The house is burning down. The structures of civil society are being torn apart. Beneficial international relations, helping stability and peace, are being trashed. Economic stability and sanity are being savaged. American democracy is being destroyed. Cruelty, hatred and ignorance have been unleashed.
All the tools at our disposal are required — in this case, referring to the non-violent ones at least: lawsuits, petitions, letters and calls to and meetings with Representatives and Senators, mass rallies and demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, non-cooperation, civil disobedience and resistance in all its forms — and any other coordinated actions we can dream up.
David Brooks, the principled small-c conservative New York Times columnist, and (perhaps now former) Republican has said it better than I can.
See: What’s Happening is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
(Link will take you to the NY Times. There is a paywall, but anyone can read several articles free per month.)
Thank you. PSC