Who Needs Dystopian Political Science Fiction?

We've Got Mein Trumpf Returning to Power in the Real World

Who needs dystopian political science fiction in Amerika today? Real time nonfiction feels dystopian enough.

This morning I was awakened by the sound of Interstate 80, two miles north. The constant dull roar of the trucks merges into one never-ending scream of engines and tires.

This death roar can be heard in every corner of this country. The carbon that spews out of these monstrous machines and all the cars, pickup trucks and SUVs between them and the jet planes crisscrossing the sky above is turning the planet into a giant Greenhouse Gas chamber.

This – fossil capitalist Ecocide – is the biggest issue of our or any time: there’s no justice, decency, “democracy,” or freedom on a dead planet. Nothing else that we care about will matter on an overcooked Earth.

In 2000, the global warming pace indicated that average global surface temperature would hit 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in 2041. The 1.5C mark was just hit last year. It is a benchmark global climate science and policy experts said the world should never pass if humanity hopes to avoid catastrophe.

The affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, January 7, 2025

The re-election of Donald Trump suggests that humanity will continue on the rapid descent into climate Hell. Trump has promised to dramatically increase U.S. fossil-fuel production and to further weaken federal regulations that limit Greenhouse Gas emissions.

Climate concern played essentially no role in the recent US elections. It ranks quite low in the standard polls on “voter concerns.”

Taking my dog for a walk today, I stopped at an intersection to behold one car, SUV, and pickup driver after another speed by on a slick downhill road with one hand on their steering wheel and another hand holding a smart phone at which they gazed.

I was passed by a blue pickup truck with a big red TRUMP sign on the back.

Donald “They’re Eating the Dogs and Cats” Trump, the Hitler-channeling Republi-Nazi — the Orange Assface of Amerikaner Fascism (OAAF) who will become the chief executive of the world’s most dangerous nation again in fourteen days.

Mein Trumpf, the slithering, women-assaulting hate machine who wears more orange skin spray than a University of Iowa sorority princess and fantasizes about the size of the dead golf star Arnold Parmer’s penis.

Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump, who wanted the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys armed with military assault rifles as they led a mass invasion of the US Capitol to try to block the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory on this day four years ago. (As Samantha Goldman has just reminded us on the Refuse Fascism podcast, January 6, 2021 “was an orgy of violence planned by Trump and his closest advisers along with organized white supremacist gangs and militias and kicked off by Trump himself, all with the intention of retaining power, invoking emergency powers, and possibly killing a few of his perceived enemies in the process.”)

Donald “Clear Out the Marxist Vermin” Trump, who as president attempted to overthrow previously normative US bourgeois electoral and rule of law democracy and establish himself as a fascist strongman.

Donald Trump, who would make Hitler and Goebbels envious with the chilling potency of epic fascist Big Lies including the preposterous and multiply disproven claim that the 2020 election was stolen, the claim that climate change is a Chinese hoax, the claim that US education is controlled by “radical Left Marxists” (I wish!), the charge that Venezuela has sent its violent criminals and insane asylum residents to the US, and …the list of Trump’s falsehoods goes on and on and on and on.

Donald Trump, who as president tried to use the anti-racist George Floyd Rebellion as his Reichstag Fire and who wanted the US military to drown the uprising in blood.

Donald Trump, who as president told US Border Patrol officers he’d pardon them for shooting asylum seekers.

Donald Trump, the adjudicated sex-offender convicted on 34 felony counts for criminally paying off a porn star to keep his affair with her out of the news.

Donald Trump, who as president shocked military officials by pardoning the savage Navy Seals war criminal Eddie Gallagher.

Donald Trump, the virulent white supremacist who as president called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” while bemoaning the relative lack of immigrants from a blue-eyed Nordic nation.

Donald Trump, the vicious racist who used the final days of his first presidency to kill a handful of federal Death Row inmates and who has never admitted that he was wrong to call for the conviction and execution of the exonerated Central Park Five.

Donald Trump, who applauded the teen fascist Kyle Rittenhouse for murdering two people with an illegally owned AR-15 at a Black Lives rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and who made a special point of returning to the site of Rittenhouse’s racist homicides on the last night of the 2020 campaign.

Donald Trump, the malignant authoritarian who sent federal border agents and other paramilitaries to assault and disappear anti-fascist protesters in Portland, Oregon, and who called the federal extra-judicial execution of an anti-fascist “retribution.”

Donald Trump, the malicious xenophobe and arch-nativist who on the 2024 campaign trail promised to deploy the US military to conduct “the biggest mass deportation campaign in American history.”

Donald Trump, who on the 2024 campaign trail gave this as one of the reasons he wants to be “dictator for a day”: so he can end environmental regulations and order America to “drill, baby, drill.”

“Drill, baby, drill” – a promise to dramatically escalate oil and gas drilling and fracking even as the world has been pushed into a potentially irreversible climate crisis by the excessive extraction and burning of fossils fuels.

Donald Trump, about whom Noam Chomsky wrote this in January of 2020: “Trump is indeed the most dangerous criminal in human history… Hitler had been perhaps the leading candidate for this honor. His goal was to rid the German-run world of Jews, Roma, homosexuals and other ‘deviants,’ along with tens of millions of Slav ‘Untermenschen’ But Hitler was not dedicated with fervor to destroying the prospects of organized human life on Earth in the not-distant future (along with millions of other species). Trump is.”

Adding epidemiological terrorism to the mix, and consistent with the mass-murderous pandemo-fascism demonstrated during his insane “presidential” response to Covid-19 (described as “pandemicide” by one leading disease expert), Donald “Shoot Clorox” Trump wants the anti-vaccine lunatic Robert F Kennedy, Jr. to head the nation’s department of Health and Human Services and has nominated another such maniac (Dr. Jay Bhattacharya) to lead the National Institutes for Health.

No wonder some smart US-Americans I know are wondering if Trump is literally trying to kill off millions of his citizens.

(I’ve already gone through the OAAF’s Cabinet picks on The Paul Street Report. They are all horrific.)

Donald F’ng Trump, the malignant fascist and arch-narcissist who openly channeled Hitler on the 2024 campaign trail, saying that brown-skinned immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” calling centrist capitalist Democrats dangerous “Marxists” and “communists,” promising to “clear the Marxist vermin” out of the country, vowing to deploy the military to crush protests against his rule, threatening to send troops to US inner cities to “end urban crime in one day,” and calling for the police to be given “one really rough day” to do whatever they want.

Trump, the demented maniac who has nominated the deranged former Fatherland News personality Pete Hegseth, an open white nationalist Christian Crusader fascist and fellow abuser of women, to head the biggest and most lethal imperial military system in history – a military Hegseth will be happy to try to deploy against his and Trump’s “enemies within.”

We are not at full dystopia yet.

The real dystopia comes if we don’t rise up in the millions against this maniac Trump and his fascist and exterminist regime.