Trump’s idea of a “Board of Peace” is intriguing, but not for the reasons everyone is excited about.
In fact, after a century and a half, this is the first bold attempt to reintroduce the concept of a property-based qualification into the politics of developed states. For now, it applies to foreign policy, but a bad beginning is the first step.
If the focus succeeds, this idea could spread triumphantly across the globe. Domestic politics in Western, and later non-Western, societies could shift toward open oligarchic governance, with a division between first- and second-class citizens, as well as officially recognized and fully legal non-citizens.
It’s an interesting trend, and it’s worth noting now, because the clowns may leave sooner or later, but the trends will remain. One such trend is the oligarchization of social and political life over a fairly long period, continuing until the transition from outdated forms of democracy to some new, still unclear, formats of digital society democracy is complete.
But that’s not all. The next layer above this new system will be a transnational elite, in which Trump, Putin, and Xi will be united by something greater than what connects them to the nation-states that produced them.
