FOCUS: The Return of Civil Disobedience
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Cobb writes: "With a Republican majority that has mostly shown compliance with Trump, despite his contempt for the norms of democracy, the fear is that he will achieve much of what he wants. Even if he accomplishes only half, the landscape of American politics and policy will be radically altered. This prospect has recalled another phenomenon of the nineteen-sixties: the conviction that 'democracy is in the streets.'"
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Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Cobb writes: "With a Republican majority that has mostly shown compliance with Trump, despite his contempt for the norms of democracy, the fear is that he will achieve much of what he wants. Even if he accomplishes only half, the landscape of American politics and policy will be radically altered. This prospect has recalled another phenomenon of the nineteen-sixties: the conviction that 'democracy is in the streets.'"
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