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Is the Anti-Trump Opposition Getting Its #Resistance Back?


For the rift lines column for this week, Jon Allsop is filled with Jay Caspian Kang.


Earlier this year, Gavin News, the California governor, launched a promise of direct conversations with people who disagree with them. In fact, it was distinguished by absorbing personalities from Maga The extended universe. in Debot episode, The guest was Charlie Kerk, a young right and suspended young activist; Newsom suggested that his thirteen -year -old son was so excited to meet Kirk to the point that he wanted to skip the school to attend the registration. (Kirk intercepted, “You did not allow him news.” Kirk and Bannon Karam Al -Diafa from the NEWSOM, respectively, described it as “the most uncomfortable person who met him” and compared him to John Calon. Takhk is inspired by. “HamiltonAnd “and Taylor Swift. With the enemies of such people, who needs friends?

Jay Caspian Kang indicated In this columnIn March, the NEWSOM podcasts seemed to be a failure – not to mention “embarrassing” – because his tawidi approach was out of the step with the poll who indicated that the liberals wanted to see the Democrats fighting the Republican party, and does not agree with it. in Different columnKang likened a problem with an intellectual school, which was more explicit by veteran strategic expert James Carville, considering that the Democrats should “must” roll and play dead “, allowing Trump to burn himself. Kang says, this strategy was never viable, and many recent developments indicate that dead play is the dead well. An example of that new fighting. For news A migrant is accompanied by the Immigration Court.

You can see all this as a sleeper resistance to Trump finally waking up. But this is not really true. like I wrote in the first days of the new administrationPerhaps Trump’s opponents have not organized anything like the enormous march of January 2017, but civil society groups began to organize their supporters, and many early moves of Trump were challenged in court. Since then, there Ownership There were many protests –More than that, through one census, more than the equivalent of Trump’s first termAlthough the media, as Kang, noted, it has not always covered it. Newsom may only find his voice, but other prominent Democrats – Illinois Governor, JB PritzkerFor example – they have never lost. Earlier this year, I felt that this type of activity would spread and intensify, as is the case now, if the Trump’s political project ultimately was ultimately. It requires Resistance – which generates conflict – for prosperity, will continue to pay until his opponents definitely provoke. Newsom is an example. It may be to have some benefit for the likes of Kirk and Bannon, but it is more useful like foil, the symbolic image of an unnecessary Alaite wake up. You may be a useful frustration for newsom as well. One ally told NBC that if it was news He was To be arrested because Trump’s immigration raids are obstructed, “Nelson Mandela’s moment” – a comparison that has not been done before, will be hidden, and we hope not to be again.

Unfortunately, we are at a stage of this column where I must benefit from the word “resistance”, and perhaps add a retail mark to good management. As previously maleWith this residence, the word comes to denote something more than just fighting, and it becomes a charging with the cultural evidence of the liberal opposition to separating the first Trump. . an act It appears to be dead. Now you publish the “Hamilton” memes, and Jimmy Kimmel has appeared in “No Kings” protest. I still think we are in a different moment. (The old Twitter has ended, for beginners.) But the basic moving spirit of #Destistance has clearly survived.

However, an open question remains how new resistance may seem, how it can be directed or directed. In February, Kang specifically asked this question in this column. He played with historical precedents – Republican Republicans, the Tea Party – but he found them inaccurate and largely unhelpful. He described the features of “non-resistance”-which he described as “angry, opposition, and ideological chaos”, and cut from different columns of the democratic institution-but it was not yet confirmed to where this energy could go.

About half a year later, we have some new data points. The Democratic Tea Party frame is still not useful – however Something It occurs at home (and now, outside) the National Democratic Committee, which was recently driven by the threats suffering from those who are satisfied with them (and now, the Democrats supporting going to war with Iran). These tensions have been overcome, most notably David Huj, the survivor of fire in Parkland, who turned into a short -service DNC vice president. (After other DNC leaders clashed with Hogg, his election was nullified on procedural foundations, and ultimately refused to run for the position.) And newsom, Padilla, and it appears that the “No Kings” protests have stabilized some loose energy recently.

But other efforts that have made efforts to confront Trump-money-reaching money in the hope of finding the “next Joe Rogan”, a project to study “building a sentence, language and content” that appeals to young people-determines the limits of attempts from top to bottom to develop political energy, as well as the continuous routine of the institutional democratic brand. At this stage, it seems to me that “young men” are never ignoring a vote bloc as the post -election experts imagine, they are more vulnerable to them. Maga Whoever is lured by Steve Boschimi’s political equivalent with a ski board asks them, “How do you vote, colleagues?” More important, the ideological features of the new resistance still feel upset. There is no relentless opposition to the most rude maneuvers Do It looks increasingly like a unified approach. However, even there, the consensus was not total yet. Some Democrats were concerned that the Trump Los Angeles campaign is a taste to distract them from kitchen table issues. Grechen Wikr-Michigan Ruler, like New Roosom, is the main candidate to be the next standard Democrats, a strategy to work with the administration. If the NewSom Podcasts presented the most insulting voice in the new Trump era, the most insulting picture was definitely A picture and dates He is physically hidden in the Oval Office, where Trump has signed orders to investigate a pair of officials in the first period who went to criticize him. This did not harm her standing – at least in Michigan – and managed to distribute some policy victories, most notably obtaining new combat aircraft for a local base.

As with newsom, I think that Trump will lead at some point and pass the point of collapse. (Indeed, he suggested that he may pardon men convicted of trying to kidnap her, in 2020; what happens if he tries to send Marines to Detroit?) MagaJust to face the measures he could not accept, may reduce political cunning. It is not difficult to imagine to start Newfast in the podcast-which, as Kang, indicated, immediately immediately with the democratic base-fully realizes that he will soon return to the resistance of resistance, but his vision, in the exciting period, as a useful way to the gradual totem that he realizes as toxic (for example, athletes wander around girls, or compete for that, or behave. “See. I really tried to think with these people! “

This is assumed that newsom is already He has It has been shot away from the Podcast-Tawfiq Strategy, which is not clear, even if it has definitely moved about Resistance leadership. Recently, on June 4, he published another conversation from people, this time with Dr. Phil, who described himself as “the least political person I know” before the family values ​​extended and heavily in the protests “pro -protecting” on the campus of universities; Two days later, La raids started. (Dr. Phil was at the scene, after he was given a special access, for some reason, to document the procedures for enforcement of immigration.) Last week, Newsom It was interviewed at “The Daily”, New York Times“The pioneering podcast, and without any claim he stressed that” he has no problem in meeting people and talking to people I do not agree with, “as some viewers and listeners know.” When asked about podcasts, he indicated that he still believes that he is “incredibly important” to show “little humility” towards his opponents, and listen.

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