In The DOGE and the Neoreactionaries, Matthew N. Lyons analyses ongoing authoritarian developments in Trump’s second term, exposing the alliance between tech billionaires and neoreactionary ideologues. With Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” leading the attach, Lyons shows how what were once fringe elitist fantasies have gained real political power and are reshaping the U.S. state. Combining political critique with strategic insight, this pamphlet is a valuable contribution to understanding the evolving far-right terrain—and to build resistance beyond the false choices of liberal democracy and reactionary rule.
This essay was formerly published on the Three Way Fight website, and is available as a free download there.
About the Author
Matthew N. Lyons is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire (PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2018) and coauthor with Chip Berlet of Right-Wing Populism in America (Guilford Press, 2000). His is also co-editor of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2024). He has been a contributor to Three Way Fight since 2005, and his writings have also appeared in a number of other leftist and mainstream publications. Matthew is cotrustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, which stewards the literary legacy of the late playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry.