Hitler’s Spirit Invades America
Trump’s Birthday Party
Tanks on streets of Washington, DC. On June 14, tanks will roll down Pennsylvania Avenue past the US Capitol, troops will march and planes will fly overhead as Trump celebrates his 79th birthday and the U.S. Army commemorates the 250th anniversary of its founding.1
Where have we seen this before? Germany, 1939. On April 18, 1939, Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday with lavish displays of military power and industrial wealth: a motorcade of 50 white limousines, marching troops, brass bands, gifts from well-wishers. Several months later on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and World War II began.
Trump is working from Hitler’s playbook. Trump is moving to change America into a fascist country. He wants to rule the world as America’s dictator – a strongman that rules through a cult of leadership backed up by the armed forces. That’s is why one of the first things Trump did was to get rid of the military brass he could not trust, replacing them with toadies led by an incompetent Secretary of Defense.
Tanks are rolling in the streets while the government is rolling over our rights.
The government is bullying the courts and the universities and is slapping punitive tariffs on international trading partners.2
Masked and armed ICE agents are grabbing people off the street and making them disappear.3
The government is preparing to rip Medicare and Medicaid away from the American people laughing as they transfer healthcare money from as many as 70 million people to the billionaires. When Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst was confronted at a town meeting with the truth that “People are going to die” because of the cuts, she sneered “Well, we all are going to die.”4 In essence, F**k You.
The government knows that we will not take this lying down. Resistance is growing all over the country. In San Diego, the community came out to try and block an ICE raid on restaurant workers. They were met by stun grenades and armed force.3 The community was not able to stop the ICE kidnapping.
But we will move from spontaneous response to organized resistance.
No Kings! June 14 National Day of Action is one step in this resistance. 5
We don’t need or want a dictator. We demand peace, prosperity and a future for our children and grandchildren. Fascist dictators rise like mushrooms out of the seed bed of capitalism. Capitalism today needs dictators because it can no longer accumulate maximum profit without naked force and dispossession.
We can win, we must win!
We can fight and win!
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RNT strives to feature the views of all revolutionaries today. Here is one we particularly like. “ — Our country and the world stand at a crossroads. Humanity has the potential for economic security and abundance. A community of the people, by the people, and for the people, where children can grow in peace, is possible as never before. Or–if we do nothing—we face increasingly unlivable conditions caused by private ownership of the wealth that human labor has created. The purpose of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America is to build consciousness and unity among the most impacted workers, to be able to secure the needs of humanity, and avoid the destitution and environmental disaster threatening life on our planet as we know it.”6
Footnotes
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/30/trump-military-parade-fascism
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/trump-harvard-authoritarianism-democracy
- https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5418970/san-diego-immigration-raid-restau
- https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5418932/we-all-are-going-to-die-ernst-joni-town-hall-iowa-senator
- https://thirdact.org/act/no-kings-day-of-action/
- https://lrna.org/lrna-program/
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