The Auron MacIntyre Show - Curtis Yarvin Apologizes for Being Wrong About Trump ｜ 2⧸3⧸25

00:00:00.080 Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I am Oren McIntyre.

00:00:06.900 If you've been watching this channel for a long time, then you know that I really got my start by discussing the political theory of Curtis Yarvin.

00:00:15.400 Since then, we've gone down all kinds of rabbit holes, not just looking at Yarvin's work, but other neo-reactionary thinkers,

00:00:22.480 and more importantly, all of the different philosophers that formed the foundation of what Yarvin was doing,

00:00:29.160 looking at Vilfredo Pareto, or looking at Bertrand de Juvenal, and all these other key figures that really shaped the way that he understands power.

00:00:38.820 While Curtis Yarvin, I think, has been wrong about a number of things over the years, and people love to point all those things out,

00:00:45.660 I still think ultimately he is somebody who is well worth taking a look at.

00:00:50.780 Even when Yarvin is wrong, he's wrong in interesting ways, and he's often more right than people like to give him credit for.

00:00:58.060 And that's why I thought it was very interesting this week that Yarvin came out with an essay saying,

00:01:04.800 I was wrong. I was wrong about Trump.

00:01:07.820 I was wrong about the ability of this administration to make significant changes and to win victories.

00:01:14.480 Now, he still has lots of predictions that he's still holding to, but ultimately he said,

00:01:19.260 I was too pessimistic. I was too blackpilled on what the Trump administration could do.

00:01:24.760 And when you look at what's going on right now, you have to understand why he feels that way.

00:01:30.460 Again, early days were only a few weeks into Trump's presidency.

00:01:34.200 He's still got to do a lot of work when it comes to passing legislation, winning battles in Congress,

00:01:40.280 and ultimately cementing the legacy of the things that he's trying to do,

00:01:44.700 not just get them done through executive order or through the ability to kind of do diplomacy or hard bargaining with foreign powers.

00:01:53.940 But ultimately, from the experience we've had so far, his run is very impressive,

00:01:59.540 and Yarvin reflected that in his essay.

00:02:03.060 Now, it's interesting because the Trump administration has implemented some of the tactics that Yarvin suggested in his work.

00:02:11.700 Very significantly, the fact that they were offering at least a limited version of Yarvin's RAGE program,

00:02:18.880 Retire All Government Employees, was pretty significant.

00:02:22.040 Yarvin's original suggestion was just to buy out every employee in the United States government

00:02:27.520 and completely replace them, making this basically a bloodless coup,

00:02:32.780 a rotation of elites that's entirely peaceful and even constitutional inside those bounds.

00:02:39.480 But a true change in leadership because ultimately we know that the deep state,

00:02:44.300 the total state or the cathedral, depending on what moniker you want to use,

00:02:49.560 was ultimately the power behind Washington, D.C.

00:02:54.120 You can change whoever you want at the top, but ultimately we kept getting the same government over and over again

00:03:00.100 because that entrenched federal bureaucracy and its tendrils across intelligence agencies

00:03:04.700 and media outlets and education and everything else

00:03:08.240 was ultimately determining what the United States would be doing.

00:03:12.760 If you can swap out all those government employees,

00:03:15.220 you change the personnel and therefore you change the implementation of the policy across the federal government.

00:03:21.020 And Yarvin, again, had long suggested you do this with everyone.

00:03:24.320 Trump did this to a limited degree with everyone who would not return back to work.

00:03:29.040 We had all the federal employees who left during the pandemic

00:03:33.040 and they didn't want to return to the building.

00:03:35.940 They wanted to continue remote work.

00:03:38.120 And Trump was like, well, I wanted to fire you anyway, so this is a good excuse.

00:03:42.320 Sure, you got to come back to the office.

00:03:45.160 And if you don't, then you got to take the severance package.

00:03:47.860 It was like eight months or nine months.

00:03:49.880 I mean, still relatively generous, but nowhere near the four years that Yarvin had suggested

00:03:54.820 or even the entire pension buyout.

00:03:57.180 Ultimately, however, we see other projects like Yarvin's idea that you should be treating the government as a startup.

00:04:05.200 You should have new young people coming in.

00:04:07.280 We don't need to have 70-year-olds with tons of credentials,

00:04:11.800 but no ability to actually think through a problem sitting at the top of these positions.

00:04:16.860 Instead, you should be handing this to young and ambitious individuals.

00:04:20.900 And today we see a lot of the libs crying about the fact that Elon and many of his younger guys,

00:04:27.120 many of whom are somewhere between 20 and 30, have gotten into the kind of U.S. budget.

00:04:32.780 They've started to identify things that need to be cut.

00:04:35.280 U.S. aid is the first thing that has already been on the chopping block.

00:04:38.700 A lot of people on the left are screaming about that.

00:04:41.580 But, of course, that doesn't just end the money that's going out the door for the United States.

00:04:46.320 More importantly, and we've seen this with Trump over and over again,

00:04:49.680 it's cutting off the progressive patronage network by limiting foreign aid,

00:04:54.180 by cutting off programs like U.S. aid.

00:04:56.880 You are making sure that it's not just that the taxpayer is saving money,

00:05:01.580 but that the left is not getting money directly funneled into its patronage projects.

00:05:07.120 And so that is a significant win as well.

00:05:09.800 But like I said, even though we've seen Trump mirror some of Yarvin's goals in his policies

00:05:18.680 and their applications, ultimately, Yarvin was not very positive about Trump's victory.

00:05:26.220 He did not believe, ultimately, that this was going to make significant changes.

00:05:31.320 He was skeptical about the ability of Trump to implement many of these changes.

00:05:36.040 But now you see what is happening, and Yarvin kind of has to ultimately say,

00:05:39.580 look, I was wrong.

00:05:40.140 And he didn't just say he was wrong to Trump.

00:05:41.440 He said, hey, I owe Chris Ruffo an apology,

00:05:43.600 because I just didn't think that these kind of practical victories could take place.

00:05:48.000 So I thought it would be good to read through this response.

00:05:51.420 Ultimately, does this throw all of Yarvin's conclusions into question?

00:05:56.160 Does it mean he was just wrong on this specific topic?

00:05:58.780 I want to get into his blog post here and kind of uncover that.

00:06:04.220 I'm also going to give a little mini review of his new book,

00:06:07.600 which was his first volume of his Gray Mirror book that is supposed to be coming out.

00:06:13.240 I've read through it now, and I'll kind of give you my thoughts after I get done with his blog post here,

00:06:19.220 because I think it kind of dovetails into everything that we're going to be looking at here.

00:06:23.480 So that said, let's take a look at Curtis Yarvin's post here.

00:06:27.100 It's called A Pleasure of Error.

00:06:29.200 Let me zoom in a little bit to make it easier for you to read as we follow along.

00:06:34.340 All right.

00:06:35.060 So Yarvin says,

00:06:36.440 After a week, I think it's clear that Donald Trump was not engaging in hyperbole when he told the libs,

00:06:42.580 We will do things to you that have never been done before.

