Where is the fierce urgency of now?

The Trump train keeps on rolling. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism Trump’s “bloody” plans to deport more than ten million refugees and undocumented persons are ramping up very quickly: the private prison industry and the other predatory gangster capitalists who will profit from this exercise in state- Vanity Fair’s Caitlin Dewey adds this additional context: Trump will prioritize deportations for people who may have criminal associations, who have been denied asylum, or who come from “countries of foreign concern,” such as China and Nicaragua, Homan said, adding that America’s intelligence agencies will help identify and locate those targets and immigration agents will arrest them. “ spend all this time calling Donald Trump a Nazi and Hitler, and now it’s just: ‘Smile for the camera!’” These sentiments of gleefully rejoicing and sneering at, as one close Trump ally puts it, the Democrats’ almost performative “capitulation” to Trump — who campaigned on a grossly authoritarian platform that includes wielding the federal apparatus to exact revenge operations on prominent political enemies — are widely shared in Trumpland, according to four sources close to the president-elect or working on the Trump transition. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., a member of the so-called Squad, said of Trump, “I’ve never gotten the impression that he’s been accountable to anything in his life.” But, she said, “I don’t fault anybody for trying.”” In a new essay, Thom Hartmann shares my worries and concerns about the weak “Resistance” and the near full-on surrender of the Democratic Party, “the institutions,” and the rule of law to Donald Trump and what that portends about the next four years and beyond. There’s still time…but it won’t last long… Democrats, the so-called Resistance and other pro-democracy forces should be moved by “the fierce urgency of now” as Donald Trump and his allies are preparing their shock and awe blitzkrieg campaign against America’s democratic institutions, the rule of law, civil society, the social safety net and humane society.