Daily Briefing: Two of the 'Tennessee Three' Democrats expelled (msn.com)
The events yesterday were a national political catalyst; they were so raw and so in-your-face obvious and covered live on TV. Tennessee gerrymandered ultra-dominating GOP State House representatives unintendedly linked multiple hot-button liberal political issues and ripped the curtain back to reveal their ugly nakedness of a southern white heritage. They also gave a gift to the Democratic party agenda, Tennessee Three,..a two-word messaging shorthand for boosting a Democrats' list of hot-button issues at stake in 2024. When those words are invoked in the future, due to the association of a bundling of issues, voters will be reminded in a few words of 1) gun control, and specifically a ban on semi-automatic weapons, 2) civil rights in the face of overt and obvious racism 3) saving democracy from autocratic, undemocratic behavior and subversion. The only major issue not highlighted by the GOP Tennessee state representatives was abortion. For suburban women, it means the ability of any woman of childbearing age to control their futures and, even in some cases, to live to be mothers to the children they birthed. This Tennessee GOP House action supporting the most radical versions of protecting 2nd amendment rights and expelling critics is just another nail in the coffin of the suburban women's vote.
Tying the Tennessee Three to three issues, racism, guns, and democracy at every opportunity, will add the the potency as a political tool for Democrats. It is a short hand for cluster of more than one negative issue. The connection in this case is that the GOP state legislators were responsible for all three actions. It is a bit like Democrats referring to January 6 that is more than just the riot that day..In the minds of many people, and prosecutors of the Stormy Daniels payoff saga is part of Trump's attempt to get elected in 2016 and the Dominion defamation suit against FOX for promoting theories their machines were rigged. includes the lies leading up to that date about the election being stolen. They are connected because lie told by Trump et al motivated the militia leaders and their followers to commit violence in the name of saving democracy, when what they were doing was subverting and damaging democracy.
. They also gave a megaphone to a new generation of potentially powerful leaders to carry the message, raising them from the back bench to the national and international stage. The cameras are now on two young black men in their late 20s, eloquent orators, who were victims of the most obvious example of racism, being treated differently from the white woman for the same "rule-breaking" behavior. It was not just a reaction to the injustices done to civil rights that originally motivated them to rise up with "rule-breaking" disobedience, but they were motivated by a recent Nashville school shooting by the perp using AK-47s and a desire to control weapons of war that affected white, brown and black of kids and young adults alike. (Pictures of the demonstrators that so riled up the GOP representatives appeared to be made up of mostly white young people and women). Young voters and students like those in that crowd are the new generation now beginning to rise to power. The GOP's state legislature furthered the GOP's political nightmare of more energized angry suburban women watching kids like theirs being slaughtered and voting for Democrats. While the two Black representatives were removed, the white woman state legislator who kept her seat by one vote had the powerful voice of a teacher, and she shared with the nation her outrage at school gun violence. That same outrage is also frightening to this new generation since they were and are targets. She herself is a survivor of a school shooting.
From a recent Muftic Forum Blog posting: Age and generation will play a much bigger part in shaping politics than racial identification. What is coming down the pike is far more "liberal".Younger voters are poised to upend American politics (brookings.edu) The glue holding us together in our recent history is the peace of stability in governance, and liberty to pursue happiness. When it comes to supporting the kind of "liberal" democracy we have now, the future of democracy as we have known it depends on the generations now coming of age. They are far more "liberal" politically than those in power now, and democracy will be in their hands. This "liberalism" stretches across all racial and ethnic groups. The change feared by white nationalists is they will be replaced by brown and black people. What they should fear is that they will be replaced by a younger generation. In the meantime, we are in a noisy, raucous, potentially dangerous, and violent place in transition. A significant part of our country, a minority still, is looking toward autocracy.. They should be careful what they wish. Autocracy is what the founders of our country revolted against for a reason. Protecting democracy and containing autocracy (brookings.edu)
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