Simone Biles & Megan Rapinoe receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from POTUS Joe
Maybe It's Time For Democrats To 'Go Low'? - Michelle Ruiz, Vogue
The unspoken message from Democratic leaders seems to be that their hands are tied. What so many of us are crying out in response is: Try anyway, by any means necessary—and if you’re unwilling to be as heated as this moment is, step aside to make room for those who are.
Some of the only Democratic politicians who outlined plans or shared their unfettered rage and emotion after the Roe news were Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who listed seven ways Democrats could fight back (including by expanding the court and opening abortion clinics on federal lands), and Senator Elizabeth Warren, who joined a post-leak protest outside the court in May to remind everyone of Congress’s power to “keep Roe v. Wade the law of the land.” (Warren also pointed to specific state ballot measures to protect Roe that people could champion and donate to—a bit better than the blanket encouragement to simply vote blue.) As Ocasio-Cortez lamented of her party on Twitter: “We simply cannot make promises, hector people to vote, and then refuse to use our full power when they do.”
It’s time for Democrats to use that full power, tenuous as it may be. If going low means Republicans being ruthless in their quest to deny our rights, can’t Democrats be equally ruthless to protect them?
One of the few things I'd challenge in the piece (which did come out before POTUS Joe's E.O., to be fair) is the conceit that "being ruthless to protect everyone's rights" is equivalent to "going low".
I hope this piece's audience sees what's at stake & quits making those two things equivalent when they are not.
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