IN HIS cool-your-jets remarks the day after the presidential election, Barack Obama noted that “a lot of our fellow Americans are exalted today” and “a lot of Americans are less so”. Whatever Americans’ feelings about the results, he said, “we are actually on one team” and the election was just an “intramural scrimmage”. The 43rd president is known for his preternatural calm and the perhaps excessive charity he shows to political opponents. But Mr Obama’s cool assessment of the mood of the nation is hard to reconcile with the unprecedented ferocity and range of protests breaking out against the president-elect in cities across America.
In Boston, Chicago and Washington, DC; in Portland, Oregon, and Austin, Texas; and in Mr Trump’s home, New York City, large numbers of protestors are taking to the streets to condemn Donald Trump as president. The Republican victor is “not our president”, according to the chanting among many of the 20,000 or so demonstrators who gathered outside his eponymous tower in New York City on November 9th, where more protests are scheduled for November 10th and the weekend. Many were simply shocked and appalled by the...Continue reading
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