Anatomy of an American Dictator
A 21st Century Treatise on American Power: Woodrow Wilson, Joseph McCarthy, and the Prophetic Writings of Henry Walton Bibb
Written by H.E. Bibbs | Narrative is a weapon. So I write.
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Author's Note: This is a rather long essay, so I’ve broken it into chapters, marked by stars ✨, to help you navigate through. While it may be tempting to skip ahead, without the historical grounding, even a correct diagnosis of the disease will leave you without a proper plan for its treatment.
Writing in the Shadows of Tyranny
A Peculiar Inheritance
The Voice of the Fugitive— Reignited
Reinforcing Structural Eugenics
Enemies and Loyalist of the 21st Century Segregationist State
Self-Liberatory Times
Conclusion: Are we M.A.D yet?
Thank you for reading!
✨ Writing in the Shadows of Tyranny
“The history of art, whether it's in music or written… has always been bloody, because dictators and people in office and people who want to control and deceive know exactly the people who will disturb their plans. And those people are artists… But when you enter that field, no matter whether that's Sonia's poetry or Ta-Nehisi's rather startlingly clear prose, it's a dangerous pursuit. Somebody's out to get you. You have to know it before you start, and do it under those circumstances…”
~ Toni Morrison
Among the Coalition of Voices to Eradicate Racism (COVER) in the United States, none has been as consistent, or as true, as the Afro American. Black American writers have long decried the American Caste System— and the fascist and tyrannical rule of the United States of America. From historical accounts, such as David Walker's appeal, to the modern-day renderings of Isabel Wilkerson and Ta-Nehisi Coates, African American writers have long sounded the alarm— exposing the farce of America’s democracy and the hollow sanctity of its constitutional order.
Long before Derrick Bell — father of Critical Race Theory— concluded on the permanence and cyclical predictability of racism, Chief Justice, Roger Taney advised President Andrew Jackson that the “African race, even when free, . . . hold whatever rights they enjoy” at the “mercy” of the “white population.” This notion of the protection of one’s rights being subject to the psychopathic tendencies of white mob rule, was also echoed by Abraham Lincoln— in reference to abolitionist efforts to tear down the “cotton curtain.”
“Public sentiment is everything. . . Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.”
Under such conditions, the African American tradition of truth-telling was born. Long before Muhammad Speaks or Radio Free Dixie stoked the flame of justice for Black America— the writings and poetry of Henry Walton Bibb was our collective north star. During the time when the “dark and dismal frown of slavery had obscured the sunshine of freedom,” Henry Bibb was the “Voice of the Fugitive,” writing in the shadows of tyranny for those in search of refuge.
Henry Bibb (May 10, 1815 – August 1, 1854), born into bondage on a Kentucky plantation, was an abolitionist, freedom fighter, and notorious “fugitive slave,” who—like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X— had his life cut short at the age of 39; but not before engraving a legacy of resistance to the American Caste System. Bibb escaped to freedom multiple times throughout his life, only to return— under the cover of darkness— to show others the way. As a freedom practitioner, narrative and deception became his weapons of choice to undermine American slavery.
The only weapon of self defence that I could use successfully, was that of deception. It is useless for a poor helpless slave, to resist a white man in a slaveholding State. Public opinion and the law is against him; and resistance in many cases is death to the slave, while the law declares, that he shall submit or die.
And though he would not live to see the Civil War — which brought an end to the institution of slavery, but not racial caste — the tremors of his defiance helped to loosen the manacles that bound his enslaved kinsmen.
“We shall advocate the immediate and unconditional abolition of chattel slavery everywhere, but especially on American soil. We shall also persuade, as far as it may be practicable every oppressed person of color in the United States to settle in Canada.”
✨ A Peculiar Inheritance
In addition to the legacy of truth-telling, and courage, Black American writers have been the inheritors of a rare racial consciousness, due to the unique characteristics of racial caste, practiced in the United States. Included in the papers of the posthumously pardoned Black freedom fighter, Marcus Garvey, is an account of this peculiar inheritance “bequeathed” to Black America:
The American Negroes are the best organized and the most conscious of all the Negroes in the world. They have become so because of their peculiar position. They live in very close contact with organized racial prejudice, and this very prejudice forces them to a rare consciousness that they would not have had otherwise.
Unlike other enslaved populations during the Antebellum Period, African Americans existed as a minority population among white enslavers. This unique characteristic of slavery in the United States of America, has afforded Black Americans a knowledge of white people and white history— oftentimes greater than that of our fellow Americans. We’ve had no choice in the matter.
“Son, go study the history of your oppressor. Once you know the history of your oppressor and why he had to oppress you, you will also learn why he had to remove you from the respectful commentary of human history.”
Black America has born witness to, and been the victims of, the unbridled terror of white America. It’s the reason the Trump Regime is actively working to purge U.S. museums of the atrocities and human rights violations, this country has consistently committed against Black Americans.
What we’re seeing today in America is nothing new, but like Bibb, we as African American writers— out of a sense of “love, duty, humanity and justice” — are required to lift up this history, that illuminates the pathway back to freedom.
