Office Hours: What is stopping you from becoming even more active against this loathsome president and his venal regime?
Office Hours: What is stopping you from becoming even more active against this loathsome president and his venal regime? A personal question at this dark moment in the nation’s history Robert Reich Feb 13 ∙ Friends, I have another personal question to ask you. You may remember the last time I asked you a personal question. It was January 21 — three days before Alex Pretti was murdered by federal agents in Minneapolis. I asked you then what you were prepared to risk in order to stop Trump’s reign of terror. In the poll accompanying that post, 72 percent of you said you’d risk being arrested and losing your job and enduring physical harm, including the possibility of being shot at and possibly killed, in order to stop Trump and his goons. The question I’m asking you today is related. It stems from a query I was asked yesterday by a group of non-Americans I met. They wondered why the resistance to Trump inside the United States wasn’t larger and louder. “Don’t Ameri...