If you think that we’re making serious progress socially in the US, you’re wrong.
This video is 13 years old. Peak woke died in 2017. Most of you have no idea how good we once had it.
Pritzker: Here’s the problem with the do-nothing crowd now telling us what to do: while they spent their years watching Republicans illegitimately pack the Supreme Court, take away voting rights from people of color, and systematically chip away at the Constitution, all the while they offered only a simple defense of norms and decorum — a blind hope that one day soon Republicans would wake up to find their better angels. That got us where we are today.
The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
Fam, remember three years ago when Cory Booker brought tears to all of our eyes when he lifted up Ketanji Brown Jackson?
“You are worthy.”
That’s who he is. That’s who he’s always been.
@CoryBooker