To the editor:
The fascist Trump regime is being widely resisted. People all over the country are standing strong against it: against his ICE Gestapo snatching immigrant workers off the streets and disappearing them into concentration camps, against the dispatching of armed soldiers to cause turmoil in our blue cities to justify further repression, against the McCarthyite attacks on critics and dissenters, against the open threats to take over other countries like our once-friendly neighbor to the North.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will turn out and demonstrate against the Trump regime at this coming weekend’s No Kings rallies. At the same time, many good folks believe that somehow the Democratic Party is going to save us from this terrible situation and restore normality if only things can turn out differently in the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential elections (if they are even allowed to happen).
This is a false hope. It is time to face the fact, now that the veils have been stripped away under Trump, that the United States is a failed state.
In truth, the American Republic was heavily flawed from its very beginnings, based on the theft of land and cultural genocide against the indigenous populations and built upon the labor of enslaved Africans and of immigrants who came from all over the world seeking a better life often only to encounter racism and find class exploitation instead.
Then there are all the imperialist foreign wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Central America, for which Democrats and Republicans equally share the responsibility. And let’s not forget that the Biden administration, just like the Trump administration, was an enabler of Israel’s unconscionable genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Why should we want to save this collapsing system and its dying empire? Good riddance, I say. So what’s the alternative? While building mass resistance, we need to seize this historical opportunity to replace it with something much better for all of us: a cooperative, egalitarian, ecological and genuinely democratic society.
Jay Moore
Marshfield
