Opposition means opposition

Friends,

As a history professor, I deal in patterns.

But you don’t need my academic credentials to see what Trump is planning. The pattern is clear — he’s already shown us he wants to consolidate power and crush opposition.

We must name what’s happening in America because the world has seen it before and fought our last actual declared ‘war’ to defeat it. 

Fascism. 

And in the face of it, Democrats are either stupid, cowardly, or complicit. Frankly, they’ve proven themselves to be all three in spades.

We have no signals from Democrats that they are even interested in mounting the all out judicial and PR offensive that will be needed to counter the brazen assaults on democracy we face — they’re more concerned with maintaining relationships with their corporate owners and rebranding their neoliberalism to appeal to what they think oppressed communities want to hear.

Even in the face of the Trump administration threatening to arrest them, they still won’t wake up:

In fact, when Trump grabbed for authoritarian power through DOGE, a so-called thought leader of the Democratic Party, James Carville, told Democrats to “play possum.” And they did.

The Democratic establishment spent billions losing twice to the world’s most fraudulent reality show host—and when they actually did beat him, they changed none of the conditions that brought him to power in the first place. 

They knowingly armed and aided genocide, hid the president’s mental decline, and scolded us for daring to question their integrity.

And when it all went sideways, instead of building power with workers and tenants and communities, they rolled out Gavin Newsom to break bread with fascists on a podcast and call it “civility.”

That’s not opposition—that’s managed decline in a blue tie.

We’re always asking, “Who could vote for Trump?” But we never ask the other side of that question:

How could an opposition party be so ineffective, so weak, so adrift—that millions of people felt like a carnival barker was their only option?

History gives us answers. Parties do collapse. When they stop meeting the moment—when they serve the elite instead of the people—they wither.

Just ask the Whigs.

We are living through the slow, hollow collapse of the Democratic Party. And that means we don’t just have the right to build something new—we have the responsibility to.

That’s why I’m with the Green Party.

Because we need a real opposition. One that organizes, resists, defends, and builds.

Not one that holds a podcast, hugs an ICE agent, and fundraises off the wreckage they refused to prevent.

The whole thing is rotten. Let’s plant something else.

If you’re ready to stop asking permission from a system that never served us, chip in now. We’re building something better—and we need you with us.

Peace and Power,

Butch Ware