What to Expect from a Trump Presidency
What is certain is that going forward with Donald Trump as U.S. President the polity can expect virulent attacks on immigrants and refugees and attempts to portray them as an enemy within and danger to U.S. prosperity and stability. The use of presidential police powers against the people's protests is also likely to increase. Furthermore, anarchy -- created when the public authority is destroyed and narrow private interests take over state power -- will continue to generate violence, both at home and abroad.
But this is not all. It is also certain that the true U.S. majority comprised of the U.S. working class and peoples of all origins will continue to advance their claims on society. The fierce struggle being waged by the peoples of the United States against genocide, impunity, inequality and the attacks against them will continue and grow stronger.
It is the resistance of the working class and peoples of the United States to their exploitation and oppression and their striving for freedom, justice, equality and peace which forges their identity as a people. It always has and always will be up until they empower themselves to set agenda and implement it, and even then.
The collective consciousness of the peoples is such that their struggles are not determined by elections, but by their drive for justice, in defence of the rights of all at home and abroad. Trump cannot stop this, any more than he was able to stop the broad united actions against racist police killings in 2020.
The working class and peoples of the United States comprise the majority and it is their resistance that can counter government actions and further strengthen their stand that genocide, racist mass incarceration, family separation and detention camps for women and children along with misogynist laws, are Not in Our Name! They do not represent the society the peoples stand for. They are not acceptable, Not in Our Communities!
Whether at the border or cities across the country and rural areas, people will continue to speak in their own name and organize to defend their rights and advance a people's way forward. They will continue to stand as one with the peoples of the world engaged in the same striving to empower themselves against old arrangements called rule of law which empower elites to rule over them, take all the decisions and cast them aside.
It is important to take note that the space for change does not belong to the rulers alone. It is objective; it belongs to one and all who come forward to occupy it. The organized resistance of the working class and people for change which favours them is beginning to occupy this space in time with their refusal to conciliate with the crimes committed against humanity, the destruction of the natural and social environment and the cause of the peoples for peace, freedom and democracy of their own making.
This is the change which is consistent with the call of history for humanity to humanize the social and natural environment and create the world in its own image of an emancipated humankind.
This is what we can expect under the Trump Presidency. No matter what he does, the contradictions within the ranks of the rulers, and those between the presidency and the peoples, both at home and abroad, will continue to intensify. The working class and people of the U.S. will continue to fight for their rights and the rights of all. They will continue to speak in their own name. They will continue to answer the call of history to march on, to become the makers of history themselves, forging their identity through their deeds, in the struggles for justice, equality, peace and freedom for all of humanity.
It can be done because it must be done! Following this U.S. election, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) congratulates the youth, workers and all those forces from amongst the intelligentsia in the United States who stuck to their conviction to speak in their own name and, in whatever way they thought possible, cast a ballot against genocide, racism, and war.
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Thursday, November 7, 2024
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