It’s happening.  Just what we feared is happening right now.  The right is rising before our very eyes.  We have been looking at the surface of the 2016 election with bated breath, watching the center and left wring our hands about an unpopular centrist candidate running against a vulgar bigot with inarticulate political positions.  But now it is clear:  the right, insinuated in all our police, national security, military and judicial agencies, supported by grassroots right-wingers and racists, are poised to take power on Nov. 8.

Is this a conspiracy?  Yes!  The right wing bigots, active for decades in the US, have grown more and more anxious over a change in US culture and politics.  The  disempowered 99% has had several translations: one is a rejection of income and rights inequality, protection of our planet against the fossil fuel regime and corporate domination at all costs; the other is fascism.

Donald Trump has been a Trojan Horse for fascism and he has been signaling that to his minions over the last 8 years.  From denying the legitimacy of the first African American president, to the targeting of Mexicans, Muslims, Blacks, women and the disabled he has sanctioned violence and rejected the rule of law.  While we all know that justice is unequal in America, Trump has surpassed any modern view of how justice can be served.  The Koch Brothers’ plan of dividing out right wing Americans by single-issue politics and then joining them in a coalition of hate and white supremacy that serves corporate power has gotten out of their control and has directly contributed politically to the rise of Trump and fascism.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center which has been tracking racist and other violence for over 50 years:

"The pieces of the puzzle have been out there since reconstruction,  and have intensified and diversified ever since.  Right wing believers, attracted to law and order-type jobs, have been staffing the local, state and federal institutions of law enforcement, the criminal justice system, and the US military and security regime.  These organizations allow neo-fascists to work in areas in sync with their most fervent political beliefs. In many states supporters or outright members of the Ku Klux Klan, John Birch Society, etc. inhabit these jobs.  They are more and more closely networked with the rise of the information age and the technologies available to all of us.  They are politically and economically supported by the National Rifle Association; which has a great deal to gain from a fascist take-over.

The ideological and historic relationships are present. Just look at these startling facts:

1. 60 % of Trump's male supporters are or have been members of the Klu Klux Klan.

2. 90% of the Republican Party male leadership over 50 years of age were members of the Klan or are the children of a Klansman.

3. 60% of Southern-based Trump supporters have at least one member of their family that had participated in the murder or lynching of a black man.

4. 90% of the white males who support Trump are armed and believe it is their duty and right to shoot a Black or Brown person.

The Trump campaign has declared war on black and brown people and they will not disappear whether Trump or Clinton is elected.

When Trump says that if he loses the presidential election on Nov. 8, he will claim that “the system is rigged” and that his supporters should go to Black communities as goon squads to insure that there is no “voter fraud” we know that danger is upon us.  The fact that FBI Director Comey has done a “hail Mary” pass at the last moment in the election to raise doubt about Clinton, or as President Obama would say “innuendo” without the facts, should not surprise us.  Comey is part of this right wing take over, setting the stage for enough doubt to suppress the vote further. He is signaling that after the election indictments against her will be on their way.  She stands to be impeached and incarcerated. Trumps demand that Clinton to “jail her” is a further reminder that under fascism anything those in power want is on the table.

The racism and bigotry of the Republican Party and the mealy-mouthed response of the Democratic Party to intensify the murders of Black and Brown people by police and the expanded deportation of undocumented immigrants has softened the ground to plant the seeds of fascism, to create response fatigue to these injustices by most Americans, to get us used to these actions.  Now we are facing a direct threat to our government, one that will totally trample the existing fig leaf of the rule of law.

We must get the word out now that a fascist take over is directly upon us, that Nov. 8 will be the start of something much bigger than we ever thought.  Those of us who have worked to advance Black, Brown, Red, Yellow and Working Class White folks, those of us who have labored to protect the environment, our communities, our culture of openness never thought that a right wing take-over was possible.  But here it is.   This is a “call to arms” for people of color and progressive folks.  We must get organized to defend ourselves from military attacks from the forces supporting Trump, white supremacy and the Republican Party.  The Democratic Party no longer has the will or ability to protect Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and working people from this massive attack.

Sound the call.  Pass this on to everyone.  Know that Nov. 8 is our day of reckoning.

References:

Associated Press, ”Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Trump Campaign Over Voter-Harassment Fears.”  Los Angles Times, Nov. 4, 2016,. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-judge-to-trump-campaign-no-you-can-t-1478284503-htmlstory.htmlDonald Nieman, Donald Trump Is Taking a Page From Reconstruction-Era White Supremacists”, Oct. 11, 2016, The Conversation, http://portside.org/2016-11-05/donald-trump-taking-page-reconstruction-era-white-supremacistsJay Reeves, “Ku Klux Klan dreams of rising again 150 years after founding”, Boston Globe, July 1, 2016Peter Holley, Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2016

TheKKK’s Official Newspaper Has Endorsed Donald Trump for President. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/the-kkks-official-newspaper-has-endorsed-donald-trump-for-president/

The Year in Hate and Extremism, Intelligence Report, Southern Policy Law Center Magazine, Spring Issues, July 1, 2016,

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/year-hate-and-extremism