Although it is unclear at what time in American history the United States of America’s Federal government transformed itself into an authoritarian police state based on a negation of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, the most modern American administrations continue share a common character in domestic Statecraft. The most modern administrations from the 2000 Bush administration through the Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump administrations have both antagonized as well as seized upon the population’s belief that somehow the opposition between the two primary American political parties, such as the Republican and the Democratic ones, represent a genuine ‘contest’ between forces opposing or making changes in the country. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties, whose ‘distinguishing’ issues, among the many available, range from gender, race, native, or birth, are one and the same political party. In terms of the Los Angeles protests, which have only recently erupted throughout the country, to protest ‘Trump’s’ immigration policies (which the only ones based on American law, if such a thing still exists in anything but name), an event has arisen to gives pause to the unity of these parties. On June 10th, 2025, Trump called for his ‘border czar’ to arrest California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom.

It is clear that the tacit support Newsom provides for ‘protecting’ immigrants is designed to bolster support among democratically leaning immigrants or those who favor a democratic leaning policy for immigration. Trump’s statement is designed to provide for the complete opposite, a Republican leaning policy for immigrants. While it is unclear under what circumstances, legal or otherwise, Trump’s ‘border czar’ could actually arrest Newsom, the underlying political motivation for Trump’s statement rely upon the population’s belief that the two party system, Trump’s Republican party, Newsom’s Democratic party, represent a genuine ‘contest’ between forces opposing or making changes in the country.

An analysis, however, for understanding Trump’s statements or Newsom’s responses makes sense only in the context of rejecting the falsehood of contested oppositions. Rejection of the falsehood of these contested oppositions requires no extensive amount of thought. Embedded within these statements is the utter hopeless of any solution for immigration whatsoever within the context of the most modern American administrations, Biden’s or Trump’s. Arresting Gavin Newsom, for instance, would not resolve the border crisis, illegal immigration, or prevent illegal immigrants from remaining in the United States; nothing about Newsom’s arrests effects the balance of the law for immigration. Based solely upon the utter hopelessness of either position of the contested opposites for a solution alone, the rejection may freely granted without even evaluating the truthfulness of the utterances.

Upon a rejection of the belief that the two party system represents a genuine ‘contest’ between forces opposing or making changes in the country, the statements make much more sense. These statements are designed to reinforce the falsehood. These statements are a horseshoe with the ends of one bend to those of the other. Affixed to the American political workhorse (the Fifth Estate), the horseshoe is designed ‘to gallop’ the population in opposite directions, democratically leaning back towards the dead-end of the Democrats, republican leaning back towards the dead-end of the Republicans. The gallop reinforces the falsehood so that no other political point of view emerges to captive the hearts, minds or ambitions of the American population.

The farriers, who craft these horseshoes on a daily basis for the American political workhorse, are fulfilling one of the elements of Hannah Arendt’s definitions of authoritarianism. The two elements of authoritarianism Arendt espoused to criticize eastern European aspirations rooted in a desire for global hegemony relied upon the State’s amalgamation with the political party responsible for its governance. The second is the complete elimination of any or all dissent. While Ardent did not factor into the equations for her formulae on authoritarianism the amount of money the police state must expend to maintain authoritarianism, the amounts paid to preserve ‘order’ in Los Angeles are great examples. During the George Floyd protests, Los Angeles paid $1 to $2 billion dollars in remittances for insurance claims alone, not to mention the amount of money paid to police, officers, or law enforcement for overtime, workers compensation, or mental health treatment.

In certain sense the American political machine not only meets but exceeds the authoritarian elements of Arendt’s definition. In terms of the second element, the State in America continues to preserve the execution of a system designed to engage in a mass manipulation of the population; Ardent could hardly have imagined that part of the second element of authoritarianism could have achieved the goal of silencing political dissent through the reinforcement of the belief in contested oppositions. It is one of the most remarkable aspects for the cultivation of false consciousness, as no American politician can escape the specter of Karl Marx haunting their political divisiveness, that the State is able to eliminate dissent through control over its manifestation.

What workers see now are shadows on the wall. It is clear from Trump’s call for Newsom’s arrest, just as it is from Newsom’s responses to Trump’s call for his arrest, that a truly political dissenting opinion must necessarily raise a new call for immigration outside of the boundaries the State delimits for controlled opinion. In opposition to mandarins, farriers, orchestrators who move mandarins or farriers with the whisk of a magic wand of money, workers must not only reject the falsehood of contested opposites permeating American political discourse but most reject the system for its maintenance. It is not a matter of hatting the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal, the three legged American political workhorse, but the ugly deformity latent within this monster and its monstrosities. The working class must reach for the light beyond these falsehoods, false reinforcement, for the truthful opinion with a reasoned argument based on reality.