments must act early and decisively in three areas” (Mohamed A. El-Erian, 2021).
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