The American Midnight: Why December 11 new MAGA riot date + how Trump clean sweep = orange fascism

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If Trump wins, the planet will plunge into a blind panic because his Presidency could well spell the end of Democracy in America, the extremes he is willing to go to are beyond anything America has ever seen before.

Axios lays out the danger of a Trump clean sweep:

If former President Trump wins the election, and Republicans keep the House and flip the Senate, the U.S. would witness a dramatic consolidation of new right-wing populist power at scale, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a “Behind the Curtain” column.

    • Why it matters: A Washington fully controlled by Trump and his allies would institutionalize the MAGA movement, with massive consequences for governance, civil rights and international relations.

This period, lasting at least two years, until the next congressional races, would allow Republicans to move ambitiously — with few brakes beyond the Senate filibuster.

    • The vast majority of congressional leaders are now Trumployalists. The days of empowered never-Trumpers are basically over, at least in Congress.
    • Trump would pursue a dramatic expansion of presidential power — gutting the federal bureaucracy and installing thousands of executive branch loyalists to rip off the guardrails that restrained his first term.

The big picture: We got our hands on a fascinating private presentation by FGS Global, a worldwide communications and public affairs consultancy advising huge clients on how to prep for various election outcomes. The presentation is based on a CIA method of anticipating, understanding and navigating geopolitical outcomes.

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    • FGS uses it to help corporations brace for big, potentially sweeping, changes to policies or regulations in the new government. We realized it would also help Axiosreaders brace for what’s next.
    • This is the first of four columns exploring the most likely outcomes — and consequences — of the election. It combines our reporting with the FGS “Alternative Futures” analysis.

What to watch in FGS’ “MAGA momentum” scenario, with Republicans controlling both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue:

1. Immigration, border control

Trump‘s immigration policies would echo nationally — and quickly. The wall along the Southwest border would likely be expanded. Efforts to curb both legal and illegal immigration would accelerate.

    • New barriers would be placed on asylum-seekers. Deportation would intensify. And there could be pushes to cut refugee admissions significantly.
    • Trump has promised to round up and expel millions of people here illegally, possibly using the U.S. military. His advisers privately predict a more tempered version of this draconian threat. Running mate JD Vance said in a New York Times interview: “I think it’s certainly reasonable to deport around a million people per year.”
    • Expect legislation that codifies restrictive immigration measures, possibly including mandatory E-Verify for businesses and stronger penalties for sanctuary cities.
    • This aggressive approach could drastically reduce the flow of immigrants into the U.S. — altering labor markets, especially in industries reliant on immigrant workers.
    • It could also exacerbate tensions with Mexico and Central American countries.

2. Health care, social spending

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) would likely be weakened through legislative and administrative actions. Republicans might focus on restructuring key elements of the ACA: Medicaid could see new work requirements and eligibility restrictions, particularly in GOP-controlled states.

    • Reproductive rights would come under further attack at the state level, though Trumpsays he’d veto a national ban.
    • Vulnerable populations — low-income families, women, the elderly and LGBTQ+ people — would face increasing barriers to access.

3. Trade, economic policy

Trump‘s return would likely see the resurrection of his combative trade policies, with an even more aggressive approach to tariffs as a blunt instrument to reshape the global economy.

    • Publicly, he’s calling for 10% to 20% blanket tariffs on all U.S. imports and 60% tariffs on China — a historic pivot toward protectionism that would test free-market Republicans in Congress and on Wall Street.
    • Imposing new tariffs would rattle global supply chains and could lead to trade wars with allies like the EU, disrupting everything from consumer prices to international relations.
    • Trump‘s administration would roll back free trade agreements, and instead negotiate bilateral deals focused on U.S. agricultural and manufacturing interests.
    • Deregulation across sectors would allow industries — especially fossil fuels — to operate with fewer environmental or safety restrictions. Trump could repeal President Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, clawing back massive investments in green technologies.
    • Domestic manufacturing may see a temporary boost. But long-term effects on global markets could strain, or change, relationships with key allies.

