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In a PBS NewsHour segment last week, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined William Brangham to discuss Donald Trump's ongoing attacks on U.S. institutions and norms, and the implications that holds for American democracy.
David Brooks offered a strong, unequivocal call for a “civic uprising”:
“Trump is really about amassing power, and anything that might potentially restrain his power, he will destroy… And if institutions, and even sectors, try to respond to this individually, they’re doomed…
“..All these different sectors have to get together and form one big civic movement. And it can’t be political, it’s not Democrats vs. Republicans, it’s not left vs. right. It’s institutions vs. the destruction of our institutions of civilization. And if you look down through history, there have been social movements, these kinds of civic uprisings that have succeeded. They’ve banded together across sectors, they have a clear simple message that appeals to a lot of different people. They use things like lawsuits, protests, boycotts, all sorts of things, strikes, anything they can do… It’s just about raw power.
“So the question you have to ask yourself is how do we amass power so they’re not dividing us, so we’re dividing them. And that is a mass uprising.
“It’s time we’re all involved, we’re all in this together, and we’re going to amass power together.”
Watch HERE the full discussion on PBS NewsHour
