Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist

Naomi Klein’s new book *End Times Fascism*, co-written with Astra Taylor, opens with a 2026 Davos scene where Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff pitch “New Gaza,” a gated luxury enclave, illustrating how extreme wealth fuels a supremacist mindset. Klein argues that compounded riches concentrate financial, media, technological and military power in an unaccountable elite, accelerating authoritarian trends worldwide—from Argentina’s anarcho-libertarian economics to India’s Islamophobia—while pushing toward a post-democratic future where only the ultra-rich survive.