MAGA is executing a power grab the likes of which this country has never seen. Trump isn’t renovating the ballroom for someone else to use it, he’s moving in.
In an interview with The Economist, Steve Bannon said it plainly: “Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that.”
Their intent isn’t governance. It’s domination. And if you think this is hyperbole, you’re out of your fucking mind.
“At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there is a plan.” Bannon added that Trump was an “instrument of divine will,” echoing, as Trump himself has, the divine right of kings.
This isn’t strategy. It’s scripture for a political cult. The manifesto of men preparing a theological autocracy. A declaration that compromise, dialogue, and democracy itself are obstacles to be eliminated. If you are a straight white conservative Christian who digs the patriarchy you are entering the Golden age… however, for the rest of us.
Bannon and the MAGA machine see this moment as a state of war, not against a foreign enemy, but against their fellow Americans. Against liberal America. Against anyone who believes in equality, pluralism, and law. They intend to march forward with unrelenting action, counting on the left’s apathy and disorientation, disregarding constitutional history and treating power as destiny, not responsibility.
If you were facing a nuclear power that openly declared it would use its weapons against you, would you sit and negotiate or fight with everything you have to disarm them before it’s too late?
That’s the moral equation before us now. We have no choice but to act simultaneously and without hesitation on two fronts:
• Resist Relentlessly. We must confront this growing authoritarian movement through protest, organizing, voting, and unyielding instances of civic courage. We cannot meet divine-right zealotry with apathy. For most of us, this will be the first time in our lives we’ve been called to defend democracy. Carrying on with a “business as usual” mindset is delusion. Figure out a way to get involved. Now.
• Rebuild from the Ground Up. We must abandon the poisoned, performative politics of our era and return to something human. Build community-centered bridges of trust, care, and shared purpose. The more we connect locally, the less control authoritarians have over our fears. America must be rebuilt, not from Washington, but from our neighborhoods, schools, and streets. Find a way to begin that work.
They have money. They have power. They have a group of zealots willing to trade freedom for submission. But we have numbers. We have each other. And we have the unshakable belief that democracy is still worth fighting for.
They’ve told us loudly and repeatedly what they plan to do. The question is no longer if they’ll try to end democracy. The question is whether we’ll listen and whether we’ll act before it’s too late.
– Jason Duchin
via social media
October 26, 2025
via social media
October 26, 2025
Related Off-site Links:
How to Stop Tyrant Trump From Destroying Our Country – Ralph Nader (Common Dreams, October 26, 2025).
Steve Bannon Reveals There’s a Plan for a Third Trump Term in 2028 – Hafiz Rashid (The New Republic, October 24, 2025).
Trump Third Term Is Being Planned Out, MAGA Ally Steve Bannon Says Hello, Fascism – Chris Walker (Truthout, October 24, 2025).
Bannon Says Trump Will Run for an Illegal Third Term Because “He’s a Vehicle of Divine Providence” – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, October 24, 2025).
Officials Plot to Have Trump Declare National Emergency in 2026, Raising Fears He May “Hijack” the Next Election – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, October 23, 2025).
Wake Up! Trump Is Moving Swiftly to Become the First American Dictator – Thom Hartmann (Common Dreams, October 1, 2025).
UPDATE: Americans Don’t Want a King, But We May Be Getting One Anyway – Tom Engelhardt (Common Dreams, October 27, 2025).
See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Inauguration Day Thoughts
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Bowing to an Idol
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• Memes of the Times – September 2025
• Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”
• Marianne Williamson: We Need an “Expanded Version of What it Means to Be Political”
• An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025
• “If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”
• James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship
• Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present
• Mark Sandlin: “Of Course Trump Wants Columbus Day Back”
• When Terrorism Charges “Reek of Political Theater”
• Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0
• Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker
• “We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18, 2025
• “Performative Resistance Alone Won’t Change Anything”
See also:
• Phil Wilson Remembers “American Fascism’s First Casualty” and Warns That Donald Trump’s “MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All”
• Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”
• “The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult
• Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Robert Reich: Quote of the Day – April 11, 2023
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy
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