Donald Trump’s Reactionary Futurism

By: Maya Vinokour

Like its twentieth-century predecessors, today’s far right longs for the purported glories of the ancient world, all while fetishizing modern technology.

Illustration by Brandon Celi.

Weeks into his second presidential term, Donald Trump is moving ahead with what his former confidant Steve Bannon called “deconstructing the administrative state.” Led by Elon Musk’s advisory task force on government efficiency, this effort has already produced a wave of headlines and controversies. Far from preserving the status quo, as would befit a conservative […]

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Weeks into his second presidential term, Donald Trump is moving ahead with what his former confidant Steve Bannon called “deconstructing the administrative state.” Led by Elon Musk’s advisory task force on government efficiency, this effort has already produced a wave of headlines and controversies. Far from preserving the status quo, as would befit a conservative […]

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Weeks into his second presidential term, Donald Trump is moving ahead with what his former confidant Steve Bannon called “deconstructing the administrative state.” Led by Elon Musk’s advisory task force on government efficiency, this effort has already produced a wave of headlines and controversies. Far from preserving the status quo, as would befit a conservative […]

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Weeks into his second presidential term, Donald Trump is moving ahead with what his former confidant Steve Bannon called “deconstructing the administrative state.” Led by Elon Musk’s advisory task force on government efficiency, this effort has already produced a wave of headlines and controversies. Far from preserving the status quo, as would befit a conservative […]