Personally, I don't know how much more greatness I can handle.

I mean, you got the Salvadoran gulag thing, the crackdown on free speech thing, the threats to suspend constitutional rights because of the latest "state of emergency" (i.e., the "invasion" of America by squads of "Tren de Aragua assassins" that Biden conspired with Maduro to unleash on God-fearing heterosexual white families), the luxury resort and theme park Trump wants to build on the ruins of Gaza once Israel gets done liquidating it, the Qatari "Trump Force One" jet, the Saudi weapons-deal money, the Silicon-Valley transhumanist guys, the neo-fascist "remigration" faction, the Musk Cult, and…well, I'm sure I'm leaving something out, but who can keep track of all this greatness?

But, seriously, I don't know how much more great again America can be made at this point, unless they decide to go the whole hog and declare Trump "emperor." Which, I wouldn't put that past them … you know, just to "own the libs."

OK, seriously seriously now, regarding the "emperor" thing, Matt Taibbi, in his latest column, Ode to Scum, compared Trump to Napoleon, and I thought that was a pretty good analogy.

Through insults to Popes and Kings he united every aristocratic faction in Europe to the point where after Waterloo, he was removed to an island in the middle of the ocean so he could no longer "disturb the peace of the world." That was the world goal for Trump, whose similar crime was called "undermining the rules-based international order."

I've written tons of essays about the global-capitalist empire's reaction to the rise of Trump and the "populist" rebellion that started in 2016, many of which are published in two of my books, Trumpocalypse and The War on Populism, so you'll understand if I don't opine at length on the rules-based international order and all that again here.

The thing is, it isn't 2016, or 2018, or even 2020 or 2022 anymore.

A lot has happened since the days when Trump was under attack as both a "Russian agent" and "literally Hitler." Twitter has been bought and successfully whitewashed and rebranded as "free-speech X" by Elon Musk—the Military-Industrial-Complex-embedded transhumanist multi-billionaire who is literally a key member of the US government—and is now the meticulously visibility-filtered mouthpiece for MAGA and the international "populist" movement. It is an official propaganda organ more sophisticated and insidious than anything Orwell could have imagined.