Anyone who thinks that the struggle for center-progressive-left-democratic unity can be dispensed with should think again in light of yesterday’s unprecedented events in Washington. Trump and his movement will come out of their seditious and treasonous action likely weaker, but still a formidable political bloc that can’t be discounted by the Biden administration or the expansive democratic coalition that supported him during the election. The terrain of struggle shifted on election day, once more on January 5 when an African American and Jewish American were elected to Congress from the state of Georgia, and then the day after, but not so much that the broad democratic front can afford to lose sight of the ongoing Trumpist danger and what inexorably follows — the imperative for broad unity.

Maybe MLK was atop Stone Mountain in Georgia, watching the dramatic events unfold yesterday as millions of Georgia voters exercised their right to vote and elected a pastor from his church in Atlanta to the U.S. Senate, the first African American since Reconstruction. Likely elected as well was a Jewish American who will be the youngest member of the Senate. No doubt a memorable day that changes the trajectory of politics, enlarging the doable and possible in the year/years to come. Once again the African America people were at the forefront of an expansive and united democratic minded coalition that made the future more promising.

Impeach for sure, invoke the 25th amendment ok, but to pursue criminal action against Trump, Giuliani, Don Jr. and the insurrectionists who stormed the capital as well. And pursue it to the fullest extent of the law.