4. Culture wars intensify

Social and cultural issues would become legislative priorities, as Trumpand the GOP lean heavily into the culture wars. Expect significant legislative attention on what the GOP calls “woke” policies in education and corporations.

    • Efforts to defund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives would gain traction. New restrictions on gender-affirming care, particularly for minors, would become central to the agenda.
    • Republican lawmakers would push anti-LGBTQ+ policies, and may seek to impose restrictions on teaching race and gender in schools.
    • A Justice Department stacked with Trump loyalists could prosecute political enemies, including in the corporate world. Republican-led investigations into tech companies, accusing them of anti-conservative bias, would likely intensify.
    • Schools, workplaces and local governments would become battlegrounds on issues of race, gender and free speech. Washington Republicans would side with local Republicans.
    • Corporate America, under pressure from both sides, would struggle to balance these demands, with risk to consumer relations.

5. Judicial appointments, courts

With control over both chambers of Congress, Trump would have a clear path to nominate a new wave of conservative judges at every level of the federal judiciary.

    • Expect multiple appointments to appellate courts and, potentially, another Supreme Court nomination.
    • The federal bench would shift further right — making conservative rulings on abortion, voting rights and executive power more likely for decades to come.
    • These judicial appointments would solidify conservative dominance in the courts, ensuring that many Republican-backed laws withstood legal challenges.
    • Federal courts could reshape the landscape of civil rights, environmental regulation and immigration law for a generation.

6. Foreign policy, global relations

An unrestrained Trump surrounded by “America First” loyalists — rather than the generals and establishment hawks who held key posts in the first term — would take U.S. foreign policy in unpredictable directions.

    • He’d likely withdraw further from international institutions, opting for bilateral deals focused on U.S. advantage. U.S. relations with some key allies would become strained as Trump focused on a more transactional, quid pro quo foreign policy.
    • A strong anti-China stance would dominate, with tariffs and sanctions becoming central. Tensions with Beijing could escalate as GOP hawks push a “decoupling” agenda, roiling global markets and trade.
    • Trump would likely move to cut off U.S. funding for Ukraine, forcing Kyiv into a peace settlement that favors Russia. He’d pressure NATO countries to ramp up their military spending, while broadly disengaging from the alliance’s strategic priorities.
    • Trump would seek to reinstate his “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign against Iran and empower Israel to “finish the job” of eliminating Hamas in Gaza and crippling Hezbollah in Lebanon.
    • An emerging axis of right-wing populists would give Trump new friends on the world stage, empowered to reshape the liberal international order, strengthen borders and challenge “globalist” priorities like fighting climate change.

Post-election risks: This path could lead to significant instability. A close or contested election could mean protests or violence.

    • Claims of voter fraud, particularly in key battleground states, could undermine confidence in the electoral system and inflame tensions.
    • Protests — think the 2017 Women’s March — are likely.

If Trump loses, watch how MAGA fascists make December 11th their riot date…

MAGA Militants to Riot on December 11

Put it in your calendar:  MAGA militants will riot on December 11.
This time, you won’t have to wait for January 6.
Why is December 11 the new January 6?

January 6 is the date the Constitution sets for the Vice President to read out each state’s submission of their Electoral College “electors.” 

In 2020, President Donald Trump, after the voters said, “YOU’RE FIRED!” cooked up a scheme to hold onto the office he’d lost.

Trump’s whack-job plan was to order/cajole/bully/threaten his Vice President, ordering him to ignore the Constitution and reject Electoral votes from states Trump had lost.

Trump’s plot was cooked up by law professor John Eastman who told Agent Orange that VP Mike Pence could simply chuck Electoral College submissions in the garbage and accept fraudulent Electors scrounged up by Rudi Giuliani. 

Now The Donald, The Rudi and The John may be sharing a prison cell—as all three face felony charges for their goof-ball would-be coup d’état.

But there is, frighteningly, a way to overturn the election, but January 6 is too late.  The day that should give any lover of democracy the shivers is December 11.  That’s the date designated by the Constitution as the Certificate of Ascertainment deadline. 

