REVOLUTION #125

Not the courts, and not the Democratic Party: Decent people, mobilizing massively and relentlessly, are the force that must be relied on to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism.

Not the courts, and not the Democratic Party: Decent people, mobilizing massively and relentlessly, are the force that must be relied on to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism.

This is Bob Avakian—REVOLUTION—number 125.

To echo the moving words of Mario Savio, ringing down through the decades since the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in the 1960s: The machinery of the Trump fascist regime must be prevented from functioning, until this regime is removed from power.

The “executive branch” of government is headed by the fascist Trump. The fascist Republican Party controls both “houses” of Congress.

And the courts cannot stop this, because the majority of the Supreme Court—the “final legal authority”—is itself an instrument of this fascism.

In my next message (number 126), I will get further into the role of the Supreme Court as an instrument of this fascism, and how this further emphasizes the crucial importance of all those who oppose this fascism mobilizing massively to actually defeat it, before it is too late.

At the same time, it is important to note how the Democratic Party leadership has refused to act in meaningful ways to oppose the fascists—particularly with regard to the crucial role of the Supreme Court. When Biden became president in 2021, with momentum from his decisive 2020 electoral victory, there were calls for him to expand the Supreme Court—adding Justices in order to counter the way the Court had been stacked with fascists. This would have been legal and constitutional—and it could have been possible: during the first years of Biden’s presidency, the Democrats controlled the Senate, which has to approve appointments to the Supreme Court. But Biden refused to do this, with the lame excuse that he didn’t want to “politicize” the Court—when it was already obviously “politicized” by the fascist majority!

This is typical of the Democratic Party as an institution: In its determination to maintain the “orderly functioning” and “traditional norms” of this system, it has repeatedly aided and facilitated the fascists—who are trampling on those “traditional norms” in order to rule through an open dictatorship of lawless tyranny and terror.

As I emphasized in my message number 119: some Democratic Party politicians may contribute to the struggle against Trump/MAGA fascism—but the Democratic Party will not, and cannot, lead this struggle where it needs to go.

It is up to the decent people, in the millions and millions, to stop this Trump fascist juggernaut and the horrors it is moving to impose on people in this country and in the world as a whole.

Ongoing protests, and powerful mobilizations all over the country, have been very important, and they show the potential for what must be done. But all this must make a leap, soon, to become a massive popular uprising, determined to actually defeat this fascist regime, uniting around the urgent demand: The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go—NOW!

This means “no business as usual.” It means protest and resistance building day after day: non-violent but sustained and relentless—responding to repression by the fascist regime with even greater outpourings of resistance—uniting all who can be united, in continually growing numbers, motivated by the necessary sense of urgency, aiming to create a profound political crisis and major shifts and “realignments” throughout society, including in the dominant institutions of power, so that this illegitimate fascist regime cannot function, and is actually removed.