Protesters demonstrate against Donald Trump Jr.’s appearance at UCLA on Sunday
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The Los Angeles chapter of Refuse Fascism planned the UCLA demonstration. The leftist activist group, which has organized large-scale demonstrations against the Trump administration in major U.S. cities, wrote in a Facebook post that “Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ is a 21st century fascist program of Manifest Destiny –’America First’ – wrapped in the flag and Mike Pence’s Bible taken literally. A specifically American culmination of white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia.”
(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
Chanting “UCLA protects fascists” and “humanity first,” the protesters banged drums and blew whistles to voice their opposition to Trump Jr.’s speech and the Trump 2020 campaign.
“Silence to this just normalizes it,” said Chantelle Hershberger, an organizer with the group Refuse Fascism. “Silence to any Trump, any part of this administration is complicity. People need to show up and oppose this strongly. The water is boiling and we are just sitting in the pot.”
Hershberger said she read Trump Jr.’s new book and found its message concerning.
“The book read to me like inciting violence toward liberal people and toward anyone who holds any sort of socialist values,” Hershberger said.
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