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The Dictatorship Is Firmly In Place

The dictatorship is not looming on the horizon. It is not a distant threat. It is here.

For decades, the Heritage Foundation and its allies in the oligarchy have been building a playbook for authoritarian rule. That blueprint, Project 2025, is nothing less than America’s version of the Hitler playbook: a systematic dismantling of democratic institutions, consolidation of executive power, and replacement of public servants with loyalists who serve one man and his billionaire backers.

Donald Trump is the vessel through which this plan is being carried out. He is not a strategist, nor an intellectual. He is, as history will record, the ignorant, reckless, and narcissistic figure ideally suited to front an agenda crafted by others. He didn’t invent authoritarianism in America, but he has given it a face, a voice, and a mob.

Authoritarianism Has Already Arrived

We must stop pretending this is a “slow walk” toward dictatorship. It began years ago, before Trump’s first election. His presidency was not the warning sign; it was the arrival. Authoritarianism is here, oligarchy is here, fascism is here.

The signs have been everywhere: dismantling the civil service, undermining the courts, using the military and federal law enforcement as tools of political intimidation, stacking the government with sycophants, and spreading propaganda to normalize lies as truth. Yet too many ignored the danger. Too many thought “it can’t happen here.”

It did. It has. It is.

The Fight Ahead

Now, the stakes are clear. This is not simply another election. This is not business as usual. This is class warfare in its starkest form: the billionaires and oligarchs tightening their grip against the rest of us. And make no mistake, this fight may not remain polite. It could, if unchecked, become bloody, another civil war in all but name.

We hope it does not come to that. But democracy has never been defended by silence, timidity, or waiting for someone else to act. It has always required struggle.

A Leader Emerges

Finally, Gavin Newsom speaks the language that reality demands. He has called this what it is: a fight. He is the first national leader willing to say openly what so many know privately—that the time for speeches and warnings has passed. The time for resistance has come.

And in that fight, we will need more than political rhetoric. We will need muscle. We will need a military that remembers its oath is to the Constitution, not to any one man. When the day comes that soldiers and generals refuse to obey illegal orders, when they stand with the people instead of a dictator, that will mark a turning point in the struggle. General Mark Milley has shown in the past that he understands this distinction. We will need more like him.

The Law Is On Our Side

Trump’s attempt to use military forces for domestic control is already unlawful. The Posse Comitatus Act was written to prohibit exactly this kind of abuse. The courts will eventually have to rule that his actions are illegal. But the courts move slowly, and dictators move quickly. The people cannot afford to wait.

The Call to Action

This is a fight for our lives, not only as individuals but as citizens of a free republic. We who are not billionaires or oligarchs have everything at stake. The time has come to take to the streets, organize, and resist.

History has shown us where appeasement leads. Germany learned too late, and we cannot. The fight for democracy must begin now.

Thank God Gavin Newsom is stepping into the arena. He may not be the final answer, but he is the first spark. The question is whether we, the people, will light the fire of resistance before it is too late.

William James Spriggs