Politics
The GOP Is America’s Abusive Partner
It’s hard — sometimes deadly — to break up with a bad actor, but we have to
“I thought I was going to die.”
When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uttered those words on her Instagram Live last week, it immediately invoked the once unthinkable scene of our Capitol building under siege by White domestic terrorists. As the world watched the images of violence and terror unfold, Ocasio-Cortez was living through it—hiding in a bathroom, holding her breath, and hoping to God that she wouldn’t be found by the people hunting her.
American carnage. This is the America Trump and his sycophants delivered on January 6, 2021.
As a result of the insurrection, five people died and others were maimed — eyes lost, fingers lost, spinal cord injuries—and even after all this mayhem and trauma, Republicans want AOC and America to move on. Move on from our sacred halls of democracy being smeared with feces. Move on from windows riddled with bullet holes. Move on from the…
