Chaos stands among the fascists' favorite tactics. If you want a system to fail, you create disorder. And if you want a social system to fail, you do it in so many places all at once that people can't keep up.
Just my opinion, but who knows? Our job, y'all, is to keep our eye on the ball, name the costs, resist when necessary, and let the dissatisfaction boil until society will no longer tolerate the misery the chaos produces.
So some samples.
1. Trump seriously wants Canada--or at least parts of Canada. His rhetoric is destabilizing--to Canadians--and intentionally so. As with Greenland, he wants to dole out Canada's rich natural resources to his cronies. He wants to impoverish everyone but himself and his minions. (See: Russia, Hungary.) Trudeau put it this way: “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that’ll make it easier to annex us.”
2. Corruption is the whole game. According to Robert Reich, "Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and actions against corporate lawbreakers. At least 34 of those companies--including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo--gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural."
3. Judges are showing their exasperation with Trump's power grabs. A federal judge has enjoined those DEI executive orders that target universities and other non-profit organizations. According to the National Law Review, the judge ruled that "the plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success on the merits that the termination, certification, and enforcement provisions are unconstitutional, so any agencies acting pursuant to those provisions 'would be acting pursuant to an order that Plaintiffs have shown a strong likelihood of success in establishing is unconstitutional on its face.'”
Another judge expressed shock--"It sends chills down my spine"--that Trump claimed the authority to punish law firms for representing clients his administration attacks.
4. By cutting over 80,000 jobs at the VA, the administration is making it impossible for veterans to receive essential services, not least access to mental health care. And there's no remedy in sight to address a problem of that scale.
5. Similar cuts to the Department of Education call into question our capacity to administer student loans, issue funding for public schools, provide care for students with disabilities, Again, so-called "school choice" is really a vehicle to take money out of public education and send it to the wealthiest among us and to irresponsible speculators. Moreover, it harms student performance. But student learning is beside the point here.
6. Apparently Donald Trump can decide who counts as a Jew and who doesn’t. Some chilling Nazi stuff there. But of course, chaos is the point.
