For decades now, I’ve said:

#CivilRights aren’t safe. We CAN slide back. And it can happen both incrementally & in large, sudden falls.

#VoteBlue has always been about HOLDING ONTO OUR MEAGRE GAINS in a hostile system, so we *might* inch forward.

We don’t hold—and were never meant to hold— #Systemic and #InstitutionalPower.

The RW (now the entire GOP) wins by manipulating fear & hatred of the Other.

So fuck them and anyone who thought our values were EVER “established” in law or culture.