When Despair Is Easier: Choosing Hope Anyway EP 154

This is an excerpt of an article written by Marc Elias. You can find the entire post here It usually comes as a question: What gives you hope? Sometimes it is more of a demand: Tell me something hopeful! Everywhere I turn — in person and online, from lawyers to retirees, activists to students — people are searching for hopeful words about the future of democracy. I know what they want. They want me to say that I have special knowledge, a hidden plan, some inside information that will assure them that this nightmare will end. They want to hear that democracy will survive Trump, that our institutions will hold, that it will all turn out okay in the end. The assumption seems to be that I would only be fighting for democracy in court — speaking out in the media, angering Trump and his enablers, doing everything I can to defend our elections — if I were sure we would prevail. If only that were the case.