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The Shakers
Sally Yates and Sarah McBride show us what ‘shaking things up’ looks like.
Spoiler alert: public drunkenness and exhibitionism are not involved.
As it’s forty days before Inauguration Day, so it is the nation’s time to look under the hood and examine the best America has to offer at this stage in our country’s story.
Courage, sacrifice, eloquence.
I present Sally Yates and Sarah McBride for your consideration.
One, a bureaucrat and an accomplished lawyer, currently occupying a seat on FBI Director-in-waiting Kash Patel’s ‘enemies’ list ; the other a first term representative deprived of a bathroom.
They have ’em in the Capitol, last I looked. Problem is, ‘They’ McBride won’t have a key. McBride is a trans woman and some of ‘their’ new colleagues have a bathroom problem with that.
Mcbride and Yates’s stories reveal fault lines of public decency currently running down the sidewalks in front of the Capitol. They came to Washington to participate in governing the country. The story here is that they have expectations for the way things should go. They are not ‘bomb throwers’; they are not ‘testing the system’ — whatever that means.
They possess admirable patience and strength. They have expectations which are in short supply in these days of…
