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THE WILHELM DOCTRINE: DISMANTLING THE IMPULSE REGIME

We need to stop flattering the Trump regime with the assumption that they are executing a grand authoritarian design. We are paralysed because we keep looking for the rigid discipline of a fascist rise, when in reality, we are watching the erratic, bombastic, and ultimately self-destructive flailing of a Hollow Regime.

We are trapped in a room, not with a mastermind playing 4D chess, but with a toddler who has found a loaded gun. The regime operates on the “Veruca Salt” algorithm: I want it now. It governs by tantrum, entitlement, and grievance-fueled hissy fits. It demands to dominate every opponent, simultaneously threatening allies, bullying neutrals, and waging war on its own population without any plan for how to sustain the fight.

In doing so, they have committed the classic blunder of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor: Encirclement by Incompetence. They have created a two-front war they cannot sustain, alienating the global economic order while sitting atop a fragile, debt-ridden, and running-on-fumes domestic economy.

Wilhelm’s Germany did not fall because it lacked weapons; it fell because it was blockaded. It ran out of friends, it ran out of credit, and it ran out of food. That is our blueprint. But to execute it, we must first understand the terrifying psychological and biological reality of the man at the helm.

PART I: THE ANATOMY OF A HOLLOW KING

To dismantle the regime, we must strip away the myths of the “Strongman.” Donald Trump is not an ideologue; he is a vessel.

1. The Osmotic Leader (The Louis XV Syndrome)
The “Hidden Truth” is that Trump lacks object permanence in governance. He does not hold positions; he holds conversations. His policy at any given moment is simply the echo of the last person who flattered him. Like the French King who let his mistresses dictate statecraft, Trump is an empty avatar filled by the most aggressive voice in the room. He is easily manipulated because he follows the path of least resistance to praise.

2. The Paper Tiger (The Nicholas II Complex)
For all the “You’re Fired” bluster, Trump suffers from pathological Conflict Aversion. He is physically terrified of face-to-face friction. He is a keyboard warrior who shrinks when the room goes silent. Like the ineffective Czar Nicholas II, he governs by tweet because he cannot govern by eye contact. He grants concessions to dictators not because he is compromised, but because he fears the awkwardness of saying “no” to a terrifying man.

3. The Boredom of Statecraft (The Edward VIII Factor)
He loves the role of King but despises the job of President. He finds the machinery of government incredibly boring. He destroys institutions not always out of malice, but out of neglect. He is a creature of “Executive Time,” unmoored from the reality of logistics.

PART II: THE BIOLOGICAL REALITY (THE SHIFT)

However, the analysis cannot stop at psychology. We must confront the psychiatric emergency: The Biological Decay.

We are witnessing the collision of Malignant Narcissism with Frontotemporal Disinhibition. The frontal lobes of the brain serve as the “brakes”—they provide empathy, judgment, and inhibition. Clinicians have long noted that when these areas atrophy, the brakes fail, but the engine (the narcissism) keeps revving.

1. The Removal of Guardrails
Previously, Trump’s narcissism was checked by a survival instinct. That instinct is physically eroding. He is no longer calculating the risk of his outbursts; he is simply surrendering to the impulse. This explains the shift from Theatre (2016’s performative bullying) to Reality (today’s raw enforcement). A bully posturing is manageable; a bully who has lost the neurological capacity to distinguish between an intrusive thought and an executive order is an existential threat.

2. The Physiology of Shame
We must also acknowledge the physical decline—the incontinence, the slurred speech, the confusion. For a Narcissist, image is god. To lose control of one’s own body is the ultimate humiliation. This internal shame fuels external rage. He is lashing out at the country because he cannot command his own biology. He is a “Sundowning Caesar,” raging at the dying of the light, but he still holds the nuclear codes.

PART III: OPERATION SUPPLY SHOCK

You cannot negotiate with dementia. You cannot deter a man who has lost the capacity for foresight. Therefore, our strategy is not to fight him, but to starve the regime.

The regime relies on resources it does not own: data, credit, legitimacy, and professional services. We must make the cost of those resources ruinous. The question we force on every enabler is: “Is it now more expensive to comply than it is to resist?”