✨ The Voice of the Fugitive— Reignited
Way-finders, Psychologists, and Weathermen
As of late, there’s been much ado about a so-called “constitutional crisis” in America. But for Black Americans, this crisis didn’t start with Trump or Project 2025. In fact, I would argue that viewing our current situation through the lens of a constitutional crisis, is a misreading of our “political. . . time of day.”
“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.”
~ Dr. John Henrik Clarke
The ability to read the room has been an essential skill for Black survival in America. As way-finders, psychologists, and weathermen, Black Americans are well acquainted with the atmospheric conditions of fascism, and the shifting moods of the “historic [white] majority.” We know when a storm is brewing. We understand the drivers of heightened racial angst—And we also know when white America, institutionally speaking, has stopped taking its meds.
Which brings me to the second most referenced crisis in this collective moment, white Christian nationalism:
While theology is central to the aesthetic and language of the emerging Far Right, it’s not the driving force behind the rise in White Nationalist— Christian extremism. The weaponizing of Christianity for state capture, is no different than any tool being weaponized for a desired purpose. In this case, religion is the tool, but the forces driving it aren’t spiritual, they’re economic and social.
Economic immiseration and demographic change— driven by immigration and declining birth rates— are the twin forces driving today’s zeitgeist of intolerance and fear. At the core of this ultranationalist xenophobic movement, is the fear of “white genetic annihilation,” a term coined by the late Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, but often referred to in white nationalist circles, as the “Great Replacement.”
The Great Replacement theory has become the ligature that binds together— under the MAGA tent— the fractured coalition of Far Right extremists. In their hands, theology is no longer a spiritual framework— it’s a weapon. A cudgel used to whip the “sparrows” into a bloodthirsty fever and direct their CRUSADE against the state (e.g., January 6 insurrection), as well as out-groups and minority populations, who are viewed as existential threats to their survival.
The Trump regime has been fully captured by this movement, and what’s emerging is not simply a political coalition— it’s the scaffolding for a new “political religion,” engineered by the MAGA brain trust (Project 2025).
You can read more about this newly engineered “political religion” in my essay— “Replacing Pope Francis: J.D. Vance and the Far-Right Political Religion Emerging in Christianity Today.”
This religion seeks to “transition” America away from a constitutional democracy and into an autocratic white ethno-state. One rooted in the conservative ideal of the “traditional Christian family”— not unlike the dystopian vision in Margaret Atwood’s, Handmaid’s Tale— where society is led by a warrior class of crusaders, loyal to the Christian nationalist doctrine— who command the political, military, and economic levers of power.
In a 2023 article, written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson— From Jan. 6 to Tyre Nichols, American Life Is Still Defined by Caste— she gives an account of threats to the American racial hierarchy, ushering in the zeitgeist of intolerance and fear:
What happens if the demographic configuration that Americans have grown accustomed to transposes to a distribution the country has never known? What happens at merely the thought of a reconfiguration, the looming prospect of 2042, or 2045—the years the census has alternately projected as the point of a demographic sea change?
. . .in 2021, a year after Caste was first published, the Census Bureau made a startling announcement in alignment with an underlying premise I foreshadowed in the book: for the first time in American history, the white population showed a numerical decline—the only racial or ethnic group to do so, falling by 8.6%, from 223.6 million in 2010 to 204.3 million in 2020—as the white birth rate lagged that of the Black and Latino population and as white deaths exceeded white births.
It was in this atmosphere that the language of replacement theory—the belief in a left-wing campaign to subsume the white majority with immigrants and people of color, leading to white extinction—entered the mainstream and that powerful forces took dramatic steps to fortify the numbers and primacy of the historic majority.
In 1920, Harvard graduate, white supremacist, and American influencer, T. Lothrop Stoddard— who many credit with predicting World War II, and the Rise of Hitler— published a book called, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy.
Stoddard’s clarion call to the white world, and the eugenicist movement, was a call for the protection and preservation of the white race. His chief concern, birth rates and immigration, and the unity of the white race to stave off extinction:
Such a catastrophe cannot threaten if the Nordic race will gather itself together in time, shake off the shackles of inveterate altruism1, discard the vain phantom of internationalism, and reassert the pride of race and the right of merit to rule.
The Nordic race has been driven from many of its lands, but still grasps firmly control of the world, and it is certainly not at a greater numerical disadvantage than often before in contrast to the teeming population of eastern Asia.
It has repeatedly been confronted with crises where the accident of battle, or the genius of leader, saved a well-nigh hopeless day. It has survived defeat, it has survived the greater danger of victory, and, if it takes warning in time, it may face the future with assurance. Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign races, whether they advance sword in hand or in the more insidious guise of beggars at our gates, pleading for admittance to share our prosperity. If we continue to allow them to enter they will in time drive us out of our own land by mere force of breeding.
In white America today, there is a belief that the “historic majority” is being hamstrung by the constitution and a “rogue radical left judiciary,” preventing the Trump regime from carrying out the will of the mob— mass deportation of non-white immigrants; without due process.