00:06:46.800 What an incredible line.

00:06:47.980 What a comedian.

00:06:48.940 What a prophet.

00:06:49.840 Many such cases.

00:06:51.700 Poetry is like a line that sticks in your head.

00:06:54.320 And while bad politics is bad poetry, good politics is good poetry.

00:06:58.740 Politics and religion are brothers, and comedy is the cousin of both.

00:07:02.400 Every prophet is a comedian.

00:07:03.820 Every comedian is a prophet.

00:07:05.000 This is Hallmark stuff.

00:07:06.720 Everyone should know it.

00:07:08.040 Again, if you're allergic to Curtis Yarvin's style of kind of stuffing in these turns of phrases,

00:07:13.760 then you will be a little angered by this.

00:07:16.420 But I still think it's worth going through.

00:07:18.300 His rhetorical flourishes have never bothered me,

00:07:21.040 but I know that's not a lot of people's favorite stuff about his writing.

00:07:25.780 I was talking to a very worried lib a couple of months before the election.

00:07:32.040 I was like, dude, remember that full page, huge point, headline in the times when Donald Trump says,

00:07:37.440 long list of hyperbolic threats to libs and libery, believe me.

00:07:41.560 I was like, Trump University, Trump Stakes.

00:07:43.620 And let's not forget for the intellectual right of 2017, the great Ann Coulter's epic literary fumble in Trump we trust.

00:07:52.680 As a writer after 2020, the idea of trusting Trump to execute as opposed to his talents as a comedian, prophet, etc.

00:07:59.960 was like, it was like putting your savings in Trump coin.

00:08:04.000 Has the man changed?

00:08:05.520 Do men change?

00:08:06.620 And yet.

00:08:07.220 So at the beginning here, Yarvin's just saying, look, we all know that Trump is an incredibly gifted speaker.

00:08:14.200 He makes very bombastic claims.

00:08:16.620 In many cases, he's incredibly funny.

00:08:19.020 Many people have pointed that Trump has impeccable comedic timing, a very good stand-up comedian, if nothing else.

00:08:27.120 And a lot of people, of course, recognize these strengths in Trump, but he's said all this stuff before, right?

00:08:33.320 He's made big promises before.

00:08:36.060 And then we saw what happened in 2016.

00:08:38.740 Yes, started out, you know, did do some great stuff.

00:08:42.280 Obviously, ultimately, immigration was down under Trump, had a solid economy.

00:08:47.640 You know, good choices were being made.

00:08:49.340 Certainly would rather have had, you know, America kind of under Trump than under Biden.

00:08:54.480 But he didn't make the big changes to the system, right?

00:08:57.960 And he got really sidetracked, really sidetracked with the Russiagate stuff,

00:09:03.340 all of the kind of propaganda and all of the rabbit trails that the left was able to take him down on a regular basis.

00:09:10.400 It worked very well to distract him from what was going on.

00:09:14.720 On top of the fact that Trump often seemed unserious in certain scenarios,

00:09:19.380 it was more of a branding opportunity when he was doing a lot of the work that he was doing,

00:09:24.700 rather than it seemed like he was hoping for a long-term change.

00:09:28.180 In many ways, it felt like Trump just didn't expect to win his presidency any more than anyone else.

00:09:34.580 And so when he went in, you know, a lot of his transition team didn't get confirmed.

00:09:38.840 A lot of the establishment Republicans stabbed him in the back.

00:09:42.020 It was just very clear that he was not fully prepared for the level of pushback he was going to get.

00:09:48.600 He thought he would be elected to the presidency if he thought he would be elected at all.

00:09:53.560 And then once he had that, then he could do what he wanted.

00:09:57.660 And eventually what he discovered was actually there's an entire machine behind the presidency

00:10:02.040 that radically changes the way that you kind of have to interact with the government.

00:10:06.720 You don't actually own the executive branch unless you go in and force that.

00:10:11.000 Like the executive branch is a remnant of all the other presidents that came before the deep state.

00:10:16.020 So unless you're going to go in there and really root and branch, rip out a lot of this stuff,

00:10:20.320 that's going to perpetuate itself.

00:10:22.060 It's going to push back against you.

00:10:23.600 These are all things that Trump experienced early on.

00:10:26.160 And given the fact that, you know, Trump made a lot of these foibles,

00:10:29.740 he didn't make these big changes.

00:10:31.360 He didn't make them concrete.

00:10:33.140 You can understand why a lot of people were skeptical.

00:10:36.840 People right up until Trump's election were still telling me

00:10:39.840 he's not going to do anything. 0.99

00:10:41.500 He's going to be worthless. 0.72

00:10:42.800 And I had the same response.

00:10:44.400 Look, I had the concerns that Curtis is expressing here, right?

00:10:50.420 I had the exact same concerns that ultimately Trump was going to talk a big game,

00:10:54.880 but he wasn't going to make those promises real.

00:10:58.100 However, my point was always, you still need to back Trump for multiple reasons.

00:11:02.840 One, rendezvous with destiny.

00:11:05.500 This is the way that the GOP voters are going to vote no matter what.

00:11:08.960 I don't care how shiny Ron DeSantis looks.

00:11:11.500 If you talk to your average conservative, especially, you know,

00:11:15.720 like Fox News conservatives, very active, they were very pro-Trump.

00:11:19.680 They were very, very pro-Trump, and they were going to vote for Trump no matter what.

00:11:24.740 Also, Trump is a disruptor.

00:11:27.980 He was the most likely person to send the media into an insane spiral

00:11:33.180 and have them blow up and discredit themselves as much as possible.

00:11:36.400 Now, people said, well, he did that the first time around.

00:11:38.680 That was his whole function, but that is done now, right?

00:11:40.900 So we don't need him again.

00:11:42.820 We can go to someone more competent like DeSantis.

00:11:45.460 But what we learned is actually, no, there was much more for the media to burn down.

00:11:50.760 There was much more for the establishment to burn down.

00:11:52.780 They still had not burned every bit of their credibility.

00:11:55.800 They had still not entered the complete spiral.

00:11:58.160 If you look now at how the media looks, you can tell.

00:12:02.280 Like, they are exhausted.

00:12:03.860 There is nothing left in the tank. 0.98

00:12:05.560 They're still, they're like racist, fascist, whatever. 0.84

00:12:08.960 But none of it means anything.

00:12:11.660 Not that it ever really did, but it has no grasp on the culture.

00:12:17.300 Like, it is just not putting a speed bump between Trump and what he wants to do.

00:12:21.620 So these are the reasons that I was like, even if Trump does nothing, the fact that the system will burn itself down to stop him and the fact that you're going to have a significant amount of the Republican voter base that's going to vote for him, no matter what you do, you should just be backing Trump.

00:12:39.360 Because if you can move Trump into a more serious direction, if you can get better policy to him, better strategy to him, better, you know, follow through execution to him, then he's going to be the vehicle to really do this.

