Update: After I posted this, 167 House Democrats signed a letter denouncing the appointment of Steve Bannon. But even more importantly, Lindsey Graham stated that he opposes any attempt to abandon Senate filibuster rules. This will allow Democrats to stop some Trump appointments if they can find another GOP senator who makes a similar pledge.

Yesterday our incoming president Donald Trump appointed white supremacist Steve Bannon to the White House. The Democratic party responded overwhelmingly … with silence, which highlights just how deeply broken and beaten the Democratic party is at the moment. While Nancy Pelosi posted a statement, the rest of the party is paralyzed and can’t get themselves to take a stance against a guy endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. I called Representative Speier and Senator Feinstein. Neither of them has a position on this matter. If the Democratic party has a hard time deciding whether to support or denounce the guy whose media outlet touts “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” and “There’s No Hiring Bias Against Women in Tech, They Just Suck at Interviews”, I think we can abandon all hope that the Democratic Party will be any kind of checks and balances on Trump.

Our last and maybe only hope may be forces of reason within the GOP. I know thats a tall order. The vast majority of the Republican establishment is falling over themselves trying to appease Donald Trump, lead by Speaker Paul Ryan, who “has no concerns” about the appoint of Bannon. But as Ben Adida pointed out yesterday on twitter, there are a few GOP senators who have vocally criticized and denounced Trump before November 8 and maybe they’ll find the heart to be the patriots we need them to be at this hours.

Donald Trump is writing history by bringing the white nationalist agenda back into the White House. Anyone in the GOP who isn’t taking a stance against this is implicitly siding with the alt-right. Senator McCain, Senator Graham, is that how you want future generations to remember you?

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