Fireside Chat #10
Independence Day was the Original No Kings Day
President Trump celebrated Independence Day with the signing of H.R.1. I’m sure he was feeling good about the moment. At the same time, it was hard for the rest of us to be in a celebratory mood. It’s hard to feel patriotic with America’s turn into authoritarianism. There was certainly some doomerism going on online.
But I wanted to leave people with this message. Trump and his administration should not be celebrating Independence Day. Because it represents a day that Americans declared with one voice that the power resides with the people, not with kings. There is a constant and growing pressure against the administration with growing protests against ICE, lawsuits continuing to be filed, and generalized incompetence within the administration. This pressure has continued to add cracks within the power base of MAGA, as evidenced by the Musk breakup, the Epstein reveal, the Iran bombings,. It’s getting to a point where MAGA no longer represents anything other than cruelty.
It’s at this point that a new vision is needed for America. A new vision that can actually address the challenges of the 21st century. Job security in the face of technological innovation, creating an economy that actually allows for raising a family, buying a house, getting educated, staying healthy, and growing old.
That is what the New Deal Party is aiming to do. Establish a platform that all Americans can get behind, from the smallest towns in rural America to the largest cities. For the blue collar and the white collared workers, mothers and fathers, children and grandparents.
A 21st century America for all Americans.
Work on the New Deal Party continues. We are focusing on creating our web and social media presence, along with a platform that can go beyond just a wish list of policies we wish our leaders would enact. Once the basic foundation has been put into place, we expect to start promoting ourselves and developing a ground game that can be bring our platform down from the national level down to the states, districts, and communities all across America.