See White House deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller:
✨ Reinforcing Structural Eugenics
Unlike our fellow Americans, Black America doesn’t need to look to Nazi Germany, or Apartheid South Africa, for examples of “structural eugenics.” In fact, it was to American Jim Crow, that both Adolph Hitler and Hendrik Verwoerd looked— to fashion their brutal regimes of racial segregation.
The current regime of racial segregation, being re-installed in America, isn’t new.
It draws directly from the playbooks of Woodrow Wilson— who segregated the federal government— and Joseph McCarthy— who weaponized paranoia to purge dissent.
What we’re witnessing from Trump and Project 2025 isn’t innovation or efficiency— It’s resurrection and retreat.
It represents a retreat from the idea2 of a diverse and inclusive liberal democracy, and a resurrection of segregation-based, economic racial protectionism3— where the government subsidizes the economic growth of white Christian families, under a reestablished racial hierarchy— W.E.I.
White Equity and Inclusion.
Before the emergence of the “American Century,” an American established international order, it could be argued that Woodrow Wilson was the most consequential president of the 20th Century. The parallels to be drawn between Trump and Wilson are innumerable. Trump’s presidency represents an abandonment of the American International Order, as well as the Project for a New American Century— in favor of a return to Manifest Destiny. Wilson’s Presidency brought with it a return of the Antebellum South, and a revival of the “Invisible Empire4.”
During his time in office, in addition to hosting a White House screening of D.W. Griffith’s, The Birth of a Nation, he also used his platform to popularize a pro-Confederacy historical narrative, that sanitized the institution of slavery— and blamed Afro Americans for their treatment by the Ku Klux Klan; a white Christian nationalist organization.
When referencing the Wilson Regime in his 1956 essay, Why I Won’t Vote, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote the following about Black America’s treatment under Wilson:
In 1912 I wanted to support Theodore Roosevelt, but his Bull Moose convention dodged the Negro problem and I tried to help elect Wilson as a liberal Southerner. Under Wilson came the worst attempt at Jim Crow legislation and discrimination in civil service that we had experienced since the Civil War.
Wilson believed the system was rigged against the aggrieved white southerners, who suffered under “the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes,” and used his southern cabinet to implement sweeping reforms at the federal level. When challenged on his actions, Wilson responded by admonishing Black leaders, that their unwillingness to accept segregation is the problem, not segregation itself:
Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded. . . If your organization goes out and tells the colored people of the country that it is a humiliation, they will so regard it, but if you do not tell them so, and regard it rather as a benefit, they will regard it the same. The only harm that will come will be if you cause them to think it is a humiliation.
By the time Wilson left office, Black wealth, as well as homeownership in Washington D.C., had significantly decreased— as a direct result of Wilson’s segregationist reforms.
Note: Wilson’s sentiment on racial segregation is no different than T. Lothrop Stoddard’s, who thought the caste system of Nazi Germany was “truly humanitarian.”
Side Note: In 1929, W.E.B Du Bois accepted a debate with Lothrop Stoddard. Although Du Bois won the debate, Stoddard’s ideas still gained popularity among the aggrieved white masses. The lesson here, debating extremists is an exercise in futility. Politically motivated ideologies are not responsive to facts.
✨ Enemies and Loyalist of the 21st Century Segregationist State
Trump, like Wilson, is instituting sweeping reforms at the Federal level. Targeting career civil servants for removal, and replacing them with white-Christian loyalists. In addition to his dismantling of the so-called “administrative state,” the Trump Regime is unilaterally installing a McCarthy-like surveillance system, across the government— complete with his own Federal gestapo.
Just this week, the Office of Veterans Affairs issued the following pronouncement:
“The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting.@va.gov,” . . . Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations.”
The establishment of committees to interrogate civil servants suspected of anti-Christian bias, is eerily reminiscent of Joseph McCarthy’s, “all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity5” to root out “homegrown traitors,” in “government service.”
The weaponization of federal agencies to adjudicate Trump’s treasonous crusade against the American public — and consolidate power at the executive level — has become a defining feature of the new autocratic regime. In his first 100 days, guided by the Heritage Foundation’s war plans, Trump, through his minions and a barrage of unlawful Executive Orders, has launched an all-out assault on the very infrastructure of American liberal democracy.
Elections and Voter Disenfranchisement
Civil Rights
Human Rights
Lawyers and the Judiciary
Free Speech
Access to Information
Due Process
The Supreme Court
Media and the Press
Head Start & K-12 Education
Public Libraries
Hospitals and Universities
Consumer Protections
American Workers and Households
American History and Museums
The American-led Global Economy
Globally accepted toponymy
The Federal Reserve
Scientific Research
Social Security
And so on and so forth. . .
Members of the Trump regime have openly promoted the use of terror and psychological warfare as tactics to purge disloyal civil servants from government service.
