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Donald Trump’s presidency won’t begin for two weeks, but activism against his presidency is well underway. On Tuesday, House Republicans dropped their plan to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics after constituents inundated lawmakers with phone calls in opposition. The NAACP’s national president and others were arrested after a sit-in at Senator Jeff Session’s Mobile, Alabama office to protest his nomination for attorney general. And some 200,000 demonstrators are readying for the Women’s March... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump has long resorted to Twitter as a forum for childish feuds. It was on Twitter that he famously taunted comedian Jon Stewart for having a stage name (which led Stewart to respond with a meme that Trump’s original name was Fuckface Von Clownstick, which set off even more angry Trump tweets). Despite now being president-elect, Trump has continued to use social media to attack his foes, which include not just foreign countries (as when he berated China for “one-sided trade” and not helping... Читать дальше...

Last February, just as President Barack Obama was about to host his Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, Graeme Wood of The Atlantic published an essay that blew the lid off the ISIS debate. The piece, “What ISIS Really Wants,” appeared after a spate of terrorist attacks in Ottawa, Paris, Copenhagen, and Sydney. A frightened public was also rattled by the Islamic State’s dystopian imagery, and the videos of black-clad murderers in the desert holding knives to the throats of helpless Americans. Читать дальше...

It is unclear whether Trump and his team of misfits are competent enough to govern with the authoritarian zeal he demonstrated on the campaign trail. But nothing since the end of the election has suggested they won’t try.