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View submission: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
It is a crazy unforeseen surprise for most people though. I mean Yarvin started writing in 2008! The truth is, you had to be EXTREMELY clued in to politics to even have heard any of this. 90% of people don’t care who Peter Thiel is, and those who do, at least half of them are the analogue for ‘George Soros is Satan’ guys. Additionally, it’s hard to see how they connect unless you’re a pretty deep critical thinker. Like on its face, being anti-contraceptive and overturning roe v wade is just about fundamentalist misogyny; in reality, it’s about declining birth rates and the access to consumers/labor market that business has. Seeing how these things connect is demanding a lot out of Americans that were dumb enough to vote Donald in for a second time.
Edit: plus, during trumps first term. It genuinely wasn’t obvious there was a connection beyond some incidental ones (Bannon etc). I had read Yarvin at that point, and he just seemed like a fringe internet weirdo at the time, similar to Nick Fuentes. I saw them as mostly harmless because they weren’t in proximity to any institutional power. Idk that I would have *really* thought that Trump’s admin was fascist back then.
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