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Making Trump's America Ungovernable
Miah, Malik
http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4933Date Written: 2017-03-01 Publisher: Against the Current Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21535 The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible. Abstract: - Excerpt: The mass protests show that African Americans, women and others know that the electoral system is not the solution to real life institutional discrimination. Although Trump and his white nationalist advisers and counselors seek to use executive orders, the Congress and Supreme Court to impose a new presidential dictatorship, the public is not ready to give in. But while a majority are opposed to racist and anti-immigrant policies, sentiments alone aren't enough to stop the right. The ruling class knows that its control of the state depends on public acceptance of the system as it is. Immoral and unjust laws and orders by Trump and his backers must be met by civil disobedience - the active, public, conspicuous breech of the law to bring about a change in law or public policy. The Civil Rights movement broke segregation laws by design, to force Federal action and fundamental change. |