On the other, it's very empowering time to be disempowered.
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How does this election make you feel empowered or disempowered?
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Men are feeling really disempowered due to the #MeToo movement.
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Community turnaround is so hard because communities have become disempowered.
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Horror is meant to make the audience feel disempowered and terrorized.
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For the disempowered, it might mean a further loss of agency.
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Many become victims of domestic violence and grow up feeling disempowered.
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We want people to feel empowered, not disempowered, by the truth.
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But voters who feel disempowered and marginalized latch on to this promise.
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But no matter what, we don't let it end with feeling disempowered.
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"People feel very disempowered ... given the results of the election," Javed said.
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We were not there to offend or make the community feel disempowered.
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Systematically and historically, the Black community has been left disenfranchised and disempowered.
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Did Frederick Douglass become disempowered by discussing his suffering as a slave?
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It can create a world where the victims feels disempowered and disenfranchised.
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It's something that can make us feel angry, insecure and most importantly, disempowered.
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I'm glad to use my voice for those who might be feeling disempowered.
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There really isn't any understanding that upper-class women are disempowered by patriarchy.
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The problem with this is that we leave people feeling disempowered and depressed.
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We are disempowered to vote for women because we believe that others won't.
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So, in order to avoid feeling disempowered, I have periodically opted out of dating.
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And I just feel very, very disempowered, because I thought good would win out.
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I was looking at the water and watching the boats and feeling really disempowered.
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Turning to them for help will make their youth feel less alienated and less disempowered.
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Ethnocentric views of "Asian pride" can be seductive for those who have historically felt disempowered.
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There, misogyny can function as a pep talk that helps empower men who feel disempowered.
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You've disempowered yourself as president, and I don't think it helps you as a candidate.
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Conspiracy theories help people who feel politically disempowered respond to a perceived loss of control.
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She uses her abilities to seek justice and empower the disempowered—like every witch should.
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That was possible partly because welfare, unlike Obamacare, only benefits the poor, who are politically disempowered.
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To Western sensibilities, the covered Muslim woman must de facto be the disempowered woman awaiting liberation.
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Giphy Fake news is rising on the "disempowered" left, at least partly because of wishful thinking.
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And the language of powerlessness, sacrifice and selflessness helps to keep women in a disempowered place.
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Having witnessed spurts of economic growth and opportunity, these disempowered millions see no prospect of advance.
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The better strategy for those who are already disempowered is to reject contempt on its face.
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The corporatization of virtually every aspect of our lives has left us feeling defeated and disempowered.
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Unless it is disempowered as a political tool, we may see it on the left soon enough.
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Foreign-born children are uniquely disempowered in the political system, so they bear the brunt for now.
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There's a lack of agency among the youth who feels disempowered and complacent with what's going on.
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It is a gray area and unfortunately it's making a lot of women feel uncomfortable and disempowered.
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"It keeps women disempowered, limits their children's life chances and slows down economic growth," the Gates wrote.
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And to heighten that rush, to bring home the sense of power, someone else needs to be disempowered.
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She had power, she was disempowered, she was lied to, and then she was held against her will.
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Child brides are often disempowered and at greater risk of domestic and sexual violence and HIV, experts say.
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Maybe a problem that impacted a larger, whiter, and less politically disempowered population would get a stronger response.
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He was seen as a freedom fighter on behalf of the little people being surveilled, overcharged, and disempowered.
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It's because we set the rules of the game in a way that have really disempowered ordinary workers.
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While women wearing hijabs are sometimes stereotyped as disempowered, there are many personal reasons women choose to wear them.
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I am sorry to those who feel like Bellesa disempowered them, disrespected them, or placed our interests above theirs.
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Researchers surveyed US gun owners, finding that feeling disempowered was associated with a willingness to shoot a home intruder.
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"As a woman, sometimes I feel disempowered in this society," Ms. Graham said, explaining her interest in the occult.
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Have black markets always served a role in allowing the disempowered to create economic and political leverage for themselves?
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In the beginning is the fear: The protagonist, usually a woman, often disempowered in some significant way, sees something scary.
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After coming face-to-face with Taystee in her disempowered situation, Caputo reevaluates his complicity as an employee of MCC.
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" Instead he said, "We're going to re-empower the same people who destroyed the economy and disempowered the middle class.
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For more than fifty years Medicaid has provided much-needed security and stability to some of America's most disempowered people.
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One of the themes of the play is how people gain power by standing on the backs of the disempowered.
