Jon Ossoff
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the most dramatic moments of the Trump era.
No pressure in those races.
And I've never seen opposition energy and determination like I'm seeing right now.
And even all of the angst that's directed at the Democratic Party is actually a good sign in that it shows the passion that people feel to oppose this and to right the ship.
What worries me is that we're a little too in our own heads.
in the sense that a loss of faith, a loss of confidence in our ability as citizens to use the rights we have as citizens to shape this country's future because we're doom scrolling in the fetal position,
or waiting for some charismatic savior to ride in as a national figure who will fix all this.
We have a president who is completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented brazen personal corruption, who is passing one of the most unpopular agendas in American history.
The public is turning against him.
The opposition is motivated.
We can win and we have to win.
but we don't have the luxury of despair or self-pity or kind of wallowing in doubt.
So I just want folks to focus on what we can control.
And yes, we in Congress have obligations to rise to this moment and all of us have obligations to work like hell to win these midterm elections and to restore some checks and balances to Washington.
Just cut the doom scrolling in half.
So a few thoughts on the corruption.
First of all, I think we have to absolutely hammer away at it.
make sure that the public sees it and understands it because it is it is like the most shocking brazen and overt abuse of power in presidential history by degrees of magnitude we're talking about billions of dollars a lot of it through cryptocurrency vehicles directly to the first family and he's got his personal envoy right like his his his