My observation this Ramadan is that most muslims are entirely captured by fiat - not just on a social but on a political level.

Socially, if you're not on Meta (Whatsapp and IG in particular), then you're not engaged in the community. Doesn't matter if you show up for salat, nearly half the engagement is online now (covid really did a number to normalize that). Total survelance state capture! What happened to the days where mosques were afraid of native informats?

Politically, it is hard to say there has been any recovery from the left yet post November. I don't say this just regarding the American scene, but globally the trends are still toward the right. Key in this has been broad ethnic embrace of racial superiority. Muslims have not avoided this movement. Trump support among American muslims remains at ATH (thanks largely to Musk - MT is truly a biomas wastebin). Do not forget that Gulf money is a joint backer in X. In fact, in the past six months muslims have politically embraced racial steriotypes to a shocking degree!

There are strategic reasons to move in these directions that most do not realize. Our dreams of a renewed Islamicate have perhaps not factored the potentiality of a Dark Islamicate. Self-soveriegnty for the marginalized will be more important now than ever before.