You know things are bad when the fucking Cheesecake Factory is leading #TheResistance.
In March, as the coronavirus crisis took hold in the U.S., the restaurant chain told its landlords that it would not be able to pay its rent in April due to the economic shutdown caused by the response to the pandemic.
"We've reached a breaking point and it's touching people and organizations and businesses that normally have no bearing at all in our political discourse," says Solomon Rajput, a self-described democratic socialist who's running for Congress in Michigan's 12th district, which includes Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dearborn, and Downriver.
Rajput is a member of the democratic socialist Rose Caucus. As the pandemic unfolded, the caucus put out a petition calling for an end to all rent, mortgage, and utility payments in every state for the duration of the crisis.…