By Mark Gruenberg
Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons
WASHINGTON—Tackling the weightiest problem to face the U.S. in decades, participants at a day-long conference here wrestled with the question their keynote speaker, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., posed: “What can I do” to preserve democracy “in a time of multiple crises?”
The answers were voiced at the July 17 session, organized by the progressive Institute for Policy Studies and named in honor of Henry A. Wallace, the Progressive Party nominee for the U.S. presidency in 1948 and the most progressive of FDR’s three vice presidents.
The conference took place against a constant drumbeat of attacks on the very structure of both democracy and government from extreme-right President Donald Trump and his MAGA legions and allies dedicated to creating a dictatorship.
“You have an authoritarian president and a Congress hell-bent on giving up its power. The solution is left to the American people,” Jayapal said. “I call it getting strike-ready and getting street-ready.”
And in a video message, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a constitutional law professor on leave, echoed Jayapal’s diagnosis.
“This is a time of titanic fighting between the forces of freedom and democracy on one side and the forces of totalitarianism and repression on the other…READ MORE…
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