Was an honour to be @RepThomasMassie guest last night at the state of the Union. I sat directly in front of the President and met many supportive Congress members. I was also able to talk to the parents of imprisoned WSJ journalist @evangershkovich and convey my sympathy for the plight of their son.
When I was young, Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy challenged the sitting president, LBJ.
No one thought it was weird for them to do so.
In 1980, Teddy Kennedy challenged the sitting president, Jimmy Carter.
No one thought it was weird for him to do so.
People simply thought that was the democratic process.
Because it is.
The narrative that there's something *wrong* with challenging an incumbent president - as though there's an unwritten rule that it's a bad idea - is ridiculous.
It's part of the "but it has to be this way" illusion by which political elites have trained people to limit our political imaginations for decades.
People should run who feel moved to run, and everyone should have a chance to hear their ideas.
Three people are running for the Democratic nomination in 2024 and three people should be seen together on a debate stage.
*That* is the democratic way.
This is so rad.
Ever wonder who the voice was behind your favorite School House Rock songs?
Meet Jack Sheldon performing a live rendition of Conjunction Junction.
The level of rage from some around the suggestion that the dem primary include a democratic process is quite something. Especially from a party that has based its identity around being the savior of democracy.
On Breaking Points, @krystalball presses @RoKhanna over not signing on to Rashida Tlaib's letter pushing the DOJ to drop the charges against Julian Assange.
Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/HpU9kbV29g
NEW: Congress has been largely silent on the prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing classified information, but a new congressional effort is underway to pressure AG Merrick Garland to drop charges 1/ https://t.co/TFZ7ArGGrM
‘Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control’ — The 100-year-old widow of a WWII veteran compared her Florida county’s efforts to ban certain books to Nazi Germany