We are currently dancing with a constitutional crisis. We are not even 20 days into Donald Trump's 45th administration as President and already we are seeing the executive orders and idea's he wants to implement. Trump has signed executive orders left and right since he's taken office. The count has surpassed 20. This is in part thanks to President Obama who expanded executive powers under his administration. He has promised to forward the project of the Dakota Access Pipeline, ban seven large Muslim majority countries from entering the country, including Iraq and Syria, plus cutting off any and all refugees coming to the states from Syria.
Whether Trump is aware or not, as a country we are cutting off and distancing ourselves from the rest of the world. Iran has implemented a travel ban for all United States citizens. The United Kingdom has put a petition that has gained large traction that would ban Trump from entering their country if he tries to visit. Our reputation in the world is already becoming undone. We are giving terrorist groups such as Isis all of the propaganda they could ever need.
Protests only go so far. Washington elites and politicians currently in office need to stand up to the Trump Administration. Sane Republicans such as John McCain or Lindsey Graham need to say no. the resistance and rejection of fascism needs to come from within their own party. It's one thing to read history books, it's entirely something else to be living in them. We had the option of choosing an Ivy League educated white women with more than a decade of government experience to lead us, yet we chose and fully embraced nationalism and fascism.
If you are white you will not face nearly the amount of discrimination and bigotry currently thrown at anyone who has a different skin color. If these first few weeks are any indication for what's to come, we are in for a very dark four years. Trump will continue to flirt with putting our constitution in crisis, implementing a nationalist agenda and isolating certain ethnic groups further in our country. Steve Bannon, the former executive of Breitbart Alt-right news website is a top security adviser. An open advocate of hate and racism is in one of the highest positions in Trumps administration and that should terrify everyone. Even legitimately survive the next four years as a country, the damage inflicted by Donald Trumps presidency will be irreversible.
