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 Newsletter Nr. 691 
 Amsterdam, November 30, 2017


RESISTING TRUMP - 10 Months Later From A More Narrow But More Honest Integrative Perspective - ELLIOT BENJAMIN

Well the world is still here and we have not yet had World War III and President Trump has been the president of the United States for nearly 10 months. So I suppose things could be worse.

I wrote an Integral World essay entitled Fighting Against the Trump Dictatorship: An Integrative Perspective[1] a few days after President Trump was inaugurated, in January, 2017. I followed this up with two articles published in a Mexican American progressive political magazine,[2] describing the development of my Citizens Against Hate Crimes and Discrimination group that I initially portrayed in my above Integral World essay.[1]

The name of my group soon changed to Building Bridges Through Political Diversity, and we occasionally had a bit of diversity in the form of Republicans or mild Trump supporters visiting our group, but the political diversity I envisioned was quite minimal. The “integrative” perspective that I described as including “diverse contrary views for the purpose of finding common ground on one particular issue” was limited in scope initially to making some progress with finding common ground with one vocal but communicative mild Trump supporter who attended our first four meetings.[1, 2] More recently this extended to some constructive conversation with the Republican Party chairman of my county, who ended up visiting my group. But in hindsight I also must admit that my integrative perspective lacked another important ingredient: honesty within myself.


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