The United States may soon be a one-party state. Over the past weeks, Donald Trump and his quisling flunkies have increased the volume and ferocity of their attacks on the Democratic Party.
Last month, Trump declared that the Democrats are “The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan“. Stephen Miller echoed this after the murder of Charlie Kirk, saying “The Democratic party is not a political party… [It is an] extremist organization.”
Now he’s taken things one step further. Speaking to an audience of U.S. Navy sailors, Trump casually said:
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats." pic.twitter.com/WD6Ojn75yP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 5, 2025
“We have to take care of this little gnat that’s on our shoulder called the Democrats. They want to give all of our money to illegal aliens that pour into the country.”
There’s not much room for interpretation here. A Republican president is vowing to “take care” of the opposition in the same way as you’d crush a fly, which would entail making membership illegal and dismantling the party apparatus. Even by Trump’s low standards, this is outright fascist stuff:
“Take care of” is not subtle. This weekend the ground has shifted and no person can deny what the president, unpopular and unfit, intends. To remain silent is to welcome this. They can both sides or claim they didn’t hear, but there is no wiggle room about his plans now. https://t.co/bwAE4dnMiP
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) October 6, 2025
"We have to take care of this little gnat on our shoulder called the Democrats," says the American President to cheering servicemembers.
— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) October 6, 2025
This is so incredibly repugnant and un-American, on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin.
Trump is encouraging the military to turn against nearly half the country, and elected Republicans won’t say a damn word against it. https://t.co/rAuOHp0Or8
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) October 5, 2025
How would he even do this?
The mechanism by which he’d go about doing this? Look no further than his newly unveiled “NSPM-7” criteria by which his administration is identifying “left-wing terrorism”:
- anti-Americanism,
- anti-capitalism,
- anti-Christianity,
- support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
- extremism on migration,
- extremism on race,
- extremism on gender
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
These are so fuzzily defined they can be applied to anyone who’s opposing Trump, as by his logic anyone trying to stop him would de facto be “anti-capitalism” etc. Trump’s goons go on to argue that any person or group that fits several of these criteria is seeking to “foment political violence”.
It’s easy to see how the Democratic Party could be crowbarred into fitting this criterion, at which point (in Trumpthought) banning them becomes his national duty.
It goes without saying that this is all extraordinarily Hitlerish. In 1933, Hitler’s “Law Against the Founding of New Parties” act legislated that the Nazi Party was the only legal political party in Germany, arguing that any opposition to Hitler is de facto opposition to Germany and must therefore be brutally crushed. Is this sounding familiar yet?
You might think banning the Democratic Party is going too far even for Donald Trump. To which we can only wonder if you’ve been living under a rock since January.
