It cannot be lost that the core of the Jan. 6 mobilization was to force Congress to unconstitutionally throw out the election results of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania by overwhelmingly invalidating Black and Latino voters. Even though it was the suburbs of major metropolitan areas that statistically made up the difference for Biden, the far right’s false claims of fraud are fundamentally built around the urban centers. This was a racist, Jim Crow voter suppression effort of a whole new scale and type.

This is a very good point that I hadn’t considered.

But arresting Trump would not by itself end the threat of fascist violence or the far-right political current in the United States. Polls suggest at least half of the 75 million Trump voters believe the election was stolen, and tens of millions of them back the attack on the Capitol. This is an enormous base of people to build a movement from, united around a grievance.

Very true. Looking at those raw numbers, I wonder if communists have a similar well of support to build from. It seems like we’re still in a phase of developing a base of support to even build a real movement, so we are behind the fascists in that sense.