Trump Takes Office, Resistance Takes to the Streets

Donald Trump takes office on January 20, setting up the most right-wing, racist government in modem American history, but he will not go unchallenged. That challenge is already in motion. Within days of the election, hundreds of thousands took to the streets nationwide, and governments in dozens of cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Washington DC, pledged to continue offering sanctuary to immigrants -- key targets for the right. Trump's cabinet choices and the reaction to them suggest that they are in for four years of tumultuous political and social battles. They do not shrink from these battles. Immigrants, Blacks, and Latinos know that they will be targets of the new administration, and a large part of the population has ample reason to fear this menace to American democratic rights.