When Donald Trump promised Americans that under his leadership the country would shift into ‘the golden age’, he wasn’t speaking in terms of a positive economic, technological, industrial, or agricultural boom (though that’s how it seemed) that would make the working class more prosperous. Quite the contrary, his aim is to make them more labor ready and tolerant to the prosperity of the ruling class at the expense of their own hard work. 

In fact Trump has shown he has nothing better to offer than lies, deceit, chaos and policies aimed at enriching him and his billionaire bros. 

What a golden age means to him is something far more sinister. Something not in the interests of the working class people that voted for him, but in the interests of crypto currency investors, billionaire tech, oil tycoons and commodity traders that have amassed a fortune exploiting the labor of workers, children and unpaid prisoners throughout the world. 

For his plan to come to fruition, that is preserving white supremacy and establishing an authoritarian regime it can fully develop under, it would of course call for him to roll back just about every promise he made to voters during his campaign run. That’s because mostly what he campaigned on, minus a very brutal mass deportation plan and attack on his political foes, was lip service, if only to pose as the lesser of two partisan evils. And to meet quid pro quos he had with those who donated millions to his campaign in exchange for a favorable power move. 

This is why affordability and inflation to him are merely talking points without action, while advancing the interests of the billionaire class, at the cost of pardoning international drug lords, attempted election theft, illegal wars and bombing innocent Iranian children and Hispanic boaters, is one thing he unapologetically goes all in for. Being allowed to act lawlessly in this manner is key to his agenda coming to fruition. Demonizing dissent and desensitizing the public’s perception on this barbarism is what’s allowing it to move forward. 

To curate the desensitization process. The Trump administration and conservative media are promoting the amount of damage the U.S. and Israel are inflicting on Iran’s infrastructure and deeming murderous ICE agents heroes, instead of exposing the real-world consequences this is having on innocent Americans and foreigners that are only seen as body counts and collateral damage. 

Following the coldblooded killings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Border Patrol and Ice agents, as they sought to monitor immigration enforcement activity in Minneapolis, and whom former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem falsely labeled domestic terrorists, the horrors of what an American police state can look like seemed to, somewhat, rear its ugly head as protesters took to the streets in response. 

But that’s only because of the legacy of the U.S. government’s role in slave patrols (policing in its infancy), lynchings, police-instigated violence among Blacks and a complicit judicial system — events Trump is trying to whitewash from reality. Seems to not be measured the same way as the consequences of his mass deportation plan are being measured today. It’s as if when unprovoked torture was aimed at Blacks it was a status quo. Now that whites are getting caught in the web, like dolphins in a tuna net, the government has gone way too far. 

What some see as the precursor to overt fascism in the U.S. — meaning citizens getting snatched out of their homes half naked or slaughtered in broad daylight by masked law enforcement agents acting with impunity —  is nothing more than a mutation of the same evils minorities and unpopular subgroups like the LGBTQ community have long been facing. It is the characteristics of a government at war with the people. The rot of a withering democracy that was born ill.

When civil rights activists like Dr Martin Luther King Jr warned that an injustice anywhere was an injustice everywhere, this is what he was warning the people about. As an observer and freedom fighter, and as his consciousness grew, he saw the cancer of capitalism slowly spreading throughout the Black communities and into the country. Something he soon recognized that faith and prayer alone couldn’t cure. He knew attacking one because of their race was just a starting point. The end game would be full scale class-based repression, in which the descendants of the same racist people attacking Blacks then, would eventually be victims too. 

During this era it wasn’t wholly characterized as American fascism because repressing Blacks and treating them like second class citizens was societally accepted outside of their own marginalized communities. It would take mass protests and disruptions before the courts would even fathom that Blacks should be treated equal to whites. For a white to even question the immoral ramifications of these government-sanctioned acts, much less help mobilize to end them, put them in an uncomfortable spot of being attacked or banished for being “nigger lovers”. 

As we can see, Trump is completely invested in re-imagining and bringing back this era full circle in his own name and likeness. Why else would he be so interested in demonizing or deporting all non-whites disconnected from Zionism, criminalizing the study of critical race theory, shutting down every government-funded institution that supports minorities and women, or stripping any historic monuments that mention the evils of slavery? To do it any other way would be him spinning his wheels. 

Since the start of his second term, Trump has bombed seven countries, used law enforcement agents to declare war against the people, instigated a war on Iran under false pretense, supported and showed favor to several white men who killed unarmed Blacks and were found not guilty, bombed occupied boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and used AI memes to promote white supremacy, among other crimes against humanity. With all this mumble jumble, he has been able to distract attention away from the Epstein files scandal, but only at a minimum, as too many actors are implicated for it to lose its relevance. 

To even be compared to his fascist Mussolini-like counterparts the world over, Trump and his administration would have to operate outside the bounds of expected normalcy through arbitrary acts that are justified. The murders and acts of violence by the police state against Rodney King, Eric Garner, and many other Blacks whose attackers got off scot-free, softened the pillow for a fascist regime to lay their head, since in its fullest form every race under its dictatorship will be victimized. As we can see, Trump is well on his way. 

These are just some of the contradictions in Trump’s plight to make america white again and the tendencies of a fascist regime’s disinterest in who it is repressing, so long as they are in the class targeted for repression. 

Jason Renard Walker 1532092 

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Jason Renard Walker is a prison journalist who has published articles and essays in various print and online media outlets since 2016. His work can be viewed at: www.jasonsprisonjournal.com You can also purchase his paperback book ‘Reports From Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture And Injustice Inside Texas Department Of Criminal Justice’ available on amazon.com