Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?
The Moral Monday coalition may well provide a blueprint for moving beyond the Republican rout. It’s still young, without the organizational infrastructure that will eventually be needed to transform the political landscape in a purple state with rapidly shifting demographics. What it has done, brilliantly, is revive the politics of moral witness while reaching beyond its NAACP base and garnering support from labor, immigrant, environmental, LGBT, and women’s organizations, along with churches and fraternal groups like Masonic Lodges.
“What’s really exciting about the Moral Monday movement,” says political scientist Patrick Barrett, administrative director of the Havens Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is that it’s “creating a movement that gets people out of their silos, where they’re isolated and weak. People are beginning to understand [that] my liberation is tied up in your liberation; I can’t get anywhere unless you do. That’s an incredible glue.”
It’s a long read but well worth the time.