See Russel Vought’s— Project 2025 architect, and Trump pick for the Director of Office of Management and Budgeting (OMB)— private remarks below, while speaking to a closed meeting at the Center for Renewing America, in 2023:
WE WANT THE BUREAUCRATS TO BE TRAUMATICALLY AFFECTED.
WE WANT— WHEN THEY WAKE UP IN THE MORNING— WE WANT THEM TO NOT WANT TO GO TO WORK BECAUSE THEY ARE INCREASINGLY VIEWED AS THE VILLAINS.
WE WANT THEIR FUNDING TO BE SHUT DOWN SO THAT THE EPA CAN'T DO ALL OF THE RULES AGAINST OUR ENERGY INDUSTRY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BANDWIDTH FINANCIALLY TO DO SO.
WE WANT TO PUT THEM IN TRAUMA!
Other individuals closely tied to the Trump regime have long awaited his latest executive order — Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education — which paves the way for curriculum audits aimed at facilitating a Viktor Orbán-style makeover of American universities, all under the guise of expanding “intellectual diversity.”
See former Heritage Foundation fellow, Scott Yenor:
The attacks we are witnessing against the American people go far beyond intellectual and psychological warfare; this is a coordinated effort to undermine constitutional law — and to crack down on all who dare to oppose this lawless regime.
In a recent—Let’s Address This With Qasim Rashid— post, human rights attorney and former congressional candidate, Qasim Rashid, highlighted the Trump regime’s escalating use of tracking, noting the following:
“MAGA Republicans are tracking autism, menstrual cycles, criticism of Trump, criticism of Israel, Trans people, and anyone who even dares whisper DEI. . .”
As is true of all autocratic regimes, lists of enemies — and potential enemies — are quickly drawn up to monitor, neutralize, and disappear threats to the state. Under the Trump regime, the only difference is this: D.E.I. is out, and I.E.D. is in.
Identified, Excluded —as in from the protections of the constitution— and Detained.
Under Trump’s growing authoritarianism, the list of who — and what — the government is tracking increases by the day. But it’s the list of who the government is no longer tracking that should give us all serious cause for concern:
When Trump muses with fellow American dictator, Nayib Bukele, about his desire to deport “homegrown” American terrorists to El Salvador, the White supremacists referenced in the memo above — the “very fine people” he once urged to “stand back and stand by” — are not the "homegrowns" he has in mind, even when they tattoo the number 47 on their face and sign their names as Donald Trump in court.
If Trump is anything like former President Woodrow Wilson — and he is — then alongside his sweeping federal reforms, we should expect a corresponding rise in police violence — which the regime is no longer tracking — and an explosion of vigilante lynch law, encouraged by the state.
Not long before Trump’s return to office, a closed-door meeting of McCurtain County officials — Sheriff Kevin Clardy, District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings, Investigator Alicia Manning, and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix — was secretly recorded, capturing Jennings lamenting that they could no longer lynch Black people with impunity.
Mark Jennings: “I’m gonna tell you something. If it was back in the day, when Alan Marshton would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in a cell— I’d run for fucking Sheriff.
Sheriff Clardy: Yeah. Well, it’s not like that no more.
Mark Jennings: I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.
This exchange echoes the very grievances that swept Woodrow Wilson into power. During Reconstruction, many white Southerners believed that African Americans — once constitutionally defined as lesser beings — had been elevated to equal footing with white Americans, a reality they saw as an existential threat.
See Chief Justice Taney ruling for 1857 Dred Scott decision:
In the opinion of the Court the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument....
They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Note: Wilson also believed that Jim Crow segregation was for the benefit of Black America.
Not only could they no longer abuse Black Americans with impunity; they also believed that Black political power was being used to subjugate white southerners.
The Trump movement today, is nothing more than a modern Wilsonian project for the repair of white grievances. A glorified cult of white victimhood—sanctified by Trump as a mark of righteousness.
MAGA: Mr. President, I would like to be a sheriff, but we’re no longer allowed to kill Black people, because they have more rights than us.
Donald Trump: With today’s executive order, I’m repealing any protections that prevent police from killing Black people.
MAGA: Mr. President, when Biden was in office, they took down confederate statues, and I didn’t like that.
Donald Trump: With today’s executive order, I deputize my personal lawyer to remove “improper ideology'“ that make us uncomfortable— from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
MAGA: Mr. President, when I asked for a promotion, they gave the role I wanted to a Black person.
Donald Trump: With today’s executive order, I remove all Civil Rights protections that prevent unlawful discrimination against Black workers.
And so on and so forth. . .
The reality is, Black America is very well acquainted with the pandemic of hate the Washington Virus is looking to unleash.
The Jim Crow regime and Ku Klux Klan resurgence unleashed by Woodrow Wilson, has now been reinstitutionalized by Donald Trump — as a form of reparations for white America.
