We criticize with impunity President Trump's assaults on American society, assaults such as threatening the free speech of late-night comics who ridicule him, or business executives and government officials who disagree with his policies, or his call for federal troops to patrol US cities for "combat training," and many other outrages, but this is only the initial phase of his assaults. The impunity we enjoy now is likely to vanish as Trump, who presents himself as a semi-literate buffoon, is revealed as an effective and highly focused spearhead of a destructive movement against all humanity, a movement much more powerful and dangerous than others originating in post-World War II America, such as the comparatively ineffective campaign against free speech and thought in the early 1950's, termed the "McCarthy era," led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was disgraced and divested of power before he could destroy the country. From indications so far, Trump, though he may be disgraced, will not be divested of power before he achieves what he is after.
What he is after, with worldwide backing from people after the same thing, is ownership and profit derived, first, from demolition of the world's current civilizations, followed by replacement of outdated humanity (us) with humanity 2.0 and revised civilizations. This transformation will happen remarkably fast-with or without Trump - probably in the lifetimes of young people alive today. It will have varied conceivable outcomes, some less nightmarish than others, depending on whether only Trump and his ilk, or other, possibly more benign forces influence it. Its roots come from science: new abilities to speed up evolution by manipulating human genetics, and to make what has been the strikingly powerful human brain secondary to Artificial Intelligence. At the end of the process, we will have no more in common with humanity 2.0 than we have with tribal humanity 300,000 years ago. In fact, we'll have more in common with humanity 300,000 years ago.
