What Is the American Leviathan?
For too long, Americans have been deceived into believing they still live in the Republic our Founders built. That their votes matter and will cause real change in DC. That their elected representatives are the ones truly governing. That the system still works the way it was intended.
But that’s the grand illusion.
The reality is we live under a sprawling, unaccountable administrative state—a modern Leviathan that has consumed the Republic, hollowing it out from within while maintaining the appearance of representative democracy. This is not just a government that has grown too big. It’s a regime, a ruling class that operates above the people, separated from elections, unchecked by the Constitution, and hostile to those who dare question its authority.
Defining the Leviathan
The term “Leviathan” isn’t just pulled from thin air. It has deep historical roots. In the Book of Job, Leviathan is a monstrous sea creature, a symbol of chaos and overwhelming power, that is defeated by Yaweh. In political theory, Thomas Hobbes used the term to describe an all-powerful sovereign state—one that demanded absolute obedience in exchange for security. Leviathan is used to refer to a “ political state, especially a totalitarian state having a vast bureaucracy.”
This sadly is what we have in this country, in DC: the American Leviathan, a system—a vast, unelected bureaucracy wielding power with no real accountability to the people. It is the deep state, the surveillance state, the managerial elite—all tentacles of the same beast that revives absolute authority and crushes the civil liberties and prosperity of the American people every single day.
How Did the Leviathan Rise?
This wasn’t an accident. The rise of the Leviathan was intentional, designed by Progressive Statists over a century ago. They despised the system our Founders created—a rights-based government built on a government limited in size and scope, with checks and balances and the separation of powers to diffuse power. But Progressives saw all of that as an obstacle to progress, the Constitution as an outdated document, and the people as too ignorant to rule themselves.
So they devised a new system.
Instead of governing through elected representatives, they built a permanent bureaucracy—a ruling class of so-called experts, immune from elections and insulated from accountability. Every major expansion of government in the last century—Wilson’s founding of the administrative state, FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society—has fed this beast, strengthening its grip and solidifying its power.
What Does the Leviathan Do?
It spies on you.It regulates every aspect of your life.It decides what is and isn’t allowed to be said.It works to control elections, policies, and even presidents.And when threatened, it strikes back.
Just ask Nixon. Or Reagan. Or Trump.
Whenever an outsider comes along—someone who isn’t playing by the Leviathan’s rules—the beast strikes back. It controls the corporate media. It weaponizes intelligence agencies. It uses lawfare. It labels dissenters as dangerous, extremist, or even domestic terrorists. This is not speculation; this is the pattern of our recent history.
Can the Leviathan Be Slain?
Yes. And it must be.
The Leviathan was built by men, and it can be dismantled by men. Woodrow Wilson once wrote that “We are not bound to adhere to the doctrines held by the signers of the Declaration of Independence. We are as free as they were to make and unmake governments.” That should be our mentality: we are not bound to adhere to the Progressives’ doctrines. We’re not bound to adhere to their administrative state. We are as free as they were to make or unmake governments: and we must unmake the State to restore the Republic.
But this will require courage, knowledge, and most importantly, action. It begins by rejecting the lie that this administrative state is legitimate. It continues by electing leaders who understand the problem—and have the will to dismantle the bureaucracy, cut its funding, and restore power to the people.
The Leviathan thrives in darkness. The first step to defeating it is exposing it.
That’s what this Substack is about. That’s what American Leviathan—both the book and the documentary—are about.
The fight for the Republic is not over. But time is running out.
Join the fight. Stay informed. And never stop questioning the ruling class.