This guy reminds me of another breed of oldschool Usenet creature, the crackpot physicist. These individuals are very smart, and often have advanced degrees, but for some reason have these crazy ideas that almost seem like their brains have gone a bit off the rails. The content is typically very verbose, hiding the weaknesses in the volume, and also seems very alluring and can attract a bit of a following.

And then just how a lot of brilliant physicists have switched over to software because it pays a lot better, seems like this guy switched to political crackpottery for the audience. :-)

That is not what what "glib" means. The comment is still a shallow, glib dismisal and doesn't add anything to the conversation.

I think it will happen, but not under Trump. We've normalized certain aspects of authoritarianism now: the unitary executive, the enforcement of political ideology and removal of political dissidents, and once the US gets rid of birthright citizenship Constitutional rights become entirely arbitrary, and anyone can be sent to the camps. We've normalized political violence after Jan. 20th. Palantir will have an extensive database created from all of DOGE's data. A third of the country wants it, and they live where the votes matter most. All of the pieces will be in place.

It just requires a competent leader and a movement based on ideology, not grift. Once Trump is out of the way the true believers will take over. Thanks to the weakening of the Federal government it will happen at the grassroots level with state governments in partnership with tech companies consolidating a power base, then "retaking" Washington. If there happens to be a Democratic administration to pin some anti-leftist moral panic or two on, so much the better.

I agree with you, yeah. Burned and buried would be his final form then, is what I was getting at. Sorry for not communicating that clearly.

Indeed, we'll have one last neoliberal half-competent democratic leadership that will undo ~10% of the damage Trump did, and then we'll have the true final boss. The current fascist was ok, but the next fascist will be the reaaal deal.

Much suffering is to be found in the future. I find solace in the fact that all fascist states eventually crumble under the weight of their irrationality and incompetence.

No, his premises were just wrong. He's just blaming others rather than question the foundations of his belief system when they failed to be predictive. He's as simple to analyze as the people he looks down on.

Nothing is worse for a dilettantish ideologue than to have their ideas put into practice and have to face reality with scrutiny.