It's now clear that the vigilante call out in Kenosha was a strategic step by the far right. The US progressive movements now need their leaders to clearly enunciate the threat - stop hoping it won't happen 1/... https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/08/democrats-need-plan-stop-donald-trump-stealing-election

Trump can be forced to vacate the White House but ... https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/08/democrats-need-plan-stop-donald-trump-stealing-election

... the transition period looks set to be marked by mass hysteria and unrest by the white supremacists clustered around QAnon and the anti-Federal movements... 3/ https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/08/democrats-need-plan-stop-donald-trump-stealing-election

4/ I see no public leadership from the US progressive/ left right now - only protest. But protest has to be harnessed to a strategy - while the word "strategist" has come to mean the opposite of what's now needed... https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/08/democrats-need-plan-stop-donald-trump-stealing-election

5/ Everyone worried about the parallels to interwar Europe are right to be... but we had mass parties whose thinkers and leaders openly debated what to do... they were often wrong but the masses understood the strategy... https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/08/democrats-need-plan-stop-donald-trump-stealing-election

6/ ... when Von Papen staged a coup against the socialist led Prussian government (1932), workers appeared at their "action stations" (only to be demobilised by the SPD) ... because they knew the drill in advance see Donna Harsch's book (and mine forthcoming)

7/ ... there needs to be an SOP understood by every union member, movement activist, student etc: what to do when Trump mobilises the militias, QAnon and the MAGA crowds on 4 November to resist the transition - his plan is clear: what is ours? https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/08/democrats-need-plan-stop-donald-trump-stealing-election