Trump and the nationalist wing of the Republican Party have announced a great struggle ("Let's Make Western Civilization Great Again!" the hardline Iowa congressman Steve King tweeted on Monday evening), but it is a struggle in which there is no obvious way for ordinary citizens to take part.
But the American president has also been right to resist the temptation to call for the regime's downfall or take sides in the power struggle, let alone back Mr Mousavi for the presidency.
"But if I feel that I'm in a situation where I might have a struggle being let in somewhere with my dog, then I come up with a disorder that sounds like a nightmare.
If every generation is to have a struggle, then let the defense of the Civil Rights Movement, the Women's' Rights Movement, the Gay Rights Movement and the Enlightenment itself be ours.
And I'm so self-conscious that it's always a struggle to let the bad thoughts fly out of the window and let the music live through me.
Struggle lets us stick with a project.
Or, I'm struggling, let me try what they say.
If he struggles – let's say in Jacksonville – and Tebow is active as the No. 2, what will Rex do?
As we celebrate the 50 year anniversary of so many key civil rights struggles, let's remind ourselves that movements can and do make an enormous difference.
In the face of job insecurity and declining salaries, employees knew better than to discuss work-life struggles let alone negotiate flex options.
