On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows presidents to deploy the U.S. military domestically under certain circumstances, purportedly to help enforce local law enforcement amid civil unrest. Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration’…

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    13 hours ago

    This is effectively the one-party state model, which is what we should be working towards. What must be noted however is that no one in the Democratic party would support this. The role of the Democrats is to serve as feeble unactionable “opposition” that in reality serve the same interests of the ruling class. What we need to do is abolish both the Republican and Democratic parties and replace them with a party that actually suits the interest of the working class.