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One of the things that is hard to capture — beyond the economics — is how much public employees now feel disempowered.
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Klar and Krupnikov find "independents" are more disenchanted with politics than partisans, and they feel disempowered and angry about it.
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As one of the largest and most disempowered demographics in this eastern European nation, Ukraine's youth are at a crossroads.
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What happened in Flint is how disempowered and dismissed these people were in the decisions that were effecting their own lives.
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I was terrified of it, and I did not want my daughter to grow up feeling as disempowered as I did.
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But all of this creates friction, employees are feeling disempowered and there is a lot of added complexity to the administration.
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"I'm feeling disempowered and frustrated, and even though it feels slightly futile, I wanted to be here today," Ms. Chandler said.
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Meanwhile, the public is entirely disempowered, cowering in fear of evil intruders or whipped up into a frenzy by unscrupulous demagogues.
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And yet, the office has been neglected and disempowered under this administration, with key jobs — including its top position — remaining unfilled.
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The second principle we have is that you have to include people from every community, including ones that are traditionally disempowered.
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"You have to make sure the people here who were disempowered gain their power and have their voice always acknowledged," she said.
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My colleagues and I gently advised many people around relationships where they were disempowered, ignored, devalued, and dehumanized without language for it.
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Today we shift between two extremes of lead generation models: one which consumers are empowered and the other where consumers are disempowered.
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Mission Asset Fund seeks to help the most economically disempowered, monitoring its lending groups and vetting applications to help prevent non-payments.
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It disempowered ordinary people, especially women and low-income and working-class people, because it told them that they need a savior.
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But it has long given the disempowered an entree into a political and regulatory system that is too often closed to them.
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I believe many of them became disempowered when they wanted changes in their schools — like electricity, permanent structures — but that didn't happen.
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House of Cards The republic is in crisis, the good guys are dead or disempowered, and the bad guys just keep winning.
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"This polarization could have devastating consequences for black communities and poor communities that would become isolated and even more disempowered," they wrote.
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But once you get behind the camera — and I know people disagree with this — I felt you were disempowered rather than empowered.
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"When I'm able to speak up and call people out for it and protect myself, I feel empowered instead of disempowered," Webb said.
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"I helped Mr. Epstein protect his reputation, and I disempowered his victims," Mr. Lloyd wrote in a post on the Medium online platform.
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Modernity is power, and those who have better assimilated it, especially if physically weaker, can often appear threatening to those who feel disempowered.
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As the sociologist Jamila Michener has found, similarly punitive policies in Medicaid make people feel disempowered, causing them to withdraw from political participation.
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Cover image: Juan Guaido, president of the disempowered parliament in Venezuela, declares himself head of state at a rally in front of supporters.
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My hope is that this campaign will bring every woman closer to achieving their greatest potential without the fear of being objectified or disempowered.
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The absence of an administrative state (or a deliberately weakened state) will result in no one (or a disempowered staff) overseeing rules and procedures.
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Lesson 1: Time managementThompson thought she had no time to fit in dating because she was a single mother — a "disempowered story," Wunder said.
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In the United States, progressive movements won strong victories before being disempowered and abandoned by the politicians that had been elected to represent them.
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How can a government balance legitimate concerns about an epidemic against the temptation to overstate the risks or incite hysteria about a disempowered population?
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So both sides have reasons to feel threatened, disempowered and surrounded; both can feel as though they exist under a kind of enemy rule.
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Benchmark had signaled that it planned to drop the suit once Uber enacted a series of governance reforms that disempowered both Kalanick and Benchmark.
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After outlasting violent street protests last year, he plowed ahead with the election of the Constituent Assembly and disempowered the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
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The rise of super PACs and the right-wing media has disempowered the party's gatekeepers, while wage stagnation has widened the opening for populist demagogy.
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Similarly, Gloria Steinem was not disempowered by talking about the sexism she experienced by going undercover as a Playboy Bunny in her famous 1963 article.
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After the Americans ousted him in 2003, extremists exploited the anger of disempowered Sunnis to build the insurgency that would later become the Islamic State.
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When policy is designed or administered in ways that are discriminatory, stingy, or unreliable, then the people meant to benefit from such policy are disempowered.
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Lindsey M. Burke, director of the Center for Education Policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation, which fought the Core, said the standards had "disempowered" parents.
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After repeated political attacks, attempts at merger, and reductions in force during the 1990s, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) became demoralized, disempowered and disrespected.
