Robert Reich Calls for Boycott of Trump Products: ‘This Is Not a Normal Presidency’

‘This is really dangerous’

Robert Reich Calls For Boycott Of Trump Products: "This Is Not A Normal Presidency" (RealClearPolitics)

DEMOCRACY NOW: Protests broke out across the country Monday as the 538 electors of the Electoral College met in their respective state capitals and decisively voted to make Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States. Trump received 304 votes, well over the threshold of 270 votes necessary for him to become the next president. His Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, won 227 votes. Trump is scheduled to be sworn in as president one month from today on January 20. We speak to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about his piece, "The First 100 Day Resistance Agenda."
 

AMY GOODMAN: Robert Reich, we just have a minute and a half to go, and I want to get to your piece on "The First 100 Day Resistance Agenda." A lot of people are analyzing what’s going on right now. Not a lot are doing what you did and actually talking about a resistance agenda that talks about getting Democrats in Congress and across the country to pledge to oppose the Trump agenda, to boycotting all Trump products—real estate, hotels, resorts, everything around the world. Can you go through what you’re suggesting?

ROBERT REICH: Yes. Amy, generally, I think we do have to regard this as not a normal presidency. You know, some people say, "Oh, well, it’s just a—we’ve had conservative, pompous, narcissistic presidents before." This is—this is not normal. This is really dangerous. And we have to resist. We have to have a peaceful resistance. And what I tried to do is list the kind of things that we all, as citizens, need to do and need to have our representatives and senators in Congress do, and not only mount a forceful rejection of these Trump nominees, most of whom are completely unqualified and incompetent with regard to enforcing the purposes of these agencies that they are going to be running, or Trump wants them to run, but also, individually, we need to boycott Trump products.

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