[1]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress[2]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress

I think there are two things that are happening at once, and this is something
that’s very important for people to understand:

One: there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of
norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an
authoritarian style of governance.

That is happening.

However: they are weaker than they look. It is important that we remember
that.

Because what they rely on is the impression of power, the perception of
inevitability, in us giving up in advance, to say, “Oh, what’s going to
happen if I stand up?” Nothing’s gonna happen.

They rely on that perception of inevitability and power so that people
comply in advance, acquiesce in advance, and give up in advance.

And at the end of the day, Donald Trump is at record levels of
unpopularity in his tenure. The Republican House is at record levels of
unpopularity.

They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is
causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring.

That is why — whether it’s a shutdown, whether it’s all of this — they
want us to blink first. And we have too much to save.

Protecting people is too important a task for us to give up before
anything even starts. So they may want to send people in, but these
National Guardsmen do not want to be turned against their fellow
Americans.

We’re seeing this here in Washington, D.C. It is an insult.

Donald Trump is insulting the service members of this country by putting
them on these silly tasks that they themselves do not want to be
enforcing.

And so we have to understand that standing up matters, that our voice
matters, to not give into the cynicism because that is what they rely on
in order to perpetuate this idea that they have total immunity from
consequence.

They will experience the consequences of this — but we have to be the
consequence.

Which is why Congress has to stand tall right now alongside everyday
Americans.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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