You know it’s not enough to simply be reactive to all the latest Trump announcements. Any prolonged effort at resistance will be unsuccessful if the movement is merely stuck in a defensive crouch. Prolonged defense is just another word for losing.
You decide to work on envisioning what happens after Trump leaves. You get ideas from a friend who is a cultural worker. You know she has written songs for movement organizations. But she explains that inside the resistance movement, many people are hurt and frayed. They need healing. And she thinks you could help bring some healing modalities and grounded spirituality to these spaces. You’re not sure where that would take you, but you’re curious.
Another friend says the problem is that we don’t have a political vision of what’s after Trump. “If the movement is going to disobey Trump’s rules, we can’t just tell people to ignore everything he says and does. We have to show what we stand for. When we get him out of office, we have to keep this kind of thing from happening again.” Your friend is part of a political formation outside of the party system that’s developing plans for a modern Constitutional Convention. This also sounds interesting.
