Amerikan Fascism

& its Hollow Dem Enablers

So let’s have a look at how the second (third?) Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump administration is shaping up in the final days of what’s left of “the old liberal order.”

To Make a Fascist Amerika and Destroy Prospects for Organized Human Life

There’s not much more to say about the malignant, Hitler-channeling sociopath Donald “Drill, Baby Drill” Trump. The pampered sex offender might wear more orange skin spray than a college town sorority princess but don’t be fooled by his childish celebrity culture vanity. Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors Cuz the Guys with the AR-15s Don’t Want to Hurt Me” Trump was properly identified by Noam Chomsky nearly five years ago as “the most dangerous criminal in human history… dedicated with fervor to destroying the prospects of organized human life on Earth.” He is also the top symbol and agent of the lethal movement to give United States government and society a full-on Christian white nationalist-fascist makeover — a movement that has taken over the Republican Party from its tangerine-tinted cult leader down to its demented base.

Let’s take a look at some of Trump’s picks to help him carry out these horrendous projects atop the powerful executive branch of the most powerful and dangerous nation on Earth.

Attorney General: Pam Bondi, a fully MAGA-tized Christian Fascist Trump loyalist who will gladly honor Trump’s call for the end of the Justice Department’s longstanding practice of conducting criminal investigations without White House direction and interference. Bondi helped lead Trump’s legal team during his first impeachment and heads the legal arm of America First Policy Institute, a Trumpist-fascist think tank. Bondi played a key role in Trump’s attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election, overseeing the filing of lawsuits absurdly claiming that the election was stolen in battleground states. As Florida Attorney General, she tried to overthrow the Affordable Care Act and helped lead opposition to same-sex marriage. After leaving Florida state government, she has opposed the New York prosecution and felony convictions of Trump for campaign finance violations and lobbied for a national association fascist county sheriffs. Bondi will gladly go along with Herr Trump’s threat to weaponize the Justice Department against his political enemies and critics.

FBI Director: Kash Patel, an unmitigated fascist assclown, conspiratorialist, pandemicist, and hustler, who wants to turn the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the Federal Bureau of Retribution. Patel promises to purge the FBI of anyone who doesn’t swear loyalty to his deranged Dear Leader. He has compiled a list of sixty “deep state enemies” he says deserve prosecution for trying to “undermine Trump.” The targets on this list include including such leading Trum-enablers as President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James Comey, outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray, and former Trump Attorney General William Barr. According to Patel last year, “these people deserve to go to prison.” Patel has advocated numerous pro-Trump conspiracy theories and appeared on fascist podcasts. He co-hosted a talk show on the fascist Epoch Times website. He has sold Patel-branded supplements that he claims cure the negative effects of COVID-19 vaccines. He is author of a children's picture book, titled The Plot Against the King, which portrays Trump as a benevolent monarch under unjust attack by “deep state” criminals like the “evil queen” Hillary Clinton.

Defense Secretary: Pete Hegseth, a longtime FOX/Fatherland News host and full on Christian white nationalist MAGA fascist without real administrative experience but with large tattoos representing his identity as a Christian Crusader. Called out by his own mother for serial abuse of women and by former colleagues for alcoholic excess, Hegseth sees himself and his fellow True Christians as engaged in a war with “domestic enemies” he accuses of trying to take down Christianity and Western civilization: LGBT folks, non-Christians, leftists, liberals, feminists, and anti-racists. The leading Christian Fascist firebrand theologian and pastor atop Hegseth’s religious order, Doug Wilson, preaches that women should have no authority in home or society and says that the years of Black chattel slavery were a time of welcome “harmony between the races” in the US. The religious expert and pastor Brad Oshni recently told “P”BS that:

“Hegseth is your pick if you want to radicalize our military. Hegseth has said in his writings that he believes there are enemies within our own country, those who are trying to destroy the country from within our borders. If you want to be the kind of president who uses the Insurrection Act, to call in the military against uprisings in American cities, to use military force against protesters, Hegseth is the man for the job. And he will do so believing that he's not waging some kind of brutal criminal act, but instead a holy war against the infidels within America's city gates.”

Director of the Department of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem, the fully Trumpified dog-murdering psychopath and fascist governor of North Dakota, whose leading qualifications for the job are repeated expressions of love for Herr Donald and a fierce nativism that Trump wants to enlist in a Nazi-like campaign to round up and deport millions of brown-skinned immigrants.

