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Fascism is not new.  Just ask the Europeans. They'll tell you fascism is a bad bacteria that has existed in every political biome since humans invented government. So far, American Democracy has been surprisingly immune. But after decades of eroding the checks and balances that inhibit the fascist bacterium from taking over, the immune system of American democracy has finally failed. Given that we are the richest, most powerful, most influential, and most well armed country in human history, the implications for the future of our country and our world are catastrophic. 

Unfortunately, the cure is more Democracy. But if Trumpism successfully eliminates democracy from the system, where can we source the healthy bacteria we need to create the cure? Before that can be answered, we must take an honest look at our symptoms to properly diagnose the condition.

The stated goal of the 2nd Trump administration is to put the country into a state of trauma by dismantling every institution that enforces the Rule of Law. If you are a colonizing bacteria, this is a smart strategy because it wipes out the first line of defense - the law and its enforcement agents. That's why their first priority has been to launch an attack of such incomprehensible velocity and volume at the federal infrastructure. Their plan is to "flood the zone" with so much MAGA bacteria that it disables our ability to formulate an effective immune response. But if we take them at their word and look at their intent through a microscope, we can slow things down long enough to get a good look. 

In the Project 2025 doctrine, the nature and structure of the infection has been made quite clear. After breaking the backbone of our democracy, the plan is to remake our nation into a theocratic oligarchy where they have absolute control over the economy, and complete moral and religious dominion over the people. In order to accomplish this, they know they must destroy our most protective democratic institutions broadly, brutally, and quickly.

It's too late to stop the outbreak. But we can contain the spread. Right now, the Trumpists are conducting mass firings at the FBI, the Justice Department, the military, and the CIA. Their endgame is to replace the fired agents with Trump loyalists.  Once in place, these loyalists will be a de facto MAGA militia, many of whom will likely be recruited from the 1500 pardoned January 6th rioters. If we continue to use the metaphoric lens of a disease, this move makes perfect sense. Once the first immune response of the Rule of Law has been eliminated, it's time to make way for the colonization. 

The MAGA militia will be lawless and serve as a terrorizing force sent out to frighten away the last line of defense - the people. The point at which the Trumpists have an army of state sanctioned goons, demonstrating will be extremely dangerous. People will be far less likely to protest the state knowing they have no protective rights. This is the moment the fascist state metastasizes, displacing democracy entirely, and America as we have known it ceases to exist. The only good news is that it will take them time to find, hire, and train loyal replacements. This means  we must quarantine their impact quickly, long before they amass so much power they simply cannot be contained at all. My prognosis is six months, tops. That's not a lot of time. But its all the time we have. We must hurry.

The only way we succeed in containing them is by forming a nationwide coalition across every sector of our society willing to take a stand for our democracy. This is where we source the healthy, democratic bacteria that ultimately becomes the cure. In group dynamics theory, the common wisdom is that the oppressed must stay engaged with their oppressor or lose their power. In other words, direct collective action will create the conditions for a healthy democratic culture to thrive. The treatment plan then is for activists, unions, environmentalists, farmers, artists, Native Americans advocacy groups, Black Lives Matter, the LGBTQ community,  women’s rights advocates - all of us - to come together under a mandate to stay engaged by agreeing that an attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us. 

Our goal must be to form a massive,  nationwide wall of unified resistance that checks the illegal and unjust actions of Trumpism each and every time it encroaches on our freedom, our institutions, and our humanity. This will keep us engaged and thereby encourage a healthy culture of democratic resistance from which we can harvest the cure.

The only entity large enough and legitimate enough to coordinate a coalition of this magnitude is the Democratic Party. It is the instrument through which we will actually administer the cure. In essence, I am suggesting that the National Democratic Party must, for a time, turn its full attention to building a National Democratic Party Movement. It does not replace the party, but rather leads the party and is constituents in taking direct, collective action aimed at the people and actions of the Trump administration. There are tens of millions of angry, frightened, voting democrats who would take a stand today, and every day, if the party would only tell them where to place their feet! This is a time of opportunity for the party to lead. All that is required is for them to take up the mantle. The reason this leadership must come from the party and not from a movement like Indivisible is that the cells of the Democratic Party are already present in every aspect of the system. It can meet and challenge the fascist invasion wherever it is because it already exists at the same points of entry. I would elaborate more specifically on what I mean here, but it would require giving away the specific strategy in far too public an arena. What I can say is that this effort needs to begin IMMEDIATELY if we have any chance at all of saving our nation.

 If we do not respond to the threat from Trumpism with the utmost urgency and force, our nation will most likely be subsumed by the disease of fascism in a matter of months.  At the current rate, it is entirely possible that there will be no 2026 election at all. To prevent against this and all that I have presented here, please join me right now in defending our nation from Trumpism by supporting a We The People Movement from within the Democratic Party. I believe this is the only way we can amass the kind of robust, political antibodies required to immunize ourselves and defend our nation from the most dangerous threat it has faced in its complex, 250 year history.