{"id":410,"date":"2017-10-29T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2017-10-29T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:35:54","slug":"the-significance-of-chicagos-trump-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/the-significance-of-chicagos-trump-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The Significance of Chicago&#8217;s Trump Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted March 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kelvin.ho.129\/posts\/10156557982115543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/236c453e-39d8-4f65-8255-0420c3ad4010.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago Shuts Down Trump!\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"248\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the course of a few hours, several thousand Chicagoans did more to stop Trump bigotry than months of bemoaning by media pundits and other politicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chicagoan took a page from the protests over the Laquan McDonald police shooting that got rid of a hated police superintendent, gave the sitting mayor record low approval ratings, and made the once-secure state&#8217;s attorney fight for her political life.<\/p>\n<p>While the media gave tons of free publicity to Trump&#8217;s anti-immigrant, sexist, ablist and Islamophic hate, the politicians of both parties legitimized his out-front bigotry with their own policies and statements, such as Obama&#8217;s record number of deportations and the baldly Islamophobic statements of Clinton and her Republican opponents.<\/p>\n<p>If what happened in Chicago last night is replicated elsewhere, this could be the beginning of the end of Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign. He&#8217;s built his reputation on being a bully and thug, drawing those of like mind around him, but bullies lose face when successfully confronted by their victims.<\/p>\n<p>1000s of Chicagoans showed that the 99%&#8217;s main strength is in the streets, not in the ballot box.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is no accident that it was Chicago that first gave Trump his just desserts. Black youth in our city have had our 1% mayor on the run since independent journalists forced the release of the Laquan McDonald police shooting video.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>After decades of authoritarian Democratic Party Machine rule, people have re-learned that they have power in the streets that they don&#8217;t in the electoral arena, that we can fight, and can win. Trump was the recipient of those lessons last night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andy.thayer1\/posts\/10208074079546970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to watch one of the anti-Trump activists inside&nbsp;the UIC Pavilion describe&nbsp;what went on inside the&nbsp;Trump rally.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andy.thayer1\/posts\/10208074079546970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/80302100-af05-410c-b5da-aed36e027e00.jpg\" alt=\"How Chicago shut down Trump\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"252\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted March 13, 2016 In the course of a few hours, several thousand Chicagoans did more to stop Trump bigotry than months of bemoaning by media pundits and other <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/the-significance-of-chicagos-trump-shut-down\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,56,49,26,2],"tags":[8,59,36],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigotry","category-immigrant-rights","category-politicians","category-racism","category-trump","tag-democrats","tag-immigrant-rights","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}