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Americans are sleepwalking toward imminent social, economic and political collapse on a scale that is, frankly, difficult to fathom. Not by accident mind you – but by design.
Over the last two decades, I’ve predicted some of the world’s most pivotal events including the 2008 global financial crash and the mainstreaming of the far right over the preceding decade. One of the tools I’ve used to do this is a systems lens partly grounded in my study of the radicalisation processes behind genocidal violence as a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex.
I’ve used these tools to track the birth and evolution of a global fascist movement that is currently fighting a ‘network war’ against the foundations of democracy, as articulated in my forthcoming book Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West from Within.
We now stand at one of the most consequential political inflexion points of the postwar era. And it hinges around the Musk-Trump economic plan, which would set the US up for a shocking convergence of economic calamity and exclusionary violence reminiscent of the worst genocides of the twentieth century. The very fate of the American republic hangs in the balance.
The Plan
The Trump campaign has now made exceedingly clear what it plans to do if it wins. It amounts to a project of national suicide.
The plan itself is not viable. But if executed, it would pave the way for a future of total economic catastrophe, environmental disaster, permanent civil unrest, ethnic cleansing and genocidal violence – not to mention, a global economic crisis which empowers Vladimir Putin.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 – authored by former Trump officials including several that Trump wants to appoint – proposes to dismantle the “administrative state” at scale by firing most federal employees and reengineering the entire federal government.
Trump also wants to forcibly deport as many as 20 million undocumented migrants from the United States in what amounts to the largest ethnic cleansing campaign in American history since the era of colonisation (especially since the real number is likely around half that, implying that many legal migrants would be targeted). He plans to appoint Tom Homan, a Project 2025 author, to lead the mass deportation programme.
This idea has been heartily supported by Trump’s prospective efficiency chief, Elon Musk, who also wants to slash £2 trillion of government spending – knowing that this will inflict “hardship” on Americans but claiming it will generate long-term prosperity. Given that the federal budget for fiscal year 2024 was $6.7 trillion, Musk is proposing to eliminate nearly a third of US Government spending.
Taken together, these three interlinked actions of a Musk-backed Trump administration will not just be ‘costly’. They will drive the United States to rapid societal collapse in a way that conventional analysts have failed to contemplate, let alone comprehend.
Cleansing America?
Creating an apparatus to deport 20 million people from the United States will involve the establishment of an industrial-scale ethnic cleansing apparatus the likes of which have never been seen before, but which must inevitably draw comparisons with Nazi Germany.
It should be remembered that Hitler did not adopt a ‘final solution’ in the form of the mass extermination of Jewish people until 1941 – about eight years after he took power. This was preceded by a programme of mass deportations. The original plan was to deport European Jews to Madagascar or Soviet Asia.
Underlying Hitler’s hopes was a vision of Nazi economic expansionism inspired by America’s rapid in…