Democrats’ idea of “resistance” to Trump is considerably less substantial than actual resistance to fascism looked like during World War II. And it probably shouldn’t have started with a unanimous vote for neoconservative maniac Marco Rubio.
Hard-Boiled Tales of Resistance
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Before 1941, Conservatives were isolationists: buy American, sell to Americans (with raw materials taken for free from our neocolonies in Latin America); Liberals were for peaceful international cooperation. Then FDR ordered a naval blockade of Japan (whose navy was only 60% as large as the US navy), technically an Act of War, but what could Japan do when the US had almost a 2:1 advantage? Then came (as FDR expected) Pearl Harbor, and isolationism and peaceful international cooperation were denounced as responsible for the deaths of thousands of US sailors, so the Conservatives became neocons and the liberals became neolibs: we have to bomb them all to nothing before they can attack the US.
Neolibs have little dislike for neocons, and are happy to vote for one to be Secretary of State.
The “resistance to fascism … during World War II” came well AFTER Mr H. became German chancellor. The lack of critical, if “stern,” resistance then, of course, led to WWII. The current situation is similar except that any effective resistance which may occur could well be WAY too late and it is highly unlikely it would come from the “opposition” side of the US imperial Uni-party.
Fascism is the (over-)reaction to socialism with concomitant increase in the corporate/capitalist “influence” over government (proof that obsessed propagandists for capitalism don’t really believe the superiority they slavishly claim for it). The first premise could not be more evident than in “the Cold War” (and beyond, e.g.: Ukraine … !!!and China, coming soon!!!) that was a brutal resurgence and reinforcement of fascism … required when the USSR had the damned nerve to defeat Germany in WWII. See “The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World” by Blevins
The Reagan “revolution” put the process for corporate control of government into sharp focus. To suggest the Dems have merely failed to mount adequate resistance is total folly. They have been willing and eager co-conspirators. See, for example, the book: “Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution” by Michael A. Meeropol
The ostentatious ubiquity of billionaires in and around the Trump administration is merely confirmation of the problem, however grotesquely flagrant, NOT its cause.