Lucas, Donald Trump has announced that white supremacist and anti-Semite
Stephen Bannon will be a senior adviser in the White House.
The KKK and the American Nazi Party are
celebrating. They believe that Bannon will hold Trump to his racist, fascist campaign promises.
Sign the petition to denounce Trump's appointment of white supremacist
Stephen Bannon.
As a white Jew, I haven't felt personally endangered nearly as much
as people of color. But I am worried. I went to Reno, Nevada to canvass
for Clinton with Bend the Arc, a Jewish organization that began a campaign
called "We've Seen This Before" early on in Trump's
candidacy, making comparisons to Hitler's rise to power.
Many organizations, as well as prominent Democrats like
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, have come out forcefully against Bannon. But Republicans
must take a stand.
They should call out Trump for appointing Bannon and show that they won't
stand for white supremacists in the White House. Many Republicans didn't
denounce Trump's bigotry when he ran against Clinton, because they
didn't want Clinton to win. Now that he's the President-elect,
they have no excuse.
We can't normalize this. We can hope for the best, but we must prepare
for the worst. Trump is showing the world that he plans to follow through
on our worst fears. Let's fight him every step of the way.
Sign the petition to Congressional Republicans: Speak up and denounce Stephen
Bannon. Call out Trump for appointing a white supremacist in the White House.
Keep fighting,
Mara Schechter, Daily Kos