David Marchese

In one of your recent blog posts, or I guess it's a newsletter, not a blog at this point, you referred to J.D. Vance as, I think, as a normie. Yeah. What do you mean?

The question was, why did you call J.D. Vance a normie? Because he contains within him norminess.

The question was, why did you call J.D. Vance a normie? Because he contains within him norminess.

And what you just said about, you know, the administration could do a better job of reaching out to progressives. We're all human beings. As you well know, it's a pretty different stance than the stance you often take in your writing. Right, you're laughing because you know it's true. Where, you know, you talk about things like de-wokification.

And what you just said about, you know, the administration could do a better job of reaching out to progressives. We're all human beings. As you well know, it's a pretty different stance than the stance you often take in your writing. Right, you're laughing because you know it's true. Where, you know, you talk about things like de-wokification.

People who work at places like the New York Times should all lose our jobs. We should, you know, you have an idea for a program called RAGE, retire all government employees. You know, you have... which I hope are satirical about, you know, how to handle nonproductive members of society that involve basically locking them in a room forever. So why is your tone, has your thinking shifted?

People who work at places like the New York Times should all lose our jobs. We should, you know, you have an idea for a program called RAGE, retire all government employees. You know, you have... which I hope are satirical about, you know, how to handle nonproductive members of society that involve basically locking them in a room forever. So why is your tone, has your thinking shifted?

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

It's a little on the nose. from a Freudian perspective, but yeah, go on.

It's a little on the nose. from a Freudian perspective, but yeah, go on.

But how invested do you think J.D. Vance is in democracy?

But how invested do you think J.D. Vance is in democracy?

Um, I think what you just described, uh, might be something that Peter Thiel would agree with. And there was... I think a progressive could agree with it.

Um, I think what you just described, uh, might be something that Peter Thiel would agree with. And there was... I think a progressive could agree with it.

And there was reporting that I saw, I think it was 2017, reporting done by BuzzFeed, where they published some emails, I think, between you and the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, where you talked about watching the 2016 election with Peter Thiel and referred to him as, as fully enlightened. What would fully enlightened have meant in that context?

And there was reporting that I saw, I think it was 2017, reporting done by BuzzFeed, where they published some emails, I think, between you and the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, where you talked about watching the 2016 election with Peter Thiel and referred to him as, as fully enlightened. What would fully enlightened have meant in that context?

And this absence of belief is what you call enlightened.

And this absence of belief is what you call enlightened.

You're basically saying there's a historical and political recency bias that people are susceptible to.