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Push Back, Bigtime
Pritzker, Brandon, Cook and the Sandwich Guy
Sometimes, all I want to do is watch baseball. It’s the only sport I watch, and I admit I am somewhat of a fair weather fan. But I love baseball, and it’s been fun to watch lately since the Yankees are doing pretty well. It’s calming and a way to escape for a hour or two. Below is a New Yorker cartoon of mine.
We are seeing more forceful responses to Trump on the state and city level, and I find that hopeful. It’s not clear how Trump will respond to these voices, but it makes me feel we are seriously pushing back now and have incredible leaders in this space.
The other day, Illinois Governor Pritzker gave a measured, furious response to Trump’s idea that he would next send National Guard to Chicago. Here is some of what he said, it’s powerful:
“I want to speak plainly about the moment that we are in and the actual crisis, not the manufactured one, that we are facing in the city and as a state and as a country. If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm, one that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country.”
“[o]ver the weekend, we learned from the media that Donald Trump has been planning for quite a while now to deploy armed military personnel to the streets…