“Border Czar”: Tom Homan, who has told US mayors they will face criminal charges if they don’t help Trump carry out “the biggest deportation campaign this country has ever seen.” Ten days ago, this noxious oinker “announced at a Chicago Republican holiday party that Chicago will be ‘ground zero’ for the Trump regime’s fascist mass deportations. Homan,” the Revolutionary Communist Party reports, “said a large force of immigration agents would be deployed to the city January 21, the day after Trump is scheduled to be sworn in, to go after ‘the bad guys.’ Homan is setting the tone for the planned fascist attacks—terrorizing the immigrants in advance, while he taunts and threatens liberal officials like Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker.” Further:

“Chicago is a ‘sanctuary city’ and Illinois a ‘sanctuary state’ That means that the local government cannot cooperate in some significant ways with federal agencies that are charged with deporting immigrants. And Johnson and Pritzker have made defiant statements that they will protect immigrants from federal agents. In reply, Homan said, ‘Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks.’ Homan demanded that they cooperate with federal deportation enforcement and called on them to ‘come to the table.’ Homan said if they won’t cooperate in these draconian crackdowns then ‘get the hell out of the way.’…The audience, which included a large number of police, greeted this with rousing cheers.”

Department of Health and Human Services: the bear-dumping and whale-decapitating lunatic Robert F Kennedy, Jr., is an infamous anti-vaxxer and bizarre conspiracy theorist who has questioned the effectiveness of the polio vaccine, spread the false claim that vaccines cause autism, called for the removal of fluoride form public water systems, embraced raw milk, and promoted hydroxychloroquine as a cure for Covid-19. “If he is confirmed,” the New York Times reports, this anti-science freak “would have sweeping control of a department with 80,000 employees across 13 operating divisions that run more than 100 programs. Its agencies regulate the food and medicine that Americans encounter in their daily lives, decide whether Medicare and Medicaid will pay for drugs and hospital treatments, guard against infectious disease, and conduct billions of dollars of medical research into diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s.” Bobby Junior atop all of that will be nothing less than a public health catastrophe.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Mehmet Oz, a former heart surgeon with zero administrative experience who became a celebrity through his appearances on the Oprah show. Oz is a dedicated promoter of anti-vaxxy medical pseudo-science. His presence atop an agency in charge of medical programs that cover more than 150 million Americans would be another grave menace to public health.

Department of Education: Linda McMahon, a fascist business and World Wrestling Federation executive with zero teaching or professional education policy background. Her job is essentially to dismantle the department and "return education to the states" (Trump).

Department of Energy: Chris Wright, CEO of the fracking company Liberty Energy is a deranged eco-fascist who claims that “there is no climate crisis.” Wright has no government experience and got Trump’s attention through his recurrent appearances on Fatherland News. Wright directed a lobbying group that functioned as a “counterweight” to large petroleum industry organizations that recognize the existence of anthropogenic climate change and back some policies to deal with it. Wright is tight with the fascist petro-billionaire Harold Hamm, a major Trump donor and Trump transition leader eager to accelerate the process of turning planet Earth into a Giant Greenhouse Gas Chamber.

Environmental Protection Agency: Republi-fascist 2020 election-denier Lee Zeldin, a pro-fracking former Congressman who questions basic climate science and possesses zero qualifications for the job. Zeldin’s assignment will be to roll back if not dismantle the agency’s functions, helping thereby sicken and kill untold masses of Americans while also supporting the project of ending decent human life through capitalogenic climate change.

There’s more, of course, but this short list of announced Trump appointees – some of whom may have difficulty being approved by the US Senate, to be sure – surely shows that the incoming fascist Trump administration must not be allowed to hold state power for any considerable period of time, certainly not for four years.

“The Great Capitulation”

Surely the nation’s more liberal members of the American ruling class are hard at work preparing to bring about the rapid collapse of the coming horrific fascist Trump-Vance regime, right?

Umm, not exactly. A recent OpEd by the liberal and somewhat anti-fascist New York Times Michelle Golberg is titled “The Great Capitulation.” “Since Trump won re-election,” Goldberg writes, “many of the most influential people in America seem,” Goldberg writes, “to have lost any will to stand up to him as he goes about transforming America into the sort of authoritarian oligarchy he admires. Call it the Great Capitulation.” Opining that this craven elite surrender to Trump “make[s] it feel like the air is going out of the old liberal order,” Goldberg reports that:

· Top tech titans like Tim Cook, C.E.O. of Apple, Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have recently made trips to Mar a Lago to kiss the ring of Adolph Trump.

