RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: David North on http://Wsws.org: “For more than a decade, American political life has been dominated by Donald Trump—a Wall Street thug, twice impeached, convicted on thirty-four felony counts, found liable in court for

David North on  Wsws.org:

“For more than a decade, American political life has been dominated by Donald Trump—a Wall Street thug, twice impeached, convicted on thirty-four felony counts, found liable in court for sexual abuse and for years of business fraud. He has stood as a candidate in three successive presidential elections and won two of them.

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“It is impossible, at this point, to portray Trump as an aberration or an accidental intrusion of the serpent into America’s democratic Garden of Eden. That such an individual has come to dominate the political life of the United States testifies to a protracted and staggering breakdown of American democracy. That breakdown is the subject of this book.”

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“The criminalization of American political life that he personifies is rooted not in the pathology of one man but in the existence of a ruling layer whose fortunes rest on financial plunder and whose methods grow more lawless as the social ground beneath it narrows. Trump, in short, is a manifestation of the oligarchy’s rule, not its cause.”

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“Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela and now Iran are the opening fronts of a third world war. The response of the New York Times—the most authoritative voice of the Democratic Party—has been to characterize the war not as a crime but as a blunder. This underscores once again that the Democratic Party’s “opposition” to Trump has been bound up entirely with its commitment to the agenda of American imperialism, above all the prosecution of war against Russia. The danger of nuclear war is real and immediate. The same ruling class that is erecting a dictatorship at home is preparing catastrophe abroad; fascism and war proceed from a single crisis.”

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“The alternative confronting mankind is posed today, with mounting urgency, throughout the world: either fascism or socialism. What is required to halt the descent into fascist barbarism is the conscious intervention of the working class into history, and that, in turn, requires the building of a new revolutionary leadership.”

— @libbyliberalnyc Jun 13, 2026