Trump's AI Order Echoes FDR's New Deal — But With Silicon Valley in Charge
In what historians are calling a "Digital Manhattan Project," Trump's AI executive order mirrors FDR's WWII-era mobilization, funneling federal power to Silicon Valley giants. While FDR's goal was winning a war against fascism, Trump's EO aims to crush China's AI and resurrect America's tech dominance — complete with a "brain trust" of Musk and Altman. Critics warn this carbon-copies the Robber Barons' railroad land grabs, handing private firms a national grid of data and patents. Is history repeating as a farce, or a 21st-century bootstrap?