"If [Donald Trump is elected again], it is likely to be the kind of, like, the death blow to what remains of the global order. And he says it openly. Now, again, it should be clear that many of these politicians, they present a false dichotomy, a false binary vision of the world as if you have to choose between patriotism and globalism, between being loyal to your nation and being loyal to some kind of, I don't know, global government or whatever."
-Yuval Noah Harari

However I wish it weren't so, the idea that Trump is ideologically committed to anything above the aggrandizement of his own ego — let alone devoted to what would be the monumental, tedious, and possibly lethal task of dismantling the global technocracy — is folly.

Trump, no matter the pearl-clutching rhetoric from the likes of Harari is not that; the best we can hope is that, given his excellent instinct to #DraintheSwamp, he surrounds himself this go-around with operators like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, et al. who are, by all appearances, more committed to the essential task of the day, so that humanity can at least get a beachhead and start to chip away until more steadfast, unflinching leadership emerges and really goes to town with the cleanup operation.

At best, Trump is the alpha, far from the omega.

Still, this nervous handwringing illustrates how weak Harari and his minions believe their position to be, and should be cause for cautious optimism.

These reptiles know, whether consciously or deep down in their amygdalas, that the world hates them, and increasingly so with the passage of time.