{"id":41061,"date":"2025-05-03T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41061"},"modified":"2025-05-03T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:43:49","slug":"trump-is-rubbing-our-faces-in-fascism-but-the-people-are-rising-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/trump-is-rubbing-our-faces-in-fascism-but-the-people-are-rising-up\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP IS RUBBING OUR FACES IN FASCISM. BUT THE PEOPLE ARE RISING UP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THU, 5\/1\/2025 – BY\u00a0CARL GIBSON<\/a> (Occupy.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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100 days into President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, it is objectively true to say the United States is captive to a fascist regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is a silver lining \u2014 the more blatantly illegal acts Trump commits, the more opposition to his regime solidifies, increasing the likelihood that he will soon no longer have compliant majorities in Congress to help him enact his agenda. And as the American public continues to publicly stand up to the administration, Trump\u2019s grip on power will eventually slip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump may wish to be a dictator like Vladimir Putin in Russia or Viktor Orban in Hungary, but autocracy takes time to cement, and Trump\u2019s window to consolidate power is closing. Orban \u2014 who is viewed as Trump\u2019s European counterpart<\/a> \u2014 was elected as prime minister for a second time in 2010, and it took him more than a decade to fully seize the levers of power in a country of less than 10 million people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 78 years old, Trump is attempting the Orbanization of a country of more than 340 million residents. In the process, he has ignited a wave of public outrage that the regime has been unable to contain due to its geographically diffuse nature, its practice of nonviolent tactics, and its decentralized organizing structure. And he is notably stacking up losses in the courts<\/a> \u2014 even at the hands of judges he himself appointed in his first term<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s critical to understand that while Americans are up against a tyrannical regime that has open disdain for the Constitution and is actively using the federal government as a cudgel to beat institutions into submission, Trump is nonetheless overplaying the hand he was dealt to his own detriment. And both he and his Republican enablers in Congress can be defeated if we continue to point out their flagrant abuses of the law, stand against them in the streets, and commit to using our electoral power to oust them in next year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TRUMP IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF FASCIST WE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Retired general and former Trump chief of staff John Kelly said last October<\/a> that Trump \u201cfalls into the general definition of fascist.\u201d He expanded on this by describing fascism as \u201ca far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist, political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, [and] belief in a natural social hierarchy.\u201d General Mark Milley \u2014 who Trump appointed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2019 \u2014 called Trump \u201cfascist to the core\u201d<\/a> in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward. And still, Trump won reelection and was the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first 100 days of Trump\u2019s second term, he has acted exactly as the fascist autocrat Kelly and Milley warned he would be. Trump believes this wholeheartedly, calling himself a \u201cking\u201d<\/a> and entertaining talk of an unconstitutional third term to the point where would-be Republican candidates are reportedly shying away from seeking the presidency<\/a> in 2028. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has threatened the conquest of Greenland<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, Gaza<\/a>, and the Panama Canal<\/a>. He has used executive orders to intimidate some of the nation\u2019s biggest law firms into contributing nearly a billion dollars worth of free legal services<\/a> to advance the regime\u2019s goals. The administration even threatened to launch an autism registry, sparking comparisons<\/a> to Nazi Germany\u2019s registry of autistic people that it later used for mass extermination (that plan was later retracted<\/a>). Federal agents even arrested a county judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/a> and charged her with two felonies after she refused their illegal attempt to interrupt an ongoing hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is actively seeking to rewrite American history on multiple fronts, including removing Black history artifacts<\/a> from the Smithsonian, purging government websites of important Black history like the Tuskegee Airmen and baseball icon Jackie Robinson\u2019s military service record<\/a>. His Department of Defense has purged the Naval Academy library of books<\/a> celebrating the Black experience like Maya Angelou\u2019s \u201cI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,\u201d while keeping racist and white supremacist books in circulation like Adolf Hitler\u2019s \u201cMein Kampf\u201d and Jean Raspai\u2019s \u201cThe Camp of the Saints.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regime has also followed through on its campaign promise to carry out widespread deportations of undocumented immigrants, though it has included legal immigrants and even some US citizens in its deportation efforts. And the administration is openly admitting that it is revoking visas for explicitly political reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n