"... It is in the past two months that we have finally begun to see resistance. Ordinary people began boycotts and took to the streets in large protests. Lawyers challenged the administration on virtually every one of the president’s illegal and unconstitutional executive orders. And Democrats began to tap into and amplify grass-roots anti-Trump energy, from the anti-oligarchy rallies of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Booker’s record-breaking speech on the Senate floor. The courts have clearly taken note of the shift in public sentiment, delivering major defeats and decrying the president’s attacks on cherished American liberties. [snip]
"Trump wants us to be demoralized. He wants his despotic plans to be a fait accompli. They will be if no one stands in the way. But every time we — and especially those with power and authority — make ourselves into obstacles, we also make it a little less likely that the administration’s authoritarian fantasy becomes our reality." -- Jamelle Bouie, in the New York Times, on "One Way to Keep Trump's Authoritarian Fantasy from Becoming Reality." Trump, as much as he wants us to believe, is not an unstoppable force. Obeying in advance, going along to get along, outright capitulation, passivity, giving in to hopelessness -- that is how he succeeds, and we fail. Resistance, standing up and speaking out, creating "obstacles," believing in our ultimate victory over evil -- that is how he fails, and we succeed.
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