Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor say a "doomsday" mindset now unites the far right's most powerful factions under Trump, which is bad for ordinary people but shows growing cracks that opponents could exploit.

• Three groups have joined forces: religious end-times believers, tech billionaires chasing AI superintelligence, and nationalists who treat the country itself as a bunker.
• Trump serves all three by shrugging off AI risks and killing regulation, giving big tech the "wild west" it wanted while pushing Europe and Canada to back off their own rules.
• Palantir's Alex Karp openly says AI firms wiping out jobs will need surveillance and the military to control the people left behind, and that "bad times" are good for his business.
• The Iran war is splitting Trump's base and driven partly by figures who see it as biblical prophecy, while backlash against ICE raids in Minneapolis and against data centers is growing on the right too.
• Steve Bannon is trying to steer the anti-AI, anti-data-center movement toward a cold war with China, which Klein and Taylor see as a trap for any left-right alliance.

Outlook: They expect the coalition to keep fracturing, but warn the opening will go to more extreme forces unless the left offers a real affordability and jobs agenda instead of taking big tech money.