It doesn’t take an expert to see that what’s happening in Gaza is genocide. It does take an expert to see the markers of genocide before it happens.
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is an expert on genocidal violence. He accurately predicted the 2008 financial crisis, the global slide towards far-right authoritarianism, and other major world events.
Now he has a new warning for us ahead of the election.
Dr. Ahmed predicts a second Trump presidency will bring with it “total social, political, and economic collapse.”
Even if we set aside all of Project 2025’s plans to gut and disable federal agencies, Trump’s mass deportation program and the Trump-Musk plan to cut the federal budget by $2 trillion would still set us up for chaos – and destroy at least 25% of our economy and production.
I am all for securing our borders and improving legal immigration, but we can’t ignore the decades of data.
Undocumented migrants create new jobs, pay taxes, and contribute billions to the American economy. Removing undocumented laborers from our economy all at once would be financially devastating.
Throughout history, genocides have risen from the combination of a national crisis and dehumanizing propaganda like we see already from the MAGA movement against migrants.
According to Dr. Ahmed, the economic collapse that mass deportation will create could be our tipping point, transforming a deportation plan into an extermination plan.
When our economy crashes, we should expect massive civil unrest – the kind that Project 2025 warns us will be met with the Insurrection Act and sending the military after protesters.
But this isn’t just reminiscent of Project 2025. This hearkens back to something Trump told Fox News in 2014:
What Donald Trump was talking about, what Dr. Ahmed is warning about, and what Trump’s Project 2025 agenda sets us up for is, frankly, a full-scale collapse of American society as we know it.
I can’t help but think about the collapse of the Soviet Union. When the economy collapsed, the Russian mafiya heads bought up all of the corporate giants and became today’s Russian oligarchs.
The same thing would happen here. People like Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the shameless, dangerous people they surround themselves with would swoop in to take over our industries and resources. They’d break down and sell what they can’t use, and they’d hoard everything else for their own wealth and power.
We all hope if Trump loses that we never have to hear about him again. We haven’t considered that if he’s re-elected, we may be stuck with people just like him forever.
This is getting long, so I’ll wrap it up with another quote from Dr. Nafeez Ahmed:
“The Musk-Trump plan is part of a network war aimed at tearing down the entire infrastructure of American democracy. We should stop underestimating the risks, and start waking up to who is fighting this war and why.”
Fighting for better,
Jerrad Christian
Democrat for OH-12
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