After the U.S. Election of a Semi-Fascist

by Wayne Price

After the U.S. Election of a Semi-Fascist: A Few Thoughts by an Anarchist

Since the November 2024 national election there has been a mountain of reevaluations, recriminations, reconsiderations, and desperations—by liberals and radicals. Some blame popular racism and sexism for the defeat of a Black woman candidate. Others note that a racist nativism led to an hysterical fear of Mexican and other immigrants. This was a fear which the Republicans played up but which the Democrats also played to. The arrogance and elitism of the Democrats has been referred to. Others focus on the economic suffering of working class people, their stalled wages, the effects of inflation, the housing shortage, and so on. All of these were undoubted factors—especially the economic problems of working people, which Harris did not really address, Yet these, and similar influences, seem to leave something out. How could a person such as Donald Trump win a majority of the population—a slight (1.6%) majority, but consistently in most “demographics?” Were the price of eggs that high?

Why Stop at Removing Biden?

From CrimethInc.

The Center Cannot Hold

It would seem like a heavy-handed metaphor if it weren’t our actual reality. A doddering patriarch, representing a collapsing centrist political project, refuses to step aside even as it becomes certain that he faces defeat at the hands of an aspiring autocrat. This encapsulates the global prospects for democracy today.

Anarchists Outmaneuvered as Godzilla, King Kong Join Democratic Party

Anti-authoritarians gnashed their teeth in frustration Monday, as apex Kaiju Godzilla and primeval ape King Kong both announced their intentions to campaign with the Democrats, bringing an abrubt end to a long but fruitless campaign to recruit the legendary monsters into the North American anarchist milieu.

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