“The Trump and Vance acceleration of their attacks on Haitian immigrants and their continued red-baiting of Kamala Harris are signs of the increasing danger of fascism. They’re getting more and more desperate. But the U.S. people aren’t buying. Still, no stone has to be left unturned in the effort to defeat not only them but all MAGA forces up and down the ballot.”
The latest NBC national polls have Harris leading Trump by five points, an indication that many millions are not buying what Trump and Vance are selling.
Vance said that his lies about Haitian immigrants eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, were not a problem, even if they are lies. He also said it does not matter if his statements about the immigrants being undocumented and in the country illegally are untrue. The point, he said, is that even though they have legal status, they don’t deserve that status and a Trump-Vance administration would deport them anyway.
The deportation, the two fascists have said, will be part of a massive effort of rounding up millions of immigrants, holding them in concentration camps, and then shipping them out. They also call for ending automatic citizenship for anyone born in the United States, a system in place since the late 1700s.
Suffice it to say, this is a threat and serious danger to everyone in this country.
Monday and the day before, Trump made speeches describing himself as the great “protector.”
“I will protect you against the danger you face at the border, I will protect you against the rampaging immigrant criminals putting our cities under siege, I will protect you against the foreign dangers we face, I will protect you against the criminals breaking into your homes in the suburbs, I will protect you against the danger you face every time you go out to buy food….” and on and on.
The awful truth about these remarks is that they are, adjusted for alleged threats in the U.S., straight out of Mein Kampf and the speeches of Adolf Hitler.
Speaking to right-wing Christian nationalists, Trump also claimed he has been sent by God himself to protect us against all these alleged dangers. “I am called to do this, and I must do these things for you,” he told followers in a Pennsylvania rally.
Thanks, Donald, but no thanks. We know that crime is a problem in a society that does not meet the most basic needs of its people, but we also know that crime is at a 50-year low and that immigrants, specifically, commit less crime than native-born citizens.
Trump also lied when he said he would protect women. Tell that to women who have died in at least 22 states where they, because of Trump, have no access to reproductive health care that was guaranteed them until the Trump Supreme Court took those rights away.
Previously, he echoed Hitler when pledging “to root out the communists, Marxists…and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”
Also straight out of the Nazi playbook, this past weekend was the Trump attack on Jews. He claimed he has done “so much for the Jews,” yet he only got 25% support from them in the last election. He told people at his rallies that if he loses the election, the Jews will be to blame.
His sidekick Vance added another Mein Kampf tactic by declaring this weekend that another reason for deporting immigrants, including those who have documents, is that “they are spreading disease.”
So, it is immigrants, minorities, communists, Jews, and everyone allied with them who are the “problems” Trump will solve. It sounds all too familiar to people who follow history. All of that shows that the warning by Sims is totally appropriate.
Fortunately, huge sections of the U.S. people are not buying this dark vision of America and the fascist path laid out by Trump. Women want their right to an abortion and life-saving healthcare restored. Labor and all its allies are fighting the price-gouging by corporations that is the real cause of high prices, and they are fighting for more, not fewer rights. Supporters of human rights are mobilizing against the scapegoating of immigrants.
A massive anti-MAGA coalition has been assembled and, as a first step in a long-range fight against the rise of fascism in the U.S., they are fighting for the election of the Harris-Walz ticket and anti-MAGA candidates up and down the ballot.
As with all op-eds published by People’s World, this article reflects the views of its author.
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