00:12:54.120 Now, maybe he won't, maybe he'll fail on all this stuff, but if anyone's going to do it, it's going to be Trump.

00:12:59.420 And it turns out he did.

00:13:02.240 It turns out that he is doing that execution.

00:13:04.360 Again, early days, six months from now, Trump could completely fall apart, could lose all that, whatever.

00:13:11.640 And then, you know, we'll have to reassess.

00:13:13.640 But at this moment, Trump is executing.

00:13:16.500 Trump is getting things done.

00:13:18.060 Trump is making things happen.

00:13:19.760 And that means that guys like Yarvin, who were very pessimistic about what Trump would do, have to change their tune.

00:13:27.600 And it means, you know, guys like me, who were always in this, Trump, because he's the best option scenario, you know, are we completely, are we the super vindicated plan trusters as some are?

00:13:41.500 No.

00:13:41.880 But at the same time, you know, we're also, you know, not sitting here going, oh, well, even though Trump is elected, he's doing stuff, nothing ever happens.

00:13:50.220 Regime wanted Trump, all that stuff.

00:13:51.820 You know, the sensible centrists, I guess, once again.

00:13:56.520 But let's go back to Yarvin's essay here.

00:14:00.780 He says, all the Bayesian logic went one way.

00:14:03.640 A bullet went the other.

00:14:05.200 So did history.

00:14:06.460 So, yeah, like you've got all your priors.

00:14:08.360 You've got all the things that you should believe about Trump, that you think you're going to be able to believe about Trump.

00:14:14.400 And then a bullet.

00:14:16.360 Right.

00:14:16.640 And really, again, the importance of that assassination attempt cannot be properly expressed.

00:14:26.140 The fact that that bullet basically changed the course of American history, and I really don't think I'm being dramatic in saying that, is huge.

00:14:36.420 And so, yes, you had all these things you believed, and then that moment happened.

00:14:41.940 Now, I think Trump probably would have been better no matter what.

00:14:44.520 But I think Trump already knew more going into this presidency.

00:14:48.500 He already knew the deep state.

00:14:49.840 He already knew the issues he was going to face.

00:14:52.120 He was already aware of all of those problems.

00:14:54.640 But that moment galvanized Trump in a way that just nothing else can.

00:14:59.700 Like when you have a brush from death, when God literally saves your life, there's just a lot of clarity in that moment.

00:15:09.480 Trump, whatever he was ready for before that was definitely, you know, he was made of steel after that.

00:15:17.320 How else could you be?

00:15:18.780 Again, always possible that momentum falls out.

00:15:21.920 You know, always possible that he ends up walking away from that.

00:15:24.740 But as of this moment, you can truly see that the momentum that was built into that one act, that one dodge of a bullet.

00:15:34.000 Let's see here.

00:15:36.120 So much for Harry Seldon.

00:15:38.800 Somehow, as too often happens, I was wrong, but not exactly surprised.

00:15:45.480 As a pessimist by temperament, I find it important to be a pessimist by trade.

00:15:50.860 Also, everyone else has to be a pessimist by logic.

00:15:56.240 Pessimism optimizes tail risk optionality since you are either wrong or disappointed, but never both.

00:16:03.380 However, being wrong is being wrong.

00:16:05.880 For one thing, I owe some people, like Chris Rufo, an apology.

00:16:09.920 Was my tongue in my cheek?

00:16:12.180 Maybe.

00:16:13.020 I'm not sure if I bet him a bottle of scotch, but I owe him a bottle of scotch.

00:16:17.900 So Rufo and Yarvin had this showdown in IM 1776.

00:16:24.760 They had kind of traded barbs back and forth in different essays and things and, you know, videos and statements, Twitter, whatnot, previously.

00:16:33.780 But they had this kind of complete knockdown drag out in IM 1776.

00:16:38.760 I did a whole video on it, so I'm not going to recapitulate that here.

00:16:42.720 Just to say that I think Yarvin's point to Rufo that he didn't understand some of the deep problems with his kind of narrative American history.

00:16:52.240 I think that was real.

00:16:53.020 However, as I said in the video, I thought Yarvin was too dismissive of Rufo, too dismissive of, you know, the amount of progress that could be made in different areas.

00:17:03.160 And so I think they both had, you know, points that were valid.

00:17:07.440 But Yarvin definitely was too dismissive of Rufo in that in that essay.

00:17:14.480 And, you know, his point here was, look, you know, there are still big changes that need to be made.

00:17:20.920 But it is very clear that Rufo had a point about the practical wins that you could take away from a Trump administration.

00:17:29.680 And so he's saying, you know, look, you know, was I goading Rufo in some ways?

00:17:35.640 Yes, but ultimately happy to see this execution.

00:17:39.460 Right.

00:17:40.400 And Rufo said the same thing on Twitter.

00:17:42.560 He's basically, you know, he had he had good humor about it.

00:17:45.060 He said, look, you know, Yarvin and I, we encourage each other.

00:17:48.880 You know, he Yarvin encourages me to aim higher and I encourage Yarvin to to kind of take practical wins.

00:17:56.040 Right.

00:17:56.220 So it's it's praxis and theory working at the same time.

00:17:59.740 You've got the activist and the philosopher.

00:18:02.320 Not surprising.

00:18:03.720 These two different dynamics are going to have two different outlooks, even if they're working for relatively similar goals.

00:18:10.680 And so it's good that Yarvin is there telling guys like Chris, hey, you need to be going after more.

00:18:15.760 You need to be digging deep into the system.

00:18:18.040 You need to be aiming high.

00:18:20.060 You need to have these giant goals that are going to completely remake the government.

00:18:24.200 At the same time, it's good that Rufo is there saying, OK, but in the meantime, here are the battles we can win.

00:18:30.900 There is a ground that we can capture.

00:18:33.620 There are practical things that we can do that will better the lives of people and secure power in the future.

00:18:38.300 And we should not wait for this one grand sweeping thing.

00:18:42.120 Rather, we should take wins where we can find them.

00:18:45.400 And then once the the the grand sweeping thing comes, then we should do that, too.

00:18:50.360 But, you know, as as Yarvin himself has pointed out, a win, a political win is one that makes the next win easier.

00:18:56.540 And if your goal is to radically remake the American government in a positive sense, then you need to do so by securing power.

00:19:08.700 Right. You have to secure the power first.

00:19:10.860 Winning the election is only a very small step in that.

00:19:13.740 And so to the extent that Trump can knock down the progressive patronage network, the degree to which it can knock down its control of education and and media and just the budget of the United States, foreign policy, then it should do that.

00:19:29.800 Right. Even if it can't win the whole thing in one fell swoop.

00:19:32.320 Now, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't be looking for how to win the whole thing.

00:19:36.220 You know, you should be. And again, you can see this Trump digging down into the FBI, you know, getting rid of a large amount of FBI, FBI agents and heads that were involved in J6 and other prosecutions, Hunter Biden stuff like the fact that he is going through the DOJ and the FBI and rooting these people out is huge.

