The triumphalists declared it complete. Musk proclaimed it “inevitable.” Bannon celebrated “full-spectrum dominance.” Andreessen announced “morning in America”—liberation from the terrible oppression of having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties. The wealthy sociopath’s dream made manifest: a world where cruelty doesn’t even require justification anymore, where kindness itself becomes the performance and contempt becomes authenticity. They expected universal capitulation. They thought everyone would become what they are. They were wrong.