"We're not going to keep going to work and boosting the world's greatest economy in exchange for us to give up on democracy. If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility. There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away"
"We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that which, I believe, has to be a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work. If you're a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you're a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt."
Ruben Gallego proposed a national general strike to halt the country if attempts are made to sabotage the November midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. The US president called for Republicans to nationalise voting in at least 15 unspecified locations while repeating false claims of widespread election fraud. Gallego outlined potential interference tactics including capturing ballot boxes during counting, stopping counts, and surrounding polling places. Gallego urged democracy allies to withhold labor—pilots, train operators, teachers and others—to grind the country to a halt. He framed economic stability as dependent on democratic stability and called major disruption a real possibility.
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