Reid J. Epstein, in the NYTimes:
In the first of what is likely to be several groups that sprout to resist the next Trump administration, two Democratic governors announced on Wednesday that they were forming a group to help protect state-level institutions of democracy.
The group, Governors Safeguarding Democracy, is meant to serve as a mechanism for Democratic states to coordinate efforts to oppose the right-wing policies of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Its leaders, Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Jared Polis of Colorado, are among a group of ambitious Democrats likely to try to fill a party-wide leadership void once President Biden leaves office.
“Donald Trump is going to bring people into his administration who are absolute loyalists to his cult of personality and not necessarily to the law,” Mr. Pritzker said. “Last time, he didn’t really know where the levers of government were. I think he probably does now. And so I think that the threat remains great.” ...
...the group’s top staff member, did not say how many governors had agreed to join the organization.
Hopefully Stein won't join them as it will only hold North Carolina back from what's coming out of the Trump Administration. As for Illionois and Colorado I hope they push this resistance thing to the max, because it will recruit more lefties to them and away from the red states who don't want or need them.
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