!["Just as bad as we feared": Experts on the chaos and carnage of Trump's first week](/static/images/error.jpg)
"Just as bad as we feared": Experts on the chaos and carnage of Trump's first week
SalonDonald Trump's "shock and awe" first week in office was exactly what he had promised — or threatened. In an essay for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch reflects on this "reactionary Week One backlash" striking "at the very heart of LGBTQ rights, academic freedom on college campuses, the environmental movement, and decades of rising empowerment for women": On the surface, Trump’s dictator-on-Day-One orders were a campaign-promise-fulfilling war on 21st-century liberal “wokeness,” but in reality the MAGA movement was stabbing at the heart of MLK, of LBJ’s “Great Society,” and the progressive victories that have sustained my generation for our lifetimes. One of the most ominous and dangerous of Trump's executive orders targeted the supposed "weaponization of the federal government." Jennifer Mercieca is a historian of American political rhetoric at Texas A&M University and the author of several books, including "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump."
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