Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America

As Trump creates unprecedented chaos, Democrats have offered little more than platitudes - sparking comparisons to France's collaborationist second world war regime

At the dawn of the second Trump presidency, defiance has given way to compliance.

While Donald Trump has rapidly and ruthlessly thrown the federal government into unprecedented chaos, the leaders of the Democratic party have offered up little more than limp banalities and platitudes. Presidents come and presidents go. Through it all. God is still on the throne," tweeted the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, at the end of Trump's first week in office.