Our Common Cause

Created
Wed, 26/02/2025 - 02:30
Updated
Wed, 26/02/2025 - 02:30
What did you do to fight fascism, Nana? No one is coming to save you. Certainly not Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). The House minority leader appeared Monday night on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show. Maddow noted that people are desperate for Democrats to “fight harder, to not be nice, to break protocol,” get arrested even. To lead the resistance. She tried but couldn’t draw a flicker of passion from the technocratic Jeffries. Quizzed on what Democrats are doing to fight the Musk-Trump cabal, Jeffries presented as if guest-hosting “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” “It’s all hands on deck in the Congress. It’s all hands on deck in the courts. And it’s certainly all hands on deck in communities across the country,” Jeffries, 54, insisted in a tone that was anything but insistent. Like many older Democrats in his caucus who learned their politics decades ago (and stopped learning), Jeffries brings the wrong skill set to the job of fighting Musk-Trump’s efforts to cut up the republic like a stolen car in a chop-shop. The growing resistance is very grassroots, Maddow observed, very organic and bottom-up. “But what they are trying to push up and push forward is you and your colleagues,” she prodded, “to try to further empower you and further inspire you … to find new tactics, to find new avenues, to find new leverage.” Jeffries’s reply was flatter than Peter Cook’s homily on “Mawwage.” Jeffries posted the video to YouTube as though proud of it. “Democrats in Congress are growing rattled…