At best, the election results should function as a mandate for grassroots resistance to the Trump administration's policies, not as a pressure valve to diminish the urgency we feel.
We must build the grassroots capacity to defend and care for our communities.
If we succeed, Democratic politicians will probably try to co-opt whatever we have achieved by offering to do the same things for us through the state. But they will only offer us what we demonstrate the ability to accomplish ourselves, and it is better to develop the ability to address needs directly and consistently than for the well-being of our communities to depend on the outcome of elections.
