2. International resistance is rising.
\n3. Independent and alternative media are growing.
\n4. Musk\u2019s popularity is plunging.
\n5. Musk\u2019s Doge is losing credibility.
\n6. The federal courts are hitting back.
\n7. Demonstrations are on the rise.
\n8. Stock and bond markets are trembling.
\n9. Trump is overreaching \u2014 pretending to be \u201cking\u201d and abandoning Ukraine for Putin.
\n10. The Trump-Vance-Musk \u201cshock and awe\u201d plan is faltering.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn all these ways and for all of these reasons, the regime\u2019s efforts to overwhelm us are failing.<\/p>\n
Make no mistake: Trump, Vance, and Musk continue to be an indiscriminate wrecking ball that has already caused major destruction and will continue to weaken and isolate America. But their takeover has been slowed.<\/p>\n
Their plan was based on doing so much, so fast that the rest of us would give in to negativity and despair. They want a dictatorship built on hopelessness and fear.<\/p>\n
That may have been the case initially, but we can take courage from the green shoots of rebellion now appearing across America and the world.<\/p>\n
As several of you have pointed out, successful resistance movements maintain hope and a positive vision of the future, no matter how dark the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0At the beginning of Trump 1.0, I began a series entitled “In Troubled Times.” With the onset of the war in Ukraine (aka The War of Russian Aggression), I shifted to “In Times of War.” Today, Substackian Robert Reich offers reasons for cautious optimism. Let’s feed that hope!<\/p>\n