1. The International Front: Data Sovereignty
The regime runs on “services and data” as much as oil and bombs. The EU, UK, and Japan must weaponise their regulatory power. If US tech giants act as the surveillance arm of a hostile regime, allied nations must threaten IP Nullification. They must say: “If you function as a tool of the Trump regime, your patents are void here. Your data transfer agreements are suspended.” We force the boardrooms of Silicon Valley to choose: The Kaiser or the Global Market?

2. The Financial Front: The Bond Vigilantes
The regime is funding its tantrums on a national credit card. We must shatter the illusion that US Treasuries are a “safe asset.” We organise a divestment campaign that treats US debt under this regime as “Toxic Assets.” If pension funds and sovereign wealth funds stop showing up at the bond auctions, yields spike. Borrowing costs skyrocket. The regime’s ability to buy loyalty evaporates. A tyrant with no money is just a crazy old man shouting at clouds.

3. The Internal Front: Weaponised Boredom
Inside the machinery of the state, we advocate for Malicious Compliance. When the regime appoints a “Caligula’s Horse” to run an agency, the civil servants must not quit. They must become sand in the gears. Demand written clarification for every unethical order. Misunderstand instructions. Slow-walk every approval. Weaponise the President’s short attention span. If a fascist plot takes three weeks of boring meetings to execute, he will lose interest.

4. The Social Front: Reputational Nuclear Winter
We strip the cover of “neutrality.” The lawyers, consultants, and accountants facilitating this regime are the “Good Germans” of the 2020s. We must make them pariahs. If a law firm argues for the regime’s abuses, they lose all its corporate clients. We personalise the cost. We make it so that collaboration with the regime is professional suicide.

THE ENDGAME

The Trump regime is a Golden Goose that demands to be fed. It has no strategy for what to do when the food runs out.

They are counting on us to play by the old rules, to protest in designated zones while they loot the treasury. Instead, we are going to cut the power. We will spike their borrowing costs, blockade their data, gum up their agencies, and shun their enablers.

They want a war of attention. We will give them a war of attrition.
They want it all, and they want it now. We ensure they get nothing but the bill.

Dementing, Despotic, Derranged. What To Do When The President’s Brain Is Missing.

We need to have a serious chat about the tidal wave of noise coming from the other side of the pond because it feels overwhelming. It feels like we are watching a grand, terrifying master plan unfold. Steve Bannon’s flood the zone with shit doctrine is running on steroids. However, I want us to pause, take a deep breath, and look closer at what is actually happening. We are not trapped in a room with a chess grandmaster. We are locked in a supermarket aisle with a toddler who has found a loaded gun and is demanding a chocolate bar.

This is the sceaming Toddler approach to governance. It screams “I want it now” with zero regard for the consequences or the cost. The regime threatens allies, bullies neutrals, and wages war on its own population all at once. It is a display of insatiable greed and grievance. Yet this chaotic flailing reveals a massive fragility. They have committed the classic blunder of Kaiser Wilhelm II by encircling themselves with incompetence. They have started a fight on every front while sitting on a crumbling economy and running on borrowed time.

We can find comfort in understanding the human reality here. The man at the centre is not an ideologue. He is a hollow vessel. Think of Louis XV, whose policy was merely an echo of the last person who flattered him. Trump holds conversations, not positions. He absorbs the energy of the most aggressive voice in the room because agreeing is easier than thinking. He is a paper tiger, terrified of genuine face-to-face conflict, governing by digital shouting because the friction of real human contact is too frightening for him. He loves the role of King but finds the actual job of President terribly boring.

Then we have the biology of it all. We must look at this with a clinician’s eye and a bit of kindness for the human condition, even as we acknowledge the danger. We are watching the collision of malignant narcissism with frontotemporal disinhibition. The frontal lobes are the brain’s braking system. They handle empathy and judgment. When those brakes fail, the engine still revs, but the car has no way to stop. The shift we see now is from theater to reality. The survival instinct that once kept the worst impulses in check is eroding. He is lashing out because he is losing control of his own narrative and perhaps even his own biology. It is the rage of a “Sundowning Caesar.”

So, how do we handle a regime that runs on impulse and borrowed credit? We do not fight the noise. We starve the beast.

We apply a strategy of “Supply Shock.” This regime relies on resources it does not own. It needs data, credit, legitimacy, and professional services to function. We simply make those things too expensive to maintain.

