American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America Into a Monarchy

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracy.From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural pulpits, from Catholic monasteries to Beltway think tanks and Project 2025, a convergence is underway.Reactionary Catholics dream of a new Christendom. Protestant pastors invoke divine right over democratic rule.Tech billionaires, led by the likes of Peter Thiel, argue that freedom and democracy are incompatible.Their solution? A singular ruler to bring “order” out of what they see as liberal chaos.With a theologian’s sensibility, a journalist’s touch, and a historian’s eye for how movements evolve and adapt, Dr. Bradley B. Onishi traces the strange alliance between spiritual warfare and Silicon Valley libertarianism.At the centre of it all is the desire for an unbound executive-one man, beyond checks, beyond balance, beyond democracy.This isn’t nostalgia for the 1950s. It’s an organized attempt to abandon the American