It is also archeofuturism

In January, Trump’s second term will begin, after the former president from 2017-2020 was re-elected by a large majority. It’s also worth noting that, in both cases, his opponent was a female candidate. In a country where aggressive feminism
exists, there is also deep-rooted misogyny, so much so that until now
the only prominent women have been wives of someone (Clinton, Obama).
Losing for him seemed almost impossible.

What Lies Ahead

It’s difficult to predict what kind of Trump will lead the country. The alliances that brought him to the election and the substantial funding that made it possible are not exactly the same as eight years ago, and some of his positions have drastically
changed. For example, Trump has gone from opposing the Cryptodollar to committing to making the United States the “world capital of cryptocurrencies.” And that’s just one example.
The nonsense circulating, like “he’ll dissolve NATO,” “save the world from global war,” “liberate the planet from deep states,” or “bury the woke” is laughable.
But for many, it seems impossible to mature. And besides, maturing isn’t enough; we should also develop the ability to observe and analyze instead of cheering for one foreign power figure over another.
In a few months, we’ll discover the impact of Trump’s financial, industrial, political, and military choices.
We’ll see how the new administration positions itself in relation to China and how deeply it will cut into us Europeans. This scenario is highly likely, and in theory, we could react constructively—but who knows.

The Secrets Behind His Victory

Even now, however, we can analyze the success of the Trump coalition. Let’s avoid laughable remarks like “the people against the elite” (Silicon Valley, OpenAI, and the
USDC—that is, the centers of digital dollar power—supported Trump alongside magnate Elon Musk). Let’s stop mistaking a real estate tycoon like Trump, a former substantial Clinton supporter and funder of Harris’s education, for a Robin Hood. We need to coolly assess the reasons for this success, regardless of our personal opinion of the man (mine is zero after the shameful way he abandoned those who went to die or ended up in jail for him at Capitol Hill after he fired them up).

What stands out is the lesson we’re once again receiving from the world’s dominant power (which our local fools call declining). The winning formula—probably largely Elon Musk’s work—was the synthesis of conservatism and advanced progressivism.
What held the coalition together were, on one hand, reactionary moralistic calls, largely Protestant and Old Testament-inspired, which reached disturbing levels around the Project 2025 agenda, and, on the other hand, almost transhumanist pushes from new technology and finance, regenerating themselves in the non-place and non-time of the network and satellites.

We are shamefully late

In the “declining” (sic!) superpower, they’ve managed to achieve a synthesis between populist rejection, reactionary nonsense, and a drive for technological and existential
transformation. And that is exactly what we’re missing here in Europe, where, fortunately, the value appeals can’t be the repugnant Old Testament rhetoric so prevalent in the United States.
The call to values here must be something quite different, yet it must be connected to—not opposed to—a Promethean ultra-modernist impulse.

The lesson to take from the success of big capital and renewed imperialism, which ride on the coattails of an almost-octogenarian megalomaniac with a toupee, armed with brilliant minds like Musk’s, is that they have succeeded—of course, in the
American way—in achieving that synthesis which Guillaume Faye described as “archeofuturism.” We need to create our own version, as we’re falling drastically behind.

Let’s be clear: not by following in that same direction, not aligning with Trump & co., because admiring what must be technically admired (and I stress technically) in those who dominate you doesn’t mean sympathizing with them. Far from it!