A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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PFAW Member, this is a long email but please try to read it through.

When it comes to Donald Trump, the news media have focused nearly all of
their attention for these past months on two aspects of Trump’s
presidency: what he has done and what he is doing right now. Indeed,
progressives and Democrats have done the same as we highlight the many
reasons we need to defeat him.

But something that has begun to trouble me is the realization that, if
we’re not careful, a lack of focus on what Donald Trump WILL do if he is
reelected could end up being the reason we LOSE this election and see
another four years of Trump and Republican rule.

Don’t get me wrong, Trump’s record is incredibly important. There is so
much corruption, bigotry, cruelty, lawlessness, dishonesty, and failure
that Trump and his enablers need to be held accountable for – not the
least of which, what they have done to our courts. However, what is more
important to many, many voters is what the next president will do in the
NEXT four years.

Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic has cost hundreds of
thousands of American lives… but what is potentially even scarier is how
many MORE American lives his continued mishandling of the pandemic will be
into a second term.

The Trump administration is now saying it’s giving up on trying to contain
the spread of the virus. The advisor who Trump trusts most on the pandemic
-- Scott Atlas, who is not even a public health expert – advocates for a
“herd immunity” approach that could cost millions of lives, particularly
among the most vulnerable parts of our population like seniors and people
with underlying conditions.

This virus is going to be with us through 2021. We simply cannot afford
the number of lives lost to and ruined by this disease if Trump is elected
to a second term, and the same goes for the economic destruction his
mismanagement of the crisis will cause.

The survival of American democracy is also on the line … and it’s not as
much because of what Trump has done to erode our institutions as it is
because of what we already know he will do.

Attorney General William Barr has represented Trump’s personal interests
over those of the People, politicizing the mechanisms of law enforcement
in terrifying and previously unimaginable ways. But it hasn’t been enough
for Trump. Witch hunt investigations, by both the DOJ and Republicans in
the Senate, to try to turn up dirt on Joe Biden and prove conspiracies
against Trump’s 2016 campaign both flopped and turned up nothing.

Now Axios and others report that Trump is looking to completely clean
house of all public servants who aren’t willing to execute his every
corrupt whim … FBI Director Christopher Wray is first on Trump’s hit list,
but the list also includes some of his own hand-picked – and very
right-wing – intelligence agency heads who have not lived by the credo
“Trump First” to his satisfaction. ^[ [link removed] ]

And just last week, Trump signed an executive order that would make
thousands of civil servants “at-will employees” … allowing Trump to
potentially clean house of career federal employees who are not
sufficiently loyal to him. If you think this sounds familiar, it does,
it’s the same formula routinely employed by autocratic regimes, where
membership in and loyalty to the ruling party is a prerequisite for a
government job. ^[ [link removed] ]

Our country and our world face historic crises. Of those, the single
biggest threat to our country is our current leadership, because it is
what is preventing us from tackling and solving the other crises and
because that leadership is what is threating the very survival of our
democracy itself.

I know you have done a lot and you’re doing a lot. Maybe you’ve given more
of your time and money to election efforts in 2020 than in any other
election in your lifetime. That’s as it should be. Because everything is
on the line.

We’re working every minute to highlight what’s at stake and the stark
contrast in the choice Americans face in this election. We have one week
left to stop hate and defend democracy at the ballot box. And it’s
disturbingly possible that this might be our last chance.

[1]Your 3X-matched donation today will fund the final push to get out the
progressive vote and save our country.

[2]If you’re in this fight until the very end, then please, please, please
let us know it will triple-matched donation right away>>

Thank you for everything you do.

-- Ben Betz, Digital & Organizing

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Sources:

1. Axios, "[ [link removed] ]Scoop: Trump's post-election execution list," October 25,
2020

2. Government Executive, "[ [link removed] ]‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize
Civil Service," October 22, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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