by liberal japonicus
In one of my favorite programs, Phineas and Ferb, one of the characters always asks the eponymous pair this question and they reply with what they have planned, including a time machine, a portal to Mars, and equipping Santa’s sleigh with a gift cannon. This flippant title is to introduce GftNC’s recommended link from the New Yorker, What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting. Unfortunately, I’ve clicked on it a few times, so now can’t read it, but I wanted to also put two links about how anti-ICE protests are using playbooks developed by other groups protesting authoritarian regimes.
This Beaumont enterprise piece identifies a few movements, while this link goes into a bit more detail. The whole discussion deserves a separate thread imo.
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
And I mean that in the innocent way, which is to say I am prepared to take advantage of any useful ideas, from anywhere, to help combat my adversaries, who in this case are the MAGA movement. Successful campaigns to fight authoritarian regimes – hallelujah. The difference between mobilisation and organisation, and the different effects campaigns focussed on them have had in the past – bring it on. From what I read, including here, almost nobody thinks the Democrats have done a good job of enthusing and galvanising the voting public, and particularly the working class, to win general elections and support their policies. Anything which stands a chance of changing that is worth some attention IMO.