As Johnson put it, referring to Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration ban, “We will treat injustices done against our neighbors as if they had been done against us. 'Trump’s rallies are similar to a hypnotist’s show.
The last time such a large crowd converged on that spot, in June, it was to mourn: forty-nine men and women, many of them college-aged Latinos, had just been murdered at Pulse, a gay night club in downtown Orlando the whole nation seemed to join in solidarity with its vulnerable citizens, even if Donald Trump, seizing on the shooter’s apparent allegiance to isis, tweeted that the murders proved him “right on radical Islamic terrorism.” Now, with Trump’s brand of hateful opportunism given the full force of law, the community came together again, to steel itself against threats to come and to protest the progress that has already been rolled back. In an unsent draft resignation letter Milley wrote after Trump used the military to clear Lafayette Square of protesters for a photo op on June 1, 2020, the general told Trump he believed he was 'doing great an irreparable harm' to the country, making 'a concerted effort over time to politicize the United States military,' and 'using the. “Progress is not guaranteed.” He was speaking to the several thousand demonstrators who had gathered outside Manhattan’s Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the gay-rights movement. The very last thing the world needs is a US president who ends up being even more warlike than Trump. “We have faced institutional oppression for as long as society has existed,” Corey Johnson, a young, gay New York City Council member, said on Saturday afternoon. The second-to-last thing the world needs is political pressure placed on Donald fucking Trump to be more warlike.