Two things can be true at the same time.

Yes, Trump has faced increasing opposition from within the ruling class and even some forces among MAGA during the past few weeks.

And yes—Trump is more dangerous than ever and must be—nonviolently—driven from power by millions surging through the streets, demanding the Trump regime's end, day after day.

This autumn has witnessed the following:

One: Trump spoke to a huge gathering of generals and admirals to proclaim their main mission was to wage war against the “enemy within,” and called for a reorientation of the armed forces to that “mission.” (This followed a six-month purge of high-ranking Black and women commanders, a rehabilitation of the Confederacy, and a break with all forms of attempting to overcome or even acknowledge past discrimination.)

Two: Trump used the military for an ongoing spree of outright murder in the Caribbean and is, as we go to press, threatening war against Venezuela. In doing this, he has totally bypassed Congress.

Three: When six Democratic lawmakers publicly and forcefully reminded military personnel of their legal duty to refuse to carry out unlawful orders, Trump repeatedly called for their execution. (For more on this important development, go here.)

Four: In September and October, Trump issued an executive order and an executive memorandum that essentially labeled all anti-fascist groups “as violent extremists” and “terrorists” and called for a campaign to “investigate, prosecute and disrupt” such groups. During this period, top Trump official Stephen Miller labeled the Democratic Party as a whole “a domestic extremist organization,” and influential MAGA intellectual Chris Rufo called on the regime to “infiltrate, disrupt, arrest and incarcerate” all those responsible for what he called “chaos” (i.e., political opposition to Trump).  

Five: After two weeks of uproar over leading MAGA podcaster Tucker Carlson’s softball interview (and essentially promotion) of the openly Nazi Nick Fuentes, Trump closed the controversy by firmly backing Carlson. This represents a further hardening of the fascist movement.

Six: After massive resistance to ICE raids persecuting, imprisoning and holding in torture-like conditions both undocumented workers and Latino citizens and legal residents, Trump moved to double down on this, continuing to bulk up ICE and the Border Patrol and moving to institute a 23,000-person “Rapid Response Force” for domestic control made up of National Guard members.

Seven: Trump has put into place election deniers and set in motion all kinds of gerrymandering to nail down a fascist electoral victory in 2026, assuming that elections even take place. MAGA has summed up that the real lessons of their January 6, 2021 coup attempt is that they didn’t go hard enough and thoroughly enough. As Trump himself put it, if his current moves are in place, “We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."

These are not the moves of someone resigned to losing his grip on power; these are the moves of someone desperately but determinedly moving as fast and as hard as he can to tighten that grip. The urgent truth that millions must face is this: 

Trump MAGA fascism cannot be contained. It is moving all-sidedly to lock in their fascist agenda of open white supremacy, enslavement of women, purging of LBGT people from society, ethnic cleansing of immigrants, environment destroying anti-scientific lunacy wrapped up with "we're on a mission from god" Christian fascism.

To think that MAGA will implode or self-destruct and to therefore essentially focus on the mid-terms is delusionary at a time when delusions and illusions can literally cost humanity any future whatsoever. Even were such an unlikely event to occur, to essentially wait for such a thing is profoundly immoral as thousands are locked up in detention center hellholes, with millions of immigrants feeling the terror, as trans people are demonized and outspoken anti-fascists fired from their jobs, as oil drilling is opened up in the Arctic, as measles runs rampant and anti-vaccine insanity gets state backing... this fascism must be defeated and driven from power NOW! There is no living with this fascism!

In this light, we call your attention once again to these crucial words from Bob Avakian’s major statement, The Time Is Urgently Upon Us Now—To Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime!:

The profound reality is this: The massive mobilization called for by Refuse Fascism, and open to all, represents the real possibility—the ONLY real possibility—of actually driving out this fascist regime, and putting an end to the endless horrors it is determined to perpetrate.

Yes, the Trump regime might seize on the mobilization for November 5 as an excuse to bring down further repression. But this regime has already brutally demonstrated that it intends to viciously persecute those it chooses to identify as “enemies,” and to relentlessly repress any actual or potential forces of opposition, within the ruling class itself as well as in the larger society, whether or not they actively resist the regime.

In the circumstances we are now facing, failing to even try to drive out this fascist regime, while there is still a possibility of succeeding, would be far worse than failing in the attempt to drive out the regime. As the Call from Refuse Fascism plainly and sharply puts it: “If we fail to even try, future generations—if they exist—will never forgive us.”

But we may not fail! As dramatically demonstrated by the accelerating juggernaut of the Trump fascist regime—and, on the other side, by the continuing protests and repeated massive rallies and marches against this fascist horror—these are not “normal times.” In these extraordinary times, things can change very rapidly, on a huge scale and with major impact. That can apply not only in very negative but also very positive ways: the repeated outpourings against this regime can be built on and then given the most powerful expression in the mobilization and convergence on DC…being called for by Refuse Fascism, with an open invitation to all who are outraged by Trump/MAGA fascism.

If this succeeds, it will be a truly historic achievement for humanity now, and something that will contribute in a profound way to the possibility for a far better world for future generations.