On Nov 5, more Americans voted for candidates not named Trump than those who did. After three elections, he finally won the popular vote. By 1.6%. Trump has no “mandate.”
MAGA does control the Supreme Court, the House and Senate. So without a doubt Americans are actually going to experience life under an authoritarian government.
This is because of the failure of the Democratic National Party.
DNC is the oldest political party in the world. Created in 1828 to elect Andrew Jackson (the $20 guy who disregarded a Supreme Court ruling and forced the Cherokee Nation out of Georgia on The Trail of Tears), DNC is a for-profit corporation beholden to no voter. (A 2017 lawsuit brought by Bernie Sanders proved this.) The 2016 election and this year’s proves this: DNC ignored the calls for better candidates, played the exact same game twice, and lost twice. Democratic leaders purport to be a working class party but those in charge refuse to act fast enough to laborers’ needs and haven’t been part of the working class ever, if for a long time.
If non-Trump voters (the majority of Americans) want to save the institutions we currently have (which are far from perfect or wonderful in many instances) three things must happen: the DNC needs to be replaced with a Labor Party; this Party needs to create community organizing events that hold regular gatherings like MAGA has been doing and is; and Americans need to practice civil disobedience beyond hashtags.
When Trump’s cronies come for friends, family members and neighbors, we must refuse to let them in. We must also get up and go to work for inflation is ever increasing and ever going to the 1%. If we collectively decide to form a Working Class Party combating authoritarianism, corporate, and individual greed, then reinstate laws and tax structures dwindled years ago (such as making stock buybacks illegal again like it was before Reagan), we will survive the next four or more years. (If the climate crisis doesn’t get worse than it already is.)
— Steven Birdwell
Fairbanks
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