By Joe Sims\People’s World
Photos: People’s World
The first few months of the Trump administration have been a disaster for democracy. In many respects, it’s far worse than we could have ever imagined. Expected were the attacks on migrant labor and federal workers. So too with the attempts to dismantle the Department of Education, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—after all, Trump campaigned on these issues.
But the initial signs of shock that rippled through the body politic after the election and the virtual absence of public protest were a surprise: The labor and broad democratic movement seemed almost completely immobilized.
Startling too—though perhaps not as surprising—has been the capitulation of corporate law firms, universities, the bourgeois mass media, and big business, some because of DEI, others because they’re attempting to get off of Trump’s enemies list, and still others out of cowardly attempts to maintain the corporate bottom line.
Thus emboldened, the Trump administration, intent on enforcing its Project 2025 agenda, began to test the limits of the law by means of a studied ignoring of judicial orders. As they’ve dispensed with such limitations on their presumed executive authority, the administration has become increasingly lawless.
It was more than a little heartening, therefore, when Women’s March organizers called for anti-MAGA protests on January 17. It was a brave thing to do, when most had fallen silent. Heeding the call was… READ MORE…
