The pink protest in Trump’s speech shows that the Democrats do not come to save us | Arwa Mahdawi

Pretty (pathetic) in pink

Happy International Women’s Day (IWD), all! I have good and bad news to mark the occasion.

The bad news is that a legally defined sexual predator leads the most powerful country on earth and we see one Global counter reaction Against the rights of women. “[I]Nstead of the same mainstream rights see the mainstreaming of misogyny ”, the UN General Secretary, António Guterressaid in his IWD message.

The good news for those of us in the USA is that the Democrats have a plan to deal with all of this. Or rather, you have a wardrobe Concepts of a plan. On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump addressed a joint congress meeting in the US Capitol. Some members of the Democratic Women -Caucus (DWC), including Nancy Pelosi, decided to protest it through … pink.

“Pink is a color of power and protest”, the representative of New Mexico, Teresa Leger Fernández, chairman of the DWC. told Time. “It is time to turn the opposition and to get Trump loudly and clearly.”

The pink outfits may have been loud, but the news Democrats The programs were anything but clear. They could not even coordinate their coordinating protest: some legislators appeared in Pink, while others wore blue and yellow to support Ukraine, and others black because it was a dark occasion.

Nevertheless, I will give the DWC your fault: your embarrassing stunt seems to have won at least one – possibly two – fans. One MSNBC columnistwrote, for example, that the “hug of such a traditional female color [pink] In women with a considerable political power, there is a breathtaking example of subversive dressing ”.

However, the general reaction seems to be largely that this was another breathtaking example of how rude and performative the Democrats are. Forget to bring a knife to a shootout – these people bring Rosa Blazer to a fight for democracy. To be fair, there were some other attempts to protest beyond a pink palette: the Texas representative Al Green Heck the president (And was later censored From some of his colleagues for it) and some Democrats left the room while Trump’s speech. If this is the “opposition”, we are all doomed to fail.

Not to mention: Even the pink blazers seemed to be a little too extreme for certain factions of the Democratic Party. House of democratic leadership Is reported to Members in order not to assemble protests and show reluctance in Trump’s speech. They also chose the Senator Elissa Slotkin in Michigan to give the democratic reaction to Trump’s speech. While slotkin is more than described Sensible Centist Voice She is very Trump-Adjazent in many media. Slotkin is one of the democratic senators who have tuned with Trump The most common and in June in June was one of the 42 Democrats who voted with the GOP to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) because of the search for arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli arrest warrants Gaza leader for the destruction. Human rights groups have warned that the attack on the ICC, like this, undermines international law and the ability to pursue or prevent human rights violations around the world. It talks volumes about the US media and the political class, which can be described as a center of the international law.

This whole episode also speaks volumes about the Democrats plan for the future: it becomes increasingly clear that the Democratic Party instead of actually growing a spine and fighting people’s lives imploded. I will not warn of this strategy myself. Instead, I will let Harry Truman do it. Already in 1952, Said Truman: “People don’t want false democrat. If it is a choice between a real Republican and a Republican in democratic clothing, people will choose the real article every time. “

However, the result of all this is that the Democrats do not come to save us. We have to save ourselves. This means organizing in our local communities and learning lessons from activists Outside of our communities. It means to make sure that crawl autoritarianism is not normalized and it means to recognize the urgency of the moment. The warning signs flash red: we have to answer a damn much more than a pink wardrobe.

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