President Donald Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil marks one of Trump’s most egregious assaults on democratic liberties since taking office. Yet too many Democrats, particularly in party leadership, are responding to Trump in the most mealymouthed way possible. But this is a problem of Democrats’ own making: Their trepidation stems from their own history of repressing speech critical of Israel — and now we’re all at risk of paying the price for it.
Sadly, I don’t have your faith that the system will allow us to fix it. It’s not our system, it never was, and the people in power have no reason to abolish themselves and put democracy in charge.
There is no “fixing it”, the real question is how we’ll navigate the interesting times ahead.