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New research in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says that after mass shootings, people who feel disempowered may feel more willing to shoot someone.
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Check out more videos from VICE: You're a professional organizer, but what do you say to people out there who feel disempowered and disengaged right now?
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Queer women of color — marginalized and too often disempowered because of their race, gender and sexuality — are most astute in their definition of what power is.
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" The film, in Hooks's view, was contaminated by "the pervasive sense that we have witnessed a woman being disempowered and not a woman coming to power.
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This leads to a lose-lose situation where some people are disempowered, other people get talked over and the best ideas don't get heard, according to Henry.
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Dowd says Thurman felt disempowered by the crash, and that comes through clearly, as does the trauma of the crash itself, which left Thurman with ongoing injuries.
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OR: My message to young people in Jordan, and, as you said, in-, in the Arab world, we've suffered similar situations of, um-, of youth feeling disempowered.
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Artists — even disempowered female ones — had (and still have) the social capital to turn their maintenance work into maintenance art, simply by saying so; sanmen do not.
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A mere decade after rising to significant prominence on the assembly floor, unions were significantly disempowered by small, decentralized, highly automated factories built in distant, isolated suburbs.
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"On a personal level, I am troubled, and regret, that individuals engaged with the company may have felt disempowered, vulnerable or unheeded in any way," he wrote.
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He faces challenges from elements within the ruling coalition who feel disempowered and from new, ethnically-based parties eager to flex their muscles in next year's elections.
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If Rauch's concern is that party leaders have been disempowered, it seems odd that he would want to further disempower them by devolving power to the committees.
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We need information about the future of government, the struggles for justice by the disempowered, true art, and the businesses that will change our world for the better.
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Otherwise, we will be left with an unequal society where corporate power dominates all facets of life and a disempowered working class struggles with limited opportunity and mobility.
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Indeed, they're pushing back against church institutions that have historically granted power to straight, white cisgender men and disempowered everyone else—not only women, but LGBTQ people, too.
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This meta-transformation is a powerful journey from being a disempowered victim who was aggressed upon to the wound becoming an integrated part of the whole that we are.
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Now, those most vulnerable — the poor, the marginalized and the disempowered — are at the forefront of her agenda and her efforts to bring their stories to a global audience.
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Jimmy Carter's presidency foundered as his administration lurched from diplomacy with a changing cast of disempowered actors to a rescue mission that literally ran aground in a desert sandstorm.
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Many of the captions using the #wearfigs hashtag are about the need to be seen and heard, and about feeling disenfranchised and disempowered, and the desire to be validated.
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Disempowered and unsure how to express it, you may take a strange comfort in the fact that there is another alienated human on the other end of your device.
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Disoriented and disempowered, she begins to have visions of a wild woman (Isidora Goreshter) who offers an escape from the role Clara plays in her family of professional clowns.
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A hero narrative coalesced around her and the engineer and activist Marc Edwards, reinforcing a "dangerous dynamic of 'saviors' and 'saved' that disempowered the community all over again," Clark writes.
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But in its practical use by the alt-right at large — most frequently to harass women online — the common implication is that progressive men are sexually disempowered by manipulative women.
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Away from campaign rallies and candidates, many voters said they felt disempowered rather than emboldened; they expressed feelings of cynicism, apathy and fear fueled by the highly fraught political moment.
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"People are feeling disempowered and unprotected," one activist who has worked in the region for years told BuzzFeed News, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect sources in the region.
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She said the final incident, when Franken touched her breasts while she was sleeping, left her feeling particularly disempowered because she couldn't confront Franken in person about it in the moment.
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I realized that as a nation, we've created a monster: a generation of disempowered, directionless, and overburdened students who work harder every year, yet continue to see their SAT scores decline.
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Since Air Jordans took off in the late 1980s, school officials, public figures, and the press have repeatedly weighed in on why disempowered youth want clothes that make them feel important.
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Why would you want people who feel already disempowered by the overwhelming forces of the system to think now, okay, now companies can actually take my personal data and profit off it.
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Seeing straight men in submissive roles might also be appealing because it offers some gay men the opportunity to "overcome their feeling of being disempowered and unwanted by straight men," Kort says.
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Observer gives us a world of infected vs healthy; cybernetic vs pure; enfranchised vs disempowered; normative vs mentally ill; shiny cyberpunk VR cathedrals vs worn down, decaying apartment buildings; safety vs freedom.
