Trump's assaults on vulnerable and marginalized Americans requires more than just a partisan movement based on policy

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..if we are to effectively confront Trump's exploiting revival of historic fears and resentments against vulnerable and marginalized Americans, we'll need a movement that emphasizes solidarity and celebrates our diversity; in effect, we need a new Civil Rights movement.

It the government is going to persist in beating people down, we need to stand them up and directly defend them with our own values and demands for recognition and protections against discrimination and abuse.

In fact, I'm a little surprised that Democrats and others who value diversity, and their neighbors's disparate identities and origins, haven't organized an influencing campaign that celebrates the diversity within our own party; not as a matter of course, but in direct contradiction to what Trump is doing as he uses Biden's diversity initiative in government as a cudgel and tool to dismantle almost every instigation or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc. which he politically or personally opposes.

What are we waiting for?

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1. "What are we waiting for?" Leadership

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2. I agree, though I recall the movement originating outside of government

...and was originally a coalition of religious figures, activists, entertainers, and others - long before it because focused on a few leaders.

I guess the party needs to be mindful of that, but they don't need to come at it apologetically or timidly to appease some bigot party member bent on hurting their fellow countryfolk.

I do think it's more about organizing and mobilizing the public rather elevating than a central figure who might be used by opponents to deflect from the issues at hand.

Definitely needs a more concerted organized effort, but successful movements are built by uniting people behind like concerns, taking care to keep legislative solutions at the head of protests.