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"The rally has two deeply reactionary and interrelated purposes. Trump’s first campaign event in three months, since the outbreak of the pandemic, is meant to underscore the finality of the economic “reopening” and back-to-work drive being ...
...carried out by all levels of government and by both big business parties, despite the catastrophic effect it will have on the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of workers forced to work under unsafe conditions....
...Second, it is part of a deliberate effort to stoke up violent clashes so as to create a pretext for declaring martial law, mobilizing the military against anti-police brutality protesters and establishing a de facto presidential dictatorship...
...As the World Socialist Web Site has warned, Trump’s decision to put off calling in active-duty troops against demonstrators in Washington DC on June 1, after having proclaimed himself the “president of law and order,” did ...
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not signify the abandonment of the White House conspiracy to overthrow the US Constitution."
not signify the abandonment of the White House conspiracy to overthrow the US Constitution."
"Trump was forced to back down at that point because of opposition from the military brass, which itself was motivated not by any commitment to democratic rights, but rather by the belief that such a move was premature and would likely provoke a social explosion that could not ..
...be controlled. Congress, the Democratic Party and the corporate media said virtually nothing about the planned coup d’etat."
"Trump, the military and the ruling elite as a whole fear that the mass multi-racial protests against police violence are only the prelude to a far broader and far more clearly defined working class movement in response to the ...
...indifference of the government and the corporations to workers’ lives and their use of the pandemic to step up the attack on jobs, wages and living standards."
"Trump and his co-conspirators, including sections of the military, are preparing to impose authoritarian rule in order to violently preempt or suppress a movement of the working class that threatens the capitalist system."
