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On March 4th, in a speech before the French Senate, I asked this question:
Why, in the face of so many senseless decisions by their President, weren’t Americans reacting? Today, that question no longer stands: Americans have reacted. Protests in all major cities, lawmakers confronted in city halls, governors refusing to comply with illegal executive orders, judges striking them down, and collapsing poll numbers. And I welcome this resistance.
But I must also say it, with the full honesty friends owe one another: For now, the protests, the demonstrations, the opposition have not stopped the situation from getting worse.
Each day brings a new round of delusional announcements. Outrageous tariffs, arbitrary deportations, attacks on Social Security, retirement, freedom of speech, education, justice, the Constitution, veterans, voting rights, universities, and science. Donald Trump doesn’t make decisions—he takes revenge.
Every day, confidence in America declines. By crashing the stock market and the dollar, scaring off buyers of US bonds, walling off his country behind tariff barriers, and—like Al Capone—telling allies they’ll pay or face trouble, the man who claims he’s restoring America’s greatness is actually shrinking it.
Read HERE the full article by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
