When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, his opponents were desperate to look for silver linings and one popular sentiment arose: maybe we’ll get a lot of great punk protest music. It made sense. Punk protest music became a full-fledged moment in the 1980s during Reagan’s presidency, and the parallels between Reagan’s right wing agenda and Trump’s have been widely documented. But even in 2016, you didn’t need to look very hard to realize that punk bands were already speaking out against the oppressive forces of the American government, and that they would continue to do so even if a less obnoxious, less outwardly-bigoted candidate had been elected. “People who’ve had the privilege to think that this is going to ignite an artistic revolution that ...
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