Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Trump is playing Grinch here - he's descended upon Whoville to take all the Christmas ...
Trump is playing Grinch here - he's descended upon Whoville to take all the Christmas decorations, in the belief that these are the source of Christmas. But the Grinch was wrong (and so is Trump): Christmas was in the heart of the Whos, and the tinsel and baubles were the expression of that Christmas spirit. Likewise, labor rights come from labor organizing, not the other way around.
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