Hannah’s Reviews > The Anti-Inauguration: Building Resistance in the Trump Era > Status Update

You cannot have untold, obscene wealth unless you have untold, obscene poverty. That is the law of the free market.

Obama raised everyone’s hopes, but could not deliver —not just because of the Republicans, but also because of this constrained political agenda of the Democratic Party.

So let us be absolutely clear: there is no path to power, none, that involves throwing under the bus women, people of color, immigrants, or LGBTQ people.

Some people find some hope in Trump’s isolationism. They say, “Oh, well he’s less hawkish than Hillary Clinton would have been.” To be clear: Clinton was an empire politician, a corporate Democrat. But I don’t care if a fascist once in a while says something I agree with: no alliance with fascists.

He went to the CIA on Monday. This business of there being a rift between Trump and the CIA, even though Trump compared the CIA to Nazis —there isn’t going to be a rift. There is going to be the same violence in the Trump administration as we saw in the Obama administration, and the Bush administration before it —but with added, very terrifying dimensions.

Because resistance isn’t a moment, resistance isn’t a state of mind, resistance is a tapestry, which is collective and enduring. It’s so enduring that the status quo cannot sleep at night.

What does resistance look like? Part of it is something we have to actually discover. There’s new strategies that we have to figure out. But we should also not forget the lessons of people who have resisted before us, who have resisted successfully before us.

Donald Trump’s policy is America first, but his America is an America of CEOs. I suspect that we’re going to see foreign entanglements, foreign interventions, the drone war —everything that we’ve been used to.

White supremacy and misogyny are and always have been our elite’s most potent defenses against a genuine Left populist agenda and meaningful democracy. That’s how they get the job done.

He won within a very rigged system, and even within that rigged system, he didn’t actually win it, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party establishment lost it.