In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’

In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’

The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.

Earlier this week the US president called for Republicans to “take over” and “nationalise” voting in at least 15 unspecified locations, repeating his false claims that elections are plagued by widespread fraud.

On Thursday Gallego, a senator for Arizona and an Iraq war veteran, warned that Trump could seek to interfere with the November midterms that will determine control of Congress – and urged citizens to fight fire with fire.

  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
    82·
    12 hours ago

    Fuck I’ve been saying this since last January.

    Just imagine if every GOOD citizen out there spent the last 13 months building their social circles, learning to grow and preserve food, rejecting super-consunerism and using the money they save to build a reserve fund.

    I think a few more people would be totally prepared for a general strike.

    But no, everyone is still in “head down, go to work, stick to the routine” mode, and I see no reason to expect anything different no matter how bad things get.