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A wise man once told me that when the pendulum gets to the bottom it can only go up. “But how will I know it has gotten to the bottom?” I responded. Trump’s November 5 election and January 20 inauguration can be seen as a bottom, but perhaps they are only the tip of what could be a much greater descent. I have lived through low points with “Tricky Dick” Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Trump 1.0. (Those not mentioned should not be assumed to be high points on the pendulum.) The question is resistance. What lies ahead for those shocked, discouraged, disgusted by what is taking place. Michelle Obama was not at the 2025 inauguration. In 2017 she described her feelings at Trump’s first swearing in: “To sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display, there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage,” the former First Lady said. “There was no reflection of the broader sense of America. Many people took pictures of me and they’re like, you weren’t in a good mood. No, I was not.” This time she was a no show.

What is there to do? What kind of resistance is possible? I have long-lost relatives calling from the States asking me about moving to Switzerland where I live, a form of no show.

A small Swiss example of resistance: Donald Trump was inaugurated on January 20, the very day the World Economic Forum (WEF) began its 55th........

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