Trump's takeover is America's tall ships moment

For hundreds of years, a myth has persisted about the first time tall ships landed in the Americas. Quoting from What the Bleep do we know?, a paradigm-shifting take on human perception, native people ignored the huge ships because “their highly filtered perceptions couldn't register what was happening, and they literally failed to see them.” When Captain Cook/Columbus/Magellan sent their men ashore in smaller longboats loaded with guns, the natives registered what they saw and began their futile resistance. This is America’s tall ships moment Experiencing Trump/Musk’s takeover, an oligarchs’ revolution mapped out in Project 2025 that was kept under wraps for decades, it seems we’re the natives now. At first, I thought national media’s perfidy was a reflection of naivete, of the same sort German society experienced in the 1930s, despite Trump dropping clear Nazi-adjacent warnings— controlling the media, arresting critics, dispatching jackboots in the night. As Manisha Sinha wrote in The Oligarchs’ Revenge, even though slavery and Jim Crow were eventually defeated, their “language of oligarchy,” promoted through an appeal to racism, has been wholly “adopted by the modern Republican Party.” Corporate greed as governance is here As the Tesla protests suggest, the extent of Trump/Musk’s privatization efforts are starting to appear; the ships are becoming visible on the horizon.