All of this sounds hopelessly naive. A general strike might work in a country that believes in the efficacy of unions, the virtues of large-scale communal action, and the importance of rising up against an unjust power. But if Trump get re-elected, it will be in large part because the White working class showed up in significant numbers at the ballot box (even if the GOP greases the wheels of electoral processes and mixes in a little voter suppression here, a little voter suppression there). These folks, who are the exact natural core constituency of unions, will have, in that instance, just voted to extend the rule of the very person you think people should rise up against in a general strike. In a population that has been conditioned since Nixon to hate unions and to reject their activism as extremism and socialism (or worse).

Also, the swift reversion of public opinion to pre-Memorial Day standing after Trump used the actions of a small handful of troublemakers in the BLM protest demonstrations to dismantle popular approval for the cause puts the lie to the conception that Americans will support any large-scale social change movement for very long.

Listen, I think Trump is a bad dude and I’m continuously flabbergasted by Americans’ support of a fascist dictator in training. But this stuff you’ve written is some dreaming in technicolor blindness.