Progressive 'Justice League' to Serve as Alt-Cabinet for Fact-Challenged Trump

The Justice League: A band of fictional superheroes. The Shadow Cabinet: A team of very real progressives. (Image: Warner Bros.)

Progressive 'Justice League' to Serve as Alt-Cabinet for Fact-Challenged Trump

"Please follow us," the group wrote, "unless you think our democracy is working just fine."

Dubbing itself an "online Justice League" of sorts, a progressive "Shadow Cabinet" launched Monday, filled with "citizen secretaries" tasked with debunking President Donald Trump's lies and putting forth substantive, democratic, and justice-based alternatives to his administration's right-wing agenda.

"Of course President Trump has legal legitimacy due to the Electoral College," the group wrote in a statement posted Monday morning on Twitter. "But he lacks moral legitimacy when he incessantly distorts, denounces, misdirects, cherry picks, and self-enriches in an almost Orwellian long con. Those engaging in daily disinformation deserve daily responses."

"Starting today," the statement continues, "we'll be a comprehensive, one-portal stop of 'citizen secretaries'--officials and scholars who will comment agency-by-agency not just on small 'lies' but especially on false narratives in the service of political ends."

A press statement identified the following "secretaries":

The group lists former New York City public advocate Mark Green as its "chief of staff," and Axiosreports that it was Green who assembled the cabinet "in six weeks of frantic phoning, emailing, and fundraising."

Several of the secretaries tweeted about the effort upon its launch:

And the group itself is tweeting as @ShadowingTrump. "Please follow us," the group wrote, "unless you think our democracy is working just fine."

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