Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“Since the nightmare on election night many, myself included, have been catastrophizing the possible scenarios beginning on January 20. We’re all aware of the awful threats from Trump and his agenda: Mass deportation. Attacks on reproductive freedom at the federal level. The use of the military under the Insurrection Act to suppress public protests. The resurrection of Schedule F to pack the most important administrative offices with obedient party hacks. Moral support, at least, for state- and local-level movements like ‘Moms for Liberty,’ anti-trans and anti-LGBT policies. Likely informal alliances with paramilitary street thugs …. Most or all of these threats are plausible — at least attempts at them — with varying degrees of likelihood and intensity. But there are also countervailing or mitigating tendencies which may offset or impede the authoritarianism of the Trump administration.” (12/17/24)