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The Direction and Momentum of Trump's Fascism This Week:
Trump and Hegseth Tell Top Generals to Commit War Crimes and Wage War on American Cities
Trump and Hegseth’s rally in front of hundreds of top brass generals and admirals yesterday is yet another red line crossed. Trump told the generals that America faces a “war from within,” and “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.” He said, “We should use some of these dangerous cities [led by Democrats] as training grounds for our military.”
This is a move to forge a military answerable not to the Constitution
but to Trump himself – on a whole other scale. History shows where this
leads: unleashing the military against the population and green-lighting
repression to pave the way for a total lockdown of society – shutting
down any chance of recourse, due process, or resistance to stop them,
and any hope of a future worth living in as they commit greater and
greater atrocities that imperil all of humanity.
Today, the federal government has been shut down over an impasse on the spending bill, particularly over cutting subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which would leave millions of people without affordable healthcare. No one can say how long this shutdown is going to last. Thousands of federal workers will be furloughed or forced to work without pay.
Trump’s budget director Russel Vought – one of the three most powerful players in the regime (the other two are Stephen Miller and Trump himself) - hopes to use Trump’s government shutdown to slash tens of thousands of federal jobs.
This government shut down is another expression of the deep divisions in the ruling institutions - with a hardened fascist Republican Party led by a demented bully on the one side and a Democratic Party that has no leverage and in this case is confronted with a new reality that they have nothing to gain by capitulating, for now. The norms have been shredded and Congress has been stripped of power as a check on the executive branch.
Every institution in society and government - including the military - has deep cracks and divisions – with many people who hate what this regime is doing even if they are now going along with it. This means that there are forces still within the ruling structures of this country who could be compelled to legitimately remove Trump from power. But this could only be compelled – and it would only have enough power and chance at success – with a massive political earthquake from below: a force of millions of people united in unrelenting nonviolent mass protest, repudiating and de-legitimizing this fascist regime in the eyes of the world.
Make plans to get in the streets wherever you are on October 18 – No Kings Day 2.0 – and then onward to November 5 in DC
In case you missed it: Refuse Fascism podcast #265:
Defeating Trump/MAGA Fascism CAN Be Done… But WE Have to Do It
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