Every day for months has been reminder that USA Live a Unpublished, explosive and plagued tension and polarization moment. Few from Donald Trump’s return to the presidency have exposed how this Saturday the anxieties and dangers of this democracy that under the Republican is becoming POLVORIN.
An army of hundreds of thousands of angry and worried citizens For the authoritarian drift of Trump he has taken the streets of large and small cities from all over the country in about 2,000 protests encompassed under the slogan “Kings, no.” Even in places where rain has been incessant, as in New York, attendance was the largest marches lived so far in the republican mandate.
In Washington, meanwhile, that president was in the afternoon to fulfill the dream he has caressed since in his first term he was in Paris on Bastille Day: preside over In the capital a military parade. And dozens of tanks, battleships and combat cars, 6,000 soldiers, bombers and helicopters and fireworks were preparing to challenge the rain at a stop on the day of the flag. He marked the 250 anniversary of the Foundation of the Armed Forces Americans. Coincided with 7Trump staff 9 birthday.
The complexity of that starting screen increased knowing that in Los Angeles They are still deployed National Guard military and Los Marines that Trump has sent, without being requested by the governor of California, with the argument of stopping a supposed “rebellion”, What is the president defines protests against his aggressive immigrant arrest campaign. There the police anticipated the possibility of a massive and “unprecedented” participation in demonstrations contra Trump.
The high voltage and the dangers of the division charged the most devastating form in Minnesota, where a man disguised as a policeman He murdered a state democratic congressman and her husbandand left a local Senator also injured and his wife. The authorities from the first moment said they were “politically motivated” attacks.
With the suspect at the escape, and indications and alerts of the authorities that planned to attack some of the demonstrations In Minnesota de “Reyes no”, the organizers of these marches in the state canceled practically all. Hours later, in Texasthe authorities launched a alert about a “credible threat” to state legislators that were going to go to the demonstration in the state capitol in Austin.
“A decrease towards fascism”
“We are descending towards fascism”, He alerted in the demonstration in New York, Richard Briggs, a 71 -year -old man who had banned a portrait of Trump next to one of Hitler.
“Trump is trying to arrive powers do not correspond of Congress and Courtsis arresting people in their workplaceshe has declared The war to its citizens in their own country while Kiss the ass A (Russian President Vladimir) Putin And he is trying cause a situation in which to invoke the insurrection law “he said in reference to the 1807 standard with which Trump could authorize the military Not only to protect federal buildings and employees, as they do now in Los Angeles, but to act in Law and order operations on American soil. “As long as we have Freedom of expression We must take advantage of it, ”Briggs also said, who said that” unless people show Trump will continue. ”
Trump and fascism also spoke on Fifth Avenue in front of the headquarters of the New York Public Library Mae and Alex, two twenty -year -old friends In a demonstration dominated by older people, although this time there was more youth, and some more racial diversity, than in the April marches.
Students of History and Political Science, with Handmade posters defending immigrantsthey had dressed on a gray day of White, red and blue, claiming the colors of the flaga gesture that was seen in manifestations of the whole country and that indicates The resistance to let Trump and the Maga Movement take patriotism or its symbols.
The two friends called “terrible” the low presence of young people. They warned that “there has been a massive generational turn to the right.” And they also said that many, that they grew up with Trump’s first presidency “are accustomed, do not understand how bad things are, do not realize that this is not the US.”
“Even our friends who did not vote for him do not know it, because No one reads the news, they have become apathetic “said Mae, daughter of a French immigrant and with a grandmother of Lithuania. “AND They accuse us of being exaggerating, of being excessively dramatic. ”
The same said Charlie, arrived at the demonstration with a banner where, together with a photo of Martin Luther Kingand playing with the surname of the civil rights leader (King in English is king) read: the only king he respects.
“What is happening with Trump It is not a joke, it is not a gamealthough some, like my neighbors, believe that we are too alarmist, ”said this 65 -year -old man.“ Trump He wants totalitarianism, he wants an authoritarian dictationand that is what we have to oppose, “he continued.” I don’t know how we are going to get out of this, I don’t know what practical movements we can do, and manifest may not be enough, but at least we tell the world that we reject what he is doing, which is not acceptable. ”
They and other protesters like Sarah, a 62 -year -old woman spoke, with different intensity, “esperanza“And they highlighted what peaceful of the manifestations, the overwhelmingly dominated throughout the country. When writing these lines, only news of some tension and confrontations as one registered in a Hispanic majority neighborhood in Atlanta arrived. The tension, however, does not stop growing.
