Protest against what Donald Trump represents, not who he is

[Soph0571]

The mass protests must be as much about Trumpism as against the US president himself as he lands in Britain today. One of the dangers since Donald Trump became president is that it becomes all about him – his attention-seeking theatrics, his latest social media grenades thrown into cyberspace. Some of the establishment opposition has focused on Trump’s vulgarity, his manners, that he is somehow unpresidential, rather than his political substance and what he represents. As Naomi Klein explained in her book No Is Not Enough, the Trump performance becomes a distraction from scrutinising the dangerous political forces and economic interests he represents.
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Trumpism is on the march everywhere: Donald Trump himself is simply its most striking manifestation. There is every chance it will further radicalise and shift to extremes, particularly if there is another economic downturn, for which we are overdue. History tells us that when the racist right is on the rise, we don’t sit back and hope for the best: we mobilise and fight back. And that’s why the mass protests against his visit will be a launchpad for a decisive pushback against increasingly triumphalist right and far-right movements.
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Yes, Trump is a contemptible misogynist, an anti-Muslim bigot, a scapegoater of migrants, a man whose administration separates screaming children from their parents and locks them in cages. Yet the protests against him must not see him simply as a pantomime villain, but as the chief representative of an extremely dangerous global movement.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/12/protest-donald-trump-protest-hatred|

Owen Jones is right, baby blimp aside.....as we protest tomorrow we need to be calling out the policies because all of our safeties are at risk....

[kentuck]

1. That may be a smarter way to go?

[Thomas Hurt]

2. he represents modern day fascism, he is a wannabe fascist strongman because of who he is...

a conservative, entitled, racist, malignant narcissist.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

4. The US protests have been very specific

about certain GOP and/or tRump policies.....anti-gun support, DACA, the ACA, tax scam, kidnapped immigrant children, the climate, the Russia investigation, Women's rights, etc. Perhaps the article is regarding the outside of the US protests, but those "foreign" protests do not occur as frequently as the US domestic ones do. Because there are so many domestic issues as well as international ones, the international protests can and should focus on the issues that apply to them such as NATO, Climate Change, global economy, etc. Of course they hate the moron as much as we do and I am grateful for any and all support from them and their govt to help us in this fight. The foreign protests are against the man/baby and he IS his policies...that is all that needs to be seen as far as I am concerned. RESIST! RESIST IN THE US AND ABROAD!