The first month of Trump in office unleashed chaos and turmoil in the
nation, creating what some called a constitutional crisis. With a
series of executive orders threatening women’s reproductive rights,
immigrants and sacred water guarded by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe,
public outrage galvanized in protests across the country.
This new resistance against Trump’s repressive nationalist agenda is
very encouraging. Yet, in order for this spark to become a truly
transformative force, we need to take a hard look at how we got here.
Trump’s outrageous move barring people
from seven majority Muslim nations from entering into the United States
sent shockwaves nationwide. The truth is that this didn’t emerge out of
nowhere. This controversial list of Muslim countries that Trump is now
using in his executive order was created by Obama, who was the commander in chief that had bombed 7 countries and expanded the Bush era ‘War on Terror’.
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