Donald Trump’s shock and awe campaign has many targets. These include but are not limited to the country’s democracy, political and social institutions, the social safety net, the economy, the American people’s sense of normalcy and routine and overall physical and emotional health, the Constitution and the rule of law.
Trump and his MAGA movement agents’, allies’ and enforcers’ efforts to undermine if not destroy these targets as part of a revolutionary project to end America’s multiracial pluralistic democracy and to replace it with a form of competitive authoritarianism modeled on Viktor Orbán’s Hungary or Vladimir Putin’s Russia have been remarkably effective. The new America that is in the process of being born will be a 21st-century American apartheid and White Christofascist plutocracy and kleptocracy.
