There's room for them at our table

[Tesha]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/democratic-resistance-trump

“ Like every far-right leader in history, Donald Trump has intoxicated his supporters with nostalgia for a past that never existed in order to push a corrupt and hateful agenda of his own. Eventually, many will realize that he’s lied to them. Perhaps they’ll lose their jobs because of his economic policies, or see law-abiding friends and family deported because of his immigration policies. Perhaps their children will suffer from measles because of his health policies. Whatever the case, when their moment of realization comes, we must be ready to embrace them, and to weep with them for what they’ve lost. If there’s one thing that I learned while writing my book, it’s that effective resistance to the far right is never just about defeating the enemy. It’s about creating a better future for everyone.”

The title is reminiscent of a line from “The Fifth Sacred Thing” 1993 by Starhawk where this gentle comment told soldiers, who found they really didn’t want to fight, that they were welcomed.

[Autumn]

1. He told them all along what he was going to do. They voted for him because that

was what they wanted There's no room for them at my table. Fuck them. Fuck them all to hell.

[Tesha]

2. I'm not giving them a pass

They fucked up our country, these people will never be a friend.

But they don’t have to be my friend to vote better next time.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Hard to maintain a facade of nostalgia

when the world is descending into a dystopian nightmare, the depths of which haven’t been fully plumbed.

[Bettie]

4. I have to go to a large family gathering in August

I will have a hard time keeping quiet or being partularly friendly to people who I know voted for this, mostly because their preachers told them to.

[Aristus]

5. I don't want Maw 'n' Paw Stumpjump from Squalor Holler in our party.

Why pollute the waters with their stupidity and fecklessness?

[Tesha]

6. Because you need their votes?

[JustAnotherGen]

8. They won't vote for us

Unless the Democratic Party strips our platform of anything that allows equal access to prosperity for non-whites.

These people have shown us they are racists since 2009. We don't need anymore proof. All that needs to happen next year is for the maga Pub Politicians to run willie horton type ads -

And those knuckle dragging racists will return to form. They always do.

[Aristus]

9. This.

They will never vote for us. Forty years of right-wing AM hate radio have taken their toll on the below-averages. They wouldn't vote for a Democrat if their lives depended on it; because it does, and they don't.

Imagine the mindset that chooses black lung disease over voting for the people who can make medical care affordable. Actually, you don't have to. We see it all around us every day.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. No

Whatever the case, when their moment of realization comes, we must be ready to embrace them, and to weep with them for what they’ve lost

We've done this before. And it unleashed a hundred years of Jim Crow in America, and another sixty of not being able to call it out in polite society.

Nope - never. They need to sit with their discomfort and we need to ostracize them the same way post WW2 Germany did.