Exhibit A. “We are really in danger right now and we have to rally the grassroots to take back the destiny of America!”
What about Exhibit B? “It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once… For far too long we’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire, even as the flames are licking their faces.”
Good luck with that one, JB! We haven’t had enough billionaires running America lately.
The banners are homemade. For some, it’s “No More Tariffs”. For others, it’s “Real Americans Protect the Constitution”. Snatching people off the streets and locking them up in El Salvador has caused real anger. “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” is another rallying cry.
She dashed off before I had a chance to say, “For what?” Only later did I realise it was for an anti-Trump rally.
They are watching with alarm as left-wing congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 35, and radical senator Bernie Sanders, 83, attract vast crowds to their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. Twenty thousand people turned up to hear them in Utah, deep-red Mormon country.
But the galvanising energy of the 60s civil rights movement that re-emerged after George Floyd’s murder by a policeman in 2020 provoked an anti-woke backlash. Today Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House, the last remaining symbol of the rallies that swept America, has been painted over and erased.
There is no sign of Antifa, the movement that purportedly terrified the right during the first Trump presidency. Masked, black-clad anarchists became the go-to bogeyman for everything Maga disliked about the left.
“Historically, dictatorship and authoritarianism can push people into violent action,” Mark Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, told USA Today. “That has happened in the past, and we are potentially moving into uncharted waters.”
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In Donald Trump's republic of fear, no one is safe
Read MoreThe 60s are often viewed through a nostalgic filter. They were marred by the assassination of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, and ended in 1970 with the gunning down of anti-Vietnam protesters at Kent State university.
That’s now threatened by Trump, who is coming after the courts, universities, NGOs and federal employees. The White House is itching for the revival of Antifa, which would give him the excuse to invoke emergency powers and deploy the US military.
When Trump sought to stay in power after the 2020 election, former general Michael Flynn, a fervent supporter, took to the airwaves calling for martial law.
But nature abhors a vacuum. The question is, who is going to fill it?
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Centre for International Reporting
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