Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich thinks “the tide is now turning” against President Donald Trump.The former Bill Clinton Cabinet secretary argued that — amid the Jimmy Kimmel suspension and reinstatement controversy and the president’s recently increased attacks on the press — Trump has “in one wild week revealed his utter contempt for the freedom of Americans to criticize him, to write or speak negatively about him, even to joke about him.” Read Reich’s full essay on Substack.The “great sleeping giant of America” is “starting to roar again now” at “the sociopathic occupant of the Oval Office,” posited Reich.“Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but I’ve seen a lot. I know the signs,” he continued. “The sleeping giant always remains asleep until some venality becomes so noxious, some action so disrespectful of the common good, some brutality so noisy, that he has no choice but to awaken.”“And when he does, the good sense of the American people causes him to put an end to whatever it was that awakened him,” he concluded.Close