Trump acquitted

Republicans become world’s first major conservative party to endorse fascist insurrection.

>> This is an edited transcript of my podcast How To Stop Fascism #2. Listen here on Soundcloud…

The security footage shown to the Senate this week, of cops facing down rioters armed with baseball bats, in full body armor, many apparently combat trained, makes uncomfortable viewing for anybody who thinks America’s going back to normal anytime soon.

With Trump, inevitably, acquitted I’m going do an update on what we know about the events of 6/1, and look at the confusion arising on parts of the left, over what to do about it:

• There’s people saying 6/1 wasn’t really that serious, and can’t be described as a coup attempt…
• There’s people worried about calling for the state to repress the fascists, because obviously their main role in the USA is repressing black people and social justice movements…
• And there’s an undercurrent of resistance to joining the dots between Trump, the GOP and the armed organised white supremacist and fascist groups, on the grounds of “my political science textbook says populism and fascism are separate, or the conditions for classic fascism are not there”, so maybe it’s all a simulacrum…