https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552
Even the ball’s name spoke to Yarvin’s outsize influence over the Trumpian right: For over a decade, Yarvin, an ex-computer programmer-turned-blogger, has argued that American democracy is irrevocably broken and ought to be replaced with a monarchy styled after a Silicon Valley tech start-up. According to Yarvin, the time has come to jettison existing democratic institutions and concentrate political power in a single “chief executive” or “dictator.” These ideas — which Yarvin calls “neo-reaction” or “the Dark Enlightenment” — were once confined to the fringes of the internet, but now, with Trump’s reelection, they are finding a newly powerful audience in Washington
Once upon a time it was considered fringe and radical for a man to dress up like a woman and demand to be referred to as "she" and have access to women's bathrooms. Today you're a horrible person if you don't agree with that.
ReplyDeleteFor every action, there is an opposite and equally painful reaction. A decade of DIE running roughshod over anything has produced a backlash and here it is.
Wow the oldest excuse "The devil made me do it!"
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