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The Most Terrifying Day for the Survival of America Yet: Fascism Is Here

Trump is pressing the pedal to the metal on his previously slow-moving coup.

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Robert S. McElvaine
Oct 01, 2025
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On September 30, 2025 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was deliberately attacked by Donald Trump and his sycophants.

When I wrote a draft of this essay on Sunday, the title was “Ten(+) Days that Shook America” and the subtitle was “We have seen the past, and it doesn’t work.” That title and subtitle are modifications of s…

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Author, historian, feminist, believer in democracy—placing current developments in historical context. Author of 11books. Current book project: “An Agreed-Upon Fiction—The creation of the ‘Inferior’ Sex: Hoe It Misshaped History & the Present.”
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