That book specifically named Donald Trump as the type of figure who could channel thumotic desire into upsetting the neoliberal order back in the early 90s. The title of that book obviously was to generate attention and sales, not a literal statement.
"AI recombines successfully" is a phrase that makes me think of the human corpus as a genome and a particular AI response as a child of the parent prompt, with the thinking a model does in response to the prompt basically being a form of information sex.