Has the Trump resistance been too passive? Here are 7 ways to effectively protest authoritarian rule
- Written by Lee Morgenbesser, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University

The United States, it has long been claimed, is organically disposed towards democracy. When the Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1600s, the first governor, John Winthrop, called the new settlement a “city upon a hill” that inspires the world.
This notion of American manifest destiny, however, has always...