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She's both a figure of enormous privilege and a figure who is disempowered, and most of the discourse about the story has focused on trying to figure out exactly where she stands.
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France, having nuclear weapons, likes to think of itself as a geopolitical "power," albeit "mid-size"; Germany has been "disempowered" in the post-World War II decades and lives happily with it.
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Teens and young adults have plenty of time and a deep desire to congregate with their many friends, but may be disempowered by their lack of self-directed agency, transportation, or home ownership.
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Worth reading in full: First, the weakening of old-style information gatekeepers (such as media, NGOs, and government and academic institutions), while empowering the underdogs, has also, in another way, deeply disempowered underdogs.
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According to a new study, men whose wives don't take their surname are seen as disempowered and less masculine by their peers, while the women are considered high-status, powerful, ambitious and assertive.
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I think he decided, before he could possibly have worked it all out, and before fate and time could work their will on him, he decided he would not be ever be disempowered.
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People who feel disempowered tend to feel more willing to shoot someone when mass shootings loom large in their mind, according to new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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We've since made our peace with increasingly disempowered crowns resting on female heads: between them, Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II have sat on the British throne for 130 of the last 200 years.
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Liu: As dysfunctional as our politics is right now and as disempowered as many people feel, there are so many Americans around the country who are relearning how to exercise their citizen muscles.
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Like many others at the time, the collective's members were struck by the sense that globalization—its financial markets in particular—had left people completely disempowered, including the people generally viewed as running the show.
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Humanity has created vast wealth and technological know-how that could contribute to solutions for the global common good, yet immense numbers of people are disempowered, marginalized and suffering from a deep sense of insecurity.
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"Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" shows how the post-1980 move from stable institutions to a deal-oriented economy benefited the wealthy and disempowered everyone else.
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"I think no one wants to go to work every day feeling disempowered, right, and I think people often come up with other narratives or other ways to describe their circumstances—usually positively," said Rosenblat.
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But the men interviewed by French and Potter almost universally tell stories of being young and disempowered in some way, then being exploited sexually by a man who held all the power — and knew it.
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Still, some athletes were determined to use the Olympics' platform to make a statement for civil rights for Black and disempowered people around the world, resulting in one of the most enduring moments in Olympics history.
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But he thinks that the rise of robots and the general gig-ification of jobs will "marginalize the role of collective bargaining," so he has made a strategic turn to prepare for a disempowered working class.
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"Say It Loud" became a staple of the Civil Rights Movement, exhorting a categorically disempowered people to take pride in the things that the members of a dominant white social order had used to marginalize them.
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"As an employee at the world's leading ride-share company, I see firsthand not only the often meager earnings of our drivers, but also the exploitative labor practices imposed on a systemically disempowered workforce," the author wrote.
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In these allegations we see a pattern of men repeatedly abusing their power and getting away with it while women and girls, correctly understanding that they would be systematically shamed if they "told," were silenced and disempowered.
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Or perhaps not so paradoxical, given that males who are particularly conflicted about their disempowered status in American life — and who are the most loyal Trump supporters — might be the ultimate beneficiaries of this kind of reform.
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After the anti-sealskin movement of the 1970s resulted in bans on the animal pelts that disempowered the Inuit both economically and culturally, the ethnic group has in recent years attempted to reclaim and revive the sealskin market.
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But neither the defense of the workers nor of other disempowered groups was a conspiracy on its own, and never was there a malignant plot to convert the first into the second — which is what "cultural Marxism" implies.
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I've worked in more than 60 countries and I know that the correlation between disempowered women and stagnant social progress can't be explained with "Well, in our culture...." From Korea to Congo to Colombia, the connection is the same.
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If Mr. Big, Carrie's beloved, represented one '90s male icon, the finance type, Robert, with his debt and pickup truck, represents a very current countertype, a disempowered white guy baffled to find things are no longer going his way.
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Treuer's suggestion, for example, that Indian peoples have been infected by colonialism with a disease "of powerlessness … more potent than most people imagine" could be extended to include the subordination experienced by other gendered, racialized and historically disempowered communities.
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To Goffman, however, the fact that a journalist or a legal scholar would turn to the police to confirm accusations against them is representative of the broader failure of American society to take seriously the complaints of disempowered minority communities.
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Concerned that future provocative speakers might enable "the bullying of disempowered groups," the faculty commission is asking students and others to come in for heart-to-heart chats on who should or should not be able to speak at Wellesley.
