Detroit Fights Back: Why We Must Confront the Fascist Threat Facing Us Today

 

There is a political tradition in the United States which paved the way to what the current administration is imposing

Since the concluding months, weeks and days of the first administration of President Donald Trump, there has been clear indications of a threat to fundamental norms which ostensibly guide the political system in the United States.

Amid a general wave of mass demonstrations and rebellions during the summer of 2020 in response to the police execution of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other incidents of racist violence, Trump evoked the Insurrection Act of the early 1800s when African enslavement was enshrined in the constitutional framework of the U.S.

For months prior to the November 2020 elections, the Trump administration and its supporters were saying that if they lost the elections, it would only be due to massive fraud. The followers of Trump, the MAGA Republicans, are still maintaining that the 2020 presidential elections were stolen.

The January 6, 2021 neo-fascist insurrection at Capitol Hill provided a glimpse of the willingness of the modern day far right to use violence not just against the oppressed peoples and those with whom they disagree politically, but to seize control of the state in order to purge undesirable elements from positions of authority. This removal of large segments of the population extends far beyond those in political positions, the threat has been extended to millions of immigrants, African Americans, Latin Americans, people whose ancestry can be found in various regions of Asia and the South Pacific.  (more...)

Detroit Fights Back: Why We Must Confront the Fascist Threat Facing Us Today