Democrats' secret weapon against Trump

[justaprogressive]

On election day 2020, I suggested on my radio program that if Joe Biden were to lose (something we did not expect, but after 2016 who knew what could happen) he, Harris, and Democrats in Congress should set up a “shadow government” to be a visible and ongoing opposition and alternative to a second Trump term.

Apparently, somebody on Team Trump was listening. Or they copped the idea from the same place I did: the UK, Canada and Australia, all countries where the party out of power assembles a “shadow government” with a “shadow cabinet” that regularly informs voters of how and why they’d run the government differently were they in power.

A mere six months later, in July of 2021, the last chief of staff of Donald Trump's first term, former Tea Party congressman Mark Meadows, appeared on a fringe rightwing TV internet show and repeatedly referred to Trump’s “Cabinet.”

“We met with several of our Cabinet members tonight,” Meadows said. “We actually had a follow-up ... meeting with some of our Cabinet members.”
Referring to Trump as “the president,” just as Trump did in daily fundraising emails, Meadows added in 2021 while Biden was president, Trump is “a president who is fully engaged, highly focused and remaining on task.”

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/the-time-for-hand-wringing-is-over/

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Two questions:

1) how is this “shadow government” considered a weapon? Exactly how does it effectively fight against Trump’s fascism?

2) How can it be considered secret, if it becomes a public entity used by Dems?

[unblock]

2. More to the second point,

"Secret" is guaranteed ti make it completely useless.

Only if it's loud and open and well-known and dominating discourse could it possibly effective.