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?

SWAIN 2024: An Invitation to Ruin Electoral Politics Forever

From Mongoose Distro

According to recent polling, the presumptive nominees of both corporate parties have higher “unfavorable” ratings than “favorable,” even among their own parties. The majority of the U.S. electorate is disillusioned but too unimaginative to think of something else. What this situation needs is a supermax prisoner running a write in candidacy for president, promising to abolish the United States and decolonize North America– a theatrical spectacle that exposes the hypocrisy and futility of the entire hierarch swindle.

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