14/ Trump relies on the support of the oligarchy and the complicity and cowardice of the Democratic Party. A movement of the working class must be developed to oppose dictatorship and defend democratic rights. Join the SEP!
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13/ As the WSWS wrote on Sept 19, "it is necessary to put aside all self-deluding hopes that what is unfolding is anything less than a drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs."
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12/ Trump has declared his intention to use a government shutdown likely beginning tonight to carry out a massive assault on the working class, including the firing of tens of thousands of federal workers.

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11/ And finally Trump and Hegseth's speeches today, an effort to transform the military into an American Waffen SS for use against the "enemy within."
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10/ Then Hegseth's valorization of the US soldiers who committed the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890--a declaration of what the military must do in the present as much as a glorification of its violent past.
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9/ This was followed by the declaration by Trump that he was deploying the military to Portland, on entirely manufactured grounds, with the authorization to use "Full Force," that is, to kill people.
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8/ Then Hegseth called all the generals to Washington for an extraordinary meeting. The WSWS wrote at the time that the assembly "must be assessed in the context of Trump’s escalating efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship at home."
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7/ At his UN speech on September 23, Trump declared war on the world and demanded a sharp shift to the right by all the European powers, which they are eager to follow.
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6/ On September 22, Trump gave his press conference with RFK Jr, "the most extreme assault on medical science by any president or other elected official in American history."
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5/ The memorial meeting for Kirk on September 21 was turned into a fascist rally, with top Trump officials calling for a "spiritual war" and Stephen Miller doing his best Goebbels impression, declaring “The Storm is Coming.”
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4/ Then the killing of Charlie Kirk on September 10 was weaponized to escalate advanced plans for police-state dictatorship, centered on the criminalization of the left.
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3/ This was followed by Trump's threat to wage war on Chicago, under the slogan “Chipocalypse Now.”: “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
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2/ On September 4, Trump met with top oligarchs in the White House, at which Trump pledged to “make it a lot easier” for the assembled billionaires, and the billionaires extolled Trump's “incredible leadership.”
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5/5 Trump’s return underscores the bankruptcy of American capitalism and its ruling class. Opposition must come from the working class, armed with a socialist program to fight war, inequality, and repression. Read the full analysis: www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

4/5 But for all the threats and braggadocio, the Trump administration will be wracked by crisis. The policies of social reaction and imperialist plunder abroad are the response of a ruling class contradictions for which American capitalism has no rational response.

3/5 The past four years of the Biden administration have paved the way for this political debacle. The Democrats under Biden have been singularly focused on escalating global war, from the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

2/5 Four years after his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Trump’s recitation of the presidential oath, pledging to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” will be the first lie of his second term. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...