The protests and marches, the phone calls and visits to elected officials’ offices, are sometimes motivated by anger and frustration but always filled with one underlying fundamental truth—we love our country and what our country is supposed to be. Our country is a place where even fascistic-minded jerks can live freely, as long as they don’t hurt others. With our new orange-regime spewing out bile-filled foreign policy notices around the world, the resistance to neo-American fascism and white supremacy has gone into high gear—women’s marches have emboldened the airport protests and so on. It is not only the citizens and elected officials within the United States that have taken notice, millions—if not billions— around the world are watching what is happening in North America. TechCrunch senior editor John Shieber tweeted out something from a friend of his who works for the UN in Iraq.
This is what we are fighting for. The world is watching.