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End Times Fascism: Klein and Taylor on the Far Right

Book: End Times Fascism argues part of the far right now welcomes catastrophe, shown in Trump's Davos "New Gaza" plan

Summary

Klein and Taylor's "End Times Fascism" argues part of the far right has stopped denying climate, nuclear and AI catastrophe and now embraces it, framing fascism as a recurring feature of capitalism in crisis rather than a one-off.

What it argues

  1. "New Gaza" unveiled at DavosPolitics

    Kushner and Witkoff unveiled AI-generated images of a Gaza resort city, launching Trump's Board of Peace, Davos, January 2026, promising full employment, seventy-five medical facilities and two hundred schools. Trump called the site "a beautiful piece of property"; Kushner urged planning for "catastrophic success." Trump said the model, starting in Gaza, could extend to Ukraine, Venezuela or Cuba. Reconstruction was presented as a luxury development and template, not a plan built for Gaza's residents.

  2. Shared playbook, fracturing alliancePolitics

    The book traces tactics tested by Bukele's prison state, Milei's economy, Putin's control of the press, and Israel's occupation-era ethnostate. It adds Orbán's eroded institutions (he has since been deposed), Meloni's anti-immigrant politics, Bolsonaro's use of trans identity, and Modi's stripping of Muslim citizenship. Their Trump-era alliance is fracturing, which the book attributes to influencer-era competition for audience that breeds infighting. Different states are pilot sites for pieces of the same emergent far-right agenda, the book argues.

  3. Board of Peace sold as clubEconomics

    Memberships were offered at $1 billion "in cash," with no time limit. Trump likened it to Mar-a-Lago, calling it the "most prestigious" club in the world. Peace-making is framed as a paid, exclusive membership rather than a public process.

  4. Profiting from collapse, offering no stabilityEconomics

    Palantir's Alex Karp calls his company "built for bad times," saying bad times mean strong finances. In 2016 Jeffrey Epstein told Peter Thiel collapse was more profitable than finding "the next bargain"; Bannon later drew on that outlook. Unlike twentieth-century fascism, which delivered land, jobs and public works, today's far right offers only spectacle, the book says. Key far-right-aligned financiers treat breakdown itself as the business opportunity, not a problem to fix.

  5. ICC warrants bar Board membersLaw & rulings

    Netanyahu and Putin, both named to the Board of Peace, could not attend its Davos launch due to outstanding ICC arrest warrants. Netanyahu's warrant is for alleged crimes against humanity, per the book. Two named members of a peace body face international war-crimes warrants.

  6. Gaza occupation called illegalLaw & rulings

    The planned "New Gaza" neighborhood requires biometric and body scans, with activity tracked and stored in nearby data centers, per leaked US military documents. The book calls the plan the next logical consequence of Israel's military occupation of Gaza, not a break from it. The plan extends surveillance and occupation rather than ending it, the book argues.

  7. Conditions on the ground in GazaSociety

    As the Davos plan was presented, Gaza faced drone strikes, flooding that collapsed bombed-out buildings, and spreading waterborne disease. Aid workers and UN experts quoted in the book call conditions "apocalyptic"; scholar Abdaljawad Omar writes "even death has died." The Davos presentation was staged against conditions the book describes as already apocalyptic.

  8. Messianism and the "hereness" countermovementSociety

    Christian Zionist and Jewish ultranationalist movements have moved to the centers of power in the US and Israel, some welcoming war or destruction of holy sites as signs redemption is near. The once-fringe Great Replacement theory now underpins government policy, justifying deportations and, the book says, mass shootings. It profiles a countermovement rooted in "hereness": resistance to ICE raids in Minneapolis, backlash against data centers, and Zohran Mamdani's New York campaign. The book frames place-based, cross-difference solidarity as fascism's practical antithesis.

Key points

  • The book argues part of the far right now embraces catastrophe instead of denying it.
  • It treats fascism as a recurring feature of capitalism in crisis, mutated by genuinely new planetary risks.
  • Three factions - messianists, tech oligarchs, ethno-nationalists - unite around apocalyptic escape rather than a shared future.
  • Trump envoys unveiled a "New Gaza" resort plan at Davos and launched a $1 billion-membership Board of Peace.
  • The book calls for a disarmament movement, modeled on Cold War anti-nuclear organizing, against concentrated wealth, AI and weapons.

Open questions

  • Whether the alliance among messianists, tech oligarchs and ethno-nationalists continues to fracture as the book argues.
  • How a Cold-War-style disarmament movement against wealth, AI and weapons would actually be organized.
  • What becomes of the "New Gaza" plan given the gap between its Davos presentation and reported conditions in Gaza.
End Times Fascism: Klein and Taylor on the Far Right — Coherence Academy