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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe resistance to Trump is big, diverse and ferocious
Just one full week into Donald Trumps presidency, the dizzying pace of news has left many of us feeling a sense of political vertigo and dread.
The new administration began with a poorly attended inauguration that led a wounded Trump to lash out at the media in a bizarre speech at the CIAs headquarters. As millions of women and men marched in Washington and cities around the world, press secretary Sean Spicer summoned reporters to the White House briefing room and, defying clear evidence to the contrary, brazenly and falsely claimed that Trump drew the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration period. A day later, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway went on national television and rebranded Spicers bald-faced lies as alternative facts. Later in the week, White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon launched a calculated strategy of open war on the press, saying the elite media should keep its mouth shut.
All of this established the tone for Trumps full-blown, Orwellian assault on reality. After scrubbing mentions of global warming from the White House website, Trump imposed gag orders on the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies. Attempting to rewrite the history of his election, Trump doubled down on his widely debunked claim that he lost the popular vote only because of massive voter fraud and promised to launch a major investigation into the alleged crimes. In an interview with ABC News, Trump reiterated his belief, contradicted by intelligence experts, that torture absolutely works. The problem with these alternative facts is not just that Trump is either pathologically dishonest or completely divorced from reality; they could be laying the groundwork for pernicious policies such as a systemic attack on voting rights or the reinstatement of CIA black sites overseas.
Add to that a string of controversial Cabinet confirmations and an ever-growing list of executive actions on issues including the Affordable Care Act, the global gag rule on abortion, the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects, the Mexican border wall, and the grotesque Muslim ban and its hard not to be sickened by it all.
However, Trumps cascading attacks on the body politic, including instigating a potential constitutional crisis by firing the acting attorney general for ordering Justice Department lawyers not to defend his un-American travel ban, cannot erase the fundamental truth that he does not represent a majority of the American people. The incredible turnout for the Womens March, which turned out to be the largest single day of mass political action in U.S. history, made that much clear. The resistance to Trump is big, diverse and ferocious, and its not going away.
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C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)For all their noise, the hateful MAGreaters are just a bunch
of ignorant smack talkers who tenuously cling to power.
They may preach violence but one good punch back
in the face and they run home in tears.
Stand up. Fight back.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Bring it, Bannon!
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)Ferocious but toothless. The gop is in total control.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)It's one thing to have a signature that's irrational, but let's not fall into irrational thinking to go with it.
bora13
(860 posts)it's that serious folks...
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)and the topics of the Muslim residents of Dearborn, Michigan and the Trump voters. Too many immigrants vote Republican.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)So who's the author?