Whether they are novel or not isn't important. What is important is that he has the ear of the VPOTUS and the CEO of the largest private surveillance network.
Yeah they are … he’s really cooky in a narrow and specific way.
Frankly tried reading his stuff, and it becomes gibberish. At one point he calls his political philosophy Jacobitism, which was a real ideology at some point, but it bears no connection with anything else bearing the name.
He’s basically just repackaged Thomas Carlyle with some interesting personal anecdotes.