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Showing Original Post only (View all)He's anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure 'dark enlightenment' blogger influencing the next US administration [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trumpCurtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics. But the neoreactionary thinker and far-right blogger is emerging as a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trumps coming administration in particular over potential threats to US democracy.
Yarvin, who considers liberal democracy as a decadent enemy to be dismantled, is intellectually influential on vice president-elect JD Vance and close to several proposed Trump appointees. The aftermath of Trumps election victory has seen actions and rhetoric from Trump and his lieutenants that closely resemble Yarvins public proposals for taking autocratic power in America.
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Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program. They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as Rage (for retire all government employees).
They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them. They should bring Congress to heel, in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers. And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed..
He is calling for a "Caesar" to rule the US as an autocrat, eliminating any residue of liberal democracy. JD Vance has spoken very highly of him
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He's anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure 'dark enlightenment' blogger influencing the next US administration [View all]
DBoon
Dec 21
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Throw him in prison without a trial and then see what he thinks of the US Constitution. He'd be begging for it.
Walleye
Dec 21
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