15 Tammuz 5786
Winds of change are blowing, not just in America and not just in Europe, but across the globe. This change is being fueled by the process of redemption which is going to bring humanity back under the rule of one sovereign - the anointed agent of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
The United States is widely recognized as the world's oldest continuous modern democracy. Its democratic tradition began with the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, establishing a system of representative government that has functioned without interruption for over two centuries. (Gemini)
Democratic rule by the people is of recent origin and is not as widespread as people living in them seem to think.
...only about 8% to 12% of the global population lives in a "full" or "liberal" democracy.
...Liberal democracies continue to be the rarest form of government in the world, with numbers falling back to 2009 levels – only 29 in total. (Source)
Furthermore, recent attempts to spread democracy throughout the world have largely failed.
Democracy is under pressure. As authoritarianism tightens its grip, democracies are struggling to maintain public confidence, putting their future at risk. (Source)
In just four days' time, Americans will be celebrating 250 years of their democratic legacy, but even the United States is not immune to this pressure.
The United States received special attention in the 2025 V-Dem report, which identified the country as undergoing the ”fastest evolving episode of autocratization the USA has been through in modern history”. Although the data and metrics used for the report only extend through the end of 2024, researchers still included alarming findings regarding the U.S. following the election of Donald Trump, who is testing the limits of executive power at an “unprecedented scale”.
The U.S. president has employed several typical autocratic tactics such as expanding executive authority, weakening the power of Congress, launching attacks on independent institutions, undermining oversight bodies and the media, and purging and dismantling state institutions.
Following the report’s publication, US News interviewed Staffan Lindberg, an author and editor of the report, founding director of the V-Dem Institute, and a professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. According to Lindberg, the United States will “definitely” be downgraded and reclassified in next year’s assessment. “At the pace at which it is happening”, he noted , “I would say that before the end of the summer, you no longer qualify as a democracy in the United States”, adding that “it would mean that the rule of law, the constraints of the executive, critically, that they would be gone to such an extent that we can no longer talk about even a constitutional republic.” (
Source)
So, what is the alternative?
Leading Non-Democratic Forms of Government
Electoral Autocracies: This is currently the most widespread type of authoritarianism globally. While they maintain the facade of a democracy with institutions like parliaments and polling places, the ruling party systematically manipulates the electoral process and media to ensure they remain in power.
Single-Party States: Widely recognized as one of the most durable forms of autocracy. In this system, one political party completely monopolizes the state, and all opposition is legally suppressed. A prominent contemporary example is the People's Republic of China, which is governed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Absolute Monarchies: A system where a single monarch holds unconstrained supreme power. This hereditary rule is highly prominent in the Middle East, with examples including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. (Gemini)
Interestingly, there are 43 sovereign states in the world with a monarch serving as the head of state. Because multiple nations share the same ruler, these 43 countries are ruled by a total of 28 distinct monarchs. (Wikipedia)
Even more interesting is a growing movement in the United States with monarchist goals...
The 250th anniversary of America’s liberation from a king kicked off with a campaign-style rally on the National Mall by President Donald Trump, whose face already stares down from banners fluttering from federal buildings across the nation’s capital.
The images illustrate how the Republican president has dominated daily life since returning to power and, to some, evoke more the style of a monarch than the leader of the world’s oldest democracy. But it’s also how he has wielded that power that has led to comparisons of an imperial reign.
Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has nominated one of his personal lawyers to serve as attorney general, ordered the Department of Justice to pursue his political enemies, deployed the U.S. Marines to the nation’s second largest city and leveraged the presidency to enrich himself and his family.
He has demanded that comedians who mock him be fired, has slapped his name on the Kennedy Center, has pushed to seize control of elections, has filed lawsuits against news organizations whose coverage he disliked and has sued his own government seeking $10 billion in taxpayer money.
...When King Charles III visited Trump this year, the official White House X account posted an image of the two men with the caption “TWO KINGS.” At the start of his second term, Trump declared he had ended a New York City transportation program and posted: “LONG LIVE THE KING.” The posts also seemed to indicate a willingness to leverage the label and the reaction it provokes in his critics.
