The Illusion of a Revolutionary Moment
As the blowback resulting from Trump’s foolhardy attack on Iran begin to directly impact Americans, it’s natural to hope for substantive, positive political change in the U.S. of A.
Polls show Trump hemorrhaging support from all quarters, even among his base.
Polls show the Democratic leadership is deeply unpopular, even with a majority of Democratic voters.
In Maine, polls show sitting Governor Janet Mills is getting crushed by Graham Platner heading into the June 9th primary vote which will determine the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
Platner has already survived a brutal oppo dump that dropped just as Mills (backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer) entered the race last fall, including getting caught with a nazi tattoo on his chest.
Platner’s rhetoric is getting remarkably leftist, even using the old Coal Miner’s Union song “Which Side Are You On” in a campaign ad.
And the average price of gasoline in the US has only just hit $4/gallon.
Just wait until it’s $6/gallon nationally and $10/gallon in California.
And wait until more than 45% of the American public figures out that Trump’s War on Iran is not only “not going well”, but that the empire has already suffered a crushing, permanent blow.
This is all happening in a context of economic collapse that was well underway before Trump’s February 28th attack.
In review, we’ve got:
Looming US military defeat
Looming economic crash
Trump and the MAGA movement bleeding out
A rotten, unpopular Dem leadership class hated by all sides
Seems like a recipe for political turmoil, maybe even serious political change, right?
Right.
Yes. This part is obvious.
The not-so-obvious part is this: who will fill the looming political vacuum?
The answer is simple, if not obvious: the political void will be filled by those who are most prepared to seize the moment, and possibly just seize power.
The MAGA forces that brought Trump to power are the most to blame for his disastrous reign.
The Christian Zionists who latched onto MAGA (and took it over) have made their play and it is ending disastrously in West Asia. They could only have emerged as a force in a completely degenerate United States built on delusion and propaganda.
Their day is done.
So, who else?
The Techbros, as the biggest winners to emerge in the neo-liberal era, intend to conquer and dominate the coming era.
They’ve had the most cash and are used to running rings around incumbent powers.
They’ve planned feverishly for the coming opportunity and have massive resources to back their play.
Except they’ve sunk it all on a bet on Large Language Models aka AI which is seemingly on the verge of imploding disastrously (at least from a financial and economic perspective).
Should we join Whitney Webb and Taylor Lorenz in warning against the Techbros?
How scared should we be of the idiot who wasted $83 billion on “the Metaverse”?
Thought much about being “de-banked“? Might want to consider it before “hitting the streets” or just doing journalism.
Americans think it can’t happen here? Well just avoid Ohio and you’ll be fine….for now.
Originally published at IanWelsh.net on April 3, 2026.