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The sleeping giant is awakening

After a week of authoritarian excess, the nation is turning on Trump

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
September 25, 2025
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  • Robert Reich
  • September 25, 2025
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I can’t tell you exactly how I know but after sixty years in and around politics I’ve developed a sixth sense, and my sixth sense tells me the tide is now turning on Trump.

This past week did it.

On Monday, September 15, he sued the Times in a lawsuit that, as CNN put it, read “like a pro-Trump op-ed, with page after page of gushing praise for the president.”

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On Tuesday, he accused reporter Jonathan Karl and his employer, ABC News, of engaging in hate speech against him, and warned that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, might go after them.

On Wednesday, after Brendan Carr, his lapdog chair of the FCC, pressured ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel, he claimed that Kimmel being “CANCELLED” was “Great News for America,” and urged NBC to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers next.

On Thursday, he said broadcast networks have been mean to him and that Brendan Carr might have to start taking their licenses away. “When you have a network and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump,” he said, “they’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party.”

On Friday, he suggested that negative coverage about him is “really illegal.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office he said: “They’ll take a great story and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal,” adding “Personally, you can’t take, you can’t have a free airwave if you’re getting free airwaves from the United States government.”

On Saturday, he demanded that Bondi prosecute several of his political rivals even though grand juries and federal prosecutors couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing. He demanded that she do it “NOW!!!”

On Sunday, at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, he said that he disagreed with Kirk’s supposed leniency toward his ideological foes, adding: “I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them.”

You could almost feel the great sleeping giant of America open an eye and frown, then blink both eyes and sit up and stretch, and then roar “what the hell is going on here?”

Immediately after Kimmel’s suspension, Disney viewers and customers began to cancel their subscriptions to Disney+ and Hulu and threaten a broader consumer boycott.

According to Strength in Numbers, the Disney boycott quickly became four times as large as any boycott over the last five years.

Disney’s stock dipped about 3.5 percent and continued to trade lower in subsequent days — a loss in market value amounting to some $4 billion.

Even Ted Cruz — Ted Cruz! — began issuing grave warnings about censorship.

By then the giant was roaring and stomping.

By Monday, Disney decided to put Kimmel back on the air.

Trump’s poll numbers were dipping even before last week’s explosion of authoritarianism. Now they’re in free fall.

I’m old enough to have witnessed the great sleeping giant of America awaken before.

Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunt destroyed countless careers before the giant roared: “have you no sense of decency?”

McCarthy melted almost as quickly as the Wicked Witch of the West. His national popularity evaporated. Three years later, censored by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of forty-eight.

The giant roared again a decade later, after television showed civil rights marchers getting clobbered by white supremacists. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.

It roared again after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in the jungles of Vietnam, finally bringing to an end one of the nation’s costliest, deadliest, and stupidest wars.

It roared again at Richard Nixon after Nixon was heard on tape plotting the coverup of Watergate — then being forced to exit the White House by helicopter on his way back to California.

It is starting to roar again now — at the sociopathic occupant of the Oval Office who won’t tolerate criticism, who in one wild week revealed his utter contempt for the freedom of Americans to criticize him, to write or speak negatively about him, even to joke about him.

Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but I’ve seen a lot. I know the signs. The sleeping giant always remains asleep until some venality becomes so noxious, some action so disrespectful of the common good, some brutality so noisy, that he has no choice but to awaken.

And when he does, the good sense of the American people causes him to put an end to whatever it was that awakened him.

 

El gigante dormido despierta

Tras una semana de excesos autoritarios, la nación se está volviendo contra Trump

No puedo explicarles exactamente cómo lo sé, pero después de sesenta años en la política, he desarrollado un sexto sentido, y este me dice que la situación se está volviendo contra Trump.

La semana pasada lo logró.

El lunes 15 de septiembre, demandó al Times en una demanda que, como lo expresó CNN, se leía “como un artículo de opinión a favor de Trump, con página tras página de efusivos elogios al presidente”.

El martes, acusó al periodista Jonathan Karl y a su empleador, ABC News, de participar en discursos de odio contra él, y advirtió que Pam Bondi, la fiscal general, podría perseguirlos.

El miércoles, después de que Brendan Carr, su presidente de la FCC, presionara a ABC para que suspendiera a Jimmy Kimmel, afirmó que la “CANCELACIÓN” de Kimmel era una “Gran Noticia para Estados Unidos” e instó a NBC a despedir a Jimmy Fallon y Seth Meyers.

