Hi friend, it's Ben.
It has been a
month.
Wait, no.
It’s been
one week. We’re on Day Nine of the new Trump presidency.
So far, Trump’s done everything
except making life better for working people. The contrast between his attacks and what we stand for as Democrats has never been more vivid than the split-screen view of Trump’s viciousness unfolding in the same week as Governor Evers’ spectacular State of the State message.
We knew this moment was coming, and now it’s here. It's time to fight. We fight by showing who the GOP is for—and who we’re for.
This is just the beginning, friend, and we have a long four years ahead of us. If we’re going to take on Trump in this new MAGA era and help make life better for ALL Wisconsinites, we need to build sustained, long-term grassroots support. Will you set up a recurring donation of $10 a month to help us keep up the fight? »
Trump started Day One by issuing 26 executive orders, the most signed by any U.S. president on Inauguration Day, and many designed to simply undo President Biden’s accomplishments.
He wasted no time in wiping away the progress we've made on addressing climate change, targeting the trans community and immigrants, and repealing anti-discrimination rules first put in place in the Civil Rights era.
As Adam Serwer once wrote: the cruelty is the point. These measures won't create more jobs, or lower prices, or make the lives of working people better. They’re intended to hurt people.
Trump's second term is already an even-worse rerun of his first term. Division, extremism, and distractions—all in the hopes that it'll obscure his twisted agenda to let the far-right ultra-rich run off with gigantic tax cuts. When it comes to bilking working people to enrich oligarchs, Trump is at it already: he repealed a Biden-Harris executive order that aimed to push down the cost of prescription drugs.
Trump making higher prices for medicine a day-one priority illustrates the con at the heart of Trumpism. As we fight for all of our communities, we have to make sure the country sees the core of what the GOP is aiming to do—rig the country for far-right billionaires, at the expense of everyone else.
We Democrats have a different priority: making life better for everyone. And with Trump in office, we need to play the long game. If you’re with us, can you set up a recurring donation of $10 today?
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Watching Trump wreak havoc on our country can be exhausting. But fighting for what’s right is a source of renewable political energy – to remind ourselves that we still have hope, that we still have strength, and that we still have ways to, all together, change the world.
In this new Trump era, as in life, the days will take forever, but the years will fly by. Let’s use them in ways we’ll always be proud of. Let’s dig deep and find that wellspring of hope. And then, as we have so many times before, let’s turn that hope into action and blaze a trail to a future in which all of us can thrive.
Let’s roll up our sleeves and do this.
Thank you, friend.
Ben Wikler
WisDems Chair
