Roxane Gay

I am bereft because right now the Trump administration is like a drunk terrorist in a candy store with a sugar addiction.

They are doing everything they've ever wanted.

And of course, we were all given the blueprint for what they were going to do.

And the Democrats haven't even bothered to write a response or to articulate their own policy platform in that really big public way, which again, why are we not writing a Project 2027?

And so, yeah, I'm just bereft because where does this end?

We are so very far away.

But you make an important point, which is to say that activism is happening.

And almost every single community, on the ground, grassroots, local organizers, are truly doing God's work right now.

I am so grateful that that work is happening, that that organizing is happening.

Like right now in LA, in Chicago, in DC, Boston, we're seeing some amazing resistance to really terrifying encroachments on people's freedom.

And what's weird is that many people don't know about it.

And so part of the problem is that it's the media's job to connect what's happening on the ground with the institutions.

And they're not doing it.

And we all know why, I guess, but it's sad.

And so I think until more people lose a loved one or a friend or are mistakenly detained or find themselves in...

such financial precarity that they have only one choice left, which is to resist.

Until we all sort of start to feel that boot on our neck, I just don't know that there's going to be anything that's going to make us sort of, and I include myself in that.

you know, that are going to make us sort of do something, even though I don't even know where to start, other than to look to, as Mr. Rogers said, the helpers.

But one of the people I follow closely in terms of activism and where to expend our energy is Mariam Kaba, who is an abolitionist among many other things.

And one of the things that she talks about quite a lot is just picking one or two things because you cannot do it all.