Space as a Battleground: Power, Cowardice, and the Fight for Democracy in Crisis

The New Regime’s Assault on Democracy Demands Moral Clarity—Not Frozen Terror

For 18 days, this nation has teetered on the brink. A newly inaugurated president has shredded legal norms, mocked the Constitution, and abandoned even the pretense of governance. Social media feeds brim with nihilism: “No one is doing anything,”followed by panicked warnings to avoid protests—“It’s a trap!” —as if dissent itself is now a snare. This contradiction reveals a profound collapse of political courage. The same activists who flooded streets during the 2024 election cycle, demanding transformative change, now retreat into silence, urging compliance. Their hypocrisy is not just cowardly; it is a surrender to fascism.  

The Betrayal of Principle

Let us name the rot: The backlash against Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy was never about policy. It was about identity. For voters over 45, who are white— many are on the right, but many self-professed progressives—cloaked their discomfort with her Blackness and womanhood in performative “purity” arguments. “A single issue” they claimed, justified enabling a convicted felon’s return to power. Yet what “principle” outweighs democracy itself? For nearly 50 years, I’ve watched this country weaponize single issues to undermine leaders from historically excluded groups. Now, as institutions crumble, these same critics cling to excuses for inaction. Their silence is complicity. Harris’ brown skin seemed to be the only thing that motivated the now—cowards.

Trumpism Is Fascism. The End.

This is not partisan rhetoric. Donald Trump’s playbook—xenophobic scapegoating, attacks on the press, glorification of violence—mirrors historical fascism. To pretend otherwise, to equivocate between Trump and Harris as “equally flawed,” is a lie. One seeks to dismantle democracy; the other, however imperfect, operates within it. Accelerationists—often bitter, disillusioned, and misogynist male—fantasize that collapse might birth revolution. They are fools. The next step after authoritarianism is not utopia; it is mass graves.  

A Call to Courage

To those who hesitated: Admit your failure. Reject the fiction that “both sides” share blame. Democracy is not a debate club; it is a fight for survival. I will remain here, but I am securing my digital archives abroad because I intend to resist—to speak, organize, and document, even if this regime criminalizes dissent. Space, as a site of production and power, must be reclaimed. Our streets, servers, and collective imagination are terrains of struggle.  

The question is not whether we can stop the unraveling. It is whether we will choose to see—and act—before the window closes. Rain pours. Fascism climbs. History judges.  

These words, written from within the monsoon, is a testament and a blueprint. Share it widely.