Steve Bannon he is probably the brightest man among those who now populate Trump’s diverse court. Theorist and practitioner of an ideological neo-right, he has spent unflattering words towards the great sponsor of the new president, who in fact represents the opposite of what the ideology of the alt-right is propagating.
Just like all his colleagues in the infamous Silicon Valley, now the true pivot of the pseudo-free world, Musk has globalism as the raison d’être of his business, the only thing that really matters, and therefore the two worlds could only come into conflict.
What if Bannon was right? How can globalism and tariffs coexist? The Indian engineers who work at Tesla and are generally better than Americans come as immigrants to take away the jobs of their US colleagues. As well as factory workers in China.
What will prevail in the new Trump administration, the spirit with which it was born, which it is no longer the populism of the origins but a genuine desire developed in the minds of Americans to save the homeland from external influences, or the interests of its pygmalions? We are not witnessing the birth of a techno-right as has been written because tech has little to do with the right or the left. Tech lives by itself and in itself. At most it can be bent to the will of one power or another.
It really is perhaps a return of public power over private power in an ideological, preponderant and, perhaps, violent way.
The end of the century of technological acceleration, or at least its failure. A fracture in history that never ended as Fukuyama made a mistake. Exactly what the alt-right Bannonians would like. Or at least the most erudite of them (very few indeed). We’ll see.