By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026Liberals are often contemptuous of grassroots movements (cf "basket of deplorables," "Green Lantern" scolding), but the right is *terrified* of them. 16411
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026The right's political leadership is terrified of its own grassroots, and rightly so, because those people are *maniacs*, and they're the reason the GOP has been pushed into its most extreme positions. The right's grassroots, meanwhile, are afraid of *the left's grassroots*. T 17013
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026he last thing they want is a militant, organized, mobilized base pushing Dem politicians to take the stands that are wildly and widely popular in America, from Medicare for All to an end to ICE - the Mamdani agenda, in other words. 18812
