Tuesday Trifecta

Trump was finally dragged into a courtroom, by brave Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Janet Protasiewicz won a smashing victory in Wisconsin, tipping the state Supreme Court in favor of liberal justices, and allowing them to reverse the state's abortion ban and longtime RepublIcan gerrymandering. And teachers' union organizer Brandon Johnson was swept into the Chicago mayor's office over law and order neoliberal Paul Vallas, promising to significantly increase the city's social spending, paid for with higher taxes on the wealthy. Wow, what a day!

MSNBC pundits have been instructing their liberal viewers not to gloat about Trump's legal travails. Host Joy Reid fretted about black public officials like Bragg and Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis (both of whom were slammed by Trump in his Mar-a-Lago rant last night) leading the campaign to bring the former president to justice.

I get the liberal media gatekeepers' cautionary message. But guess what? The Fox News and MAGA crowd were going to be incensed about Trump's indictment no matter what. (I watched Sean Hannity last night -- he and his guests were in full fulminating mode.) So allow all of us majority Americans to celebrate Terrific Tuesday.

We've been forced to live in THEIR America for years now. A country awash in assault weapons, reproductive rights restrictions, black voter suppression, censorship of books, American history and other educational bans, counter-assaults on climate change laws and Obamacare, political hysteria against trans people, billionaires rigging the tax system and labor laws, etc. In other words, a violent, harsh, stupid, reactionary, polluted, racist, misogynistic, homophobic world imposed on the majority by a WEAPONIZED (I'll take back that word) minority.

So, yes, forgive us as we cheer our victories. They've been a long time coming.

Brandon Johnson declares victory in the Chicago mayoral runoff election.