The first clue came on October 27, 2018. On his official Instagram account that day, Tom Morello posted a photo of the ongoing protests in Chile that showed a large group of political demonstrators climbing up a statue in the Chilean capital of Santiago. A man on top of the statue waves the flag of the Mapuche – a group of indigenous people from Chile and Argentina famed for defending their right to land, and whose flag became a symbol of the protests as a result. In his caption, the guitarist wrote: “Chile is not messing around. USA next?” Tom Morello has, of course, been incredibly vocal about his disgust and disdain for President Trump and his administration, so his encouragement for similar protests to spark up in the U.S. wasn’t surprising. But what happened next was completely u...
