GROUP HELPS OTHERS TO STOP TRUMP
GROUP HELPS OTHERS TO STOP TRUMP
By Monique Smith
The 2016 election has more than 65 million Americans scratching their heads and many are left with feelings of fear, anxiety and anger.
Hate crimes against Muslim Americans and African Americans are on the rise. The swearing in of the 45th President of the United
States has taken place and yet half of the country has not been able to accept the idea of Donald Trump as the leader of the free world.
President Donald Trump has spurred a movement of individuals who vehemently oppose his presidency.
A volunteer group of former congressional staffers recently authored and published a mandate for frustrated Americans called the
‘Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting The Trump Agenda’.
This guide is a literal ‘how to’ resist Trump and those who would support and push his agenda through congress.
In the introduction of the guide it states, “Donald Trump is the biggest popular vote loser in history to ever call himself President- Elect. In spite of the fact that he has no mandate, he will attempt to use his congressional majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt image.”
Sarah Dohl, one of the authors of the Indivisible Guide said, “Our core mission is to adopt key tactics of the tea party to effectively resist the Trump agenda”. The Tea Party is an ultra-conservative sect of the Republican Party and a movement that was birthed with the purpose of obstructing the Obama presidency. The Tea Party organized quickly and
efficiently, successfully winning many seats in congress. The
guide laid out the Tea Party’s two strategic choices; they were
locally focused and they were purely defensive.
“We want to inspire people to organize with friends and
neighbors,” said Dohl. The guide asks people to do more than
sign petitions and make calls, “If progressives are going to
stop this, we must stand indivisibly opposed to the Trump
and the members of Congress who would do his bidding.
Together, we have the power to resist – and we have the
power to win.” Dohl says that she and the other co-authors
of the guide are just an ‘exhausted group of volunteers’ who
believe in protecting decent American values. The guide lists
strategies and tactics on how to protest and organize. The
one difference between the strategies that are a goal of the
‘Indivisible Guide’ and the Tea Party is the legislative power
the Tea Party acquired by putting forth candidates to run for
various seats in congress. “ We believe that the next four years
depend on Americans across the country standing indivisible
against the Trump agenda. We believe that buying into false
promises or accepting partial concessions will only further
empower Trump to victimize us and our neighbors.” The
manifesto also includes a special note section for immigrants
who need to know their rights and protections under the law.
A copy of the guide can be found and downloaded via the
website, www.IndivisibleGuide.com.
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