{"id":19031,"date":"2024-11-26T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19031"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:21:46","slug":"united-states-trump-has-congress-senate-and-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19031","title":{"rendered":"United States: Trump has Congress, Senate and Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While incoming United States president Donald Trump’s inauguration is still a month and a half away, he is preparing the ground for his second term.<\/p>\n

Trump plans to continue Democratic President Joe Biden\u2019s drive to ramp up the production of fossil fuels and has named Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy, as his incoming Secretary of Energy.<\/p>\n

He says climate change is a hoax, while his incoming vice president JD Vance thinks it is real. However, they both are committed to continuing fossil fuel production regardless of the threat posed by rising greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

Trump has also announced that he will fire any top army generals who are proponents of diversity, equality and inclusiveness of Blacks, other people of colour and women, in the armed forces. He wants generals who agree with his racism and misogyny, and who are loyal to him.<\/p>\n

This is a part of the Republican Party\u2019s drive against diversity, equality and inclusiveness in education, employment and other spheres of society and includes affirmative action.<\/p>\n

The ruling capitalist class majority want to move against these gains and other victories of the mass civil rights and women\u2019s liberation movements. The silence of the Democratic Party in response to this Republican drive exposes their complicity and illustrates the move to the right by both parties.<\/p>\n

Immigration<\/h2>\n

During the election campaign Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats made it clear they, like the Republicans, intended to go all out in \u201csealing the border\u201d with Mexico against mostly non-white immigrants fleeing harsh economic and political conditions caused by US imperialist exploitation, sanctions and interventions in the region.<\/p>\n

During the campaign, Trump announced that \u201con the first day\u201d of his presidency, he would order all immigrants without documents be rounded up and deported. Taken literally, mass deportations on this scale are not operationally feasible and not in the interests of the US capitalist class.<\/p>\n

Steven Miller has been named as Trump\u2019s White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Miller helped orchestrate Trump\u2019s Muslim ban, pushed for separation of immigrant families at the border, and backed ending protections granted to undocumented people brought into the country as children.<\/p>\n

Miller told the Conservative Political Action Conference last February: \u201cSeal the border, no illegals in, everyone goes out.\u201d He said this would be accomplished \u201cby a series of interlocking domestic and foreign policies\u201d, including with Mexico, to send immigrants back much further into Mexico than the border. He also supports \u201cmore muscular\u201d travel bans, and \u201cestablish[ing] large-scale staging grounds\u201d for immigrants to be placed on planes and deported.<\/p>\n

Thomas Homan has been picked to be Trump\u2019s \u201cborder czar\u201d. Homan was acting director of ICE during Trump\u2019s first term and helped shape Trump\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy that, among other things, separated children from their parents at the border.<\/p>\n

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will be Trump\u2019s secretary of homeland security, and was praised by Trump for deploying the National Guard along her state\u2019s southern border.<\/p>\n

Undocumented migrants make up three-quarters of the country\u2019s agricultural workers. They comprise more than one-fifth of construction workers. They play a large role in food processing, including comprising about 30\u201250% of workers in meatpacking.<\/p>\n

The capitalist owners of these industries rely on the fear of deportation to keep these workers docile, and accepting of their extremely low wages and harsh working conditions.<\/p>\n

However, they need these workers, and this will put limits on what Trump can do, to minimise the impact on the economy.<\/p>\n

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants\u2019 Rights Project told Democracy Now! the ACLU has been preparing for legal fights against Trump’s plans.<\/p>\n

But he added, \u201cOne thing I would stress that this cannot be done solely through the courts \u2026 It needs to be a national effort similar what happened to family separation [in Trump\u2019s first term] where the public said ‘Wait. Enough is enough. That\u2019s a red line, taking babies away\u2019 and went out to the streets to peacefully protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were demonstrations of more than a million people in 2006, during George W Bush’s presidency, to defend immigrant rights.<\/p>\n

