There is no greater single imperative right now than removing Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. He is the clearest, most immediate, and most powerful danger to our biosphere, our health, our welfare, our safety, our privacy, our lives, and our freedom in the world today.
There have been millions of people like me who have been shouting this at the top of their lungs. And tens of millions more have this thought on their lips, yet to take form.
My campaign began when I realized how close we are to losing what makes this country worth loving. Not with rage, but with clarity, I thought—we deserve more than this. America wants to live again, I know it. And if we mean that, really mean it, we’re going to have to move with conviction, and fight with purpose.
Congress dithers, posing for pictures glad-handing local notables, all forcing smiles while the walls of autocracy go up around us, brick by brick. This is the worst national emergency of our lifetimes, and Democratic leadership has failed to address it in remotely accurate terms. Donald Trump has broken America. And when the enemy is cheating, we must refuse to play with a rigged deck. When the enemy is ignoring norms, you can’t keep clinging to them like a life raft. Clinging to the past is drowning us. We need to swim for something new, or we go down for good.
Congress today is full of a bunch of corpses they haven’t gotten around to burying yet. Soundbites instead of spines. Press releases instead of plans. Dinosaurs dutifully manning the slow grind of bureaucracy, pretending they can outlast a meteor.
My name is Jesse MacKinnon. I am a history teacher. I am a parent. I am a longtime local of CA-10. I am someone who believes in individual liberty and working-class dignity. And I am bone weary of watching people with no imagination and no urgency try to “wait out” a fascist movement that never sleeps.
I know I’m not the most likely candidate to run for Congress. But I believe deeply that either Mark DeSaulnier and our Democratic leaders will do more to confront this growing despotism, or that I will go to Washington and try to help stop the pillaging of America myself. I’ll leave that choice to the voters.
Originally Posted By u/mackinnon4congress At 2025-04-24 03:30:27 PM | Source