PallasRiot on Nostr: This is a hard one for me and something I pretty uncertain about, but I think we may ...

This is a hard one for me and something I pretty uncertain about, but I think we may have to be more open to taking a kind of popular front approach over the next four years, making space for liberals to be celebrated and cheered on at times for moves that actually protect some of the institutions that, to be honest, I think are often monstrous. Jerome Powell is a fresh example; I can't possibly say that Powell is anything but a bagman for capital, but it's also a fact that by publicly saying that he would refuse to resign if Trump asked he's modeling not obeying in advance. He's making it slightly easier for other bureaucrats to gum up the works for the Trump administration, and whether I like it or not that's important. The more swiftly and completely that the fascists can establish control over the vast levers of government, the more dangerous they are: the machine shouldn't exist, but they're the worst ones that could have it.

Internal defection and recalcitrance within these institutions is going to be a vital kind of sabotage, and it's going to rely on people that I largely have deep political disagreements with.