It is no coincidence that the main resistance movement in Trump’s second term adopted the slogan “No Kings.” Ezra Levin of Indivisible said activists were thinking ahead to 2026 and the America 250 celebration when they chose the label.
“It looks like the same kind of tyranny we were rebelling against 250 years ago,....
It might sound like "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to many, but it's not just in America...
...there are monarchist movements in most European countries, even those that did not exist with their current borders or names when there were thrones to sit on. Sometimes these movements are dangerous, as the Reichsburger movement in Germany, which sought to overthrow the government several years ago, demonstrates. Others are incredibly niche. The Danubian Restoration Movement (DRM), for example, is a youth-led organization of students in the United States, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, and Austria that seeks to resurrect the Austro-Hungarian empire by organizing Habsburg descendants. They might not march through Paris, but they do organize on Discord, a gaming and messaging board app, on Facebook and Reddit, and advertise on YouTube via “The Monarchist Channel.”
And now these European movements, which seek to resurrect a glorious past over the tumultuous present, have been joined by a growing number of American monarchists. These groups are seeking to install a kingly (or Caesar-like) ruler in the Land of the Free. Though the historical contrast with Europe is striking, American monarchists have also found a good number of historical, legal, and political precedents to work with. That, combined with anarcho-capitalist visions of a decentralized, federalist state, gives the monarchist movement in the United States a distinctly—and terrifying—American character all of its own.
...Curtis Yarvin and Neoreaction
No one has a better claim to having kick-started the American wing of modern monarchism than tech-advocate and far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin (sometimes better known by his old pen name, Mencius Moldbug). Yarvin, who has catapulted into mainstream political discussion over the last 10 years, started out as a blog writer in the early 2000s by discussing the downsides of modern culture, rejecting democracy in favor of monarchism, and advocating for the necessity of embracing corporatization and technological revolution as a means of fixing global politics. The impact of his ideas on the New Right is hard to overstate. Most notably, the concept of “the Cathedral,” which he argues is the amalgamation of mainstream liberal news media, universities, politics, and national institutions, has become a powerful rhetorical construct within the illiberal right’s lexicon. “The Cathedral” has been echoed by now powerful Silicon Valley tech giants like Peter Thiel, and politicians like Vice President J.D. Vance, who have cited Yarvin as an influence, and are currently working hard to dismantle the ephemeral “deep state” that “the Cathedral” embodies.
His early writings, which were picked up by and expanded on by far-right figures like accelerationist Nick Land, became the foundation of the “Dark Enlightenment” philosophy that has swept its way across the intellectual milieu of Western right-leaning political thought. The advancing wave of “postliberal” thinkers, who espouse a variety of illiberal ideals, both draw on and influence the broad umbrella of “Dark Enlightenment” thought that people like Yarvin helped craft. Patrick Deneen, a prominent postliberal thinker, has recently articulated a vision for how a techno-populist (or DOGE-MAGA) alliance might work.
It goes on. I highly recommend reading the article in its entirety here: Modern Monarchists and the Roots of American Illiberalism.
Further to the above...
The Dark Enlightenment is an anti-democratic political philosophy that emerged in the early 2010s. It is also known as the Neoreactionary Movement (or NRx).
Core Ideology
Anti-Democracy: It completely rejects democracy, viewing it as an unstable, inefficient system that leads to societal decay.
Pro-Autocracy: It advocates for a return to authoritarianism, traditional absolute monarchies, or corporate-run city-states.The "Cathedral": It claims media, academia, and government form a unified liberal entity that enforces political correctness and controls public thought.
Techno-Absolutism: It proposes that society should be run like a technology company, with a CEO-like dictator or "sovereign" maximizing efficiency.
Anti-Egalitarianism: It rejects the idea of human equality, instead embracing strict social hierarchies and biological determinism.
Not exactly the pattern presented by the prophets and kings of ancient Israel, nor the one we are expecting from our righteous Mashiach, but it's a step in that direction and demonstrates how these winds of change really are blowing in this day and time and that they are bringing with them the restored Kingdom of God with its Davidic ruler. The world is being prepared and it won't be in vain.
