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It felt strange not to be there. That’s a difficult thing to say out loud. But as I watched the
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It felt strange not to be there. Thatâs a difficult thing to say out loud. But as I watched the terror unfold last week on Capitol Hill, just three days after the end of my tenure, I couldnât shake the feeling. Anyone who has watched someone or something they love suffer from afar knows: Helplessness does funny things to the brain. From my home in Massachusetts, I watched as a mob of violent insurrectionists/domestic terrorists/white supremacists stormed the U.S. Capitol to try and stop the peaceful transition of democratic power. I watched them hold my friends and former colleagues hostage. I saw them violate and desecrate the building I had worked in for the past eight years, those hallways as familiar to me as my own home. I stared at nooses, Nazi symbols, antisemitic iconography and Confederate flags filling a space that always felt so reverent and sacred, no matter how many times I walked through its doors. In the days since, we have begun a collective processing of what occurred. The discussion has quickly shifted to how we heal and recover from this moment. Itâs a difficult question to answer. With certainty, there will be no healing without justice. Accountability must be swift and thorough. The President should be removed. Those in Congress that aided and abetted him should be as well. And neither the insurrectionists nor President Trump should escape legal consequences. What we do not stop, we permit. What we do not punish, we protect. If President Trump, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and those who stormed the Capitol don't experience consequences, their behavior will not change. And that last part -- thatâs the bigger picture. It is a feature of this country that the Trump years turbo-charged, but that is as American as apple pie. We have yet to do the hard work to disincentivize white supremacy. In fact, for all our moralizing and proud proclamations about what America is, we continue to condone it. This is especially true with racism, a pillar of white supremacy. We have spent generations protecting and preserving the very institutions, policies, and practices that keep white power in business -- from wealth-hoarding that denies Black and Brown America access to homes and jobs and economic success, to political power-hoarding that ensures they will never be fairly represented in the chambers that could fix this. - Black schools get less money
- Black patients get less care
- Black votes get suppressed
- Black protestors get killed Still weâre aghast when crude displays of racism and antisemitism, the foundation of white supremacy, get uncomfortably close to our mainstream. Donald Trump, then, is our collective consequence -- the albatross on the neck of a country that has fallen so short of the vigilance that a truly representative democracy demands. We need to do more than heal. We need to change. We need to reject much more than the obvious architects of hatred and supremacy. We need to reject the more subtle, but stronger structures, masked in polite society that keep those architects in business. Because if we donât, then their behavior will not change. There will be more violence, more Trumps, more nooses, Nazi symbols, and Confederate flags. And we will have to live with the fact that that ugliness is not just the result of some groupâs actions -- but our own. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------- Our future, our democracy and our humanity are on the line. Joe Kennedy wants to use the platform he's built to support Democratic candidates, build a diverse and inclusive future for our Party, and help take our country back. But he can only do that with you by his side. Paid for by 4MA PAC 4MA PAC
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