Ruling Class Says Trump Is President... Get Over It...Tens of Thousands in the Streets Say NO!!

In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, key opinion makers in the mass (that is, the ruling class) media are portraying the incoming Trump regime as a legitimate "peaceful transition of power". They say this is essential to what makes America "great". Literally "normalizing" fascism.
But in the streets, on high school and college campuses, in large cities and small towns, in vigils and fierce confrontations, people are not accepting that this is just business as usual. People are refusing to accept the ominous implications of a fascist presidency. Many thousands have marched in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Oakland. In Portland, defiant protesters have taken the streets for four days straight in the face of police pepper spray and rubber bullets. People are refusing to accept Trump's war on immigrants. They are refusing to accept his obscene celebration of prejudice, ignorance, and hate for those who don't fit into the dominant American culture of white supremacy and patriarchy.

Thousands and thousands have marched on Trump Tower in New York and Chicago. Signs say "Love Trumps Hate". Chants of "Not our president" and "Fuck Donald Trump!" disrupt business as usual. Freeways have been blocked in LA, Miami, Atlanta, and Iowa City. Hundreds of Phoenix high school students walked out of classes. They marched to the state capitol chanting "Who's Donald Trump? Not our president!" and "Whose city? Our city!" Thousands of high school students in California, Colorado, and Washington and hundreds in Iowa have walked out in protest. Large and angry rallies against Trump broke out immediately on college campuses, especially on the West Coast but also at schools like the University of Pittsburgh, historically Black Fisk University in Tennessee, and the University of Texas in Austin. In Cincinnati, an anti-Trump march with a significant component of LGBT rights activists converged in the streets with people, mainly from the Black community, protesting the refusal of a jury to convict the pig who murdered Samuel DuBose.

Voices with influence, including clergy, and people in the art and entertainment communities are taking a stand and speaking out. Among those were, in New York, Lady Gaga, Mark Ruffalo, and Cher, who joined protests late on election night at Trump Tower. Jennifer Lawrence tweeted "Let this be the fire you didn't have before... If you are an immigrant, if you are a person of color, if you are LGBTQ+, if you are a woman – don't be afraid, be loud!" And New York Daily News columnist Shaun King wrote, "No, we should not wait and see what a Trump administration does. We should organize our resistance right now."

Students at American University in [Washington] DC burned American flags, as did protesters in Atlanta where The New York Times reported that protesters "revis[ed] Mr. Trump's campaign slogan [and] chanted 'America was never great.'"

In Cleveland and Chicago, revolutionary communists – the revcoms – and some others have gone nose to nose with howling Trump supporters.

In the midst of all this, the message from revcom.us, "In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America", has been taken up widely by all kinds of people, and is playing a critical role. It needs to be spread much more widely.

Tens of thousands, now, are standing up. They are motivated both by a sense of the magnitude of what Trump's ascension means, and refusing to accept the hate crimes already being committed in the wake of the election – like assaults on Muslim women and attacks on immigrants. The response to the Trump election – in its size, determination, and breadth of people – is unprecedented in modern US history, going back to the Civil War. This is very important and positive. It needs to both keep going and spread. At the same time, everybody needs to be figuring out both how this spreads and finds more organized expression.

And the sites of resistance must become scenes where people are seriously discussing and debating what gave rise to a Trump and how to get beyond the confines of a system that legitimates and dictates not only "choices" like this but values like this as well.