First, we look at the data. The regime runs on digital services. Our friends in the EU and the UK can turn off the tap. We say that if US tech giants want to act as the surveillance arm of a hostile state, their patent protections are void here. We force the shareholders to choose between the regime and the global market.

Next, we look at the money. The tantrums are funded by a national credit card. We need to shatter the illusion that this debt is safe. If pension funds and global investors view these bonds as toxic assets issued by an unstable government, borrowing costs will skyrocket. A tyrant with no money is effectively silenced.

Then we have the internal machinery. We call for a creative kind of friction. We encourage the civil servants and the workers to stay in the room and become the sand in the gears. We use malicious compliance. We demand written clarification for every order that is unclear. We slow-walk the paperwork. We weaponise the boredom. If a dangerous plan takes three weeks of tedious meetings to execute, this President will lose interest and move on to the next shiny object.

Finally, we address the enablers. We strip away the comfort of neutrality. The lawyers and consultants helping this operate need to feel the social cost. We make it clear that facilitating this regime is professional suicide. We decline their dinner invitations. We close our wallets to their firms.

The Trump regime is a Golden Goose demanding endless attention and resources. It has no strategy for when the larder is empty. They are counting on us to play by the old rules. Instead, we are going to cut the power, spike the costs, and block the data. They want everything, and they want it immediately.

We are going to ensure they get nothing but the bill, and you won’t believe the total…

New Look Fascism: Hiding In Plain Sight

We all know the old footage. The stark, monochrome marches, the rigid salutes, the frenzied crowds. It’s the ghost that haunts our modern world, and we’ve convinced ourselves we’d spot its return a mile off. We tell ourselves, “Never again,” with a quiet confidence that comes from knowing the enemy’s uniform. But what if the uniform has changed? What if the new fascism isn’t wearing jackboots, but a tailored suit, a tech bro’s hoodie, or the ironic grin of a meme?

That’s the unsettling truth we have to face. The aesthetics of authoritarianism have undergone a quiet but total redesign for the 21st century. It’s a friendlier, more insidious form that creeps in not with the bang of a dictator’s fist on a podium, but with the soft, persuasive glow of a smartphone screen. It’s less about stormtroopers and more about Silicon Valley’s vision of a tech-utopia, less about blood-and-soil rallies and more about the curated nostalgia of a “lost” masculinity. To my own mind, the most dangerous trick it’s pulled is making the whole thing feel like one big, bad taste joke.

Take a look around. The Italian Futurist Artists glorified war and speed; today’s tech oligarchs preach a gospel of progress, selling us a shiny, minimalist future where their corporations, not nations, are in charge. It’s a vision of power wrapped in the cool, unobjectionable aesthetics of a corporate keynote. And when that feels too cold, it offers Solar Punk—a beautiful, green-washed dream of harmony that can so easily be twisted to justify eco-fascist ideas of population control and exclusion. It’s utopia as a sales pitch, and it’s dangerously persuasive.

But the real shift, the one that leaves many of us feeling like we’re shouting into a void, is the weaponisation of irony. The symbols of hate have been replaced by cartoon frogs and anime girls. The dehumanising rhetoric is hidden behind layers of “just banter, mate.” It’s a shield of plausible deniability that allows cruel ideologies to spread through gaming chats and podcast bro culture, targeting young men who feel adrift. When you try to point out the nastiness lurking beneath the surface, you’re instantly labelled a humourless “snowflake.” It’s a brilliant, frustrating tactic: they make the world meaningless, so that caring about anything at all becomes a sign of weakness.

And now, we have AI. This, to me, feels like the final stage of this aesthetic hollowing-out. We’re being flooded with AI-generated slop—politicised art created without a shred of human conviction or creativity. It’s the ultimate tool for aestheticising politics, turning historical atrocities and genocidal fantasies into just another piece of content, stripped of all weight and horror. When everything can be faked and every image is just empty aesthetics, how do we hold on to truth?

So, how do we push back against something that’s designed to be slippery, ironic, and everywhere? I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I believe it starts with a kind of stubborn, clear-eyed authenticity.

First, we have to get better at reading the aesthetics. We need a new kind of literacy that looks past the what and questions the how. Why does that political ad look like a video game trailer? Why is that leader communicating entirely in memes? We have to name the tactics when we see them, pulling back the curtain on the irony and the aesthetic whitewashing.

More importantly, we have to offer a better, truer story. You can’t fight a sense of belonging built on hatred with a list of policy points. We need to build real, tangible communities—through unions, local projects, mutual aid—that give people a genuine stake and a connection that no online cult can match. And we need to champion art and narratives that are unafraid of complexity and rich with empathy, that offer a vision of a future worth fighting for, one that includes everyone.

Ultimately, it comes down to a simple, profound choice: we have to insist on meaning. In a world that’s being deliberately drained of it, we must value truth over fiction, complexity over simplistic lies, and the inherent dignity of every person over the fascist’s cruel hierarchy of worth.

It’s not about winning an online argument or a single election. It’s a long, persistent effort to build a world where people feel secure and respected enough to see the new fascism for what it is: a seductive, well-designed package with nothing but emptiness inside. And that requires us to be, above all else, true to ourselves.

The Keep Sane in Troubled Times Playbook
1. Develop Critical Aesthetic Literacy
The first step is to recognise the weaponisation of aesthetics. This means moving beyond analysing what is said to how it is presented.

  • Teach Media Literacy 2.0: Go beyond identifying fake news. Teach people to deconstruct visual rhetoric: Why does a political ad use a specific type of animation? Why does a leader’s social media feed look like a meme page? What emotions is a corporate “utopian” video trying to evoke, and what material realities does it hide?
  • Name the Tactics: Publicly label the strategies when you see them. Point out the irony-poisoning, the co-option of subcultures, the use of AI slop to flood the zone. By making the mechanics visible, you rob them of their power.

2. Rebuild Trust through Material Politics and Local Organising
Fascism feeds on alienation, despair, and the collapse of trust in institutions. The most powerful antidote is to demonstrate that collective, democratic action can improve people’s lives.

  • Focus on Material Conditions: Shift the conversation from the abstract culture war to concrete, material issues: affordable housing, healthcare, wages, unionisation, climate resilience. Fascism offers scapegoats; a real alternative must offer solutions that address the root causes of anxiety.
  • Strengthen Local Community: Support and participate in local unions, tenants’ associations, mutual aid networks, and community gardens. These organisations build real-world solidarity, trust, and collective power that is immune to online manipulation. They provide a sense of belonging that is not based on hatred of an “other”.

3. Create Competing, Hopeful Narratives and Aesthetics
You cannot defeat a powerful aesthetic with a dry policy paper. The left and centre must relearn the art of storytelling and vision-building.

  • Articulate a Positive, Inclusive Future: Solar Punk, as mentioned, has positive potential. We need compelling, artistically rendered visions of a future that is both technologically advanced and socially just, ecologically sustainable, and inclusive. This vision must be attractive enough to compete with the nostalgic fantasies of the far right.
  • Support Art and Culture that Builds Empathy: Fund, celebrate, and amplify art, films, music, and games that celebrate complexity, diversity, and human dignity. Counter the dehumanising caricatures with rich, humanising stories.

4. Strategic, Unified Opposition and Deplatforming
While open debate is ideal, the video correctly shows that these movements often argue in bad faith, using debate as a platform to spread conspiracies.

  • Do Not Normalise: Avoid treating fascist ideology as a legitimate point of view in political discourse. The goal is not to “debate” whether some people are inferior, but to isolate and discredit those ideas. Media outlets have a responsibility not to platform figures who traffic in replacement theory or Holocaust denial for “balance”.
  • Strengthen Institutional Guardrails: Defend and strengthen independent journalism, an independent judiciary, free and fair elections, and the rule of law. Support projects that document hate speech and extremist networks. This is the unsexy, bureaucratic work that is essential for democracy’s survival.

5. Personal Responsibility and Courage

  • Interrupt Casual Bigotry: Do not let racist, homophobic, or antisemitic “jokes” slide in personal conversations. A calm, firm response like, “I don’t find that funny,” or “Why do you say that?” can disrupt the normalisation process.
  • Support Victims: Stand in solidarity with those targeted by hate. If you see someone being harassed, be a proactive bystander. This demonstrates that the community will not tolerate intimidation.
  • Protect Your Mental Space: The constant barrage of corrosive content is designed to exhaust and demoralise. It is essential to log off, engage in real-world communities, and protect your capacity for empathy and hope. You cannot fight a long-term battle while burned out.

The Core Challenge: Rejecting Meaninglessness
The video concludes that the ultimate goal of this aestheticisation is to make everything meaningless. Therefore, the most profound act of resistance is to insist on meaning.

This means:

  • Valuing Truth: Upholding the distinction between fact and fiction.
  • Valuing Complexity: Rejecting simplistic, us-vs-them narratives in favour of nuanced understanding.
  • Valuing Human Dignity: Constantly affirming the inherent and equal worth of every person, against the hierarchy of worth that fascism promotes.

Countering this new fascism is not about winning a single election or a viral online battle. It is a long-term, cultural, and political project to rebuild a society where people feel secure, respected, and hopeful enough to reject the seductive but deadly lies of fascism in any aesthetic guise.

Trump And Musk A Modern Punch And Judy Show Engineered To Distract

It is Punch and Judy on the world stage, a performance designed to distract, confuse, and entertain. We get so caught up in the political drama that we miss what is happening behind the curtain. The political theorist Noam Chomsky has warned of this for decades, calling it the “illusion of debate”, an enchanting spectacle where we are encouraged to argue, heckle, and voice an outraged opinion, but only about things that don’t truly matter.

Chomsky put it bluntly: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow lively debate within that spectrum.” We are led into a room and told we can rearrange the furniture as much as we like, but we must never think to knock down the walls. This keeps us feeling engaged while the fundamental systems that shape our lives remain unchallenged.

The high-profile feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a perfect modern case study. The rolling news coverage presents a spectacular public blow-up, with Trump threatening to cut Musk’s multi-billion-dollar government contracts and Musk firing back with personal insults. It feels dramatic and significant.

But while we are glued to our screens, watching the meme wars unfold on social media, we miss the real story: both men are beneficiaries and proponents of the same system. Their public theatre distracts from their shared interest in maintaining corporate power. Trump’s landmark 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Meanwhile, Musk’s companies, such as SpaceX and Tesla, have raked billions from government contracts and subsidies, benefiting from policies that were advanced during the Trump administration and beyond. Despite the public spats, their economic interests align in opposing higher taxes on the wealthy and promoting deregulation.

This is the illusion of debate in action. While the media profits from the drama, critical policy decisions are made in the shadows. Investigations into corporate malpractice are quietly halted, labour laws are weakened, and environmental regulations are rolled back. The spectacle keeps the public divided and misinformed, undermining democratic accountability and preventing any unified challenge to a status quo that overwhelmingly favours elite interests.

This tactic is not new. From the Reagan-era tax cuts sold as “trickle-down economics” to the Clinton-era financial deregulation that paved the way for the 2008 crash, political theatre has long been used to divert public attention while corporate agendas advance.

So, what can we do? The first step is to recognise the performance for what it is. We must learn to ask better questions: not “Whose side are you on?” but “Who benefits from this entire system?“

Secondly, we must actively seek out diverse sources of information, particularly independent journalism that is not beholden to corporate advertisers or political factions. This allows us to see the whole picture, not just the carefully framed sliver presented to us.

Finally, we need to engage with politics more meaningfully. This means focusing on policy, not personality. It means getting involved locally, where our voices have a tangible impact. History shows that it is possible when people come together to demand systemic change. Breaking the spell of the illusion is not just an act of intellectual curiosity but a vital act of democratic self-defence.

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Table: Summary of Hidden Agendas and Mechanisms:

Hidden AgendaDescriptionMechanism
Maintaining Corporate ControlEnsure corporate-friendly policies are implemented without opposition.Divert attention from lobbying and policy changes.
Protecting Elite InterestsProtect wealth and power of elites, including billionaires.Keep public divided and entertained, preventing unified action.
Manipulating Public PerceptionShape opinion in favor of status quo or corporate agendas.Frame issues as personal conflicts, influencing priorities.
Undermining Democratic AccountabilityReduce accountability of officials and corporate leaders.Distract from transparency demands, focusing on spectacle.
Generating Media ProfitsIncrease viewership and revenue for media companies.Amplify sensational stories for higher ratings and engagement.

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