'Scared and stressed': Robert Reich details game plan for surviving Trump 2.0

Millions of Democrats greeted Election Night 2024 hoping that Vice President Kamala Harris would be victorious and be sworn in as president on January 20, 2025.

But Donald Trump won at least 277 electoral votes, prevailing in Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin and other key swing states. President-Elect Trump is the first presidential candidate since Grover Cleveland to win two non-consecutive terms, and he is the first in U.S. history to win an election while waiting to be sentenced on 34 criminal counts.

In a January 6 column for The Guardian, economist Robert Reich lays out a game plan for surviving Trump 2.0.

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"I won't try to hide it," Reich laments. "I'm heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth. I'm sure many of you are, too. Donald Trump has decisively won the presidency, the Senate, and possibly the House of Representatives and the popular vote, too. I still have faith in America. But right now, that's little comfort to the people who are most at risk."

Americans "most at risk" from a second Trump presidency, according to Reich, range from "millions of people" fearing "Trump's cruel mass deportation plan" to pregnant women who could be "denied life-saving care during an ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage."

"Anyone who has already faced prejudice and marginalization is now in greater danger than before," Reich warns. "Also in danger are people who have stood up to Trump, who has promised to seek revenge against his political opponents. Countless people are now endangered on a scale and intensity almost unheard of in modern America. Our first responsibility is to protect all those who are in harm's way."

The "resistance" to Trump 2.0, Reich argues, must include "fighting through the courts" and "organizing our communities."

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"We supported one another during the Great Depression," Reich remembers. "We were victorious over Hitler's fascism and Soviet communism. We survived Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts, Richard Nixon's crimes, Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam War, the horrors of 9/11, and George W. Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will resist Donald Trump's tyranny."

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Robert Reich's full column for The Guardian is available at this link.