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Webinar: Dr Christina Pagel and Trump Action Tracker
Professor Christina Pagel [UCL], previously known as a prominent contributor to Independent SAGE, initiated in February a project to catalogue and characterise “the actions, statements, and plans of President Donald Trump and his administration that may pose a threat to American democracy, since the start of his second term in January 2025”.
As she reported on August 21st, the total of such recorded acts had by then passed 1000, with their pace accelerating. They are being classified under five major “domains of authoritarianism”:
Undermining Democratic Institutions & Rule of Law; Dismantling federal government
Suppressing Dissent & Controlling Information
Dismantling Social Protections & Rights; Enrichment & Corruption
Attacking Science, Environment, Health, Arts & Education
Aggressive Foreign Policy & Global Destabilisation; Nationalism
An early instalment of the database included a field documenting, for each Trump action, “Any organised actions against? (individuals speaking out against does not count)”. After the first few weeks, just over half the recorded actions had a recorded counter-action.
Professor Pagel has accepted the invitation of the Grassroots for Europe Round Table to brief us in an open webinar session on the Trump presidency and its impact in America, Europe and beyond.
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