What is happening in Los Angeles is what it looks like when the fascists are winning. This needs to be said, and everyone needs to hear it.

During Trump’s 2024 election campaign, he said that he would use the National Guard to enforce his immigration decrees. And here he is, doing exactly that. The protests in Los Angeles were relatively small, disorganized, and certainly had less violence than, say, the January 6th riots in Washington, where Trump didn’t bother to call in the military, but Trump leapt on the protests as an excuse to do what he told everyone he was going to do: use the military to occupy US cities.  This is straight from the fascism playbook, as are many of the moves he’s taken to get here.

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