The Democratic response so far should terrify Trump and GOP Senate candidates up for election this year. Democrats have already begun channeling their pain at losing RBG into action, pouring a record-breaking number of donations to Democratic candidates and causes via the online fundraising platform ActBlue. The New York Times reported that from about 9 p.m. ET Friday -- about 90 minutes after RBG's death was announced -- ActBlue reported receiving $6.2 million in donations, the most ever in just one hour in the platform's 16-year history. That record was broken the following hour when $6.3 million was donated, more than $100,000 per minute.
Given the average American's attention space is 32 seconds and his political memory is even shorter, this bump in support should dissipate shortly after Yom Kippur. I'm giving it that long because pretty much every Reformative "rabbi" in the US will dedicate his/her Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur sermons not to teshuvah but rather to "Vote Biden and donate to honour RBG!"
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