The decision of the Robert’s Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana that allowed Black people a smidgen of political representation in Congress — similar challenges will likely be seen in other Southern States — should be an obvious and instructive example of how the struggle for Black equality, political and otherwise, is a political imperative of the larger working class and democratic movement if those movements hope to restrain and ultimately decisively defeat Trump and the entire MAGA movement.

And yet it isn’t always the case. For too many on the left it is considered enough to invoke the language of class, working class, class struggle, and socialism in their commentary outlining what is to be done to move beyond the present conjuncture. The special role of Black workers, Black people, and the struggle for Black equality in the present moment, not to mention at every stage of class and democratic struggle up to and including the struggle for socialism, too often goes unmentioned.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, indirectly suggested that Democrats and other opponents of the president because of their rhetoric share in the blame for the shooting at the annual gathering of the Washington press corps on Saturday night. In contrast, she uttered not even a word of mild concern when her boss a week or so ago threatened to “wipe out an entire civilzation.” Probity and consistency are not words that I would use to describe Leavitt.

A mature movement of the left not only gives people space to change their political positions that life has proved mistaken, but welcomes such changes by them. Assembling a movement of the majority in the interests of the immense majority becomes a sisyphean task without such an attitude.

Know your adversary is an ABC of politics and political struggle. In picking a fight with Pope Leo, Trump obviously forget, if he ever learned, this rule. The support for the Pope and his message of peace has been overwhelming and from nearly every quarter, save the Republican Party and Fox News.

With each passing day, the fall elections gain in political importance — and not only to the people of our country. It’s not wishful thinking to say that Democrats could end up controlling the House and the Senate in November. Such an outcome would strategically strengthen the hand of the larger anti-Trump, anti-Maga, anti-billionaire coalition going forward. Not everyone will see it that way. But what else is new?

The rest of us on the democratic, liberal, progressive, and left end of the political spectrum, it seems to me, should embrace the challenge of turning Election Day into a day of popular mass mobilization to the voting booth, with every bit of the political heft as the days of mass actions that preceded it.