If you have never heard of the “Certificate of Ascertainment” date, you’d better bone up.  That’s the day by which every Governor must send the National Archives the final list of Electors to the Electoral College after that state “certifies” those votes.  If the Certificate never arrives, the state gives away its Electoral votes.
 

Think about that.  If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the popular vote, say, in Georgia, the Governor could withhold the certificate certifying Harris’ Electoral College representatives.  (The Constitution gives that power to each Governor.)

If, as a result, neither Harris nor Trump gets that magical 270 Electoral votes, then the election gets tossed into the 12th Amendment process.  Then, look out!

…Greg Palast is an old school journalist who has been investigating electoral fraud used by the Republicans to kill off democratic engagement.

His analysis of where MAGA will go if they lose should be taken seriously.

We are inching closer to the American Midnight.

 

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76 COMMENTS

      • No wars when he was last president….in fact the only time there was no wars involving USA in a 4 -5 year stretch since…well forever!
        FACT
        Your whataboutisms never eventuated when he was the president, will be bollocks this time also
        FACTS Tipene…you ask others for proof, so give us proof boy…

        • Why do you insist on repeating misrepresentations and lies over and over on this platform?

          “No new wars” hardly matters when when he massively increased drone attacks, and increased involvements in existing wars, and led to large amounts of “collateral” damage as well as prompting all sorts of unrest by stuff he did with Israel (e.g., shifting embassies etc).

          Your “FACTS” are also incorrect. He literally tried several times, and as documented in the Jan 6 investigations and before. The only reason he wasn’t successful was because he had cabinet members that didn’t want to do the totally batshit crazy stuff. This time that won’t be the case.

          Even then, they still did a bunch of corrupt stuff, including directing tax payer funds to his businesses via booking himself into them, unilaterally weakening federal agencies that were regulating his donors, and repeatedly attempting to weaponize the DoJ.

          You keep repeating nonsense on pretty much every issue, and this is no different.

          • Yes he misrepresents his name, it should read “lm never right”.
            Just hard bat shit crazy right wing. That’s why he’s a Trump turd polisher.

            • Where am I wrong?
              There were no US wars under Trump…prove me wrong Squeaky!
              What have i said that is wrong.
              Highest black unemployment under Trump.
              PROVE ME WRONG SQUEAKY!
              I know you can’t, so better to ignore eh?
              Lol….clean that toilet boy

              • Trumps legacy was his failure on his foreign policy that undermined America’s position in the world mainly because of his assault on democracy and failure to deal effectively with Covid where 400,000 people died under his presidency.
                But the most harrowing was the damage to the country by way of his insurrection.
                His multiple court cases, being a convicted felon may inspire you tighty righty but that’s because you are in the bottom of the toilet you wish me to clean.

          • Ohhh P-Man
            Look at the FACTS!
            The most bombings and drone attacks in the last 30yrs was under the presidential watch of…drum role please…..
            OBAMA!
            It’s information allowed to anyone, free to search.
            Guess if you don’t like the answer, DON’T ASK THE QUESTION!

        • When Trump was last president he assassinated a top Iranian military general who was fighting ISIS, ripped up the Iran deal which was decreasing the chance of them developing a nuclear weapon, increased drone strikes 400% over Obama, vetoes a bipartian bill that would have stopped arming Saudi Arabia’s genocide in Yemen, made Jerusalem Israel’s capital allowing them to incroach even more on Palestinian land, and now he is promising to let Israel “Finish the job” in Gaza… If he’s anti-war then I’m an Olympic athlete

  1. altering labor markets, especially in industries reliant on immigrant workers….. when you’re paying shit wages of course you are reliant on them, and that’s a labour market that should certainly be “altered”.

