TACO Tyranny?

By Lorraine Evanoff, June 11, 2025 – 400 Words

By now, we’ve all heard of the new Wall Street term, TACO Trade, for “Trump Always Chickens Out” on tariffs and his other disastrous economic policies. We also all know Trump has been itching to do his own Putin style unprovoked attack on a sovereign state.

Apparently, Trump found a target closer to home to invade, the sovereign state of California. It also appears that Trump’s big birthday parade was always going to be a Putinesque display military force in Washington D.C. We also all knew this day would come.

Personally, I incorrectly assumed the attempted implementation of Project 2025 was going to be more like Project 2029 or 2033, since it seemed unthinkable Trump would ever get another shot at the presidency. And I mistakenly thought Trump wouldn’t try to use the Insurrection Act until closer to the midterm elections.

But it turned out that Republicans got Musk and the media to sway with the 2024 elections and then went “all gas, no brakes” head-on toward Martial Law. This style of Accelerationist Politics goes against traditional democracy, environmentalism, protectionism and other ideologies. Trump and the Freedom Caucus have been forcing disastrous economic policy, corruption, and unconstitutional assaults on Americans from Day 1 of this administration.

The Republican Party’s end game is to install a right-wing regime indefinitely through the reshaping the U.S. government by any means necessary, as explicitly laid out in Project 2025. Trump, congressional Republicans, and the conservative SCOTUS are all complicit in the mafia state, lying, stealing, cheating, threats, bribes, and executive immunity.

But Trump’s attack of Los Angeles by provoking residents with illegal ICE raids to spark protests, then getting Republicans and the media to deceitfully focus on small acts of violence to make it look like riots, has revealed something. Our side is also “all gas, no brakes” AGAINST this attack.

As a Los Angeles resident who has been to every downtown (always peaceful) protest since February 2017, the fierce response to Trump’s unconstitutional attack has energized me. The LA protests continue, but also, huge protests in other cities in support of Los Angeles are springing up. Governor Newsom, Mayor Bass, and democratic congress members have been defiant. Glendale ended its agreement with ICE to detain immigrants. And reporters like Lawrence O’Donnell are fearlessly speaking out.

We remain undaunted. So you bet your ass I will be at the June 14^th DTLA protests. This is our moment of truth. The ultimate game of chicken. Will this be TACO Tyranny? Will Trump blink first? Will we crash head on, and nobody wins? Or will democracy prevail?

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