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“If we’re going for going to mobilize, it’s going to be the most prominent, the most well-endowed, the most privileged and protected of us in civil society who have to take the lead,” Levitsky said.

And the United States, he said, has a powerful civil society, with very wealthy individuals, powerful universities and independent journalists.

Trump is escalating his campaign to crush dissent by targeting universities, colleges, law firms, media outlets, and other parts of civil society for investigations and punitive financial measures because they are deemed to be disloyal and engaging in un-American activities as defined by the administration.

As I continue to chronicle the Age of Trump and this exhausting and stupefyingly rapid collapse of American democracy and civil society, I envision the American media as an institution, the Democratic Party, old-school Republicans and other elite defenders of “the system” and “normalcy” like the proverbial monks who are blindfolded and feeling an elephant in an attempt to make sense of what it is.

The decision to grant the licence was condemned by civil society group Section Two, which raised concern that Starlink Lesotho was 100% foreign-owned and lacked local ownership, South Africa's GroundUp news site reported.