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Because the longer we say one thing when we mean another, the less powerful the term "empowerment" becomes, and there are still too many truly disempowered people for us to dilute that definition and pare away at its actual substance.
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One White House source, who described OSTP this week as "disempowered," said they had no idea if anyone in the new president's inner circle ever saw their work — and, as a result, perhaps did not appreciate the tech backlash to come.
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Rochelle later said she was acting on behalf of Femen, a European women's movement whose members paint messages on their topless bodies to protest the patriarchy, and to reclaim the bodies of women who have been disempowered through sexual assault.
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I worry about Sanders's chances against Trump, but a candidate foisted on the party over the furious remonstrances of a disempowered base would almost certainly fare worse, while permanently alienating the young people who should be the Democratic Party's future.
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Through a singular use of archival discovery and montage, Adam Curtis discerns the disquieting ways in which people, disempowered by politics, have surrendered their agency, and how corporatists and politicians have maintained the facade of a stable world in the meantime.
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For starters, you might not realize you even have the power to help other women: 65 percent of leadership roles at top tech companies are held by white men, which can make women feel disempowered to effect organizational change — regardless of race.
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It's the only mission of its kind in any of the games; it is the first time the game asks you not to fight for your own empowerment, but to take vengeance for the sake of a fractured and disempowered group of women.
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It is no surprise that, as another recent study shows, women of color can feel disempowered during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care thanks to providers delivering health information in a leading way rather than allowing the patient's true informed consent in decision-making.
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Nor are considerations about how institutions and cultural practitioners can and should accept responsibility for the ways in which we share a range of narratives, or how we undo the telling of one story, or how we empower those who have been disempowered.
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We like to believe that contemporary ecological art engages in a struggle for positive cultural change, but Chang entertains the possibility that such work is actually engaged in a struggle with its own fatalistic and disempowered sense of grief over the culture's impending demise.
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"The way in which racial minority groups, particularly those who are disempowered [like First Nations people], get treated in the context of sex, and porn as an extension of that, is often very troubling... It's usually a lot about power, colonialism, and control," Callander said.
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It follows, then, that it can be resolved by a benevolent Western donor who provides sewing machines or chickens, and thus delivers the women of India (or Kenya or Mozambique or wherever in what's known as the "global south") from their lives of disempowered want.
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But I'm not sure the answer to the sorry state of the studio comedy — and/or the rise of people who insist that comedians joking about the traditionally disempowered are only upholding a broken status quo — is making a big studio superhero-adjacent film.
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"If a student is convicted of a drug offense and her family can afford to pay for college, she will be unaffected by the legislation, while those who are already in danger of being forced to society's margins will be further disempowered," Boyd said.
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Many of the movement's various subcommunities have insisted that the word is (warning: the following two links contain hate speech) strictly racist and that its origins center on white men being disempowered by miscegenation and other forms of interaction with members of other races.
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"King thinks that racism divides the people who are most vulnerable and most disempowered for economic and political reasons," said Brandon M. Terry, an assistant professor of African and African-American studies at Harvard and an editor of a new book on Dr. King's political theories.
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"She was somebody who saw the injustices of the world and the plight of the weak and vulnerable and disempowered, and she also saw the idealism, the amazing utopian vision of Rojava, and she found those two elements irresistible," her father, Dirk Campbell, said in an interview.
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But before anyone had time to reflect on its significance, Banksy's $21970 million "self-destructing" painting intervened, and the world was talking about a sensational stunt, rather than the way that female artists, and artists from other long-disempowered sectors of society, were reconfiguring the art world.
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"What we're trying to do is move toward the idea of coming together and providing platforms for artists to express their truths and tell their stories in a world where people are being silenced, disempowered and shut down," said Mr. Binder in an interview on Monday.
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On Thursday, a judge dismissed the venture firm's case against Kalanick; one of Uber's earliest and largest investors, Benchmark had signaled that it planned to drop the suit once Uber enacted a series of governance reforms that disempowered both Kalanick and Benchmark; those changes took effect on Jan. 18.
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Five years later she founded The Circle, a charitable non-governmental organization that aims to inspire, support and amplify awareness of the issues experienced by some of the world's most disempowered women and girls — and to help combat these injustices by making education available for those in need.
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"These iconic images of polar bears on melting glaciers and children dying in African deserts are highly emotive, but they leave people completely disempowered — they don't know what to do," Mr. Pinsky said in an interview on Sunday as he watched people's reactions as they walked through his installation.
