Dear MoveOn member,
If you happened to tune in to the RNC this week or read about it on the news or on social media, you probably didn't see much that you weren't already expecting.
The Republican National Convention and nomination of Donald Trump produced a steady stream of lies, attempts to rewrite history, and racist vitriol—all with a heavy dose of authoritarianism and flouting of ethics guidelines thrown in for good measure. In short, the RNC was a perfect reflection of Trump's administration and what he's offered the country over his first term.
One thing was made crystal clear this week: We can't afford another four years of Trump and his GOP enablers in office.
But winning this election isn't going to be easy. It's going to take all of us, working together to get out the vote, especially in key battleground states.
We don't need to spend a lot of time discussing what happened at the RNC to know what Trump is offering up for the next four years.
Instead, I wanted to share with you a few things that I noticed were *not* featured at the RNC:
- The climate crisis: With hurricanes bearing down on the Gulf Coast, derechos impacting the Midwest, and wildfires raging across California, Americans are facing down the impacts of climate change every day. But not a single RNC speaker mentioned the climate crisis, let alone a plan to tackle it.
- Victims of the coronavirus pandemic: Many speakers at the RNC spoke about the coronavirus pandemic in the past tense, ignoring the growing number of cases around the country and doing little to honor the nearly 200,000 Americans who have died of this virus or the millions more who have fallen ill.
- The unemployment and eviction crises: With tens of millions of Americans unemployed and/or facing the threat of eviction from their homes, the absence of any discussion of these crises—or mention of the GOP-controlled Senate's continued refusal to make progress on legislative solutions—was glaring.
- Those caught up in Trump's draconian immigration system: The RNC made no mention of the migrants who have been banned, caged, or refused entry into the U.S. by Trump's white nationalist immigration policies, nor of the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients and millions of other undocumented immigrants who have had to live in fear of his administration's deportation forces.
And there are so many other issues impacting everyday people that weren't discussed at the RNC, and so many voices that weren't part of the conversation. If you're wondering why, the answer is simple: Trump and the GOP just don't have the interests of working people in mind. Instead, they are focused on building and maintaining their own power—and making sure that the wealthy and powerful interests get even richer and more powerful.
In order to make sure that the issues that matter to us are dealt with and that all of our voices are heard, it's up to us to organize, motivate, and mobilize ourselves and people we know to get out this November and vote Trump out of office.
Thanks for all you do.
–Mohammad, Emily, Lisa, Allison, and the rest of the team
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