00:19:59.260 Right. Is it a complete decapitation of the FBI? Is he completely destroying that institution?

00:20:04.900 Not yet. And I think ultimately that would be wise.

00:20:07.900 But the fact that he is just making these changes is is a incredible, incredible win and could be a precursor to bigger stuff.

00:20:17.280 Either way, you need to be moving on this. Right.

00:20:19.980 He's moving on deportations. He's moving on cutting down the progressive patronage network.

00:20:24.940 He's moving on dismantling the deep state.

00:20:28.040 Still huge projects. Miles to go. Right.

00:20:31.100 And Yarvin is going to talk about that, too.

00:20:32.520 But ultimately, the fact that these practical wins do exist means that something was wrong with what Yarvin was looking at.

00:20:41.360 And so that that's why he wrote this essay. Right.

00:20:43.440 And kudos to him for doing that.

00:20:45.780 You know, there's always there's always a temptation to double back, double down and say everything was right.

00:20:51.000 You know, there's always these little exceptions. Oh, that over there means Trump isn't really making any changes.

00:20:57.580 And, you know, that piece of rhetoric over there means the deep state is still in control.

00:21:01.460 And and that thing over there means that the regime still really wanted Trump. 0.99

00:21:05.120 But eventually you can you just look stupid if you don't recognize that you made a significant error. 0.99

00:21:13.460 Right. And and Yarvin is is wise enough to say, OK, even even if there are many things I was right about, this is something I was wrong about. 0.96

00:21:20.980 And it's worth writing a post to explain why for for another thing.

00:21:26.420 If I'm wrong, it means there's something wrong with my model.

00:21:30.160 There there isn't anything structurally wrong with my model.

00:21:33.960 I don't think it's just that I kind of underestimated one of the forces that's been operating in it.

00:21:40.080 That that force is the voltage differential of progressive ideology.

00:21:44.760 All right. So Yarvin is saying here, look, I still feel like my model in general of political power is correct.

00:21:52.160 However, there was a piece of the analysis that I was misunderstanding, that I was not taking into account, that I was not giving significant enough weight.

00:22:02.660 So I'm not throwing the entire thing in. I don't think I graphed power completely incorrectly.

00:22:07.820 I don't think elite theory is just garbage now.

00:22:09.720 However, there is a piece of this puzzle that I did not properly assess.

00:22:16.600 And because I did not properly assess this aspect going into my model, the model did not accurately predict what happened here.

00:22:24.480 So there's a problem. But the entire model is it doesn't need to be thrown away.

00:22:29.000 When 2020 happened and the 1970s new left dogma planted its flag in every American kindergarten, not to mention on every American wine aunt's lawn,

00:22:38.780 it appeared to be the final victory of this century old aristocratic oligarchic movement.

00:22:44.020 But most things are slick cyclical. Victory has a map of its own defeat and defeat of its own victory.

00:22:51.560 No one is telling me I was wrong about the 2020 election.

00:22:55.060 So he's saying, look, we saw this long march. We saw the ascendant progressive ideology.

00:23:01.900 It took the route that Yarvin had explained, and it seemed to culminate in 2020, right?

00:23:10.580 So in a way, it was kind of the end of his model.

00:23:14.200 What he had predicted came in 2020, right?

00:23:17.780 But the problem is history isn't over, right?

00:23:20.400 Okay, so you correctly predicted up to 2020. Good for you.

00:23:25.060 That means there's probably something very important about your model.

00:23:27.320 There's a reason that I was super interested in Curtis Yarvin leading up to and after the 2020 election,

00:23:34.440 because I was like, this guy is explaining something very important.

00:23:39.860 This guy has a grasp on something that I do not understand,

00:23:43.040 and I need to understand what he's saying better so I can understand the world around me better.

00:23:47.060 So in, you know, the 2020, Yarvin was right. Yarvin was accurate.

00:23:52.140 His model worked properly, and we got the outcome he expected.

00:23:57.320 And when you have that, then the expectation is, well, that will continue, right?

00:24:02.920 I saw this correct prediction, and I can probably continue to apply this model unaltered and get an accurate result.

00:24:12.020 But some things shifted. Some realities shifted on the ground.

00:24:15.280 And that's important, too. When you're making predictions, when you're modeling, when you're analyzing,

00:24:19.820 you need to be able to shift and accept new information.

00:24:24.120 Otherwise, you'll get stuck, you know, in the scenario that Yarvin was kind of in here.

00:24:28.500 And he says, so I think my model was solid up until 2020.

00:24:32.780 I think it followed what I predicted.

00:24:35.160 However, something changed after that moment.

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00:25:00.140 The differential is the ideological difference between social classes.

00:25:13.260 Luxury beliefs are indelible status markers.

00:25:16.860 Once the luxury belief goes mainstream, the final station of Foucault's long march from

00:25:22.560 the French literature department, it is useless as a marker.

00:25:28.140 Unless something still more radical, voluntary human extinction maybe, comes down the pipeline,

00:25:34.180 after the victory of the marker, there is no marker at all.

00:25:38.240 Energy has to flow from high voltage to low voltage.

00:25:42.560 Once everything is high voltage, so what he's saying here is you had this giant Foucault

00:25:50.920 and all these other postmodernists, you had their march right through the institutions.

00:25:56.160 And holding their views was high status.

00:25:59.900 It had the high political voltage.

00:26:02.320 It was the luxury belief that signaled your status, your marker.

00:26:07.580 You were ascendant because you held these beliefs.

00:26:10.120 They were edgy, they were different, they were deconstructive, they had to make their

00:26:14.900 way through all of these powerful institutions.

00:26:17.520 There's a problem though.

00:26:19.420 Part of the life cycle of these ideas is they are ascendant because they are trendy.

00:26:25.440 Because not just that they hold power in and of themselves, though they do, but because

00:26:29.880 they signal your role inside the leadership coalition, where you stand in society.

00:26:36.540 If everybody's doing what the popular kids are doing, it stops becoming popular, right?

00:26:41.660 You're pretty familiar with this phenomenon, right?

00:26:44.260 Something is high class, it's edgy, it exists out in kind of these elite areas, and then it

00:26:52.000 filters down and it becomes a little more mainstream.

00:26:54.840 There's documentaries about it.

00:26:56.380 People start hearing about it.

00:26:57.940 They start adopting these beliefs or these clothing or whatever it is, right?

00:27:02.660 Whatever the trendy thing is, and eventually your mom's doing it. 0.99

00:27:06.180 By the time when Facebook first came out, I'm old, I'm ancient.

00:27:13.740 I remember when you needed a college email to be on Facebook, right?

00:27:19.160 And that gave it a specific air of being elite.

00:27:24.100 Because if you were in a college, that was a big deal.

00:27:26.820 I mean, less so today, but it was a status marker, right?

