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Who knows how this roller-coaster ride will go, but Donald Trump has started his term in office in a weaker position than any president in the last 100 years. His own party does not like him, his poll ratings are low and falling, he has not suddenly become coherent after babbling incoherently through his election campaign, and his inauguration has been met with the largest wave of protests in the USA since the Viet Nam War. Martin Luther King day this year had already turned into a national protest against Trump, but the women's marches turned the anti-Trump anger out on a scale far, far bigger than anyone, especially the protest's organizers, had expected. It was not just the 500,000 plus people in Washington DC, the 750,000 plus people in LA, the 400,000 in New York, and the hundred thousand plus crowds in cities from Boston to San Francisco, it was the crowds of 20,000 in Houston, 15,000 in Nashville and several to tens of thousands in dozens of other cities around the USA. To start with, this movement is led by Democratic Party politicians with a Democratic party agenda of saving what's left of the New Deal and Great Society reforms, and saving Obama Care. For the Democratic Party, the true aim of the agenda is to reverse their losses in the House of Representatives and Senate (a product of their own electoral strategy). Judging by the homemade signs in the marches, the agenda of the people in the streets already goes further to include raising the minimum wage, defending black lives, advancing immigrant rights, defending and advancing LGBT rights, defending the environment... Mobilizing people in the streets is exactly what the Democratic Party has tried to steer clear of for years. And when people have taken to the streets, all effort has been exerted to tamp the genie back down into the bottle. Now, it seems that the genie is out and will be very hard to put back. Anthony _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
