'We should be grateful for #MelissaHortman 's work, and for her persistent refusal to give into the destructive right-wing games #Democrats fall for time and again. She was not going to let #Republicans' unreality affect her decision making. Hortman's willingness to stand strong for unpopular, forgotten groups of people who are so easily sacrificed at the altar of political expediency should be an example for every elected #Democrat even remotely interested in beating back our creeping #authoritarianism.
America's two major parties can appear so depressingly similar sometimes. #Hortman was a reminder that they are not at all similar if they don't want to be. She was a champion for the hope that still flickers within us, even in all this goddamn awful darkness.'
https://badfaithtimes.com/melissa-hortman-didnt-play-republican-games/