· “Following Jan. 6, …Zuckerburg…suspended Trump’s account. But last month at Mar-a-Lago,…Zuckerberg stood, hand on heart, as ‘the club played a rendition of the national anthem sung by imprisoned’ Jan. 6 defendants.”

· Zuckerberg and OpenAI C.E.O. Sam Altman have each pledged a million-dollar donation to Trump’s inauguration.

· Jeff Bezos’ mega corporation company Amazon will livestream Herr Donald’s inauguration on its video platform.

· Time magazine CEO Marc Benioff followed his publication’s designation of Trump as “Person of the Year” by saying on X that “this marks a time of great promise for our nation.”

· Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of The Los Angeles Times, cancelled an editorial that criticized Trump’s insane and fascist cabinet picks and told the US Senate not to let Trump make recess Cabinet appointments (such appointments are not subject to Senate confirmation).

· ABC News shockingly agreed to settle rather than fight a ridiculous defamation case brought against it without legal merit by Trump.

· FBI Director Wray sheepishly resigned before the end of his 10-year term rather than force Trump to fire him.

· “Several Democrats have signaled their willingness to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whose so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, seems poised to hack away at our already threadbare safety net.”

· The Biden administration has so far refused to take action to protect immigrants from Venezuela and Haiti from deportation by the orange fascist-in-chief.

· “One of Kamala Harris’s pollsters…recently warned the Democratic National Committee leadership against pearl-clutching over Trump’s transgressions, including the wildly unfit characters he’s announced for his administration. The voters, she said, ‘don’t care about who he’s putting in cabinet positions.’”

It’s worse than Goldberg says.

We have the decrepit and doddering lame duck president Biden inviting his fascist successor to the White House in the name of a peaceful transition. Genocide Joe – a blood-soaked butcher of masses of Palestinians, Lebanese, Ukrainians and Russians – refuses to say one bad word about Trump and the Trump-fascist agenda as he hobbles off the historical stage that he shat all over. So what if Biden claimed to run against Trump in 2019-20 because “lunch bucket Joe” viewed his opponent as an “existential threat” to American “democracy and freedom”? So what if Biden called MAGA Republicans “semi-fascist” in 2022?

We have Kamala Harris embracing a peaceful transition and staying mum on the horrors of Trump, his horrendous cabinet and other executive branch picks and revanchist plans and promises. So what if she twice identified Trump as a fascist in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign and if Trump and his running mate basically called her an idiot, a “DEI hire,” and a whore on the campaign trail.

And then there’s Rep. James Clybourn (D-SC), the unmitigated Weimar asshole who did more than anyone but Barack Obama to kill the Bernie Sanders candidacy in 2020. This fascist conciliator actually just told his Vichy Democrat friend Biden to PARDON TRUMP for January 6 in the name of giving the United States a “clean slate” going forward. You read that correctly: Clybourn is telling Biden to pardon Trump.

We have Special Prosecutor Jack Smith dutifully shuffling into court to drop all the federal charges against Trump for trying to overthrow previously normative electoral and rule of law democracy in the US in 2020 and 2021.

We have the unmatched fascism-enabler and gutless neoliberal imperialist Barack Obama using his first speech since the 2024 election to tell Americans to compromise and engage with the Republifascists “if they want democracy to survive.”

Oh look, it's Vapid Man...vomiting up his vile Weimar Weltanschauung again.

We even have former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wishing the fascist monster Trump well in his second term even after a campaign in which Trump repeatedly joked about the near murder of Pelosi’s husband during a home invasion by a deranged Trumpist who barked out the sick January 6 chant “Where’s Nancy?!” as he drove a hammer into Paul Pelosi's skull.

What’s wrong with these Hollow Men and Women?

Since its inception in the wake of Trump’s first election, Refuse Fascism has been telling people that the Democratic Party will never fight Amerikan fascism the way it needs to be fought. Maybe the current Weimar moment will help that basic truth finally sink in, helping us form a real popular anti-fascist resistance unencumbered by misplaced concern for the opinions of bourgeois fascism-appeasers like Obama, Pelosi, Harris, Biden, and Clybourn et al.