Not This!

Democrats Finally Find Their Voice in Senator Cory Booker

April 1 was no fools’ day for Democrats. In Senator Cory Booker’s 25 hour remarkable marathon filibuster (how is it possible to stand for that length of time, without going to the bathroom, take a drink and deliver stem winder after stem winder?), and especially this remarkable poignant cry from his soul, the Democrats have finally their voice in pushing back against the Trump: https://www.instagram.com/thedemocraticcoalition/reel/DH7oFt-KPHr/

This is must watch: the single greatest 10 minute segment of a speech I have seen since Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. It was authentic. It was real. It was unscripted. Everything that has enabled Trump to resonate with so many voters. Except for one big difference: the empathy that Booker has, and Trump does not. On a purely human level, Booker was as powerful as it gets.

Maybe it was more than coincidence that Booker’s speech came on the same day that the first set of election results from Florida and Wisconsin, showing huge shifts from the Trump 2024 margins. The Booker speech and the April 1 elections results are more than a canary in the coal mine, they are the whole flock of canaries, revolting against:

--The Trump and Musk unconstitutional evisceration of the federal government, including the axe taken to government support for scientific research, especially health related; federal drug oversight; and so much more

--Republican plans to severely cut Medicaid spending

--Trump’s and Musk’s backdoor assault on social security by eviscerating the agency that administers it

--The destruction of our alliances, the embrace of autocrats, turning the rest of the free world against us

--The assault against universities, law firms, and who knows what else

--Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs that will totally negate his campaign promise to lower prices, while risking recession.

--Running national security risks by textbook violations of security protocol that would land any military personnel in the brig or even facing criminal prosecution (see past prosecutions of top brass and national security advisers in other Administrations and then bald-faced lies about it afterward that insult people’s intelligence.

Democrats no doubt will continue debating about what their core positive agenda will be in the mid-term elections, and then in 2028, assuming Trump doesn’t invoke some sort of national emergency to cancel them, a prospect that is not some product of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump himself promised no more elections during the 2024 campaign. https://the-energy-age.com/2025/04/02/sen-cory-booker-the-last-word-with-lawrence-odonnell/. To those who have said Trump should not be taken literally, they’ve had to swallow their words because since taking office, Trump has been doing exactly what he literally said (see tariffs, deportations, getting rid of the “Deep State” which in plain English turns out to be much of the federal government), and more that he never mentioned (see tariff war on Canada). Why then ignore his literal stated intention not to have future elections? Though now that Trump is now talking about running for a third term, which is constitutionally prohibited, maybe he’s backing off that campaign promise.

That hopefully being the case, Booker has given Democrats a simple, but powerful message: Not this.

PS: I am fully aware that I have some Trump subscribers on my subscription list who may now cancel, but there comes a time when I just can’t hold back need to tell like it is, let the chips fall where they may. Booker told it like it is.