I finally got around to reading Markos’ diary from yesterday.
Plenty of others are commenting about the larger question of what it means to be a progressive, whether identity politics are good/bad, etc., so I’m not gonna get into any of that today.
I will say this: His closing line…
So again, ask yourself: would you trade universal health care for Trump’s glorious wall and enhanced hiring of jackbooted government ICE thugs to raid homes, schools, and workplaces?
...caught my eye, because it reminded me of something I said last fall:
Or, if you’d prefer a different topic...
I’m not accusing Markos of plagiarism or anything; frankly, the fact that we both happened to come up with the same example should be quite telling. He’s Latino. I’m Jewish. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of Muslims, Black folks, GLBTQ folks and so forth who have said (or at least felt) the exact same thing over the past year or so.
Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there.