5- NO MORE CORRUPTION. A 13 member Supreme Court. No more electoral college. No billionaire money in our elections. No more sleazeball artists in Congress making money off insider trading.

4- GOVERNMENT FOR REGULAR PEOPLE. No more half measures from Democrats that don’t address the challenge. Unleash American capitalism to build 5 million new homes. Launch an employee-owned company movement to replace rape-and-pillage fintech capitalism. No more health insurance ripoffs. Fair wages!

3- NO MORE BILLIONAIRES RUINING OUR COUNTRY. No more billionaire money in our elections. Restore the 94% tax rate on the uber-wealthy. Fair taxes and benefits for everyone else. And no more corrupt, money-stealing monopolies: Verizon, Comcast, Home Depot, Google, Microsoft…break them all up.

2- STAND FOR FREEDOM. No more weakness, licking Putin’s boots. No more stupid, useless hatred here at home. Restore secure immigration and put our country on a path to growth and prosperity.

6- As for the rest of us, we’re getting pretty damned angry, which is good. We will oppose this fascism head-on in social media, call out public officials every day, and stop this shit cold.

5. And since it’s a coup, Senators and Representatives need to fucking act like it. Stop every appointment, slow down every vote, and call out your Republican colleagues and Trump for this un-American fascist takeover. SLOW THIS THING DOWN.

4- What do we do to slow this down or reverse it? First, we need to call out Republicans as the fascist party. SAY IT OUT LOUD. No more pretending that we can function with one “normal” party.

3- It’s a coup. We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. Most Americans think a coup involves guns and blood. That’s not the case. The violence comes later: see Orban, Erdogan, or even Putin.

2- Our political leaders in Washington have coddled oligarchs and corporations for decades. This corruption has hurt all Americans, except for the billionaires. And it enabled the coup we all now enduring.

3- It’s a coup. We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. Most Americans think a coup involves guns and blood. Orban, Erdogan, Putin: The blood comes later, when it’s easier to stomp on the last gasps of the opposition.

6/ This last is important to recognize: by the time a counter-movement is organized and effective in slowing or halting the coup, so much will have been destroyed that it will be impossible to put things back together the same way. It's already baked in, difficult as it is to comprehend.

5/ At some point, there will be a popular counter-movement to the coup. I am concerned with what this movement will call for. It will fail if the movement leadership calls for restoring the status quo ante. Already, there is no turning back.