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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a separate lawsuit challenging the same order late Monday, with executive director Anthony D. Romero calling it “unconstitutional” and “a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values.”

And, in a repudiation of Trump’s charge that China runs the canal, Mulino denied that any country except Panama directed operations.

In 2017, Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of the writers group PEN America, warned of Trump’s “repudiation of the American ideals — grounded in the Enlightenment — of self-expression, knowledge, dissent, criticism, and truth.”

Other California reform advocates, however, rejected the idea that the election results were a repudiation of progressive policies.

But his victory was also something else: a popular revulsion toward elites, a repudiation of government, a vote to smash all institutions.