Trump has made his loyalties abundantly clear: his sympathies lie with white America — and white America alone. When asked by TIME Magazine in a recent interview about his decision to pardon all the January 6th insurrectionists — even those with violent offenses— Trump responded:
Because I’ve watched in Portland and I watched in Seattle, and I’ve watched in Minneapolis, Minnesota and other places. People do heinous acts, far more serous than what took place on Jan. 6. And nothing happened to these people. Nothing. And I said, What a double standard it is. And we were talking about a very small group of people that are in your definition, most of these people should have been let out a long time ago. There’s never been a group of people, maybe with one exception [reference to the Holocaust], I won’t even go into it, one exception as a group. But there’s never been a group of people that’s been treated so horribly as the J6 [January 6] people.
We know all too well what it means for the government to turn a blind eye to injustice — to create the conditions for the brutalization of Black America.
See Malcolm X remarks on 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing:
This didn’t happen in Nazi Germany, and it didn’t happen in South Africa. It happened right here in America, in Birmingham Alabama. It didn’t happen back in the dark ages– It happened in 1963, right after the March on Washington. And it wasn’t a dream– this was a nightmare! Where were the leaders? Where was America? Where was the government?
The government was guilty! The guilt is upon the United States government for the murder of those four little girls who died in that bombing. The guilt is upon the United States government for those little boys who were shot down right afterwards.
Because it is the failure of the government to do it’s job, that has given the people of that area the feeling that they can brutalize and victimize and murder the Afro American in cold blood, knowing that nothing will be done about it.
But Trump’s attempt to roll back the clock to Jim Crow was a grave miscalculation. He has not taken us back to 1954; he has placed us once again on the eve of Civil War.
✨ Self-Liberatory Times
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
At this very moment, the United States of America is firmly in the grips of an authoritarian regime. Most Americans still believe we are operating under the principles of liberal democracy and constitutional law — but nothing could be farther from the truth.
The 2025 “war gaming” agenda is the conservative movement’s version of the Great Reset, and now that implementation is underway, they aren’t just throwing out the rule book — the constitution — they’re completely changing the game.
The pace of play is so disorienting that most Americans won’t recognize what’s happening — until Curtis Yarvin— the modern-day T. Lothrop Stoddard— is standing in the Rose Garden, wearing the King’s Medal of Honor for his “great intellectual service” to the nation.
“The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley.”
To understand how we arrived at this moment, you must first grasp two foundational ideas of Western Civilization — or what might be simply called the white world:
Manifest Destiny, and
Progress.
The term Manifest Destiny was coined in 1845 by John O’Sullivan — a conservative newspaper editor, propagandist, and Southern Confederate sympathizer. In layman’s terms, it described the self-appointed moral duty white settlers claimed— to justify the theft of land, and the destruction of entire cultures in the process.
Progress, on the other hand, is a much weightier subject — and falls outside the scope of this work. But for the sake of expediency, I’ll keep it simple: under the system of liberal democracy, white progress has stalled.
So how’d we get here?
Well, according to South African tech-billionaire, Peter Thiel— “hippies took over the country.”
. . .if we sort of think of you know the Apollo space program as this last great you know technological scientific project— There's some sense where July of 1969 where uh we landed on the moon, and uh Woodstock started 3 weeks later. And you know with the benefit of hindsight— in some sense that's when progress stopped… and the hippies took over the country.
And uh you can you can describe it in many ways, but um in some ways you can describe it as a shift from outer space from exploring the world outside of us to inner space and uh there were sort of all you know all these different uh transformations… there was. . . you know yoga, meditation, psychedelic drugs. . . I would describe um you know. . . incels playing video games in basement um you know . . .
You could say that uh you know people often lump for example they often lump Marxism and cultural Marxism together. In my telling these are opposites, because Marxism at least was primarily concerned about the outside objective material economic realities, and then cultural Marxism was like the shift from Apollo to Woodstock where um you you just uh went into into the sort of interior world. You no longer were thinking about this outside world and um and in some ways you you stopped asking these questions about economic growth and basic economic prosperity and um and then that coincided. . . with this lack of progress in these things so I I think there were all these kinds of cultural transformations that uh that that coincided with with this shift uh you know. . .
. . . our society became risk averse or too feminized or you could say that uh you could say that um there was too much regulation and bureaucracy which is sort of a libertarian intuition I have. . .
If you can read between the lines of the gobbledygook and word salad, the answer eventually reveals itself: Women.
Each of the "progress-stalling" characteristics cited in his argument can be traced back to traits historically coded as feminine in Western thought:
Alignment with the inner or spiritual world
Risk aversion
Overregulation and red tape (caution)
Bureaucratic rule-following: orderliness, process-orientation
Even the amateurish attempt at a Jungian analysis — claiming society (men) shifted from outer (animus) to inner (anima) — is just a clumsy way of saying: society stopped progressing because it became too feminine.
The implied solution? A crusade to revive the lost spirit of white masculinity — to redraw the map through conquest once again. The Red Pill.
It’s time for America to “put the imperial hat back on. . .” ~ Erik Prince
Whenever I hear Western-centered thinkers waxing poetic about “Christian Anthropology,” “Progress,” and “Civilization,” the first text that comes to mind is Confession of Faith— written by South African white supremacist, Cecil Rhodes.