  2. Of the swing states, only two, Georgia and Nevada have Republican governors who could be pressured into not sending in the Certificates of Ascertainment in the event that Harris wins those states. In a close race those 22 votes might be enough to give Trump a win. I assume the 270 vote number is just used to represent a majority, in normal circumstances, as there are a total of 538 electoral college votes. I also assume that if there are not 538 votes presented to the College then a simple majority would still win the election. Of course the Democrat governors of the other 5 swing states could withhold all or any of the 61 electoral votes Trump might win in their states. If it wasn’t so serious this could be enjoyed as the greatest of soap operas.

    • I have heard the US election described as a choice between Sodom and Gomorrah or the Spanish inquisition. As you identify both choices are flawed which is probably a result of having the best politicians that money can buy. We need people with integrity who actually care about all people and not just their donors in the political process before anything can change. The inevitable result will be a return of the dark ages as christian nationalism gets power in the government and forces false worship in a futile attempt to change people.

      • “false worship” vs what?

        “proper” worship?, “approved” worship? or maybe just “your” idea of worship.

        This is what lies at the core of all religious conflict and all the mayhem it wrests on the human species. And you don’t even realise you are indulging in it.

  3. Largely correct, although off the mark on legal immigration (he supports that), weaponising of the federal state ( which is what the Democrats have been doing for the last 4 years) and abortion which is now a settled matter.

    If I was American I would be cheering on nearly all of those policies because they’re good for America. Which is basically what Trump is all about.

  4. none of this will happen.
    Trump will win and govern in a way that is good for the USA.
    Then Set up JD Vance to run for 2028.

    • I’m inclined to your opinion Maninblack to which I add constitutionally the USA is a committed democracy which is unlikely to ever be overturned.

    • So bringing back segreation, lynching and allowing cops to gun down blacks, as well as banning abortion, birth control and sex outside of marriage is good?

      • Millsy, have you noticed that of late it has been the Democrats who are the race obsessed ones in the USA?
        They’re the ones wanting black dorms, segregated classrooms and claiming only Black Lives Matter.
        This is consistent with their history because the Democrat party was from the Deep South. The party of slavery and the KKK.

        • Blacks voted republican until the 1930-60’s when thanks to the New Deal, and Great Society reforms, and the Civil Rights era, they voted for Democrats while Nixon courted the white working class with his Southern Strategy, to the point the the GOP now seeks to reverse the civil rights era. This reaglinnment has been well documented.

  5. Trump, MAGA and and its New Zealand equivalent are the direct result of 40 years of neo liberal economics in action. The nearest acceptable alternative are populist right wing movements led by bloviating leaders.

  6. Trump, MAGA and and its New Zealand equivalent are the direct result of 40 years of neo liberal economics in action. The nearest acceptable alternative are populist right wing movements led by bloviating leaders.

  7. Trump is going to lose.
    But as sure as the sun rises he will then foment a political violence and mayhem we’ve never before seen in a western democracy.

    Thanks Merrick Garland.

    • Well we saw a little of that political violence brought upon America last time, so yes, you are correct, it will be worse given the appalling rhetoric Trump uses.

    • Trump is doing better in all the polls, both National (though they don’t count) and Swing State than in 2020, let alone 2016. In 2016 his popularity was underwater by 27%, in 2020 by 12%, now 9%. Unless the pollsters have fixed their undercounting problem (which Silver adjusts by 2%) he’s going to win.

      • You, Xenophon, simply talk total bullshit. Your credibility is by now well and truly a joke.

        The polls are not “all” showing Trump doing better.
        They vary considerably, but all show one sure trend: Trump’s support has measurably waned or remained static over the past year, he is not attracting new voters but instead just managing to keep his core MAGA base. Hence his escalating unhinged and panicked rhetoric. Harris’s support has increased hugely, and it well exceeds that Biden enjoyed.

        Harris is well ahead in the popular stakes, but USA’s idiotic and anti democratic electoral college system cranks the whole process in Trump’s favour and means the outcome can never be certain for the Democrats with anything under a 6 point lead over the Repugnants.

        The sooner he’s behind bars the safer the planet will be.

      • Yes Xenophobe there are enough rednecks in America to believe his shit! However anyone in the real world knows the truth, and your figures from the weetbix packet are a symbol of this.

