As the American Empire descends into the abyss, the fascist Trump regime is rapidly building up the infrastructure of a classic police state, replete with militarized cities, concentration camps, and jackbooted Brown Shirts.

Its war on immigrants has expanded to the unhoused and mentally ill. And it won’t stop there. Once the internment camps are empty of the undocumented, they will be filled with the next targeted “other.” Scapegoats and distractions for the corruption and machinations of the powerful.

While many see the writing on the wall, others still believe in the myth of American exceptionalism. But the numbers don’t lie. The US is no longer the economic powerhouse it once was. And the Trump regime is working over time to ensure its unraveling. Through crippling tariffs and the slashing of what’s left of the social safety net, which will only hurt a struggling working class, cruelty and sadism have become policy.

Its increasing belligerence toward allies is also isolating it further. Already, the US has lost billions of dollars in tourism, as Europeans and Canadians, wary of being harassed, deported or detained by masked thugs, choose to take their holiday elsewhere. In the meantime, BRICS ascends.

Fascism has always simmered under the surface of American politics and culture. If nothing else, its support of a genocide should have demonstrated this. But the Trump regime has ripped the mask off completely. And now it is poised to tear down whatever remains of its fragile and besieged democratic institutions.

Kenn Orfanos, August 2025