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Why antiracism protests are achieving more progress under Trump than Obama | Cas Mudde

Between Trump, Covid-19, and police brutality, America is a perfect political storm. But the left must keep fighting even if Biden wins
The words ‘Black Lives Matter’ are painted on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

The US is now in its fourth week of mass protests against institutional racism and police brutality. Substantive debates about police reform – including formerly radical proposals to “defund the” – have entered the mainstream political discussion and in some cases already achieved . While it is still early, and history is a warning against too much optimism, it seems clear that the protests in the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd are producing more, and more concrete, results than similar recent protests did.

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