Pushers

Are you pushing hard, or are you standing free?

For decades, America’s vulnerable communities – the poor, minorities, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+ individuals – have relied not on the goodwill of masses of people in power, but on institutional “walls” of protection: civil rights laws, oversight agencies, and checks and balances that guard against abuse. If one stands calmly by the wall, its sudden disappearance poses no immediate danger – a moral person doesn’t plunge into wrongdoing simply because rules relax. But if one has been leaning with full force against those walls, chafing at the constraints, then once the barrier falls, they lunge unchecked into the chasm of harm. In the past six to eight months of the current U.S. administration (from January to August 2025), we have witnessed exactly the latter phenomenon.