Elon Musk made the Nazi salute twice at Trump's inauguration. Musk bought Twitter to reinstate Nazis. He supports the German fascist party AfD. He has spread antisemitic "replacement" rhetoric. Yet the ADL is making excuses for him because, like them, he supports the genocide of Palestinians. Unsurprisingly, fascism looks a bit different this time around than it did a century ago. But it already has its Henry Ford, its autocrats, its scapegoats against whom to direct anger, its sacrificial violence. We should have no illusions about what we're up against.
Assembled at his inauguration, we see the oligarchs who lined up to bring Donald Trump back to power. Capitalism has always meant rule by billionaires, but it is especially noxious that this particular billionaire has returned to office by pretending to oppose "the elite." In fact, the new Trump administration represents the intensification of state violence for the benefit of the ultra-rich. They regard the rest of us as disposable resources in their quest for total domination. We have to fight them with everything we've got. image