In this chapter, I argue that the fantasy of a permanent American republic is central to the necro-political condition. From executive orders to campaign rhetoric, Trump’s aesthetic project attempts to construct a vision of national permanence through architecture, symbolism, and spectacle. These efforts reanimate fascist imaginaries under the guise of national renewal, framing political decay as divine restoration. I argue that death is no longer understood as the republic’s eventual limit but is absorbed into its governing logic, shaping how permanence, power, and legitimacy are imagined. I advance an ethic of acting with death as a way to confront decline, not as failure, but as a condition of political life. This commitment insists on the urgency of building differently, inhabiting collapse without replicating it, and imagining life within and against the inevitability of loss.