Illinois Governor J B Pritzker spoke Sunday, April 27, to a gathering of Democratic activists in New Hampshire. He lambasted both the Trump administration and the moderate Democrats. Here are some excerpts:
“It’s time to fight everywhere and
all at once. Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for
mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know
a moment of peace. They must understand that we will fight their cruelty with
every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soap
box … and then punish them at the ballot box.
“Remember, Trump, just last
week, arrested and deported three children under eight years old. U.S.
citizens, all of them. Preserving habeas corpus is not some fever dream of the
left wing echo chamber. It’s a fundamental concept of justice that people have
fought and died for dating back to the Middle Ages.”
“Standing for the idea that
the government doesn’t have the right to kidnap you without due process is
arguably the MOST EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN IN HISTORY.
Today, it’s an immigrant with a tattoo. Tomorrow, it’s a citizen with a
Facebook post that annoys Trump.
“[It's] time to stop wondering if you can trust the
nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time
to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the
defunding of children’s cancer research. And time to stop thinking we can reason or
negotiate with a madman.
“Time
to stop apologizing when we were not wrong. Time to stop surrendering, when we
need to fight.”
"They [Republicans enabling Trump] must feel
in their bones that when we survive this shameful episode of American history ... that we will relegate their portraits to the
museum halls reserved for tyrants and traitors”.
Sources
https://tcinla757.substack.com/p/poking-around-on-day-100
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/politics/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-democrats/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/jb-pritzker-speech
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