Understanding Donald Trump's War

Europe and America: One System, Two Faces of the Digital Dictatorship

There’s still a widespread illusion that the world order is divided between clashing superpowers, political ideologies, and democracies versus autocracies. But those who look beyond the façades see something far more fundamental: convergence.By Max von KreyfeltWhile Trump is building an all-encompassing surveillance system with Palantir in the U.S., the European Union is silently constructing an equally ambitious and equally totalitarian control…

Understanding Donald Trump's War

Donald Trump’s significance to the American republic must be understood in light of his fight against despotism. He does not face a tyranny of blood and iron. He faces a tyranny of mass conformity, which bypasses the body and controls the will by controlling the mind. It seeks universal conformity, and for that reason it is more complete than anything imagined by ancient or medieval tyrannies. Kings could proscribe against their enemies, but the…