I think I've said - often - lately, that this is something we're in for the long haul. That's putting it mildly.

I've seen and heard others say that we just have to make it to the midterms.

I wish that were true. The midterms, at best, would be the first point at which we might stop drowning. The midterms aren't anywhere close to a recovery point.

The dark forces that brought us to this point will merely take it as a setback and justification for further depravity.

I've been struggling with how to say this because it's a very troubling statement. I take no glee in saying it. It deeply, deeply troubles me and shakes me to my core.

IF we can recover from this administration, it will take a very long time. Decades. Every single precedent in history tells us this. I know this.

There is no escape hatch. There is no magical moment of salvation.

We are at the start of a slide into a deep, dark hole.

For ourselves and succeeding generations, we should fight as hard and long and smart as we can. That will be our legacy and our gift.

For the sake of the future, we're going to have to force them to drag us into their abyss.

Let us not go quietly into that dark night.

No society has ever peacefully reformed itself back from this abyss.

The quickest and most tangible reference is the history of Europe and its flashes of totalitarianism.

I would love for something miraculous to occur, but there's no precedent for coming back from where we're headed without horrific indiscriminate pain and suffering.

Idiots, fools, and liars will pretend this is a threat. Utter bullshit.

This is what troubles and angers me so much, and what makes me so absolutely resolute to oppose.

In a way, it's all I've spent my life preparing for.

I stand with you. I'm functionally incapable of doing otherwise.