  8. We spend a lot of time worrying about Trump. Like we spend a lot of time worrying about Gaza. We have enough of our own shit to sort and fix.

  9. If you support Trump, you support the rolling back of civil rights, recriminalization of homosexuality and transgenderism, banning abortion and birth control, and repression of Palestinians. Fact.

    • You’ve been told this before, but Trump supported stuff like Gay Marriage years before Hillary and Obambi. And what’s with the “z” in recriminalization? Are you so far gone in the head you just cutn’paste from US sites?

      • Um no, he opposed opening marriage up to same sex couples, and wanted to hang the Central Park Five, even though they were innocent. He also wants to ban the teaching of evolution and launch progroms against atheists

        • One of the reasons you’re going to lose this election – just like you lost here in 2023 – is because you believe the most insane shit and can’t argue it, but just assert. Show me the links to where he did, or will do, any of the crap you just threw at him. And don’t drag “squeaky” into it, for she’s as far gone as her Manson namesake.

  10. The United States believes it has a position of responsibility being the leader of the free world,but they are in the unenviable position of being condemned not matter their position.

  11. I don’t get the cognitive dissonance amongst so many on the left and found in abundance here.

    If you can take Trump out of the mix (go on try…) and just evaluate the policies, it’s fundamentally a set of old school, left wing 1970’s policies.

    Deporting Illegal immigrants – NZ does it, Australia does it. The scale of illegal immigration into the US under Biden means that the numbers are crazy but the underlying problem does need to be addressed. The illegals are collapsing wages and keeping citizens in poverty.

    Protectionism – the EU has tariffs, Australia has tarrifs, etc. They’re shit and NZ as a small trading nation should and really has to fight against them but the US is perhaps the only nation / market that can sustain itself with tarrifs. Yes it’s people will have to pay more for their goods but then at least in theory, they’ll have jobs to provide the money. It’ll fuck the rest of the world, especially China but hey ho, this is an America first policy

    Global Affairs – why should the US be responsible for providing their young to fight and die for the rest of the world? If they stop starting wars and let other nations deal with their own problems it will make the world a more dangerous place but then perhaps we should all start paying more of our GDP to the military rather than riding on the coattails of America.

    Ukraine – it’s bad and Putin is evil but European countries have no one to blame but themselves. if Germany and France got their shit together they could defeat Russia easily. Why does the US need to bankroll it other than to perhaps hide Hunter’s misdeeds?

    I don’t like Trump, I don’t like his policies and I think when he is elected the world is going to have an interesting time but I don’t think it’ll end.

    Western liberal democracies are broken. Trump is a symptom of this as is Meloni, Farrage, Le Pen, etc. The existing model of driving consumption to lift growth by flooding countries with migrants is coming to an end. The UK has had enough and it’s the same in the US (and much of Europe).

    Neoliberalism replaced the protectionist and socialist system of the 60’s and 70’s. is MAGA the beginnings of what will replace neoliberalism or a return to the 70’s? Who knows but with JD Vance potentially winning another two terms after Orange 45 departs we may well find out.

    • They are fucking scab unions. The coal miners and oil workers will through their comrades in services under a bus. They have been doing that for 40 years

    • Yes they said ” make pussies and sexual predators alongside they’re eating your cats and dogs great again”!

      We were all hoping Bob the idiot was gone for good.

  12. The free-market rule from ’80 on in the anglophone countries produced ‘democracies’ that have to be encased in quotation marks. So, very little defence against Fascism.

    One of the Yank vlogs described Fascism as Capitalism in crisis. They went on to say Trump and the Republican Party can urge on the Gaza genocide on MSM endlessly, but if a Lefty calls it out as genocide they’re banned for ever. Proof I’d think.

    Add to that the Dem donors saying they’d go off to the Republicans if Sanders became the nominee in 2020. Christ help us if there can be no peaceful reform. The rich-rulers are too fucked up to understand that. That we rely on these utter, utter twerps is an indictment on us.

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