Is Trump a fascist?<\/h2>\n

During the election campaign many progressives, including some socialists, claimed that Trump is a fascist and the only way to stop the fascist threat is to vote for Harris. Harris also once said that, although she usually made the vague claim that Trump is a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n

But using this label of fascism to describe Trumpism reveals a lack of knowledge. We saw fascism in action in Benito Mussolini’s Italy, Adolf Hitler’s Germany and Francisco Franco’s Spain.<\/p>\n

Fascism in Italy was analysed by the Communist International in the early 20th century during the time of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Hitler\u2019s rise matched the pattern. That analysis was further developed in the 1930s by exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. These analyses laid the foundation of a Marxist understanding of fascism and how to fight it.<\/p>\n

In these historical experiences, fascism was understood as an extreme form of capitalist rule, which the ruling capitalist class seeks to avoid, except when the working class threatens to overthrow it.<\/p>\n

When fascism arises, it cannot be stopped by electing \u201cdemocratic\u201d capitalist parties, but by united working-class combat in the streets, in a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.<\/p>\n

Fascists are a mass, armed movement of combat against working-class mass organisations, including socialist parties.<\/p>\n

This was seen in the uniformed battalions of \u201cblack shirts\u201d and \u201cbrown shirts\u201d in Italy and Germany. The police and army provided many combatants and came to support them as organisations. In Spain, fascism had its origin in the army and in the fascist political organisation known as the Falange.<\/p>\n

Fascism takes power in a civil war, unless stopped by the working class. Such resistance requires adequate leadership, which was lacking in Italy, Germany and Spain.<\/p>\n

In the US today, the overthrow of capitalism is not imminent, and there is no need for the extreme of fascism to prevent it.<\/p>\n

There are many forms of capitalist class rule between bourgeois democracy and fascism. One is military dictatorship. Authoritarian governments with a bourgeois-democratic veneer are also an example \u2014 which we see today in Hungary and Poland, where there is one-party rule.<\/p>\n

Bonapartism<\/h2>\n

Another is what Marxists call Bonapartism, which originates in Karl Marx\u2019s analysis of the overthrow of bourgeois democracy and establishment of one-man rule by Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s nephew, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (1808\u201273) \u2014 a pale reflection of his uncle.<\/p>\n

Bonaparte presented himself as a strongman who could \u201csave\u201d France from a period of factional political turmoil among and within the capitalist parties in parliament in mid-19th century France.<\/p>\n

A revolution against the existing monarchy, supported by all classes, took place in February 1848.<\/p>\n

The exploited classes initially thought their interests would be met, and a social republic would be established. When this turned out not to be true, a workers\u2019 revolution erupted in Paris in July that year. It was the first such revolution in history, but it was defeated.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, a period of political and social instability developed, before and especially after Louis was elected at the end of 1848.<\/p>\n

Louis began to project himself as the one who could lead the country out of the mess. He worked to win support in the army, and won support among criminal circles. He led the overthrow of parliament in December 1852 and declared himself Emperor, unsuccessfully trying to emulate his famous uncle.<\/p>\n

The situation in the US today is not like France in the mid-19th century. However, the lessons of 1852 describe a situation where, in a period of political and factional struggle among capitalist parties leading to paralysis, a strongman emerged, promising to \u201csave\u201d the nation from the mess and took power.<\/p>\n

Trumpism has aspects of Bonapartism. In a period of factional struggle within and between the two capitalist parties, he projected in his 2020 campaign and again this time, that he was the strongman who could \u201csave the nation\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the years following Trump’s defeat in the 2020 elections \u2014 in which he led an unsuccessful attempt to caste the election into doubt on January 6, 2021 \u2014 Trump has captured the Republican Party and quelled the factional struggle within it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the opposition Democratic Party remains in internal turmoil.<\/p>\n

In the period ahead, Trump will use his control of Congress to further his agenda. The Supreme Court is already behind him.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party has proven it is not the vehicle to stop Trump. Only mass action against Trump\u2019s reactionary policies can stop them, or block whatever moves Trump makes in a Bonapartist direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> politics.einnews.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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