00:27:33.400 And so the fact that only college kids accessed it meant that there was this trendy, influential

00:27:38.620 demographic that had access to this thing, and that's what made it a big deal, right?

00:27:44.420 By the time your grandma is poking people on Facebook, a Facebook membership is gross, right?

00:27:50.240 It's old.

00:27:50.840 It's like, oh, well, that's what old people do. 1.00

00:27:53.980 That's not something new.

00:27:55.740 That's not something exciting.

00:27:57.500 And so once these ideas had gone through their Facebook process, right, where they used to

00:28:02.380 be big, it was exclusive to the universities, only people who were going to be in elite

00:28:07.380 circles and shaping opinion had these beliefs.

00:28:10.240 But once it had trickled down and made its way through basically everything, including the

00:28:14.320 most boring companies and HR divisions and the government and education, everything else, once

00:28:21.180 the most boring people in the world, the most low status people in the world were echoing

00:28:25.780 these beliefs, all the, all the voltage is gone.

00:28:30.000 Like all the power is gone.

00:28:31.360 All the trendiness is gone.

00:28:33.000 All the luxury belief ability to mark you as high in status is gone.

00:28:38.180 Oh, you, you believe in postmodernism.

00:28:40.960 Okay.

00:28:41.220 Well, so does a middle school teacher who cares, right?

00:28:44.920 Like at some point it just no longer has that transgressive high status quality.

00:28:50.420 And that's part of what he's talking about here.

00:28:53.260 Back to the essay.

00:28:54.240 Anti-racism, for instance, is no longer a marker.

00:28:57.380 Hick preachers in Arkabama are even anti-racist.

00:29:01.180 Yeah.

00:29:01.440 As you can see, the evangelical church sadly has decided that now is the time to jump and

00:29:06.980 both feet first into wokeness.

00:29:11.300 It's been creeping for a while.

00:29:12.780 You can, you can read like Megan Bashman's, uh, book about that.

00:29:16.380 Um, but, uh, but they've decided that now they're going to die on this hill.

00:29:20.240 We even see, uh, several, uh, you know, conservative, uh, uh, you know, uh, Christian leaders, uh,

00:29:27.100 trying, trying to pull this at this point.

00:29:29.200 Um, but yeah, like he said, like this, this is losing its, its, uh, its cultural cachet.

00:29:35.520 Your baby is anti-racist.

00:29:37.640 So is mine.

00:29:38.480 It's all good, man.

00:29:39.380 We may move on from the, uh, uh, we may move on from anti-racism.

00:29:43.780 We can never move past it.

00:29:45.840 It happened.

00:29:46.760 Now it's done.

00:29:47.900 There are no cool teenage parties of the only nine anti-racist skater kids in Oxford,

00:29:53.920 Alabama, uh, Arkabama.

00:29:56.180 Uh, live by fashion, die by fashion.

00:29:58.940 When there's no differential, there's no energy.

00:30:01.440 The structure created by the energy remains, but there's no force that maintains them rather

00:30:08.260 than being highly resilient under attack.

00:30:11.000 They're highly, uh, friable under attack.

00:30:13.840 The, they are husks without the power to defend or restore themselves.

00:30:18.340 So with too much of this, right.

00:30:21.860 With, with too many people lined up, uh, on this ideology, there was just no interesting

00:30:27.420 pushback, right?

00:30:28.400 There, there was, there was no real, uh, status to be gained by having these positions anymore.

00:30:34.380 They were fashionable and then they fell out of fashion and, you know, because everyone

00:30:38.840 adopted them.

00:30:39.520 Like, again, once your grandma is spouting it, once, once, if your entire job is a, a, a,

00:30:45.100 a elite liberal, uh, coastal, you know, person is to look down and spit on middle America

00:30:50.980 and the middle America has all these same beliefs.

00:30:53.620 Well, then what do you do?

00:30:54.880 Right?

00:30:55.200 Like there's no, there's no, uh, status to be gained.

00:30:59.040 There's no power to be gained.

00:31:01.060 It just isn't cool anymore.

00:31:03.300 And so it just loses its energy.

00:31:06.540 I was wrong because I imagined Trump 47 taking like Trump 45, small performative steps to untangle

00:31:14.140 the obvious Gordian knot standing between the chief executive and his actual constitutional

00:31:19.460 control of the executive branch long since hacked by Congress through a bizarrely micromanaged

00:31:24.940 appropriations process, which certainly does not resemble 18th century, uh, the 18th century

00:31:30.540 idea of power of the purse itself, a dubious innovation dating back to Puritan law fair in

00:31:37.300 the early 17th century.

00:31:38.620 And if Puritan, and if Puritans in the early 17th century found it useful, that, uh, definitely

00:31:44.520 means we need, uh, to, uh, reverence, uh, reverence it.

00:31:48.280 So he's just saying, look, I just didn't think that 47, you know, that Trump's second term was

00:31:53.280 going to look that different.

00:31:54.760 I don't think he was really ready to take back the power into the executive branch.

00:31:59.720 I think that the Congress was going to continue to control and the deep state was going to continue,

00:32:03.840 continue to control him.

00:32:05.220 And yet here we are back to the essay here.

00:32:10.280 The constitution was made for men and not men for the constitution. 0.99

00:32:14.120 And in fact, it was made well because it is, uh, because it is starting to seem that what

00:32:20.460 article one, uh, can hack article two can hack right back as FDR tweeted.

00:32:26.280 There's a quote from FDR action in this image, action in this image, and to do this end is

00:32:32.720 feasible under the form of government, which we have inherited from our ancestors.

00:32:37.020 Our constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible, uh, that it's possible

00:32:42.020 always to meet extraordinary needs by change in emphasis and arrangement without loss of

00:32:47.860 essential form.

00:32:48.720 This is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political

00:32:54.940 mechanism the modern world has ever produced.

00:32:58.740 So basically FDR is just saying here, look, the constitution, uh, it's malleable.

00:33:04.800 It's not always super specific.

00:33:06.400 The language of the constitution isn't always clear.

00:33:08.780 It doesn't always give priority to specific powers and specific branches and specific areas.

00:33:14.500 And so therefore with a shift of emphasis on the different branches and procedures,

00:33:19.440 one can get the United States government to do more or less whatever you want.

00:33:23.720 Uh, and so you don't have to get rid of the constitution to basically have a revolution

00:33:27.580 inside the United States, which again, I've done a, a stream on this talking about the

00:33:32.700 five republics of the United States and why the fact that we don't change the constitution

00:33:37.440 whenever we change the rules of the constitution means that it feels like we have this continuous

00:33:42.700 government when in fact we have radically different governments all bearing the same name, which

00:33:47.560 is why it's so difficult.

00:33:48.500 Well, so a lot of conservatives think they're still being governed by the constitution as

00:33:52.600 it was instantiated in 1790, even though that itself wasn't our first governing document.

