On Resistance and Intimidation in the USA

So far, there is remarkably little resistance against US President Donald Trump. Is this changing? An assessment of this by the political scientist Johannes Thimm of the Research Group America of the Foundation Science and Politics.

In the US, a populist hurricane is raging, shaking the foundations of democracy. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are pushing ahead with the destruction of the state apparatus, while the opposition is hard to hear. Historian Anne Applebaum puts her hopes on the court system. But where is the resistance? Many American corporations are making the knee fall before Trump and why are the protests of the population so weak?