Curtis Yarvin

Then you'll realize that what you're actually endorsing is aristocracy rather than democracy.

My honest answer would have to be it's not exactly time for that yet. Because what I see happening in D.C. right now, you know, nobody should be watching this panicking, you know, thinking I'm about to be installed as America's secret dictator. I don't think I'm even going to the inauguration. The... Were you invited? No, no, no. Like, I'm an outsider, man. You know, like, I'm an intellectual.

My honest answer would have to be it's not exactly time for that yet. Because what I see happening in D.C. right now, you know, nobody should be watching this panicking, you know, thinking I'm about to be installed as America's secret dictator. I don't think I'm even going to the inauguration. The... Were you invited? No, no, no. Like, I'm an outsider, man. You know, like, I'm an intellectual.

And the actual ways in which my ideas get into circulation is actually mostly through the staffers and the kind of younger people who basically kind of, you know, swim in this very online kind of soup. And I think that's fine. I think that what's happening now in D.C., to sort of distinguish my much more radical ideas from what's happening now,

And the actual ways in which my ideas get into circulation is actually mostly through the staffers and the kind of younger people who basically kind of, you know, swim in this very online kind of soup. And I think that's fine. I think that what's happening now in D.C., to sort of distinguish my much more radical ideas from what's happening now,

I would say that what's happening now is there's definitely an attempt to revive the White House as an executive organization which sort of governs the executive branch. And the difficulty with that is if you go to Washington and say to anyone who's like professionally involved in the business of Washington that Washington would work just fine or even better if there was no White House at all.

I would say that what's happening now is there's definitely an attempt to revive the White House as an executive organization which sort of governs the executive branch. And the difficulty with that is if you go to Washington and say to anyone who's like professionally involved in the business of Washington that Washington would work just fine or even better if there was no White House at all.

And they'll basically be like, yeah, of course. The executive branch works for Congress. And so you have these poor voters out there who elected, as they think, a revolution. They elected Donald Trump and, you know, maybe the world's most capable CEO.

And they'll basically be like, yeah, of course. The executive branch works for Congress. And so you have these poor voters out there who elected, as they think, a revolution. They elected Donald Trump and, you know, maybe the world's most capable CEO.

He can't actually do that much to it. And he can block things. He can disrupt it. He can create chaos and turbulence or whatever. But he can't really change what it is.

He can't actually do that much to it. And he can block things. He can disrupt it. He can create chaos and turbulence or whatever. But he can't really change what it is.

I think the COVID response is a better example. Certainly many things about COVID were different because Donald Trump was president. Here, I'll tell you a funny story. At the risk of bringing my children into the media, you know, in 2016, my son... Who's how old? He's now 14. He was six then. And my children were going to a she-she progressive Mandarin immersion school in San Francisco.

I think the COVID response is a better example. Certainly many things about COVID were different because Donald Trump was president. Here, I'll tell you a funny story. At the risk of bringing my children into the media, you know, in 2016, my son... Who's how old? He's now 14. He was six then. And my children were going to a she-she progressive Mandarin immersion school in San Francisco.

At that time, mannered immersion. The rubber hits the road. Indeed. And you can't isolate children from the world, right? And so at the time, my late wife and I did not. We just adopted the simple expedient of not talking about politics in front of the children, which I recommend to everyone. Smart move. But of course, everyone's talking about it at school, right?

At that time, mannered immersion. The rubber hits the road. Indeed. And you can't isolate children from the world, right? And so at the time, my late wife and I did not. We just adopted the simple expedient of not talking about politics in front of the children, which I recommend to everyone. Smart move. But of course, everyone's talking about it at school, right?

And my son comes home and he has this very concrete question. He's like, Pop, when Donald Trump builds a wall around the country, how are we going to be able to go to the beach? And I'm like, wow, you really took him literally. Like, everybody else is taking him literally, but you really took him literally.

And my son comes home and he has this very concrete question. He's like, Pop, when Donald Trump builds a wall around the country, how are we going to be able to go to the beach? And I'm like, wow, you really took him literally. Like, everybody else is taking him literally, but you really took him literally.

And I was like, you know, if you see anything in the real world around you over the next four years that changes as a result of this election, I'll be surprised.

And I was like, you know, if you see anything in the real world around you over the next four years that changes as a result of this election, I'll be surprised.

I would say that the thing that I admire about Vance and the thing that's really remarkable about him as a leader is that I think that he contains within him all kinds of Americans. You know, his ability to connect with like flyover Americans in the world that he came from is, of course, very, very great.