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The Museum of the Trump Resistance
OSLO, NORWAY – I’m feeling a little sheepish taking a short vacation here while America is becoming a full-on dictatorship. But I needed a break—to clear my head and to spend a little time in a sane, normal country. Norway is better than normal. It’s seriously green and getting greener. Central Oslo is mostly free of cars because the public transit is so good, and cars are seriously taxed. Some 92 percent of new cars sold last year were electric.
But the most inspiring thing I’ve seen here in Norway is not the amazing Edvard Munch museum, nor Oslo’s superb tram system, nor the pristine natural beauty mercifully free of gasoline fumes. It’s the Museum of the National Resistance.
In April 1940, Norway fell to the Nazis. The small Norwegian army held off the invasion just long enough for King Haakon and the cabinet to escape to the north and then to London for the duration, on a British warship. The prime minister, elected in Norway’s last prewar free election in 1936, headed a Labor Party government, which built the modern Norwegian welfare state.
In 1940, the Germans installed Vidkun Quisling as Norway’s leader, though his far-right party won just 2.2 percent of the vote in 1936. Quisling became a synonym for traitors who collaborated with invaders everywhere. After the war, he was tried and executed for treason, just a few steps from the building that is now the Museum of the Resistance.
But the most inspiring thing I’ve seen here in Norway is not the amazing Edvard Munch museum, nor Oslo’s superb tram system, nor the pristine natural beauty mercifully free of gasoline fumes. It’s the Museum of the National Resistance.
In April 1940, Norway fell to the Nazis. The small Norwegian army held off the invasion just long enough for King Haakon and the cabinet to escape to the north and then to London for the duration, on a British warship. The prime minister, elected in Norway’s last prewar free election in 1936, headed a Labor Party government, which built the modern Norwegian welfare state.
In 1940, the Germans installed Vidkun Quisling as Norway’s leader, though his far-right party won just 2.2 percent of the vote in 1936. Quisling became a synonym for traitors who collaborated with invaders everywhere. After the war, he was tried and executed for treason, just a few steps from the building that is now the Museum of the Resistance.
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-08-12-museum-of-trump-resistance/]