QOTD: "Mass Non-Cooperation" Against Trump

 

Mark Engler and Paul Engler write in The Guardian, about the urgency of communities across America to discover the power of non-cooperation with the Trump immigration crackdown and more:

"In the wake of two horrifying killings of legal observers in Minnesota, on top of the abduction of countless immigrant community members, the country has reached a turning point. Backlash against ICE’s lawlessness and aggression has reverberated so loudly that even Trump has heard it. But the effects on ordinary Americans contemplating what they would do if they lived in Minneapolis or St Paul is perhaps even more profound.

The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism. And it has created an awareness of why such action is clearly needed. [snip]

Under a regime like Trump’s – particularly now, in his second term – the need for organized popular defiance is even more profound. Today, it appears as if the very foundations of American democracy are fracturing. Trump has launched a startling attack on public services, on the very concept of the social safety net, on free speech and the rule of law, on workers’ rights, on immigrants and on other vulnerable communities. If this is to be stopped – and if the wider system of oligarchic rule that is destroying our planet is to be replaced with true democracy – people must rediscover their own power." (our emphasis)

The Malignant Fascist and his ICE / Border Patrol thug army were driven back and exposed by citizens who have had enough of the terror and fascist behavior against not only immigrants, but themselves. They, and other brave people like them in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, and elsewhere stood up and resisted, and showed the rot at the heart of the MF's regime.

(photo: Demonstrators in Minneapolis on January 7. Christopher Katsarov / The Canadian Press via AP)