I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is possible. I once heard it argued by a fellow in my own college, I am sorry to own it by an Englishman, that it was good thing for us that we have lost the United States. There are some subjects on which there can be no arguments, and to an Englishman this is one of them, but even from an American’s point of view just picture what they have lost, look at their government, are not the frauds that yearly come before the public view a disgrace to any country and especially their’s which is the finest in the world. Would they have occurred had they remained under English rule great as they have become how infinitely greater they would have been with the softening and elevating influences of English rule, think of those countless 000’s of Englishmen that during the last 100 years would have crossed the Atlantic and settled and populated the United States. Would they have not made without any prejudice a finer country of it than the low class Irish and German emigrants? All this we have lost and that country loses owing to whom? Owing to two or three ignorant pig-headed statesmen of the last century, at their door lies the blame. Do you ever feel mad?
Put your mind into another train of thought. Fancy Australia discovered and colonised under the French flag, what would it mean merely several millions of English unborn that at present exist we learn from the past and to form our future. We learn from having lost to cling to what we possess. We know the size of the world we know the total extent. Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honourable race the world possesses.
To forward such a scheme what a splendid help a secret society would be a society not openly acknowledged but who would work in secret for such an object.
By now, it’s common knowledge: President Trump has never been shy about declaring himself the “greatest president” in American history.
The question then becomes: how much convincing would it really take to persuade the “Greatest President Ever” (GPE) that a handful of "pig-headed statesmen" from the 18th century got it wrong — and that he alone can correct their mistake by ending the failed experiment of liberal democracy and crowning himself the new King George?
The thought alone is treason. But is it really so far-fetched to imagine that a president who governs by decree, and conducts policy by social media, might convince himself there’s a constitutional loophole — one that would allow him to “correct” this historical blunder and remain “president” forever?
Is it possible that the tech billionaires of Silicon Valley — His Majesty’s royal court — are arrogant enough to believe they have the solution to the “apocalyptic age,” and that the rest of us are either too stupid or suicidally empathetic (i.e., hyper-feminine) to grasp their “Dark Enlightenment” ideas, which must be implemented through lies, secrecy, coercion, and deception?
Take Elon Musk, for example— another bleeding heart for white grievance and reparation campaigns. When it was brought to his attention that white South Africans might have to return land that was stolen by their ancestors under the doctrine of Manifest Destiny (white supremacy), he immediately called Co-President Trump. And by decree, a “pathway to citizenship” was opened for members of Cecil Rhodes’s so-called “Anglo-Saxon Empire” — at the behest of the king.
Is it really so far-fetched that this regime rose to power by exposing the "globalist deep state," only to install its own white-supremacist version — one designed to "set right" the course of progress?
We have a “president” who, depending on how he feels, claims the power to “help facilitate” peace among warring white nations—”Stop the bloodshed NOW”— but refuses to deliver justice to actual Americans his regime has abused, confused, and condemned as enemies of the segregationist state.
Under the Trump regime, everything is open to interpretation. Words like “classified,” “terrorist,” and “facilitate” shift meaning by the day. And when it comes to the Constitution, the basic defense is simple: my lawyers have told me I don’t have to follow it.
Much of what we've seen during the first 100 days of this early autocratic regime has unfolded according to plan. But it’s their reactions — or rather, their overreactions — to the people's opposition that have revealed their greatest chink in the armor.
A constitutional coup, unlike a military coup, is not immediate. It unfolds gradually — a slow slide, or dare I say, a process — that carries a nation from democracy to autocracy. The challenge is that at any point during the “transition,” the people could wake up — even those who have willingly swallowed the government-mandated “anti-woke” pills — and put a halt to the charade.
Therefore, the coup-leading government must be incredibly cautious, and careful not to alert the public to its true intentions. But white supremacy — better understood as systemic narcissism — has a way of letting its own hubris and arrogance unravel even its best-laid plans.
The handling of Judge Hannah Dugan’s unlawful arrest was anything but cautious — or careful.
In their effort to prove unyielding loyalty to the edicts of the MAGA czar, the clumsy, ham-handed zealotry of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel — two of the regime’s most prominent apparatchiks — has pushed the Trump regime beyond the pale of plausible deniability.
By now, it should be clear that Congress lacks the political will6 to check the regime’s gross violations — and the courts cannot enforce their rulings. With the balance of power now tilted toward the mad king, let’s take a closer look at some of the recent reactionary flubs by Trump’s top lieutenants — mistakes that history will remember, much like the signing of the Fugitive Slave Act: the first domino that ultimately brought a caste-based empire’s overreach to its knees.
“Hand of the king”
“Master of Whispers”
Running roughshod over the Constitution as loyal MAGA foot soldiers— is the only way the Trump regime can recast America’s system of racial caste. To achieve this, there can be no dissent within the ranks — and examples must be made of anyone who dares to stand in the way.
The unlawful arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan was the regime’s warning to all those it deems “traitors,” immigrant sympathizers, or anyone disloyal to the Mass Deportation Mandate.