00:33:58.020 Uh, but what FDR is saying here is actually, that's a positive because, uh, really by just

00:34:02.880 moving things around a little bit, we can still be governed by constitutional government,

00:34:06.660 but do things in a very, very, very different way to the point where it almost feels like,

00:34:12.340 uh, it almost feels like, uh, we have a radically different, uh, thing, uh, back to the essay

00:34:18.760 here.

00:34:18.980 Ultimately what killed the USSR, our weird Eastern cousin in the second half of the 20th century 1.00

00:34:24.620 was its loss of moral energy that communism inspired in the first half.

00:34:29.920 Not that communism was ever moral in the sense of being good, but moral in its morale.

00:34:36.120 As Napoleon put it in war, the more, uh, the moral is to the physical as 10 to one moral energy is the

00:34:43.880 good old will to power.

00:34:45.920 So communism evil, but communists were very enthusiastic.

00:34:49.680 They had a lot of morale early on.

00:34:52.040 They thought they were doing something very different, groundbreaking, revolutionary.

00:34:55.980 But by the time you get to the late, uh, you know, Soviet union and other communist countries,

00:35:00.500 you can see that very few of them are still really holding to communism, a doctrine.

00:35:05.260 The, the, the idealism that this is going to be something that is going to change the world is

00:35:10.120 gone.

00:35:10.660 It's just another failed government system.

00:35:13.480 Uh, communism was a, was a failure, but it is one of many failures throughout history.

00:35:19.060 Uh, and, uh, you know, it really just went to the wayside and he said, you know, this is what

00:35:23.400 ultimately killed the USSR.

00:35:25.180 Yes.

00:35:25.640 Like bad economics and everything else were terrible, but it was the fact that the regime,

00:35:30.240 the people in power just did not have moral energy anymore.

00:35:34.180 You know, again, they were never moral.

00:35:35.920 They were always evil, but the fact that they never even had the energy to compel, uh, their

00:35:41.200 own, uh, their own, uh, people to action really showed that they were at the end of the line.

00:35:47.960 The USG, the US government will outlast the USSR because at the top level, our constitution

00:35:53.720 deliberately fails to specify the precedent of its, uh, uh, precedents of its three

00:36:00.220 branches.

00:36:00.800 Okay.

00:36:01.200 I don't have historical evidence that this design was intentional, but maybe we could

00:36:05.000 just take it on faith.

00:36:06.100 So he's saying, look, the fact that the constitution doesn't actually say that this has to be the

00:36:12.720 primary thing all the time means that it can shift its emphasis and therefore shift its moral

00:36:17.760 imperative while still maintaining its, uh, government governmental continuity.

00:36:23.520 So again, okay, we're, we're, we're radically shifting emphasis inside the United States.

00:36:28.480 We're, we're going to be less governed by, uh, this deep state and more governed by the

00:36:32.880 executive branch, but this is really, you know, in many ways, just to return to the constitution.

00:36:37.320 So we can change the emphasis, change the passion behind the constitution without abolishing

00:36:43.020 the United States.

00:36:43.920 Right.

00:36:44.240 And this is what, uh, he's talking about the effect of these unspecified political semantics.

00:36:49.800 I didn't even perhaps the purpose is that of the dying Alexander's decision to hand down

00:36:54.700 his empire to the strongest control peacefully oscillates between the branches with the strongest

00:37:00.720 will to power.

00:37:01.540 Therefore the government stays strong and keeps the country's country, uh, keep the, and keeps

00:37:07.720 the country health, uh, healthy and great.

00:37:10.560 Is this really that counterintuitive?

00:37:13.020 I mean, back to federalists, uh, 51, right?

00:37:16.380 Ambition is going to check ambition.

00:37:18.080 And this is what conservatives always missed.

00:37:21.200 This is what conservatives always got wrong.

00:37:24.140 They thought the key was restraining government power at all times in all places.

00:37:29.480 And that's not it.

00:37:31.540 The, the, the, the federalist papers told us what actually restrains the power of government.

00:37:37.660 And that is counteracting ambition.

00:37:40.800 If one branch has all the ambition, if one political party has all the ambition, if one

00:37:45.840 side has all the ambition, then nothing checks them.

00:37:49.340 The words on the page in the constitution are not what checks their power.

00:37:53.280 It is the willingness of other branches and other parties and other constituencies to use

00:37:59.520 power to have ambition that actually checks the power of government.

00:38:04.160 And that's what you are saying here.

00:38:05.940 You have this, whatever branch of government is most vital is most willing to express power

00:38:13.020 is most willing to flex its ability to make change.

00:38:16.640 That is the one that the constitution is going to allow to have its primary role because the

00:38:21.160 constitution doesn't specify a, well, uh, you know, all the time Congress is always the

00:38:25.640 primary branch will actually know that it's always judiciary branch, which is making the 0.79

00:38:29.520 final decision.

00:38:30.080 Well, no, it's always the president that is taking strong executive action.

00:38:33.620 No, it allows for this interplay of different powers.

00:38:36.800 And so ideally ambition checks ambition, but that means you have to be willing to use power.

00:38:42.880 You can't just sit around and say, Oh boy, I got to have the smallest government possible

00:38:46.340 when I'm in charge.

00:38:47.240 No, that's a very lack of ambition.

00:38:49.460 Again, I would prefer that the government does less.

00:38:52.100 I would prefer that robust communities states do more.

00:38:56.460 I'm not here saying, Oh, all I want is big government.

00:38:59.540 That is not what I'm saying.

00:39:00.600 But I'm saying is making big government, the boogeyman making power.

00:39:05.660 The boogeyman has completely disabled the mechanisms in the constitution, which were there

00:39:11.980 to check the power of government in the first place.

00:39:14.440 You actually need a use of power by alternative branches, alternative constituencies, alternative

00:39:22.780 parties, if you want to check power, just simply saying, Oh, look, I look, man, I saw

00:39:28.120 it says in the constitution that you can't do that.

00:39:30.300 That does nothing that does nothing.

00:39:32.700 As we have already seen, uh, back to our essay here, things are happening in Washington

00:39:37.760 because the moral energy of the new executive branch is suddenly much greater than the moral

00:39:43.080 energy of the administrative branch.

00:39:44.920 And even the judicial brands branch.

00:39:47.320 Once the vibe shift reaches a certain threshold frequency, I predict even the supple swing

00:39:52.880 justices will start vibrating in its tune.

00:39:56.040 As for the legislative branch, it's a is selected and B has a popular rating of 13%, none of which

00:40:03.780 is on Tik TOK.

00:40:04.900 We may say, we may ask of any political structure who would miss it.

00:40:09.420 So again, he's saying, look, the, the executive branch, Trump has come in.

00:40:13.620 He's got all the energy.

00:40:14.560 He's all got the, a minute, uh, all the momentum.

00:40:17.200 He's willing to use his executive powers to start taking back his control of the administrative

00:40:21.820 part of the executive branch.

00:40:23.880 When he says the administrative branch, he's saying that the executive branch has more or

00:40:27.480 less separated itself from the actual power of the executive.

