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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary How to Survive a Plague, activists bring the remains of loved ones who were lost to AIDS to the gates of the White House, chanting "Bring the dead, to your door," to shame the last two presidents [Reagan/Bush] for inactivity on AIDS research.
This scene from the Academy-Award-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague is devastating. We were angry, but what fueled us was grief. This is unbearable to watch. It's crushing that it is happening again.
This scene from the Academy-Award-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague is devastating. We were angry, but what fueled us was grief. This is unbearable to watch. It's crushing that it is happening again.
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It’s hard to know exactly how history will judge Donald Trump, but considering that he has presided over a devastating pandemic that he had the tools to minimize, empathizes with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and refuses to accept the results of the election because he lost, it’s safe to say that he will be remembered as one of the worst U.S. presidents of all time. But, even as Trump is on his way out, the forces and people that brought him to power — the same ones that continue to enable his fantasy of having won this election— are unfortunately here to stay.
Trumpism is the political movement based around the president’s cult of personality; it’s a loose set of ideas that can’t quite be called an ideology because it’s so incoherent. Centering around anti-immigration, America-first trade regulations, and a rejection of social progressivism, Trumpism is mostly defined not by policy at all, but by a gleeful and vehement loathing of anything Democrats, the left, and the media (one and the same to Trumpists) say and do.
Sarah Kendzior, author of Hiding In Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, acknowledges the existence of Trump’s personality cult, but told Refinery29, “He’s also a vehicle for a lot of different people and their disparate agendas: for the GOP extremists that have been trying to dismantle government since the Reagan era, for theocrats like Mike Pence, for transnational organized crime, for white supremacists. But I think in Trump’s mind, it’s about Trump, the Trump family, the Trump brand, the Trump Organization, and the ideological component is just kind of extra. ...
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