The Germans have a message for you: _We’ve been where you are now.

Fighting fascism is an ideological war of attrition against you.

You win by not relenting this instant, tomorrow, and every day thereafter.

Listen to us!

MAGA Fascism

You aren’t crazy: MAGA under Trump is turning fascist. Even researchers begin to realize this. For all historical differences, there are modern definitions of fascism perfectly applicable to MAGA:

“It wants to silence and even murder its opponents rather than arguing with them; it prefers an authoritarian state over democracy; it pits an aggressively exclusionary idea of the nation against a pluralism that values and prioritizes difference.”

Silencing opponents → e.g. Trump’s attacks on Gavin Newsom. Authoritarian state → Sending NG and Marines. Exclusion → Deporting people without due process.

1. Resisting MAGA Fascism

Reject the myths.

Fascism thrives off of fear. Stories involving the ‘replacement or destruction of the grand nation’ by foreign aliens plus ‘internal enemies aiding them’ are meant to frightem people. ‘The fascists pretend there to be an emergency so they can play the role of the saviour.’

People who fall for this are often already afraid! They often feel like they have been left behind in a transforming world or fear their socio-economic status might decline. Who lashes out when they feel all right?

2. Resisting MAGA Fascism

Snap out of it.

DOGE, El Salvador, the Big Beautiful Bill, Los Angeles 1+… It is no coincidence that you feel like the bullshit never ends. MAGA is trying to steamroll your public sensemaking. This is meant to make them look allmighty. They want to show you that, if they can, they will. This is nothing but attrition targeting you.

Once you understand this, you are fortified. When you stand together with others, you can rely on a broad resistance no matter what they try anywhere. Los Angeles is proof of that.

3. Resisting MAGA Fascism

Do not relent.

The shitshow will continue for now. Do not expect your peaceful (!) resistance to make MAGA falter right away. That’s not the point. The point is to bring them to a grinding halt over time. The point is to make clear without a doubt that the price for their actions will grow every time, until it’s too much for them.

If you continue mass resistance, the projection of power MAGA requires will falter. You are in a better position than Germany in 1933; you are a larger country, you have the Internet, you have historical knowledge.

If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done back then: you’re doing it right now.

**You still have a chance. Use it! **