00:40:29.880 But Trump is willing to take that back under his control and say, Nope, I'm firing the FBI

00:40:34.220 agents.

00:40:34.660 I'm firing the DOJ guys.

00:40:36.480 I'm firing a federal employees who won't come back. 0.99

00:40:39.160 I'm cutting entire USAID, uh, you know, stuff.

00:40:42.020 I'm cutting the patronage network.

00:40:43.720 I'm willing to just cut it all to the bone.

00:40:45.980 If I need to, we are going to come in here and make changes.

00:40:49.040 And that momentum puts the administrative back branch, the administration on its back foot.

00:40:54.740 And it puts the, uh, the Congress, you know, it doesn't know what to do.

00:40:58.920 It's reactive entirely judicial branch.

00:41:01.040 You know, Yarvin says, even once the administration starts stacking wins, I think even the judicial

00:41:05.740 branch is going to fall in line, uh, with what Trump is doing.

00:41:09.520 They've probably already had a, a favorable, uh, Supreme court, but all these other judges

00:41:14.680 are going to probably get on board too.

00:41:16.100 Cause they're going to recognize that power is flowing one direction and everybody wants

00:41:19.820 to be on the winning side of power.

00:41:22.160 The Republicans of the second half of the 20th century acknowledged FDR's regime or the

00:41:27.420 headless bureaucracy it became after FDR's death, the power of even democratic presidents

00:41:32.780 declined in the second half of the 20th century.

00:41:34.880 No successor, even LG LBJ had a fraction of FDR's discretion in gilding the state and the

00:41:41.440 nation or guiding the state and the nation had generally more moral, uh, morale than any

00:41:47.200 president.

00:41:47.640 It could elect the personal qualities of the man didn't matter.

00:41:51.440 The system could tame them.

00:41:53.020 Even the sixties firebrand Reagan became a pussycat in the white house. 0.67

00:41:56.700 Nixon fought hard and was totally defeated.

00:41:58.640 So he says, look after, uh, FDR created basically this Leviathan state in the administrative state,

00:42:05.540 no executive could tame it.

00:42:08.140 FDR was the last guy who had the energy necessary to drive things forward with that branch.

00:42:15.140 And every president, even guys like Reagan, who were like fire breathers going in, even

00:42:19.860 guys like, uh, Nixon who fought hard, they ended up losing to the deep state.

00:42:24.720 They ended up either being, uh, removed by the deep state or basically, uh, taught to sit

00:42:31.200 down and kind of take it from the deep state.

00:42:33.720 And he says, uh, that's been the case up until Trump.

00:42:36.500 Um, but the power held by FDR's regime was a consequence of two things, competence and

00:42:41.280 moral energy.

00:42:42.400 It's competence was a startup tier.

00:42:44.920 It's energy was off the charts.

00:42:47.500 That was then this is now Trump 47 is not cutting the Gordian, not not yet anyway, but

00:42:53.300 rather than untangling it gingerly, like a nineties Republican, as though it was electrified,

00:42:58.160 it was electrified.

00:42:59.460 He is grabbing it with both hands and ripping out big hunks.

00:43:02.580 So he says, look, FDR had this regime that was very energetic and very competent.

00:43:09.480 Nobody has had it since, but Trump is coming in and no, he hasn't completely destroyed the

00:43:13.580 deep state yet.

00:43:14.240 No, he has not solved other problems yet.

00:43:16.280 Still a lot to do could easily fail.

00:43:18.380 But the way he is attacking this thing is fundamentally different than the way that he

00:43:23.220 attacked it in the first term.

00:43:24.460 And definitely radically different than like a Trump, like a, uh, a Bush or, you know,

00:43:29.320 a Romney, if he had been elected or McCain, they would not have done this at all.

00:43:32.600 They would have strengthened it.

00:43:33.540 If anything, they would have been terrified to touch it for sure.

00:43:36.600 He is going full hog at it.

00:43:39.080 It turns out that the knot with ox cart attached has been hanging in Gordius's palace, uh, courtyard

00:43:45.140 for 80 years.

00:43:46.100 Not exactly a climate controlled environment.

00:43:48.100 The fibers were once springy, seem to have deteriorated to become brittle.

00:43:51.400 Fungus may even have been, uh, indicated.

00:43:55.040 Now it's unclear that ripping out hunks of the knot will work.

00:43:58.460 For instance, rage, his, his suggestion about how to dismantle part of the deep state wasn't

00:44:04.180 supposed to be a voluntary program.

00:44:06.260 I still think a substantial percentage of federal employees will take Trump's early retirement

00:44:10.400 proposal more than expected.

00:44:12.280 And I don't see why it has to be so stingy.

00:44:15.620 Why just do nine months of severance after a lifetime of service?

00:44:19.300 Why not all four years, just go your silver, your silver will still be delivered without

00:44:25.000 fail to your mailbox with four years.

00:44:27.220 So he just goes on and says he should, he should have gone all the way into my policy,

00:44:31.920 right?

00:44:32.220 He should have done everything that I suggested.

00:44:34.020 I'm going to jog down here a little bit because, uh, this one's long and I want to be

00:44:37.360 able to, uh, finish it.

00:44:39.080 Uh, but he basically says you, you should have just done my full plan, right?

00:44:42.320 I'm glad to see you implementing some of my plan, but why not just go whole, whole hog

00:44:46.700 in reality, uh, in the reality of government, uh, or sorry, the reality of government is

00:44:52.240 that there are three things, a things the government is doing that it shouldn't be doing

00:44:56.920 be things that the government isn't doing that it should be doing and see the things

00:45:01.180 that the government is doing and should be doing.

00:45:03.360 Anyone with the slightest experience of both Silicon Valley and Washington DC knows that

00:45:08.360 even when it comes to see the actual problem by far, the most efficient way to make an

00:45:13.860 efficient organization to solve an actual problem is to make a new one, not to fix an

00:45:18.920 old one.

00:45:19.720 In fact, Washington already knows this.

00:45:21.680 The government proper doesn't do anything anymore.

00:45:24.820 It just puts out contracts or makes a grant.

00:45:27.480 The contractors and, uh, and, uh, grant work, uh, of the same, uh, on the same principle as

00:45:33.900 Silicon Valley companies, more or less top down command, not, uh,

00:45:38.360 not process based bureaucracy, but if to, uh, uh, paraphrase, I don't know that, uh, what

00:45:45.760 that is, the, uh, the contracts and grants are retarded and the problem is, uh, only made 0.87

00:45:51.740 worse.

00:45:52.240 So he's saying here, the government knows it doesn't work right at this point that, you

00:45:57.420 know, the, the, the best thing to do is just to get rid of what already exists and replace

00:46:01.760 it with something new and better.

00:46:03.740 And the fact that government has already embraced this because anything it actually wants to get

00:46:07.480 done, it just gives out to a contractor somewhere.

00:46:10.260 It doesn't actually do the job.

