Donald Trump has for the first time won the popular vote, and now around an openly fascist program [14], starting with plans for mass detention [15] of millions of undocumented immigrants. While there are signs of an emergent resistance [16], there are also undeniable signs of a left-MAGA convergence [17] around a mutual embrace of authoritarian populism, exploiting disaffection [18] from Biden-Harris' criminal support [19] for Israel's genocide in Gaza. In Episode 251 [20] of the CounterVortex podcast [21], Bill Weinberg stakes stock of this grim juncture for the United States and the world. We also revive our call from 2016 for electoral nullification [22]—the electors refusing to seat [23] Trump. The New York judge in Trump's "hush money [24]" case must immediately impose the maximum sentence of four years in prison [25], bringing on the needed constitutional crisis, and the Electoral College must do what it was designed to do under the Constitution: bar a dangerous demagogue from the presidency.
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