Former Obama officials become aggressive voices against Trump
Former Obama officials become aggressive voices against Trump
- March 6, 2017
- David Meyer, sociology, via ABC Washington, D.C., March 6, 2017
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“Mostly these elected officials or appointees are following the protest rather than leading it… People who work in institutional politics pay attention to what their base cares about and follow the signals they’re getting,” said David Meyer, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and author of The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America.
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