An important correction.
I sincerely intended to go through all of Project 2025 and give you a brief summary of each section of it and what the likely consequences would be. However, it has become abundantly clear that the MAGAs are too internally chaotic to allow for an accurate prediction of exactly how they will fuck up the United States of America and the world. In other words, I can’t tell you which parts of Project 2025 will actually happen, if any. At this point, I can’t even tell you for sure that their destruction of the USA will begin on January 20th because they have managed to break into two separate factions: on one side, white supremacist Christian nationalists, and on the other side, the right-wing oligarchs yearning to be completely free to exploit the working class. Furthermore, there’s even more opportunity for further splintering of MAGA going forward.
Project 2025 is mostly a project of the white supremacist, Christian nationalist side of MAGA, but Trump is an empty vessel with no ideology beyond whatever makes him money, keeps him out of jail, and strokes his ego. The Christian nationalists don’t seem to get it because they’ve decided that Trump is God’s instrument despite the fact that he more closely meets the Biblical model for an anti-Christ than a champion of Christianity. The billionaires, on the other hand, completely get it, and started making huge “donations” (bribes) to Trump as soon as it was clear he had won the election.
Certainly, it is still highly likely that Vance will try to pull the 25th Amendment on Trump, but I’m no longer sure they have the internal solidarity, courage, and organizing competence to actually make that happen. I think it is more likely that they whisper about it but never get around to doing it, and even if they decided to go for it, I think the odds are about even that they manage to do it versus a situation where the rebels are severely punished — i.e., possibly even sent to jail.
As Trump looks around the country and sees little resistance to his fascist rule, it seems significantly less likely that he will organize a domestic reign of terror and will instead start looking outward to Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Panama. This is certainly no less fascistic (and the previously promised domestic reign of terror would have transitioned into outward expansion eventually anyway) but the point is that I don’t feel like I can say what will happen after Trump takes office.
The advice of our club is:
- Don’t create a situation that refocuses MAGA’s substantial animosity toward the left. Resistance should be as quiet as possible because the left does not have the numbers for a frontal assault of any kind. To be clear, “frontal assault” is a metaphor. I’m saying there’s no strategy of any kind (violent or not) that would work for the left. This is primarily because liberals are complacent cowards who will literally let the whole world burn as long as their stock portfolio keeps improving; they are not on our side.
- As the MAGAs destroy things, there will be opportunities to fill the empty niches within society created by that destruction. Watch for those to open up and take action.
- Build alliances within the left. Anyone who is, for example, creating resistance to communists and anarchists working together is harmful at best, and a possible fed. The left is 6% or less of the US population. Saying that we shouldn’t hang out with Trotskyites, for example, is just absurd, and anyone promoting that kind of divisiveness is an obvious problem. Any organization promoting that kind of thinking is a dead end for humanity.
- In contrast, if you’re going to openly support an organization, that org needs to disavow the Democratic Party.
- Keep building capacity. Make non-confrontational plans to help the people who will be damaged by whatever mayhem the MAGAs end up going with.
- Take care of yourself, meaning: Cut (or at least reduce) alcohol and other destructive drugs, get some exercise, try to eat more healthy (less sugar, more vegetables), drink water, take more breaks from the internet and media, hang out with people in real life. We need you alive, functional, and in motion.
- This list may be incomplete due to the prevalence of media censorship in the United States.
Whatever happens, we know it will be stupid and economically destructive. The Democratic Party is very good at managing a capitalist economy to allow the oligarchs to continue to get more and more absurdly rich while keeping the “labor resources” from suffering enough to incite a revolution. With the Democrats being largely irrelevant, and none of the MAGAs having any skill in running any kind of economy, the economic outcome, specifically, is bound to be very bad, and might actually create some solidarity among working class people. I just don’t think anyone can provide any details on that, and I don’t think we can say for sure whether anything else Trump promised will come to pass.
Good luck out there!