Thank you for the work you do, Qasim. Is there ANY possibility that the two most powerful showmen/influencers in American politics are currently simply putting on a vaguely crafted show which takes up the majority of ground in any debate so that when Musk supports a Trump policy, people think it must be a good one? Neither seem to care about being publicly hated or belittled and both seem to enjoy the spotlight so while for most of the rest of us their spat would be hell, it possibly doesn’t cost them much but magnificently keeps valuable media attention.
Thank you, especially for listing seven actions we can take to resist. I think an important one is missing, something to counter the stream of lies in right-wing media, the lies which Trump's supporters consume and believe. Those lies have enabled Trump's election and they continue to hide his fascism.
Qasim, thank you deeply for documenting these brutal realities without hedging. Your clarity that fascism is here — not merely approaching — is crucial, and your cataloging of specific state violence is essential.
I write this in solidarity, and because your courage deserves a full reckoning with what we are truly facing.
While you rightly expose the fascist acceleration under Trump, the deeper truth is that what we are living through is not a rupture from American ideals — it is the system functioning exactly as designed. As someone like a Wendy Brown has sharply analyzed, neoliberalism has systematically dismantled the public, erased society, sanctified markets, and redefined “freedom” as the right to dominate without accountability. Under neoliberal reason, inequality is naturalized, cruelty is moralized, and solidarity and justice are seen as dangerous.
Capitalism and justice can never be reconciled. Capitalism requires inequality, suffering, and domination to sustain the market’s extraction of surplus value as profit. True justice — collective emancipation, shared dignity, material equity — would collapse the very markets that capitalism, neoliberalism, and neocolonial white supremacy depend upon.
This also clarifies why liberalism and the Democratic Party are not merely ineffective in the face of rising fascism — they are literally structurally committed to obstructing true justice. Performative allyship. Never a pathway to transformative change. Liberalism’s primary loyalty is not to human liberation, but to the preservation of capitalist order. Period. When faced with the choice between revolution and authoritarianism, liberals — historically and today — reliably choose authoritarianism to protect markets. They fear the loss of hierarchy far more than they fear dictatorship.
Your work in exposing the reality of the crisis is a crucial step — and must be honored as such. But it also remains trapped within the horizon of privileged whiteness adjacent liberal proceduralism: it calls us to save a system that was never built for justice, only for hierarchy. To truly resist fascism, we must reject not only its authoritarian forms but also its capitalist roots.
Anything less than full anti-capitalist struggle denies true justice. To claim otherwise — to imagine justice without abolition — is not only hypocritical but logically incoherent. There is no future of dignity, freedom, or collective flourishing that can coexist with capitalism’s demand for endless extraction, exploitation, and domination.
True freedom is not the freedom to compete, dominate, and consume — it is the freedom to belong, to be safe, and to share dignity across all difference.
I say all this not to diminish your work, but because I value it deeply — and because I understand the pull toward pragmatism when the violence feels insurmountable. But if we are already resisting, already risking, already daring to name fascism — then why stop short of the full dream? Why compromise with the very system that manufactures our despair? If we are going to fight, why not fight for everything. Because the world we need cannot be negotiated into existence — it must be built through refusal, through courage, through collective solitary/mutual care/direct action, and through uncompromising and ultimately through radical love.
Thank you for all you do! The NAGA idea of "Freedom " is to pollute the air and water, outsource all of jobs, demonize people who don't look like them, and never, never have to pay for crime against humanity or the planet all in the name of their Green god money!
Thank you for the work you do, Qasim. Is there ANY possibility that the two most powerful showmen/influencers in American politics are currently simply putting on a vaguely crafted show which takes up the majority of ground in any debate so that when Musk supports a Trump policy, people think it must be a good one? Neither seem to care about being publicly hated or belittled and both seem to enjoy the spotlight so while for most of the rest of us their spat would be hell, it possibly doesn’t cost them much but magnificently keeps valuable media attention.
Thanks you for this excellent article
Thank you, especially for listing seven actions we can take to resist. I think an important one is missing, something to counter the stream of lies in right-wing media, the lies which Trump's supporters consume and believe. Those lies have enabled Trump's election and they continue to hide his fascism.
Qasim, thank you deeply for documenting these brutal realities without hedging. Your clarity that fascism is here — not merely approaching — is crucial, and your cataloging of specific state violence is essential.
I write this in solidarity, and because your courage deserves a full reckoning with what we are truly facing.
While you rightly expose the fascist acceleration under Trump, the deeper truth is that what we are living through is not a rupture from American ideals — it is the system functioning exactly as designed. As someone like a Wendy Brown has sharply analyzed, neoliberalism has systematically dismantled the public, erased society, sanctified markets, and redefined “freedom” as the right to dominate without accountability. Under neoliberal reason, inequality is naturalized, cruelty is moralized, and solidarity and justice are seen as dangerous.
Capitalism and justice can never be reconciled. Capitalism requires inequality, suffering, and domination to sustain the market’s extraction of surplus value as profit. True justice — collective emancipation, shared dignity, material equity — would collapse the very markets that capitalism, neoliberalism, and neocolonial white supremacy depend upon.
This also clarifies why liberalism and the Democratic Party are not merely ineffective in the face of rising fascism — they are literally structurally committed to obstructing true justice. Performative allyship. Never a pathway to transformative change. Liberalism’s primary loyalty is not to human liberation, but to the preservation of capitalist order. Period. When faced with the choice between revolution and authoritarianism, liberals — historically and today — reliably choose authoritarianism to protect markets. They fear the loss of hierarchy far more than they fear dictatorship.
Your work in exposing the reality of the crisis is a crucial step — and must be honored as such. But it also remains trapped within the horizon of privileged whiteness adjacent liberal proceduralism: it calls us to save a system that was never built for justice, only for hierarchy. To truly resist fascism, we must reject not only its authoritarian forms but also its capitalist roots.
Anything less than full anti-capitalist struggle denies true justice. To claim otherwise — to imagine justice without abolition — is not only hypocritical but logically incoherent. There is no future of dignity, freedom, or collective flourishing that can coexist with capitalism’s demand for endless extraction, exploitation, and domination.
True freedom is not the freedom to compete, dominate, and consume — it is the freedom to belong, to be safe, and to share dignity across all difference.
I say all this not to diminish your work, but because I value it deeply — and because I understand the pull toward pragmatism when the violence feels insurmountable. But if we are already resisting, already risking, already daring to name fascism — then why stop short of the full dream? Why compromise with the very system that manufactures our despair? If we are going to fight, why not fight for everything. Because the world we need cannot be negotiated into existence — it must be built through refusal, through courage, through collective solitary/mutual care/direct action, and through uncompromising and ultimately through radical love.
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Thank you for all you do! The NAGA idea of "Freedom " is to pollute the air and water, outsource all of jobs, demonize people who don't look like them, and never, never have to pay for crime against humanity or the planet all in the name of their Green god money!