As the decrepit bourgeois mode of production continues its decay, the apparent mad emperor at the helm of U.S. imperialism continues to do the work of increasing the centralization of the bourgeois State while setting the groundwork for more theatrical battles in defense of democracy in the upcoming election cycles. Amid growing dissent and divides within the Republican Party around the administration’s 180 degree shift in position on the Epstein files, the split with billionaire Elon Musk and the increasing unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill that millions of workers are now beginning to see the material impact, the Republicans in Texas have advanced measures for premature redistricting of voting maps to gerrymander the State to give five additional seats to Republicans in Congress in a desperate attempt to hold on to the federal legislature in the 2026 election, which it is expected they will lose without drastic measures being taken. Likewise, to distract from the current political turmoil within the Republican ranks, Trump has flung around more dramatic accusations, threatened to prosecute Obama for high treason, and raised $200 million dollars for a Versailles style grand ballroom to be added to the White House while millions are cut from SNAP and Medicaid. All this and more, alongside the reorganization of the Smithsonian Institute to remove any historical facts that the president deems out of line with his version of history and innumerous other decadencies while drumming up renewed militaristic actions against Venezuela.

The most recent shenanigans include the calling of federal troops to occupy Washington D.C. after the infamous twenty something most well known by his virtual avatar, “Mr. Big Balls”, who was hired under Musk’s DOGE, was beaten by two proletarian youth on the streets of the country’s capital city. This comes among other simmering tensions with the administration around such important issues such as threatening the city’s Mayor with the withhold funding if the city does not rename a square named after the Black Lives Matter movement. While Karoline Levitt croaks on television that the homeless will be rounded up, locked up and prosecuted if they do not go to shelters, there are not enough shelters in existence. As has happened in Los Angeles and Portland during his last presidency, the troops will be called in as an apparent show of strength but nothing will change and it will only further expose the weakness of the current bourgeois order; yet a victory will be declared and the troops recalled and it won’t change the fact that for all the blustering of the bourgeois military strength, it can’t do anything at all to resolve the contradictions of the social crisis. The streets of D.C. won’t get “cleaned up.”

Meanwhile in Texas, 50 Democratic State legislature members have fled the State mainly to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, to deny the quorum needed to pass the Republicans’ proposed new congressional maps, which could help the GOP gain up to five additional seats in the midterms. The move led to the call by the Texas governor for their arrest and activation of the FBI to prosecute and return the democrats to Texas. Illinois’ Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said his administration is “going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them,” amid Abbott’s demand for their extradition. After announcing a National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C., Trump publicly threatened to deploy the Guard to Chicago as well; Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pushed back, arguing the president lacks authority to send soldiers into the city. Meanwhile California and New York Democrats have threatened their own redistricting plans with the New York Governor stating: “This is a war. We are at war. That’s why the gloves are off. And I say, ‘Bring it on!’. The Democratic governor of California makes similar rhetoric, consistently pointing to the State’s economic power as the 5th largest economy the world over and its ability to leverage its strength against the federal government amid posturing for a potential future presidential run. The question remains open as to how the respective Democratic governors would attempt to leverage their State’s police or national guard forces against further government intervention and it remains unlikely that they would put up any real fight. In the end the Texas Democrats all returned to the State and the vote was passed anyways despite all the tough talk and the illusory opposition of the Democrats was exposed yet again for what it is: merely the left hand, the velvet glove of capital.

Yet, for the proletariat, it would ultimately be a very good thing if the U.S. bourgeoisie, the world’s preeminent imperialist power, descended into an actual civil war amongst itself, for such a situation would create a power vacuum for the proletarian to regroup its forces. Of course in this squabble, like all others, the proletariat must raise the banner of proletarian defeatism and organize itself under its international communist party.

Yet, in this current stage it still remains merely rhetoric and the theatrics of pro-democracy and anti-fascism as the Democratic Party plan and organize themselves in hopes for an eventual ascent and return to power. As the proletariat is beaten down from continuing attacks on their quality of life, from the recent government funding bill to the increases from the tariffs, the stage is set for a return of the messianic democratics to do their dirty work of pulling the proletariat into their future political campaigns aimed at maintaining, and repairing the bourgeois democratic State and preparing it for its next fascistic phase.