Give up or lean in

When the news came down that our thoroughly corrupted Supreme Court had ordered tossed out mail ballots postmarked before Election Day, but delivered a couple of days after in Wisconsin, my first thought was that if any statewide campaign in this country has proved it can do the organizing to overcome, it's the Wisconsin Dems. They proved it during the gritty primary back in March, accomplishing marvels of mobilization in the first shockwave of a deadly pandemic.

Ben Wikler is the elected leader of the state party. A veteran of Move-On, he's knows his organizing and he knows what it is to fight. I was reminded of this from earlier in this year:

“I think as Americans we have a tendency to go through life with a conviction that everything will work out for the best,” says Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. “And that conviction has been stripped away by reality in the course of the last four years and especially the last six months. When faced with intense bleakness, you have to decide whether to give up or lean into the fight.”

Wisconsin Dems are leaning in to make sure that everyone trying to cast a mail ballot, again in the midst of a COVID surge partially launched by the POTUS' superspreader rallies, are able to vote. They can use any spare change any of us can throw them.