"No doubt these remarks will be dismissed by some as alarmist, but I want to go further and name the emergent political system “inverted totalitarianism.” By inverted I mean that while the current system and its operatives share with Nazism the aspiration toward unlimited power and aggressive expansionism, their methods and actions seem upside down."


Response: 
In this specific passage where Sheldon Wolin states that the appear that "American Empire" have features in a totalitarian government whose procedure are reverse than to the Nazi regime. For instance, during the Nazi regime democracy was restricted to the government, big business was subordinated to the political regime, and there was a mobilized society eager to support warfare, whereas in the United States the government is filled with totalitarian ideologies, the government is subordinated to big corporations, and the population is pushed into a state of constant fear and collective futility that hardly mobilizes or votes at all. Wolin thinks that all the elements are in place for the establishment of a system that "permanently favors a ruling class of the wealthy, the well-connected and the corporate, while leaving the poorer citizens with a sense of helplessness and political despair."