Neither due process, the Constitution, nor the courts shall stand in the way of the Trump Regime’s modern-day Indian Removal Act.
The regime is being exposed, so frequently, by its own insiders that each day brings a new leak — a new internal purge — another warning to the public about the lawless thuggery of ICE, the FBI, and the Department of Justice.
Just this week, a memo from the king’s hand found its way into the national media, calling for the explicit pursuit — without a warrant — of illegal aliens harbored in private homes.
Even with the courts ordering the Trump regime to cease arresting illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act, the regime not only refuses to obey, it goes a step further: threatening to pursue any member of the press who reveals its secrets to the public and to force journalists to betray their confidential sources inside the government.
The barefaced fascism of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel would be astounding — if not for America’s well-documented history of using its law enforcement officials to violate the constitutional rights of those it deems domestic enemies.
FOX News and other far-right media outlets have become willing accomplices — the de facto PR machine justifying the regime’s atrocities. When asked about the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, Trump’s top cop delivered a fiery condemnation — and a warning to anyone in the American public who might dare harbor an illegal alien.
Pam Bondi: What's happened to our judiciary is beyond me.
Fox News Correspondent: Yeah so when when the American public hears this and they think these were once upstanding people in their communities and their professions and they put it all on the line for this— I mean have you dug into their motive like what inspired them to to carry out these acts and harbor criminals?
Pam Bondi: They're deranged is all I can think of! I cannot believe. . . I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law and they are not. And we're sending a very strong message today— if you are harboring a fugitive, we don't care who you are— if you are helping hide one; if you are giving a TdA [Tren de Aragua] member guns— anyone who is illegally in this country— we will come after you, and we will prosecute you. We will find you!
But history shows that resistance to state-sanctioned kidnapping — even under de facto martial law — is inevitable. And because this regime’s history czars refuse to acknowledge slavery and widespread “slave catching” as the primary drivers of the Civil War, they have unwittingly set the nation on course for another great calamity — born of their sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King
Just this week, Trump’s deputized kidnappers in Tennessee came dangerously close to recreating the Christiana Riot of September 11, 1851 — a violent clash born of resistance to state-sanctioned kidnapping.
Much like Trump's tariffs, there is historic precedent showing why state-sanctioned kidnapping is a cruel, disastrous, and ultimately self-destructive policy for any nation to pursue.
Not only does it threaten the constitutional rights of every human being — legal or so-called illegal — living within a country that permits such practices, but if not abolished, it inevitably becomes the spark for revolution and deadly fratricidal war.
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act fully immersed the federal government in the process of retrieving fugitives from slavery. Slaveholders and slavecatchers could now enlist the help of U.S. Marshals to retrieve fugitives from slavery anywhere in the Union. Federal commissioners and judges now possessed the authority to issue warrants to slaveholders and slave catchers, overriding state officials who might refuse to become involved in fugitive slave cases. Furthermore, slaveholders’ testimonies would be valid while the accused could not testify at all. If the court ruled in the favor the slaveholder, they then had the power to request that U.S. Marshals hire as many people as necessary to bring the enslaved back South.
Most importantly, anyone who interfered with the arrest of an accused fugitive faced a fine of $1,000 and up to six months in jail. In short, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act made all Americans, whether northern, southern, white, Black, male, or female, responsible for assisting slaveholders in their pursuit of fugitives from slavery.
The catastrophic consequences of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act exposed the inherent danger to all Americans who lived under the rule of law: Black Americans could be arrested and assaulted at will under the auspices of the federal government, and white Americans who sought to protect them faced the reality of fines and jail time. And while the number of abolitionists remained small throughout the decade, the fundamental inability of slaveholders and slave catchers to differentiate between free and runaway epitomized the paradox of freedom and slavery in the United States.
Why the Trump regime would risk throwing America back into an avoidable civil war is beyond most sensible thinkers — unless, of course, you recognize white supremacy for what it truly is: an unclassified psychological disorder that belongs in the DSM.
The framers of Trump’s new republic would do well to remember the introductory remarks of James Mason, who introduced the disastrous 1850 Fugitive Slave Act — a stronger version of the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act, written into law by George Washington — and who openly acknowledged the incredibly low probability that such a law would provide the “intended remedy.”
I have little hope that it will provide the intended remedy. I’m afraid that even this law will have little effect in protecting the rights of those it’s supposed to benefit. However, if the proposed solutions could be enforced, they would be of great value and importance, not only to the people of the State I represent, but to all the Southern States currently holding the African race in slavery.”
With the outcome doomed from the start, is Trump — like Mason before him — blindly pursuing another “popular delusion,” that history has already proven impossible to achieve?
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
Charles Mackay; Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowd
While many in the red-pill MAGA crowd — animated by the myth of white history — look to Trump as the great redeemer of white manhood, the insane course they have set us on— leads only to national ruin. But it is not too late to stop it.
✨ Are we M.A.D. yet?
“Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.”
~ Assata Shakur
I understand what I’m looking at when Donald Trump reaches back for Manifest Destiny, stretching out his arms to seize new territories. I understand the dog whistles he’s sending to the white far-right — including north of America’s border and across the Atlantic — where chief among their grievances is the belief that their nations have lost their way within the globalist world order.
