By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-10 15:17:35 | Updated at 2025-01-10 18:42:38
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Inside Trump's all-out assault on the 4 pillars of democracy | Opinion (Barf)
Alternet ^ | Robert Reich
Posted on 01/10/2025 7:13:01 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Trump and his MAGA allies are already targeting the four major pillars of resistance to Trump during his first term.
As we prepare for Trump’s second regime — which promises to be far worse than the first — it’s important to do what we can to protect and fortify these four centers of opposition.
1. Universities
University faculties are dedicated to finding and exposing the truth — which has often meant calling out Trump’s lies. But Trump has warned that he’ll change the criteria for university accrediting in order to force university faculties into line......
2. Nonprofits
America’s nonprofits have been at the forefront of efforts to protect the environment, voting rights, and immigrants’ rights. Trump and his allies are seeking to stop nonprofit activism.......
3. The media
I’ve been a critic of the mainstream media’s tendency to give “both sides” credence even when one side is clearly in the wrong and to “sanewash” some of Trump’s and his enablers’ rants.
But journalists are an important bulwark against tyranny — which is why Trump and his allies are seeking to intimidate news outlets that have criticized or questioned Trump.........
4. Organized labor
In the 1950s and 1960s, labor unions were viewed as a source of countervailing power because of their activism on behalf of the working class and their significant political clout.
In those days, a third of workers in the private sector were union members. But today, only 6 percent of private-sector workers are union members, and it’s far from clear that organized labor will be an active source of resistance to Trump. (If government workers are included, the percentage of American workers who are members of unions is around 10 percent.)
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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University faculties are dedicated to finding and exposing the truth
Wow, what a lead in. Universities are so dedicated to the truth that they consistently try to stop conservative speakers.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Trump and his MAGA allies are already targeting the four major pillars of resistance to Trump during his first term.
The Left always expresses outrage when Trump has the temerity to defend himself from their attacks.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
What kind of ideologically twisted and fundamentally un-American mentality would think that any of these are a “pillar of democracy”?
1. Universities
2. Nonprofits
3. The media
4. Organized labor
3 posted on 01/10/2025 7:16:30 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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