THE NATION
Oh, Democrats, You Have Failed These Poor People
AOC and Cori Bush are fighting for us to be a moral country
It is really hard to hold the moral high ground when you refuse to even stand on it. All weekend, Representative Cori Bush from Missouri has been leading a protest on the Capitol steps to get the attention of her colleagues and that of the nation. Her goal: to get Congress to reconvene to extend the national eviction moratorium. As it expired on August 1, more than seven million people are now at risk of losing their homes, according to a video Bush and AOC posted this weekend on Instagram. It seems delays at the state-level mean monies meant to help renters stay in their homes (and to help landlords collect rent) have not been disbursed in time. In America? Shocking. At the household level, that means disaster as renters are now out on their asses should landlords evict. And Bush’s colleagues — the Democratic Congress we all elected — have done nothing.
Instead, our leaders are now off on a 6-week vacation. It’s called “August.” August includes beach reading. August includes gin-and-tonics at their summer house. August includes travel to the toniest of hamlets across the country, where our leaders can spend the rest of the season hosting poolside dinner parties and “working” to court the…
