NeoFacist Nationalism: Trump Administration USA Style
July 24, 2025•847 words
"End Times fascism is not about building something new or better. It is a politics of abandonment. Collapse isn’t feared—it’s welcomed, even weaponized, as a way to clear the field." - Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor
"Modern authoritarianism isn’t just about crushing dissent—it’s about cultivating resentment, glorifying violence, and distracting the public with enemies, both real and imagined. It thrives not on hope, but on grievance." - Robert Reich
"Fascist movements build their mass base not among the politically active but among the politically indifferent—the people who feel dispossessed, who have lost faith in the political system. They are drawn to a strongman who promises vengeance and moral renewal." - Chris Hedges
For a while now, I've been sitting with a serious question that, once it hits, doesn't go away: What precisely are we seeing in our politics at the moment? It is easy to try to explain away the disorder and write it off as just another tsunami before another election or as a normal part of the American political cycle. However, beneath that well-known exterior is something much more primitive something spreading beneath the news.
An increasing number of intellectuals, activists, and historians no longer mince words. They're using the term fascism as a historically based diagnosis rather than as a Trump style political rhetorical slur. A similarity to the past is evident when you take a step back and examine the patterns, but this version is colder, more pessimistic, and devoid of any semblance of a redeeming future. End Times Fascism is the correct term coined by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to describe this mutation.
This new strain's hollow centre, in addition to its brutality, is what makes it so dangerous. Today's fascism isn't driven by revolutionary zeal or highly idealized goals. Collapse is what drives it. And Robert Reich lists five distinguishing characteristics that should frighten any mindful of a person watching, with the accuracy of someone who has closely examined this political machine.
The first is the cult of the strongman, who says he is the only one who can fix what is wrong and the only voice of the people. The second is the unrelenting rage aimed at politicians, professors, journalists, cultural elites, and anyone else thought to have betrayed "real" citizens. Third, a purity-based nationalism that views immigrants, racial minorities, and ideological dissidents as impurities that must be eradicated.
Fourth, there is an obsession of violence and ability to move about, where war is seen as a purifying force and compassion and empathy as weakness. And lastly, a compulsive need to reestablish male dominance by erasing people who question traditional gender roles and punishing women who defy expectations. These characteristics work together to create a sinister power structure that is designed to control and eliminate rather than to lead.
The key distinction is that fascism today has no narrative about the future. Fascists in the 1930s promised reconstruction after devastation. An idealized society was supposed to emerge as a result of the fires. Fascists of today don't provide such an illusion. For them, collapse is both inevitable and desirable. Pandemics, social unrest, and climate disasters are opportunities to take advantage of rather than crises to resolve. According to Klein and Taylor, this is a politics of abandonment in which everyone else is left to catch fire and only the wealthy and aggressive deserve to live.
The cast is already in place if you look closely. The Apprentice tv producer, Donald Trump, is a self-serving symbol of grievance, white Christian nationalism, and the manipulation of the media rather than a traditional ideologue. He is loyal to his own wealth and power rather than to a cause or a country. The billionaire class, which includes over 10 billionaires in his administration and advisors such as David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk, circles him. They are not only supporting far-right causes but also creating lifeboats for themselves.
And corporate America ignores all of this. Despite their public silence, many CEOs privately shudder at Trump's rhetoric. In a trend eerily reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s, short-term profit takes precedence over long-term principles. Previously viewing Hitler as a helpful instrument to dismantle unions, business elites now view Trump as a safeguard against taxes, regulations, and change. Cowardice and quarterly profits keep the machine running.
Global crises are seen by Christian Zionists as prophecies of the Rapture. Transhumanists in Silicon Valley envision uploading their consciousness and shedding their flesh. They are not united by faith, but rather by a common disdain for the state of the world, the weak and impoverished, and the difficult task of democracy and coexistence.
We run the risk of sleepwalking into disaster if we are unaware of the stakes. The breakdown has already started. Institutions within the federal government are disintegrating. Federal mandates are being disregarded by states. The rule of law is being undermined from the inside out. Nazi salutes, racial violence, open cruelty against new Americans, and other political taboos have been transformed into entertainment that no longer values decency.
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