The Revolution Will Not Be Televised—But It Is Being Livestreamed

I'm currently sitting here avoiding doing what I'm supposed to be doing to watch Trump's name get pulled down from the Kennedy Center (and apparently so are tens of thousands of others). It's one of those moments that's interesting to me because we learned so much about political figures standing up monuments to themselves and having them torn down upon their defeat—but this one is happening now.

Optimistically, I think that, while things have been getting worse and this regime has done some irreparable damage to the world (and on the day the world sees its first trillionaire in Elon Musk) in some ways we are doing better than we think. Trump's still in power, and here we are taking down the monument he built to himself. Sure, it's not the golden statue or the UFC ring outside the White House that looks like a playpen, but it's something and it's happening in front of him.

It's a sign that we still have enough people doing the right things in the right places to hold this regime back, and that they don't have complete power. As we approach the midterms, and with the current attacks on other elections around the country, this is at least one sign that we're still in this fight and that we can do this.