If what Trump did the day after coming into office with his mass pardoning of the January 6^th fascist insurrectionists could be considered a growling and snarling at the democracy fought for by the people of this nation, then what has been happening in Los Angeles over this past week has been nothing less than a full-blown assault on that very democracy. Trump has been in office for almost five months and has created more havoc both domestically and internationally than he did during his first term.

What the demonstrators of Los Angeles have shown, among other things, is that Trump’s campaign of revenge and retribution is now in full swing.

Let’s be clear: Trump’s path to absolute power is not assured; resistance to his cuts to the full array of domestic federal spending that benefit all people is deepening and intensifying daily; rail and longshore workers, whose contracts come due within the next year or so, are not likely to tolerate another betrayal, such as they did with Biden.

Let’s be clear: Trump has declared all-out war on all but his rich crony friends. Trump is truly a desperate man, and he must be stopped before he goes too far and destroys everything humanity has ever worked for.

My thanks to my friend and comrade, Rocio Lopez, for her courageous reporting on the scene in Los Angeles in her June 8 article: https://imhojournal.org/articles/trump-meets-intense-resistance-as-he-lawlessly-sends-national-guard-to-la-in-anti-immigrant-crackdown/

— Writing from rural Wisconsin