ANGUS: The Dangerous In-Between: Assassination, Fascism

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ANGUS: The Dangerous In-Between: Assassination, Fascism and the Fragile State of Democracy

Charlie Angus - The Resistance - September 15, 2025

EXCERPT: "I recently participated in a talk in Timmins with author and war correspondent Gywnne Dywer. He said that it was doubtful that the United States would actually see another free and open election. Gwynne pointed out that given the direction of Trump, American democracy could soon be reduced to a fake stage play like Putin's Russia, where the game is permanently rigged.

Added to this legitimation crisis is the wholesale war on the independence of the courts. If people no longer have faith that justice will do its job, what’s to stop them from thinking that a gun could solve their problems?

And when people choose guns over debate, we fall from the interregnum into fascism.

So the question remains: will Kirk’s death be just another brutal statistic in a time of spiralling political violence in the United States or will we use this interregnum to push for a restoration of the rule of law?

History teaches that it is better to stand up to fascists when they are in “the in-between”. It is too dangerous to wait until they have become entrenched."

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