The Trump-Musk Leviathan
In the wake of Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 US presidential election, I find myself looking back to observations we made during the covid era. Now, as then, there seem to be two rival factions at the elite level. One is:
capitalistic
mildly left-wing on social issues
America first, world policeman, Pax Americana, etc.
pro-Zionist
pro-NATO
spearheaded by Wall Street and the Pentagon
anti identity politics (except for Jews)
The other is:
technocratic
fiercely left-wing on social issues (transhumanism, transgenderism, feminism, anti-natalism, fanatically pro immigration and diversity)
globalist, with America advancing a social, cultural and economic agenda that doesn’t put America first and actually severely damages it
anti-Zionist (but certainly not anti-Semitic)
pro-NATO
spearheaded by Silicon Valley, Davos, WEF, UN, etc.
pro identity politics (possibly except for Jews)
Trump, in his first tenure, very much fitted into the first faction, although he resisted Zionist calls to go to war with Syria and was skeptical of NATO. However, perhaps partly because of his clear “America first” patriotism, he was attacked relentlessly by the US media, which since George W Bush’s time has been moving from the first to the second faction.
A second complicating factor is that, since the Ukraine war, Trump has turned against NATO and is now talking about withdrawing America from it. This would leave NATO as the toy of the second faction, but also toothless and therefore less useful for Zionist causes.
A third complicating factor is that Elon Musk was, until quite recently, more aligned with the second faction but has moved away from it, because he has become gender-critical and because it has relentlessly attacked him for being pro freedom of speech and pro-natalist. In vilifying him, the media has been aided by Zionist elements, namely the ADL, which is now Musk’s sworn enemy.
A fourth complicating factor is that Silicon Valley in general is said to be moving in a rightward direction since the insane woke excesses of the 2010s and early 2020s. Its luminaries Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos seem to have realised the direction in which the American public is inexorably going and have been preparing to shed “the woke cloak” and take on new garb to better fit the new climate, now ratified by the election.
The big question is what that new climate will be. It will not fit either of the two factions described above.
