Counterinaugural protests, disruption, police attacks continue, parade marches unuusally late

On the 20th of January, police continued to fire flashbangs and pepper spray at determined protesters who refused to yield the streets hours after a potential next Hitler, Donald Trump, had been sworn into office. Cops reported "shooting at everybody" with chemical weapons. Anti-fascist fighters took losses to a mass arrest but there is a report that Richard Spencer got punched, and at least one limousine was attacked and set on fire. Meanwhile, the Inaugural parade did not start until 3:55PM, hours later than normal.l

Perhaps the inability of Trump supporters to get to the parade route on time through the checkpoint blockades played a role in forcing the delayed start of the parade? Certainly the checkpoint blockades were a resounding success, possibly made stronger by the diversion of so many police to deal with the anticapitalist bloc and street marches elsewhere.

The mainstream media is circulating coverage of a Starbucks being smashed up. Along with the massive success of the checkpoint blockades, this has a lot in common with Seattle 1999 except the stakes are infinately higher. The mainstream media is ignoring police violence against protesters and entirely ignoring the checkpoint blockades, as the task of blockading a fenced checkpoint does not require smashing it, only "adding a second layer of security" so to speak. Thus is does not look as flashy on FOX news video as a burning limousine. On the other hand, burned limos, smashed chain stores, and similar events may serve as a deterrent to the city's pro-gentrification business/yuppie wing collaborating with the Trump regime.

An ABC Journalist compared Trump's words " From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first" to the pro-Nazi "America First" movement of the 1930's. Their position on US entry into WWII was "We don't want to get involved in Europe's war. It's the Jews fault in Germany." For Trump to use the name of that movment in his speech was called anti-Semitic by ABC Journalist Terry Moran.

The most chilling comparisons to Hitler however are found in Trump's campaign promises. He promises to round up literally millions of Latino migrants, and to apply a religious test against Muslims to immigration. Many suspect existing Muslim immigrants are now under extreme threat. Some have compared being a Muslim in Trump's AmeriKKKa to being Jewish in Germany in the first years of the Nazi regime. We shall see yet just how far that gets. Certainly, if Germans had rioted in the streets and physically resisted the rise of Hitler as Trump was resisted today, it would have weakened Hitler's confidence and weakened his ability to imtimidate others. It would also have weakened the arguments made during WWII that the Germans had done little to resist Hitler and thus deserved anything and everything the rest of the world could dish out in the war.