Excerpt from the 2017 talk, "The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America! A Better World Is Possible."
This is from a talk given almost 10 years ago, during the first Trump fascist regime, and it is especially relevant and important now, in light of the massive crimes being perpetrated by the present Trump fascist regime, which is even more unleashed and giving even more terrible expression to its truly monstrous aims, with all this being irrationally “justified,” and even celebrated, on the basis of a literally deranged Christian fascist lunacy (often referred to as Christian nationalism).
See the full talk: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America! A Better World Is Possible. (2017):
Besides the appointment of Neil Gorsuch, who is himself a Christian Fascist, to the Supreme Court—re-establishing, after the death of Antonin Scalia, the right-wing majority on the Court—Trump’s cabinet is full of these Christian Fascists.
Perhaps it seems harsh, or even extreme, to refer to these fundamentalist Christians as fascists. Well, in Katherine Stewart’s book The Good News Club, The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children, she cites these comments by Rich Lang, himself a former Christian fundamentalist, who broke with that and became a liberal Christian pastor:
When I was born again [Lang recalls], faith was something inside of you, something you were supposed to reflect through your life. But in the 1980s, something happened. Fundamentalist Christianity jumped back into the public square with the intention to reshape the country as a Christian nation as defined by them....
It’s no different than the Nazis wanting to start with the Hitler Youth. That is where you’d want to start if you were trying to build a fascist movement....
That’s the word, "fascism." Nobody likes to use it in this country. But I believe that in this country, underneath the appearances, that is exactly the great temptation of our time.... [A]nd you have to call it what it is—"Christian Fascism."
Stewart further summarizes Lang’s views this way: “Modern fundamentalism, like fascism in earlier times, he says, involves a strong feeling of persecution, typically at the hands of godless liberals or a religious ‘other’; the belief that one belongs to a pure race or national group that is responsible for past greatness, suffers unjust oppression in the present, and is the rightful ruler of the world; the impulse to submit unquestioningly to absolute authority; and the relentless drive for power and control. It is, he says, a kind of supremacist movement, with religion rather than race at its core.”
And there is this chilling statement by Lang:
People have no idea it’s going on....
What does it mean that the conservative church that’s growing in America is an end-times church? What does it mean that we are raising a generation of children to believe that they are the last generation? What is going to happen if we keep on telling them, "Don’t care about the environment, and bring on the war, because we’re going to be lifted out of here, and you can forget about loving your neighbors, because they’re just going to get blown away?"
THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! 2017 Talk from Bob Avakian
This talk was given in 2017, during the first Trump fascist regime, and it is all the more crucial now, with what Bob Avakian has referred to as the “second coming” of the Trump regime and this fascism now “on an unrestrained rampage.”
The film and all video clips are also available for download HERE.
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Bob Avakian’s Work on Fascism: 1996-2025
Recently, in Bob Avakian’s (BA’s) social media message, REVOLUTION #141—“The Time Is Urgently Upon Us Now—To Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime!,” BA made the following sobering assessment:
