The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the stateHitler dreamed of a 1,000-year Reich; Putin is said to have baroque dreams of territorial conquest meant to restore a dubiously historical empire he calls “Greater Russia”. Sure, there are people around Donald Trump who imagine using his rise to power to establish some sort of grand, civilizational project: there are the white nationalists who dream of a country purged of those they deem racially impure; there are the Christian nationalists who imagine a future theocracy in which women wear long braids and skirts, and don’t vote; there are the techno-reactionaries who imagine a future of interplanetary colonies, techno-assisted eugenics, and polygamous harems.But Trump himself is conspicuously small in his dreams: his are comparatively little ambitions, not extending far beyond the reach of his ego and his senses.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/15/donald-trump-spectacle-violence-dysfunctional-roman-emperor-ufc-white-house
