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Thursday, February 2, 2017
Amid Trump’s shake-up, many wondering ‘what’s coming next’
By ADAM GELLER
and MATT SEDENSKY
AP National Writers
Donald Trump’s determi-
nation to recast the role of
government has a whiff of
Reaganism, and his plays on
divisions are reminiscent of
Richard Nixon, a historian
says. But many Americans
have a simpler assessment
of the opening days of
the new administration’s
governing-by-upheaval: It’s
unsettling, even to some who
voted for the shake-up that
Trump promised.
“We’re in a very
fragile state right now,”
said Margaret Johnson of
Germantown,
Maryland,
who runs a small translation
business. “We don’t know
what’s coming next. The
country’s divided. There’s a
lot of fear. And I think we’re
kind of at that point where
things can go any kind of
way, and it’s really hard to
say which way they’re going
to go.”
That uncertainty finds
an echo in Pastor Mike
Bergman’s church in Adrian,
Missouri, 40 miles south
of Kansas City, where
many congregants count
themselves as conserva-
tives and embrace the new
administration’s
order
cutting off funding to inter-
national groups that provide
abortions. But as church
members consider another
order — restricting refugees
— worries about security are
tempered by concern about
the needs of refugees and
whether Trump’s rhetoric is
widening the gulf between
Americans, Bergman said.
“There is worry about
some of the political rhetoric
... about how all that is going
to cause the divide in the
community to deepen and
more bitterness to spring up
between the people of our
country. I wouldn’t say we’re
really optimistic right now,”
he said.
Trump is hardly the first
president to take office
promising wholesale change
in the face of substantial
skepticism. But Kevin Boyle,
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
In this Jan. 29 file photo, a protester waves a U.S. flag as another holds a sign that
reads “Let Them In” during a march and rally to oppose President Donald Trump’s
executive order barring people from certain Muslim nations from entering the
United States, in downtown Seattle.
a professor of American
history at Northwestern
University who compared
Trump to Reagan and Nixon,
said the clashes set off by the
administration are unique.
“I cannot in my adult
life think of a moment that
compares to this,” he said.
“The level of tension between
these two competing visions
of the country needs to be
resolved in some way or
another.”
Trump’s
actions
have unsettled Suzanne
Kawamleh, 24, a graduate
student born in Chicago
to parents who emigrated
from Syria. On Saturday
night, Kawamleh said, she
joined protesters at O’Hare
International Airport to
protest the executive order
stopping Syrian refugees
from entering the country.
The next day, she told a
crowd gathered at the county
courthouse in Bloomington,
Indiana, about how her rela-
tives had fled Syria by boat
and ended up in a refugee
camp before finding refuge
in Germany.
Last year, Kawamleh said,
she and her father were taken
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
In this Jan. 28 file photo, President Donald Trump
holds up a signed Presidential Memorandum in the
Oval Office in Washington. The document directs his
administration to “develop a comprehensive plan to
defeat ISIS.”
off a flight for questioning
when they returned from
Lebanon to do relief work
in a refugee camp. But that
scrutiny, she said, pales with
Trump’s executive order,
which forced a family friend
from Syria who had flown to
the U.S. to visit a sick relative
to return to the Middle East
on Saturday.
“Immediately after the
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plead your case,” she said. “It
seems like everything is very
in flux. People don’t know
what’s going on.”
Over the last week,
teacher Dee Burek has
led discussions with the
seventh- and eighth-graders
in her debate and journalism
classes about Trump’s first
days as president. Students
were dismayed when they
read about false statements
by White House press
secretary Sean Spicer and
by an interview with Trump
adviser Steve Bannon in
which he compared himself
to Darth Vader.
When one girl compared
Trump to Dolores Umbridge
— a character from the Harry
Potter series who provokes a
student revolt after issuing
a series of harsh decrees
— classmates nodded in
agreement, Burek said.
“As a teacher I’m trying to
present both sides, as I always
have to, and when I deal with
the children and I’m reading
articles to them (about the
Trump administration), their
faces are in shock,” said
Burek, who teaches in Allen-
town, New Jersey. “They
just keep coming back to,
‘We’re America. How could
this happen?’ And I say I just
don’t have the answers.”
Many Americans say that
Trump’s moves since taking
office are exactly what the
country needs. Nonetheless,
they are taking note of the
pushback.
Juan
Villamizar,
a
52-year-old flooring business
owner in West Hartford,
Connecticut, said he supports
Trump’s executive order
restricting refugees and
immigration from seven
countries as a way to protect
Americans from terrorism.
But while he believes the
country is headed in the right
direction, he is disheartened
to see a negative response to
Trump’s actions.
“I just think that the
people of this country, the
citizens of this country, need
to take a really deep breath
and read the Constitution,”
he said.
During the presidential
campaign, Brenda Horvath
strapped a “Make America
Great Again” sign to her
Logan, West Virginia, front
porch. While supportive,
she thinks the new president
could do a better job at
presenting his plans with
compassion, in a way that
doesn’t alienate so many.
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She believes Trump is off to
a rocky start, but believes he
deserves more time to get on
track.
“You can listen to the
wrong people and do the
job wrong. I’m hoping
and praying that he’ll start
listening to the right people,”
she said.
Yatziri
Tovar,
a
24-year-old college student
in New York who emigrated
from Mexico as a toddler,
saw the response to Trump
in a different light. Though
troubled by the initial days
of the new administration,
she was encouraged to see
the activism it has spurred.
She felt a duty to speak, too,
addressing a weekend rally
that she helped organize as
a member of an immigrant
advocacy group, Make the
Road New York.
“It’s a moment that has a
lot of confusion, it has some
scary times, but at the same
time it has become a time
of unity,” said Tovar, a part
of the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program,
or DACA, which President
Barack Obama instituted to
allow young people brought
into the country illegally as
children to stay and obtain
work permits.
Others hold the protesters,
not Trump, responsible for
the discord.
John Fusaro, an immi-
gration officer in Dallas who
voted for Trump, said the
media and protesters should
ease up.
“They’re trying to sow
seeds of doubt and keep
stirring the pot,” he said.
Fusaro said the upheaval
represents a “new normal” of
constant protests. While he’s
dubious of the protesters’
message, the presence of a
niece in their ranks reminds
him of the wide gulf in
Americans’ political views.
“She’s standing against
Trump, out there yelling
and stuff, and I’m honestly
thinking you don’t know the
whole picture. I sent her a
message: Give it time. It’ll
sort itself out.”
So far, he said, she hasn’t
responded.
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