For years, a lot of people on the right and even some liberals bought into this idea that Trump was going to come in and dismantle the deep state. But that’s a complete fantasy, and investigative reporters like Whitney Webb have been showing how it’s actually the opposite.

The real story is that Trump is totally aligned with some of the most authoritarian figures in Silicon Valley, like Peter Thiel. They want a world where every single thing we do is tracked and monitored. They have zero interest in getting rid of the surveillance apparatus, the militarized police, or the massive prison system.

What they’re actually doing is a slow-motion coup. They’re doing purges in the civil service, law enforcement, and the military to make sure that every person left in charge is loyal only to Trump. All the checks and balances are being systematically taken apart, and this new power will be brutally enforced on the streets by agencies like ICE, backed up by high-tech surveillance tools that Silicon Valley is building.

To understand how this happened, you have to look back to Iran-Contra and a guy named John Poindexter. He’s the original architect of modern mass surveillance. After 9/11, he created a DARPA program called Total Information Awareness, which was designed to gather personal data to try and predict crimes before they happened. People were rightly horrified, and there was a huge public backlash.

So Thiel, with help from neocons, came up with a plan that they would just privatize the whole TIA system. They figured if it was a private company doing it, the public wouldn’t care as much. And they were right. Palantir was born, and its early funding came from Thiel himself and the CIA’s own venture capital firm. For years, the CIA was its only client.

So what does Palantir do now? That original pre-crime idea has expanded way beyond terrorism. They now control health data at places like the CDC, they work with Wall Street banks, and they’re a major contractor for every US intelligence agency, including ICE. Their predictive policing tech is notoriously bad, often worse than a coin flip, and it’s disproportionately used in poor and minority neighborhoods, basically creating a pipeline to prison.

The people behind this are the so-called PayPal Mafia, which isn’t just Thiel and Elon Musk. It includes guys like JD Vance, whose whole political career is funded by Thiel, and David Sacks, who is now the AI and Crypto czar in the White House. These guys are followers of Curtis Yarvin, who literally argues for privatizing the government and installing a CEO as a dictator.

Their vision is coming together fast. Thiel-backed companies like Anduril are building autonomous weapons and a smart wall on the border made of surveillance drones that could easily be made lethal. This tech can be extended deep into the US itself. The line between corporate power and government power has almost completely vanished. These same Silicon Valley titans are also huge military contractors like SpaceX works with Space Force, and Oracle handling data for the national security state.

And now they’re consolidating the media too, with people like Larry Ellison taking over major networks and Musk owning X. This whole system is also deeply tied to Israel, where tech startups founded by intelligence veterans are used as fronts for operations that used to be done by spies. Some of these companies now even control 911 call systems in the US.

They are creating a new form of digital fascism where anyone who opposes the government can be labeled a terrorist. The tools built for foreign wars are now being turned on on the domestic population.