Right Now With Perry Bacon

There were 2,700 No Kings events across the country, with at least seven million participating, according to Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the groups that helped coordinate the protests. It was one of the largest single-day protests in American history, she said. In the latest edition of Right Now, Greenberg explained the importance of showing mass public opposition to Trump. This kind of mobilization, according to Greenberg, demonstrates to Trump and his allies as well as nonpartisan institutions, such as the media, that there is deep, passionate opposition to Trump. It also helps anti-Trump Americans realize that they aren’t alone, connect with others who are opposed to this president, and participate in smaller and more regular anti-Trump activism.

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There were 2,700 No Kings events across the country, with at least seven million participating, according to Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the groups that helped coordinate the protests. It was one of the largest single-day protests in American history, she said. In the latest edition of Right Now, Greenberg explained the importance of showing mass public opposition to Trump. This kind of mobilization, according to Greenberg, demonstrates to Trump and his allies as well as nonpartisan institutions, such as the media, that there is deep, passionate opposition to Trump. It also helps anti-Trump Americans realize that they aren’t alone, connect with others who are opposed to this president, and participate in smaller and more regular anti-Trump activism.

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Chicago is a city “under siege,” says Representative Delia Ramirez. In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, she described a city where residents are terrified, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining anyone they want and using violence against those protesting their actions. She warned that the Trump administration is using the city as a test. If Chicago wilts, she predicted aggressive ICE enforcement and National Guard deployments in cities across the country. But Ramirez said there is an active resistance to the Trump administration in the Windy City, including grassroots groups, Governor JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and even rank-and-file citizens who are promising to protect their neighbors from ICE. The congresswoman says this weekend’s “No Kings” protests in Chicago will be big and another sign of the city standing up to the administration.

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Chicago is a city “under siege,” says Representative Delia Ramirez. In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, she described a city where residents are terrified, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining anyone they want and using violence against those protesting their actions. She warned that the Trump administration is using the city as a test. If Chicago wilts, she predicted aggressive ICE enforcement and National Guard deployments in cities across the country. But Ramirez said there is an active resistance to the Trump administration in the Windy City, including grassroots groups, Governor JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and even rank-and-file citizens who are promising to protect their neighbors from ICE. The congresswoman says this weekend’s “No Kings” protests in Chicago will be big and another sign of the city standing up to the administration.

Read more transcripts of Right Now episodes at https://newrepublic.com/video/right-now-with-perry-bacon

Watch more Right Now With Perry Bacon episodes at https://newrepublic.com/video/right-now-with-perry-bacon

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Maine Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, announced on Tuesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Susan Collins. Mills, having twice been elected statewide, is in some ways the perfect candidate for one of the few seats that Democrats have a realistic chance of flipping in next year’s elections. (They need to gain four seats for a Senate majority.) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer spent months convincing Mills to run. But she’s not a shoo-in to be Collins’s opponent.

Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner, another Democrat, launched his campaign in August and has drawn both huge crowds in the state and attention nationally. (Read TNR’s Ana-Marie Cox’s excellent profile of Platner.) He’s running on a populist, anti-billionaire platform and has become a favorite of the party’s progressive wing, receiving an endorsement from Senator Bernie Sanders. Platner is “Maine’s Mamdani,” according to Alex Seitz-Wald, deputy editor of a publication there called the Midcoast Villager.

In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, Seitz-Wald discussed how Platner has come out of nowhere to be a phenomenon in the state. Seitz-Wald said the enthusiasm for Platner is real but questioned if Platner has real working-class supporters or if his base is largely college-educated progressives. He noted that Mills is fairly popular but will be bogged down by questions about her age (77). Collins, according to Seitz-Wald, still has a very good chance of winning. While the state leans Democratic, Collins has done a great job distancing herself from Trump and building strong ties with local powerbrokers in Maine, he said.

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Maine Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, announced on Tuesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Susan Collins. Mills, having twice been elected statewide, is in some ways the perfect candidate for one of the few seats that Democrats have a realistic chance of flipping in next year’s elections. (They need to gain four seats for a Senate majority.) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer spent months convincing Mills to run. But she’s not a shoo-in to be Collins’s opponent.

Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner, another Democrat, launched his campaign in August and has drawn both huge crowds in the state and attention nationally. (Read TNR’s Ana-Marie Cox’s excellent profile of Platner.) He’s running on a populist, anti-billionaire platform and has become a favorite of the party’s progressive wing, receiving an endorsement from Senator Bernie Sanders. Platner is “Maine’s Mamdani,” according to Alex Seitz-Wald, deputy editor of a publication there called the Midcoast Villager.

In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, Seitz-Wald discussed how Platner has come out of nowhere to be a phenomenon in the state. Seitz-Wald said the enthusiasm for Platner is real but questioned if Platner has real working-class supporters or if his base is largely college-educated progressives. He noted that Mills is fairly popular but will be bogged down by questions about her age (77). Collins, according to Seitz-Wald, still has a very good chance of winning. While the state leans Democratic, Collins has done a great job distancing herself from Trump and building strong ties with local powerbrokers in Maine, he said.

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Arkadi Gerney, a Democratic strategist, says Democratic governors and attorneys general have the greatest ability to stop Trump—and they’re doing it in ways that are underappreciated.

In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, Democratic strategist Arkadi Gerney argues that the United States is in the midst of a “cold civil war.” For liberals to win it, they must use “hardball” tactics, including borrowing from the Republicans’ playbook. Gerney says that Republican governors and attorneys general smartly coordinated during Joe Biden’s presidency to thwart him. He praised Democratic attorneys general for taking a similar tack, constantly filing and at times winning lawsuits against the Trump administration. He also lauded California Governor Gavin Newsom for immediately responding to Texas’s redistricting scheme with a proposal for California to redraw its district lines in ways favorable to Democrats. Newsom and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s threat to leave the bipartisan National Governors Association unless it condemns Trump’s National Guard deployments was also a savvy move, he says. A big and unresolved challenge for Democrats, according to Gerney, is dealing with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and the guard deployments from Trump that target Democratic-leaning cities in blue states. You can read the transcript here.

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Arkadi Gerney, a Democratic strategist, says Democratic governors and attorneys general have the greatest ability to stop Trump—and they’re doing it in ways that are underappreciated.

In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, Democratic strategist Arkadi Gerney argues that the United States is in the midst of a “cold civil war.” For liberals to win it, they must use “hardball” tactics, including borrowing from the Republicans’ playbook. Gerney says that Republican governors and attorneys general smartly coordinated during Joe Biden’s presidency to thwart him. He praised Democratic attorneys general for taking a similar tack, constantly filing and at times winning lawsuits against the Trump administration. He also lauded California Governor Gavin Newsom for immediately responding to Texas’s redistricting scheme with a proposal for California to redraw its district lines in ways favorable to Democrats. Newsom and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s threat to leave the bipartisan National Governors Association unless it condemns Trump’s National Guard deployments was also a savvy move, he says. A big and unresolved challenge for Democrats, according to Gerney, is dealing with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and the guard deployments from Trump that target Democratic-leaning cities in blue states. You can read the transcript here.

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