Your post reads like someone who is interested in politics on the side, and has done a lot of reading on US issues, but hasn't really worked in the field. Is that accurate?

I worked for a major K Street NGO. I was removed for refusing to weaken web standards.

I took a pause from all assistance to civil society during Trump, to make folks think and reflect about the consequences of their decisions.

(As I like to joke at open mic: your post Columbine models are broken, I don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the Solar Winds blow, and it is my inaction that will be the death of you.)