by Sunsara Taylor
Bro culture seething with the hatred of women. Gleeful taunts of “Your body, my choice.” Fascist enforcement of patriarchal gender codes. Trump/MAGA 2.0 is moving at lightning speed. Alongside his genocidal racism, his threats against the people of the world, and the sledgehammer he is taking to any remaining democratic norms or basic rights of the people, Trump is pushing for the open enslavement of women and complete erasure of trans people.
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“Truth is the harbinger of a future that lights our hearts in the darkness of these days”
Trump 2025 is not just another administration coming into office. This is fascism: the undisguised dictatorship of this system of capitalism-imperialism in the world’s most powerful capitalist-imperialist country—openly and aggressively oppressive and repressive—a fascism fueled by anti-scientific and Christian fundamentalist lunacy, moving to forcibly impose its racist, immigrant-persecuting, woman- and LGBT-hating MAGA madness, determined to unleash unbridled capitalist plunder and naked imperialist expansionism, prepared to violently crush any opposition or resistance.
Protests full of rowdy, defiant and overwhelmingly young people have started popping off in cities across the country. Thousands taking over the freeway in Los Angeles; hundreds squaring off with violent police in West Phoenix, AZ; thousands in Houston, TX; hundreds in Dallas doing an anti-ICE line dance… in some places, a few people are standing out on a corner with signs… in other places, it’s been hundreds and thousands organized spontaneously through social media. Read: “On the Defiant Protests That Erupted Across the Country: Three Critical Points” Here’s a roundup of protest across the country.