Yesterday
By Lawrence Lessig
Yesterday, I awoke to the extraordinary news in Georgia — that Mitch McConnell would no longer be Senate Majority Leader. I crafted an email to celebrate, which we were holding for official confirmation of Jon Ossoff’s victory.
Then the darkest images from America’s democracy began spreading across the net.
I join with many in believing that either Congress or the Vice President needs to act now to remove this most dangerous President from a position in which he can do more harm.
But this post is not about that. This post means to pick up where we were yesterday.
The win in Georgia changes everything about the next two years. There is now real hope that we can accomplish meaningful and real democracy reform. It won’t be perfect. But it will be so much more than it was going to be.
We took a gamble stepping into the Georgia race. We joined with many many others to raise money to help get out the vote, and to help friends recruit friends to turn out to vote. I am grateful that we were able to help. I am so incredibly happy that we have at least that to celebrate.
Yesterday was the darkest. But yesterday was also the flicker of first light. Let us build on that hope — because there is so much to do.
Thank you again.
