Democrats must join US protests

The October 18 ‘No Kings’ protests that swept through all 50 US states may be nowhere near emerging as a vibrant resistance movement against America’s slide into authoritarianism under President Trump.

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The White House and his ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) brigades have ripped up the rule book and governed with an iron fist, systematically trampling upon the legislative branch and ruling solely through executive proclamations even in matters where Congressional assent is explicitly ordained under the constitution. The assaults on higher education, the crackdown on free speech, criminalising dissent, stripping basic healthcare benefits, and the inhumane treatment of undocumented migrants have, to say the least, betrayed the basest tyrannical instincts of President Trump.