Trump’s reign fits Curtis Yarvin’s blueprint of a CEO-led American monarchy. What is technological fascism?
by Luke Munn Research Fellow, Digital Cultures & Societies, The University of Queensland Governing like a monarch This culture is already infiltrating Washington. Trump is governing like a monarch, making unilateral decisions via hundreds of executive orders , bulldozing through opposition and legislation. Musk and his DOGE minions stress they need to “ delete entire agencies ”, commandeering offices and allegedly stealing data under the pretext of eliminating “waste”. A recent study of over 500 political scientists found “the vast majority think the US is moving swiftly away from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism”. In the vision laid out by Yarvin – and taken up more and more by a growing political vanguard – government is either a political inconvenience or a technical problem. Increasingly, the authoritarian imperative to impose absolute rule and the Silicon Valley mantra of “moving fast and breaking stuff” dovetail into a disturbing single di...