Bannon`s War Room WarRoom Battleground EP 841: Auron MacIntyre - Confronting the Total State
Sep 2, 2025
Auron MacIntyre, author of "The Total State, How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies" and host of The Auron MacIntyre Show, dives deep into the precarious balance between democracy and tyranny. He discusses the managerial revolution's impact on governance, advocating for localism over globalism. MacIntyre also explores spirituality as a counter to materialism and critiques the manipulation of public opinion through AI. His insights challenge listeners to rethink political structures and the role of community in combating modern challenges.
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COVID Exposed Hidden Managerial Power
- Auron MacIntyre realized the Constitution and traditional checks failed during COVID and began researching why.
- He discovered a managerial revolution and an alternative political system operating beneath the constitutional façade.
Managers Versus Republican Virtue
- James Burnham argued that a managerial elite arose to run large bureaucratic institutions across regimes.
- MacIntyre says this managerial logic conflicts with a republican constitutional order and creates a parallel system.
Scale Turns Citizens Into Units
- Managerial scale requires standardization and removes individual agency to gain efficiency.
- That process turns citizens into predictable units and lets managers legitimize pre-decided changes.
