Wtf has happened to us?

You can argue as an intellectual exercise about whether this would be the right course of action for some hypothetical competent administration with a coherent strategy. But if you're trying to answer a practical question about what should happen in our actual universe, that's not really relevant.

The current scene outside 26 Federal Plaza where Democratic mayoral candidate and City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by ICE agents earlier for asking to see a judicial warrant.

The crowd supporting Lander is growing - and includes other elected officials.

(🎥 Annie McDonough)

But how else am I, someone who does nothing but snark online, supposed to feel intellectually and morally superior to the people who are actually out there doing the work?

If this person were to google "democrats policy priorities" they'd immediately be handed up the party's platform. But yeah, if you passively follow political media and wait for journalists to tell you what Dems want, it won't happen. The media's just too fundamentally broken for that.