Apartment homes were ransacked, and people pulled outside and handcuffed regardless of immigration status. Today, there are not even suggestions of impeachment from the Democratic Party over actions that make the Watergate crisis, which resulted in Richard Nixon’s removal from the presidency in 1974, appear like child’s play. The critical question is the independent mobilization of the working class, independent of and opposed to the Democratic Party. These committees must become centers of resistance, uniting all sections of the working class and student youth against Trump’s fascist government, the complicity of the Democrats, and the broader assault on democratic rights and living standards. The creation of rank-and-file committees is indispensable to break the stranglehold of the old organizations and create new centers of coordinated social power for the defense of democratic rights, and for socialism against dictatorship, war and capitalist exploitation.