I am joined by many from across a broad political landscape in saying that what we are witnessing in these early days of the new administration is without a comparable precedent. It was recently suggested that the proper response to this sentiment would be to leave the country. On the contrary, the persistence of Trump’s unprecedented executive overreach is precisely the reason that we must stay and resist the illegal seizure of the agencies and institutions of our government. Reducing waste in government as a bipartisan concern is one thing; radically imposing private ownership in it’s stead is quite another. Nobody voted for Elon Musk to become the CEO of the United States of America. Trump has always been nothing more than the frontman, a useful idiot if you will, for the corporate overlords to whom he is beholding and from whom he receives is orders. Responsible citizenship going forward will be characterized by organized, thoughtful, and peaceful resistance to the conscious effort currently afoot to replace a democratic model of governance with a privatized, corporate-led authoritarian vision of America’s future.
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