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"I am angry about plenty that the president is doing and what he said the other night, but the punch, counterpunch is not working."

Like his father, 15-year-old Carlos Jr. can dodge punches and counterpunch.

“Our counterpunch must be dollar-for-dollar — and it must be precisely and painfully targeted: Florida orange growers, Wisconsin dairy farmers, Michigan dishwasher manufacturers, and much more.”

For years — since Joe McCarthy in the 1950s — the Democrats have been generally cautious when criticizing Republicans, preferring to counterpunch when they punch at all.

The initiative is a West Coast counterpunch to the well-organized and rapidly growing effort by anti-LGBTQ+ activists and lawmakers in more conservative parts of the country to ban queer-friendly books from public schools and libraries.