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Five months into his misrule, President Trump is swinging a wrecking ball through the domestic and international order. Faced with obstacles to his program, splits within his coalition, and popular opposition, he has only escalated his attacks with raids against migrant workers and a war on Iran.

His unrelenting offensive has inflamed ever greater popular resistance. In Los Angeles, the multiracial, multinational working class, including key unions, built mass demonstrations and staged direct actions against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the police, and National Guard troops deployed by Trump.

More than 5 million people poured into the streets at No Kings rallies against Trump’s narcissistic and shambolic military parade on his birthday. And, while he consolidated his base behind his war on Iran, half the population opposed it. But Trump will not back down. Instead, he is intensifying his class war at home and unilateral imperialism abroad.

Despite the emergence of mass popular resistance to Trump, the Democratic Party establishment persists in following James Carville’s

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