The reason we don\u2019t see that person is because we\u2019re asking the wrong question<\/p>\n
Everyone\u2019s waiting for that one person to stand up to Donald Trump<\/a>. Not just that one person. There are a lot of such people. You can read about them in every newspaper. But that one person with real power who\u2019s willing to risk something costly in defiance. That one university president who\u2019ll say, fuck you and your money. That one Democrat who\u2019ll say, fuck you and your threat to my re-election or that of my party. Everyone\u2019s looking for our Tank Man, staring down a column of tanks, all by himself, in Tiananmen Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why don\u2019t we see that person? Where is our Tank Man? (And, no, I don\u2019t think Cory Booker doing a marathon<\/a>-length filibuster counts.)<\/p>\n When you\u2019re thinking of becoming a hero, you feel like a slob. You feel, do you really have a right to do that?<\/p>\n Corey Robin<\/strong><\/em> is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump<\/a> and a contributing editor at Jacobin. This piece originally appeared on coreyrobin.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The reason we don\u2019t see that person is because we\u2019re asking the wrong question Everyone\u2019s waiting for that one person to stand up to Donald Trump. Not just that one person. There are a lot of such people. You can read about them in every newspaper. But that one person with real power who\u2019s willing … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}