El jueves, afirmó que las cadenas de televisión lo han tratado mal y que Brendan Carr podría tener que empezar a retirarles las licencias. “Cuando tienes una cadena y programas nocturnos, y lo único que hacen es atacar a Trump”, dijo, “tienen licencia. No se les permite hacer eso. Son una rama del Partido Demócrata”.

El viernes, sugirió que la cobertura negativa sobre él es “totalmente ilegal”. En declaraciones a la prensa en el Despacho Oval, declaró: “Toman una gran historia y la hacen mala. Verán, creo que eso es totalmente ilegal”, y añadió: “Personalmente, no puedes tomar, no puedes tener una señal de radio gratuita si la recibes gratis del gobierno de Estados Unidos”.

El sábado, exigió que Bondi procesara a varios de sus rivales políticos, a pesar de que los grandes jurados y los fiscales federales no pudieron encontrar ninguna prueba de irregularidades. Exigió que lo hiciera “¡YA!”.

El domingo, en el funeral de Charlie Kirk, este declaró su desacuerdo con la supuesta indulgencia de Kirk hacia sus adversarios ideológicos, y añadió: “Odio a mi oponente y no quiero lo mejor para él”.

Casi se podía sentir al gigante dormido de Estados Unidos abrir un ojo y fruncir el ceño, luego parpadear, incorporarse y estirarse, y finalmente gritar “¿Qué demonios está pasando aquí?”.

Inmediatamente después de la suspensión de Kimmel, los espectadores y clientes de Disney comenzaron a cancelar sus suscripciones a Disney+ y Hulu y amenazaron con un boicot de consumo más amplio.

Según Strength in Numbers, el boicot a Disney se multiplicó rápidamente por cuatro de cualquier otro boicot de los últimos cinco años.

Las acciones de Disney cayeron alrededor de un 3,5 % y continuaron cotizando a la baja en los días siguientes, lo que representa una pérdida de valor de mercado de unos 4000 millones de dólares.

Incluso Ted Cruz —¡Ted Cruz!— comenzó a lanzar serias advertencias sobre la censura.

Para entonces, el gigante rugía y pisoteaba.

El lunes, Disney decidió volver a poner a Kimmel en antena.

Las cifras de Trump en las encuestas estaban cayendo incluso antes del estallido de autoritarismo de la semana pasada. Ahora están en caída libre.

Tengo la edad suficiente para haber presenciado el despertar del gran gigante dormido de Estados Unidos.

La caza de brujas comunista de Joe McCarthy destruyó innumerables carreras antes de que el gigante rugiera: “¿No tienen sentido de la decencia?”.

McCarthy se derritió casi tan rápido como la Malvada Bruja del Oeste. Su popularidad nacional se evaporó. Tres años después, censurado por sus colegas del Senado, condenado al ostracismo por su partido e ignorado por la prensa, McCarthy bebió hasta morir, un hombre destrozado a los cuarenta y ocho años.

El gigante volvió a rugir una década después, después de que la televisión mostrara a manifestantes por los derechos civiles siendo apaleados por supremacistas blancos. El Congreso aprobó la Ley de Derechos Civiles.

Volvió a rugir después de que decenas de miles de jóvenes estadounidenses murieran en las selvas de Vietnam, poniendo fin a una de las guerras más costosas, mortíferas y estúpidas del país.

Volvió a rugir contra Richard Nixon después de que se le escuchara en una grabación planeando el encubrimiento del Watergate, y luego se vio obligado a salir de la Casa Blanca en helicóptero de regreso a California.

Ahora vuelve a rugir contra el sociópata ocupante del Despacho Oval, que no tolera las críticas, y que en una semana de locura reveló su absoluto desprecio por la libertad de los estadounidenses de criticarlo, escribir o hablar mal de él, incluso de bromear sobre él.

Quizás soy demasiado optimista, pero he visto mucho. Conozco las señales. El gigante dormido siempre permanece dormido hasta que alguna venalidad se vuelve tan nociva, alguna acción tan irrespetuosa con el bien común, alguna brutalidad tan ruidosa, que no le queda más remedio que despertar.

Y cuando lo hace, el buen sentido del pueblo estadounidense le hace poner fin a lo que sea que lo haya despertado.

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