The monster has monstrous ideas. The Big Boss is not a madman. Who feeds his boastful ego? Who breathes airs of greatness and superiority into him? Where does he get the ideological fuel that guides his immense power? Who are, in short, his intellectual gurus? In the essay The Dark Enlightenment(Edicions 62, translated by Mireia Alegre), the French political scientist Arnaud Miranda has dived into the bowels of the neo-reactionary thought that feeds the insatiable beast. Donald Trump's ultra-presidentialist policy is a frenetic combination of techno-futurism, national-populism and ultra-reaction. Those who write his script have first and last names, and are supported by billionaires of the tech. Let's get to know this barbaric galaxy.