It’s ok to be excited

This is no honeymoon

Don’t be surprised that an out-of-touch press corps doesn’t understand what’s going on. They are usually the last to know.

But anyone who has paid even a little bit of attention to the presidential race in recent days can tell that something BIG is happening.

There are already signs that the press wants to write off record fundraising, lightning fast party consolidation, massive endorsements, giant crowds and polling surges as some kind of temporary honeymoon. They’re going to be shocked when this honeymoon keeps going through Vice President Harris’s inauguration in January. 

Because what we are learning every day that Harris is in this race as our nominee is that this is not a moment. This is a movement. 

For the last eight years, we have lived in a state of anxiety, battling back the forces of fascism in a political environment where the stakes became unimaginably high seemingly overnight. We have certainly enjoyed our share of victories, but the size of the losses like the 2016 electio…