Last week’s dramatic blowout between President Trump and his one-time top collaborator Elon Musk was shocking yet predictable. According to media reports, a cold war had been brewing between Musk’s people and Trump’s appointees and it was bound to break out into the open. It was only a matter of time.

If Bannonism has an ideological debt in its political praxis, it is to Mao Zedong more than to René Guénon or Julius Evola.