Sound familiar?
Although Curtis Yarvin’s name is not yet well known in the mainstream, the influence of his thinking is increasingly apparent in the actions of the Trump administration, prompting concerns about the extent of his influence.
The far-right blogger sees democracy as a failed experiment where society is ruled by a shadowy group of unaccountable liberals known as “The Cathedral”, his version of what Trump calls the “Deep State”, and which needs to be razed and replaced by what sounds very like a dictatorship.
Yarvin – who has been cited by ‘disruptor-in-chief’ Elon Musk – believes society needs a ‘hard reset’Musk is not the only Silicon Valley tycoon and Trump supporter who has cited Yarvin. Billionaires including Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder and Trump donor, has called him a “powerful historian”, while the investor Marc Andreessen, who voiced his support for Trump during the election is also a fan, and Steve Bannon, Trump’s former strategist and a major figure in the Maga world, has expressed a liking for Yarvin’s philosophy too.
He said: “What makes NRx particularly dangerous is not the ideology itself, [it is] how Silicon Valley billionaires can weaponise it to consolidate even more power while dismantling the state and democracy.
Figures like Musk seem to want to shrink the state but “only to the extent that it continues to subcontract to their companies”, Caro said.
Aged in his early fifties, Yarvin first came to prominence in the late 2000s with his blog Unqualified Reservations in which he outlined his ideas under the pen name Mencius Moldbug.
Yarvin advocates ‘Rage’ or ‘Retire All Government Employees’ – a few letters away from Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency, Doge (Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
But Yarvin’s thinking goes goes further and darker, making claims including that white people are smarter than black people. He has compared Nelson Mandela to Anders Breivik, the neo-Nazi who killed 77 people on a rampage in 2012 at a summer camp in Norway. In an interview with The New York Times last month, Yarvin even questioned whether American slaves wanted to be freed.
Yarvin offers “intellectual substance and a veneer of seriousness / respectability to big-money extremist / right-wing donors and their candidate / politician proteges and projects,” Professor Finn said.
“But he thinks he is, and his monied admirers are happy if not eager to believe it and claim the mantle of intellectual respectability.”
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Read MoreDr Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, warned that stopping the spread of people like Yarvin was far more difficult now than in the past.
The Bircher movement, which also began to become more radical and attracted more conspiratorial people to its ranks which turned off other supporters.
He said: “Legacy media has lost enormous amounts of clout and authority. Social media drives a lot of conspiracy theories.
Yarvin has been hailed as an inspiration by Trump’s Vice President JD Vance (Photo: Michael Conroy/AP)
“That hasn’t come to pass. People are feeling more pessimistic about the future in democracy, they have lost faith in government and that’s why Musk enjoys the support he does.”
He suggested liberals were hypocrites because they want policy and laws to be set by “wise experts and people in the courts and lawyers and professors”.
In another echo of Trump’s worldview, Yarvin added: “Then you’ll realise that what you’re actually endorsing is aristocracy rather than democracy.”
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