The so-called “Wuhan Virus” was deadly — but the Washington Virus may prove far more destructive if we don’t stand up and get MAD now! The pandemic of hate, intolerance, cruelty, and indecency— spready by the Trump regime— can only be inoculated through the collective will of the people to resist this fascist authoritarianism.
By now, we should be Mourning American Democracy— albeit at different stages in the cycle of grief:
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
At some point, we will all have to accept the reality that this is a war we cannot avoid. Until we come together to stand against the forces of racial caste, from the Potomac to Palestine — “everywhere is war.”
Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war
~ Bob Marley
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act was not repealed until 1864. Can you imagine what America will look like in 2039 if we allow things to continue at this rate?
Do not make the foolish assumption that this is something that can be voted out in the next election. Trump — and his golden cherubim — have no intention of leaving the White House until his mission of redeeming the white race is fulfilled.
These are “self-liberatory times.” As the long dark night re-emerges in America — whether white or non-white — if you are deemed a threat to the rising authoritarian segregationist regime, you have a better chance of being protected by amulets and talismans than by the dead ink of the U.S. Constitution.
We are not facing a constitutional crisis. This is a crisis of courage, a crisis of vision, and a crisis of will.
As in—
What will we become as a nation if we continue to let a tyrant reign unchecked?
What kind of world will our children inherit if we do not stand up to him?
What will they say of you — based on the actions you took while freedom was still near?
What will you do when the time comes to act — when the atrocities you once swore you would resist, during the days of slavery, Jim Crow, the Holocaust, and other great human tragedies, are no longer distant history, but the living reality of our time?
Will you fight to secure your liberty, or “consent to die a Slave?”
On the twenty-fifth of December, 1837, my long anticipated time had arrived when I was to put into operation my former resolution, which was to bolt for Liberty or consent to die a Slave. I acted upon the former, although I confess it to be one of the most self-denying acts of my whole life, to take leave of an affectionate wife, who stood before me on my departure with dear little Frances in her arms, and with tears of sorrow in her eyes as she bid me a long farewell. It required all the moral courage that I was master of to suppress my feeling while taking leave of my little family. Had Malinda known my intention at that time, it would not have been possible for me to have got away, and I might have this day been a slave. Notwithstanding every inducement was held out to me to run away if I would be free, and the voice of liberty was thundering in my very soul, "Be free, oh, man! be free," I was struggling against a thousand obstacles which had clustered around my mind to bind my wounded spirit still in the dark prison of mental degradation. My strong attachments to friends and relatives, with all the love of home and birth-place which is so natural among the human family, twined about my heart and were hard to break away from. And withal, the fear of being pursued with guns and blood-hounds, and of being killed, or captured and taken to the extreme South, to linger out my days in hopeless bondage on some cotton or sugar plantation, all combined to deter me. But I had counted the cost, and was fully prepared to make the sacrifice. The time for fulfilling my pledge was then at hand. I must forsake friends and neighbors, wife and child, or consent to live and die a slave.
~ Henry Walton Bibb
Whatever it is you plan to do— the time to act is now.
We have a foreign government occupying the White House— as in foreign to the customs and practices of American constitutional law — and Americans must respond as if we are under invasion.
We can fight among each other, after we have saved our constitution. But right now, we need to be giving each other cover— and showing up collectively to halt this fascist regime.
At this moment, we should be standing shoulder to shoulder, pushing back against the dictator and his minions— who are actively raiding our court houses, our schools, our hospitals, our jobs, our bedrooms, and our religious institutions.
If you can take humanity from a people, you can do anything to them. Trump has once again opened up the door for the mass practice of dehumanization in America, and it’ll take each of us working collectively to close it.
If we as Americans do not become ungovernable in the eyes of a tyrant, America will soon become unrecognizable in the eyes of the world.
As we near our annual celebration of Juneteenth, please be sure to use the time to reflect and recommit to the practice of freedom— to keep the light of democracy burning in this country.
Given the existential crisis that we are all being met with in this nation, rather than celebrating the 4th of July, why don’t we use it as a day to uplift humanity, and mourn the death of American democracy— while working to restore it.
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The name H.E. Bibbs, my pensake7, is an homage to the life and legacy of Henry Walton Bibb— who used narrative as a weapon to weaken the tyrannical rule of the American Caste system.
Similar sentiment to the idea of “suicidal empathy” being popularized in right wing discourse.
This is an American Ideal. It represents our mythology, but it’s never been the reality.
Driven from the same angst that led to the ham-handed tariffs, and trade war. A retreat to national protectionism.
Reference to the Ku Klux Klan.
Joseph McCarthy - 'Communists in Government Service'
Machiavellian calculus— it is better to stand down and sure up one’s position in the new order, rather than be a “lukewarm” defender of the old constitutional order.
Name give to my pen. Inspired Kendrick Lamar’s Gloria, on his latest studio release— the GNX album.