To be honest, even using that title made me queasy, but on January 20 it will indeed be part of American history and our reality. I believe you have done nothing to earn it and have only increasingly demonstrated a dangerous and un-American set of principles, values and intentions.
I am not a gambler, but I imagine I am feeling what someone in one of your failed casinos felt when rolling the dice or watching the roulette wheel spin — uncertainty, fear, bracing for loss because in your gut you believe the house always wins.
Cathy Renna — File photo
Since the election you and your surrogates have continued to demonstrate that a vote for you was not dissimilar to a hate crime. My relatives on my father’s side in Italy were stunned and fearful when the results came in. “Should have learned from our mistake electing Berlusconi,” they joked. But there is another Italian leader you are much more similar to, and we should heed the history lesson of their past. My father grew up in Italy when Mussolini was in power. As we know, he ruled the country constitutionally as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1925, then dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Now, I wouldn’t compare you to Hitler. Yet. So if the shoe fits, it would be a Dolce and Gabbana. Because when people talk about a potential constitutional crisis, this is what I believe they are alluding to.
But this is something you will never achieve. Because I believe in the core values of America and our constitution and we, as a nation, would never let this happen. Like Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights hero and icon you dismissively berated when he called your presidency illegitimate, we will march. We will resist. We will stand up and say no, not in our America.
My daughter is about the same age as Barron. What kind of world will she grow up in? Will it be one that considers her “less than” your child? Not if I can help it.
In his second inaugural speech, Barack Obama said, “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths, that all of us are created equal, is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forbearers to Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall.” I am not alone in being guided by that star that our great President of the last eight years alluded to, a star that will get us through this next period of American history like no other, one that will test us but also one we will face undaunted.
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In what came as no surprise to astute political observers, LGBTQ groups pummeled former President Donald Trump for selecting U.S. Senator J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate.
The Ohio Republican, who will turn 40 in August, is a Yale-educated, self-acclaimed populist who has become known best for his hatred of the political Left, support of natalist domestic policies, and archconservative stances on social issues, particularly concerning the LGBTQ community.
As expected, LGBTQ advocates and allies -- many of whom already hold Trump in contempt -- saw the Vance pick as doubling down on the anti-LGBTQ policies that Trump promoted when he was last in the Oval Office.
Following President Joseph R. Biden's announcement on Sunday that he would be dropping out of this year's presidential race, many of the groups that were most fervently in his camp, including LGBTQ organizations, voiced their support for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden abandoned his re-election bid after relentless pressure from party insiders and weeks of panicking from liberal activists following his disastrous performance against Donald Trump in a televised debate on June 27.
For weeks, pundits -- aided by the mainstream media -- called into question President Biden's age, physical fitness, and mental acuity, questioning whether the 81-year-old president could withstand the rigors of campaigning and whether he was the candidate best suited to articulate the Democratic Party's message and stances on various issues.
The official X account of the Teamsters Union clapped back at its president Sean O'Brien in a now-deleted post that criticized him for endorsing an article that took a swipe at the transgender community.
O'Brien made history -- and headlines -- by speaking during the first night of the Republican National Convention on July 15, marking the first time a Teamsters Union President had ever done so.
While that move attracted criticism, O'Brien sought to take advantage of the Republican Party's recent shift towards more populist policies toward the Republican Party.
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