<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">From the Call to Action, so much more could be added today since it was drafted some weeks ago. Read more at <a href="http://www.refusefascism.org" class="">www.refusefascism.org</a> <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h3 class="enlarged" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">The Presidency of Donald Trump is illegitimate.</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Sorts Mill Goudy', sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Donald Trump did not win the popular vote. Not even close, he lost by 2.5 million votes. He won the Electoral College – an institution set up in 1787 to protect slavery. This legacy of the most brutal oppression of Black people has become the means that enabled the election of Trump and Pence.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Sorts Mill Goudy', sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; font-size: 14px;" class="">More fundamentally, it is the fascist character of the Trump/Pence regime and what they are planning to do which renders it illegitimate and an immoral peril to the future of humanity and the earth itself. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Sorts Mill Goudy', sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Under the slogan “Make America Great Again,” Donald Trump has viciously attacked Mexicans and Muslims, threatening to register and deport millions, closing borders. He incites fear and hate of all who are “different” – nationalities, religions, or gender. He crudely demeans and degrades women, openly boasting about molesting them. He champions white supremacy and whips up a racist lynch-mob mentality. Trump has mocked the disabled. He is a bellicose militarist, who threatens to use nuclear weapons. He openly advocates war crimes — including torture. He vows to pack the Supreme Court with justices who will take away the right to abortion and gay rights. He denies science – calling climate change a hoax and will wreak devastation on the environment. He has attacked and threatened the press and stirred up his supporters to do the same. He has threatened to strip citizenship for constitutionally protected dissent. Trump has utter contempt for facts and the truth, and consistently lies to advance his agenda. As for the rule of law, Trump went so far as to openly threaten his opponent, Hillary Clinton, not only with jail, but even assassination. <u style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">By any definition, Donald Trump is a fascist. He has put together a regime that will carry out this program, and worse</u>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Sorts Mill Goudy', sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; font-size: 14px;" class="">This is fascism and it is a very serious thing. It has direction and momentum that must be stopped before it becomes too late.</span></p></div><div class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 4, 2017, at 09:40, Carl G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu" class="">galliher@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class="">"...Trump is not a fascist and in fact bears very few points of comparison with the politics of the 1930s.”</span><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><a href="https://livesrunning.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/after-fascism-what/" class="">https://livesrunning.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/after-fascism-what/</a></span></div><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class="">"Locating Fascism on the Home Map":</span></div><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><a href="http://blackagendareport.com/locating_fascism_on_home_map" class="">http://blackagendareport.com/locating_fascism_on_home_map</a></span></div><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" class="">—CGE<br class=""></span><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 4, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Jay via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Oh, I realize this is hardly the most courageous stand in the face of this proven supporter of the KKK’s nomination. Maybe we can say that it is SO extreme that (even) they felt compelled to speak out against it? <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On a very positive note, a powerful statement of NO! We REFUSE to accept a fascist America! was published as a full page ad in the New York Times today, p. 7 in the national edition, thanks to 1000s of people signing it and hundreds donating to get it out around the country. We’ll be publishing it in many other outlets as more people do the same. If you haven’t yet, I urge you to sign and get involved! <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.refusefascism.org&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=EdQ0LvVRcLjrjC9d9L8-gHQrZ5hffkYe2nuGmpOyu4Q&s=Jepc_WKPKoKwb4uD3MeflBy0rBgHdqyr7QD7_SgXeOw&e=" class="">www.refusefascism.org</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jay</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:5AF9F293-76B8-431B-B957-B3940E3EE415" class=""><15825993_10154167465671680_1905205824311534216_n.jpg></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>