William Rivers Pitt: Coward-in-Chief: Trump Wilts in the Face of Fascist Terrorism

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126. All of that was built on his posts at DU

On a smaller scale, DUers honed their political voices by engaging each other here. Pitt, Skinner, Andy, all the others long gone cried, fought, supported each other as citizens became activists. Some got published locally. Pitt got national attention. I remember when he and one other long gone DUer leafleted Harvard Square, one of the first instances of activism on DU after Skinner's act of creating the site as a lifeboat for shellshocked Democrats and progressives. We spoke with a singular angry voice back then. We were the 2% of Americans who did not accept Bush after 9/11 or believe the lies that led to the Iraq war. We were naysayers shouting into a maelstrom of rightwing blather. And in many ways, that has not changed.

BTW, What Pitt says about himself in his byline is how it happened. He has been under fire on DU ever since. Even before the current and ongoing minute of hate organized against him.