Time to Indict This Fascist Regime for Its Crimes…

Refuse Fascism has called for major days of protest against the Trump Fascist Regime, from December 11th through the 13th. As the key focus of this, they have called on people to surround the White House with crime scene tape this Saturday, December 13, demanding Trump’s removal and presenting a comprehensive and well-documented indictment of his whole regime. 

It is very important, going into the holidays and in the face of recent escalations by the fascists, that there be a mass, nonviolent political statement calling for Trump’s immediate removal—and challenging others to act. 

We Need to Really Face Reality

If you are listening to too many “anti-Trump influencers” fantasizing about “a regime collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence”¹… if you’ve heard people chattering about “lame duck” and spin fantasies about how “two or three elections down the road we’ll make some reforms so this can’t happen again”… and especially if you’re finding comfort and reassurance from all that…

Then we warn you: These “influencers” badly underestimate Trump and they even more grossly underestimate fascism. And here’s the thing: if you allow yourself to do this, it is not only at your own peril, but at the peril of hundreds of millions in this country and billions around the world.. 

Yes, Trump may lash out and fall asleep and seem to lapse into incoherence at times… but so what? He still holds the reins of power. Not only that, the serious players around Trump and behind Trump—Stephen Miller, Russell Vought (who wrote Project 2025), JD Vance and others—are damn clear on what they want, and they are moving quickly to get it. The National Security Plan that this clique released last week aims to reshape the world and almost everything in people’s lives, from the global scale right down to the most intimate—and this is NOT a world you will want to live in or see others forced to live in. More than that: it is a world humanity may not survive. (Go here for the document; and stay tuned to revcom.us for analysis.)

Think About the Last Two Months or Even Just the Last Two Weeks

The last two months have witnessed the remaking of the U.S. armed forces into a force without even the pretense of legality. The U.S. armed forces have for months carried out repeated slaughters of defenseless people in the Caribbean on the sole order of Trump, as he prepares to wage an utterly illegal war. This is the same army whose commanders were told by Trump and Hegseth in late September that their principal fight will be “at home” against “the enemy within,” and that they should favor "maximum lethality, not tepid legality.”

Then there’s the last two weeks and the escalation of the genocidal rampage against immigrants. The scope of Trump’s plans for ethnic cleansing came into even sharper view last week when he ranted that Somalis as a people are “garbage”(!), and a week before that when he mused online about reviewing the “status” of the over 50 million residents of the U.S. who were not born here—including over 20 million naturalized citizens. This is Nazi talk, preparing for Nazi action. And if you think we’re being alarmist, go here for a comparison of Trump’s first 10 months of attacking immigrants with how Hitler’s attacks on the Jews unfolded.

What We Must Recognize… and What We Must Do

At the very beginning of the year, Bob Avakian (BA) spelled out a bedrock truth:

Trump 2025 is not just another administration coming into office. This is fascism: the undisguised dictatorship of this system of capitalism-imperialism in the world’s most powerful capitalist-imperialist country—openly and aggressively oppressive and repressive—a fascism fueled by anti-scientific and Christian fundamentalist lunacy, moving to forcibly impose its racist, immigrant-persecuting, woman- and LGBT-hating MAGA madness, determined to unleash unbridled capitalist plunder and naked imperialist expansionism, prepared to violently crush any opposition or resistance.

Has anything happened to reveal this as not true? Or has it in fact been borne out—in spades?

In that same message, BA went on to say that:

[T]his is “not a time for accepting this Trump/MAGA fascism as ‘legitimate,’ and staying within the confines of ‘how things work’ under this system, as Democratic Party heads and other ‘mainstream’ ruling class representatives are urging people to do. It is not a time for turning inward and attempting to ‘take care of self’ as the juggernaut of Trump/MAGA fascism gains momentum and crushes masses of people. This is a time for reaching out to all the others who feel the same outrage at Trump/MAGA fascism—a time for collective action and self-sacrificing struggle for the greater good: the greater good of defeating this fascism.”

This is a time for uniting all who can be united in determined struggle against this fascism, beginning now, before this fascist rule is fully consolidated, and in order to prevent it from being fully consolidated—a movement aiming to become so massive and powerful that it creates a profound political crisis, such that Trump cannot govern the country and implement his fascist program.

This too is still true—truer, and more important, than ever, in fact. 

Earlier this year, the prominent fascist Steve Bannon said that the Trump regime would have to move at “muzzle velocity”—that is, the peak speed of a bullet coming out of a gun. These fascists saw this fall's many protests, and they are coming back harder. We who oppose this fascism—all of us—have to recognize that the only thing that will stop this is acting offensively, eventually in our millions, at the seat of power in sustained, nonviolent, determined protest to drive the regime from power.

All this dramatically underscores the importance of the Call from Refuse Fascism and others to “Surround the White House 2.0” on December 13, encircling it with crime scene tape and indicting it before the world. Come on December 11 and 12 to work with others to spread the word and prepare to take this message into the holidays. 

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!

TRUMP MUST GO NOW!