Lobby Democrats in Congress to write a joint House/Senate "Letter to America"

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2. And such a letter would drive a unified message in a media blitz. Plain language.

Remember the power of the Contract on America?

Documents have power.

And documents that state plain truths (unlike the Contract) have Greater power.

I firmly believe that this sort of Letter to America (or whatever the heck they call it) has serious potential to be the same sort of game changer for turning back the tide, reclaiming TRUE patriotism, and ushering a national renewal of faith in the power of our founding principles.

We are not going to defeat the insanity overnight. But we desperately need something with serious potential to spark the sort of massive shift we need in the years ahead.

I highly recommend Dana Millbank's The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party.

In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol.

Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt. In the quarter century in between, Americans have witnessed the crackup of the party of Lincoln and Reagan, to its current iteration as a haven for white supremacists, political violence, conspiracy theories and authoritarianism.