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Both reflect the frustration of disempowered majorities, in other words, of historically dominant groups who feel they are not being allowed to put their stamp on society, as is their natural right, because unrepresentative elites are holding them back, or because overprotected minorities have a disproportionate share of power.
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In trying to build an "economy that works for everyone" — a phrase that May lifted from Corbyn — politicians of all stripes seem to be hurriedly abandoning the experiment in neoliberal economics that, beginning in the 1980s, disempowered government, enriched a minority and made many more feel left behind.
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Taking away that tool for survival is not going to help those people; they're still going to be disempowered and vulnerable — and that's not even to speak to the broader population of sex workers who are fine with their jobs [and] choose it as an occupation that suits their needs.
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In Swing Time, Smith ruminates on the strange resonance of conspiracy theory, seeing commonalities in the ways the disempowered people of her unnamed African country and those of London discuss political power: They believe that there are people who run things, they are shadowy, we can't know, but we talk anyway.
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Everything from the coverage of Ryan Lochte's incident at the Rio Olympics (which highlighted the power of white male privilege) to the continued violence against people of color at the hands of law enforcement makes Black men feel disempowered in a more complicated way than most of us are able to consciously process.
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To be able to make money showed power and to be empowered, when most of the people making and consuming this music initially had occupied disempowered positions in society, was a brilliant thing—even if the eventual consequences were not really being considered, just as they weren't in the main political arenas.
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But personally, the difference in listening to Jay or Kanye and the way that empowers me is that I feel like there's a level of honesty in hip-hop about the uglier side of power and of being disempowered that isn't really spoken of in detail in the punk world, even with my favorite bands.
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My body had developed early and dramatically as an adolescent and that introduction to the world of male desire—men hollering at me from truck windows when I was twelve, crude gestures in the middle-school hallways—had been a fast and hard lesson in the ways my female body both empowered and disempowered me.
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In the song however, Carter seems to pine for those dangerous streets: At 452 Marcy, on roughly 903 acres that were once the site of an old Dutch windmill, the projects where Carter grew up remain, as disempowered as ever, if less riven with deadly violence than at the height of the crack age.
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"I think he decided before he could have possibly worked it all out and before fate and time could work their will on him, he decided he would never be disempowered, he decided not his grace nor his place nor the expectations of others would strip from him the power to write his own story," Clinton continued.
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I have often noticed that people go in for the sermonizing kind of driving when they are in the vicinity of their own house, particularly if that house is troubled by traffic problems: It might be said that they have become disempowered to the degree that their individual example is the only recourse left to them.
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But as Karina Longworth notes in her fantastic series about the Manson murders on the You Must Remember This podcast, these hippie communities often wound up reifying the same restrictive and imbalanced gender norms that they purported to escape, with the "free love" culture often leaving young women disempowered and vulnerable to sexual assault and further marginalization.
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The real reason Schumer and Senate Democrats are struggling to secure help for DREAMers is that there are only 49 of them in a 100-person body (and you need 60 to pass legislation), their colleagues in the House are even more disempowered than they are, and the executive branch is controlled by people who are fundamentally hostile to the cause.
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The formal portrait, "Untitled (Shomari)," of a young black male against a pink backdrop, which is mounted near Gardenhire's "Origin of the World" photograph of black men and books and "Untitled (Black Confession/ American Hunger)," an appropriated passage from Richard Wright's 1945 memoir, Black Boy, work together to give image to the process of reconstructing identity and race out of a disempowered past.
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In taking his case to arbitration, Ziober said he felt completely disempowered: I would have no access to a federal judge nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, I would lose my Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial, I would lose any meaningful right to an appeal, and I would lose my right to a public proceeding of any kind.
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"By emphasizing his central role, the president has disempowered his top negotiators, especially the well-qualified Steve Biegun, and made it difficult for Biegun to get the DPRK to address the central issues in advance of a summit," said Thomas Countryman, a career diplomat who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation during the Obama administration and for one week of Trump's administration.
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In contrast to the image of a demoralized and disempowered State Department workforce described in some press accounts, thousands of U.S. foreign service officers at nearly 300 U.S. embassies and consulates across the globe do their best to ignore childish tweets emanating from the White House and continue the work of engaging with foreign counterparts, administering exchange programs, issuing visas, promoting U.S. business interests, implementing foreign aid mechanisms, and assisting U.S. citizens living overseas.
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