Democrats must rise up to defeat the dangerous and deranged Donald Trump

Echo opinion published in the The Washington Post by Brian Broome: 

I have it again: election anxiety❗

Not about the local contests that take place around the country. No, I am panicked about the national election, the one taking place about a year from now. 

Vote Blue 2024!

I’m already checking polls for updates, hoping to find one that can tell me everything is going to be okay. And I’m not finding much to work with. Hence, my anxiety.

For now, I expect the worst. How can it be otherwise when seemingly every news story tells me that Donald Trump is shaping up to beat Joe Biden in 2024? 

When Black voters, one of Biden’s bedrocks, are reportedly fleeing the Democratic Party? If that’s right, this country will never be the same. If that’s right, how could I not be anxious?

“Anxious” doesn’t really describe it: It’s more like a visceral fear, one that speeds the heart rate, dilates the pupils and quickens the breathing. I quickly imagine a dystopian future in which the right wing gets absolutely everything it wants. And I know where a person like me would end up in their ideal world: With no rights and no quality of life.

When the New York Times looks at a handful of key states and reports that Biden could lose to Trump, barring some major course correction, I spin out. When The Post reports that Trump plans to seek revenge in his second term on people who stopped him from doing what he wanted in his first term, I start to ponder my exit strategy. I wonder where I could move should such a thing happen and how I could afford to do so.

I wonder why some of my fellow Black Americans can’t see what I can see plainly.👀 ❓I wonder why a man with Trump’s record appeals to them. 

Why can’t they see the work of prosecutors Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg and Letitia James as noble efforts to hold the wealthiest and most powerful among us accountable? I can’t imagine why these voters think they will be better off under Trump than Biden.