00:46:11.680 The government very rarely does anything, but make, uh, make jobs for democratic, uh, 0.97

00:46:17.540 uh, uh, uh, pay or, uh, clients, uh, and, uh, you know, basically control, uh, you know,

00:46:24.360 basically the media and all that stuff that that's what it does.

00:46:27.160 Its main jobs are indoctrination and, uh, make money for people who follow the democratic party.

00:46:32.620 It very rarely actually does anything it's supposed to do.

00:46:36.160 Anytime it really wants those things done, it contracts it out to some private business

00:46:40.920 somewhere.

00:46:42.240 Uh, there are many situations in which, uh, keeping the assets and personnel looking at

00:46:47.640 you, air traffic controllers of the old organization would make sense, but the whole system, why

00:46:52.480 would anyone want to govern America efficiently want to reuse it?

00:46:56.400 On the contrary, the first job of any new administration is shutting down the old system.

00:47:01.200 Another analogy, true top-down Washington, uh, or true top-down white house control of 0.57

00:47:07.780 the executive branch is like a bicycle that's been sitting outside in the rain for 80 years.

00:47:12.260 Previous Republican presidents, including Trump himself had picked it up, uh, posed with it,

00:47:17.620 uh, pretended to sit on it, actually, actually saw it, et cetera, but no one was actually tried

00:47:22.980 trying to ride it.

00:47:24.700 Uh, they weren't trying to ride FDR's rusty old bicycle.

00:47:27.980 What happens when you try?

00:47:29.300 Do the pedals move?

00:47:30.500 Does the chain break the posts, uh, the post?

00:47:33.420 It's fascinating to see Trump plus a small army of revved up nerdy zoomers try to actually

00:47:38.680 ride the bike.

00:47:39.400 For all the reasons I said, it works much better than I expected, but, uh, couldn't we afford

00:47:44.860 a new bike?

00:47:45.860 Wouldn't it be better?

00:47:47.120 Uh, wouldn't it be, uh, worth it, uh, for the paper route?

00:47:50.000 Uh, and so here he basically just says, it would be better if we just went ahead and

00:47:55.480 restarted this rather than trying to get the old thing to work again.

00:47:59.140 Uh, and he kind of goes back to giving some of his, uh, solutions.

00:48:03.120 You know, we should, we should just do as much as we can to buy out.

00:48:06.060 Uh, uh, but in the end, he's saying Trump's doing a good job.

00:48:09.580 Trump is attacking this in a way that no one else would.

00:48:12.240 Uh, he's trying to use the machinery that FDR had.

00:48:15.360 Yeah.

00:48:15.600 A lot of other people have faked this.

00:48:17.060 They've LARPed at one point or another, but they've never really, truly taken, uh, the

00:48:21.600 reins of control back.

00:48:22.700 And for the first time, Trump is actually going to do it.

00:48:25.080 Can he do it?

00:48:25.820 Does the bike work?

00:48:26.720 Does, does the old control command and control mechanism that FDR used, does it still actually

00:48:32.420 operate?

00:48:32.980 I don't know.

00:48:33.560 No, one's used it for so long.

00:48:35.160 Republicans have never even tried it.

00:48:37.160 Let's at least give it a try.

00:48:38.280 Right.

00:48:38.520 And that's kind of what Cruz Rufo said.

00:48:40.000 Like, let's, let's give it a try.

00:48:41.580 Right.

00:48:42.000 Maybe this won't work, but let's, let's start moving this again.

00:48:45.100 And if it doesn't work well, then we know, and then we have to replace it, but let's

00:48:49.160 at least see if the mechanisms of power that still exist, uh, can actually be, uh, rehabilitated.

00:48:55.420 They can be bought.

00:48:56.400 They can be brought back to life by somebody who has the vigor, the vision, uh, has young

00:49:01.820 people working home, uh, with him who are, uh, trying to make these things better and,

00:49:06.320 and actually make changes.

00:49:08.060 And if it doesn't, well, then we can just, we can just redo this system, right?

00:49:11.480 Then we have to do it anyway.

00:49:12.560 So, uh, we'll do it then.

00:49:14.400 All right.

00:49:14.900 So that's his essay here.

00:49:17.240 Like I promised, I want to do a quick, uh, review of his book here.

00:49:21.340 Uh, this is gray mirror, uh, facile one, the disturbance, uh, Yarvin has promised this

00:49:28.360 book for a long time, his mirror for princes, uh, which is what like, uh, the prince is from

00:49:33.120 Machiavelli, uh, basically his version of this.

00:49:36.460 Uh, we finally got a volume, uh, he's apparently going to do four, uh, this is the first one.

00:49:42.920 And I got to say, uh, while I think, uh, if you've never touched Yarvin's work before here,

00:49:50.160 you will probably find good stuff.

00:49:52.200 If you have read your way through unqualified reservations, I don't think there's a lot here

00:49:58.200 that you wouldn't find there.

00:49:59.760 Uh, to be fair to Yarvin, his, the whole point is he's distilling everything he's written

00:50:05.080 down into kind of like one volume.

00:50:07.500 He's trying to make it, uh, you know, cohesive.

00:50:10.820 And importantly, this is the first volume in which, uh, you know, it's, it's titled disturbance.

00:50:16.140 The point of this book is basically to tear up all of your preconceived notions about democracy

00:50:21.780 and, uh, its value and certain aspects of history.

00:50:25.900 And, uh, it does that well, but it doesn't do anything new that Yarvin didn't do across

00:50:31.660 several essays in, uh, unqualified reservations.

00:50:34.900 So if you've read unqualified reservations, if you already know that democracy might not

00:50:39.720 be the perfect, uh, you know, government system handed down to us, uh, from on high, if

00:50:45.500 you're familiar with the fact that many of your conclusions about history and, you know,

00:50:50.980 the last, uh, a hundred or 200 or 400 or, uh, yeah, a thousand years is wrong, uh, then,

00:50:57.660 then this could work for you.

00:50:58.940 Uh, the, the thing about this book is, uh, for those hoping that Yarvin would change his

00:51:05.200 style once he wrote a book would stop having kind of the, the rabbit trails and the illusions

00:51:10.060 and the many, many parenthetical comments.

00:51:13.120 Uh, it's all here.

00:51:14.600 If you found this essay with gray mirror, uh, you know, that we, I just read you, if you

00:51:19.480 found that difficult or off-putting, uh, you, you will not like this cause this is the

00:51:23.860 same.

00:51:24.280 It's, it's the same style.

00:51:25.400 He does not change between his blog.

00:51:27.120 It's a long blog post.

00:51:28.260 It's a long, better organized blog post.

00:51:30.160 Uh, that said, I would say there are good insights in there.

00:51:33.340 I'm not saying don't read it.

00:51:35.520 I'm just saying, don't expect a, a lot of revelations.

00:51:39.680 If you have been following, uh, his look or his work for a long time.

00:51:45.820 Uh, that said, I expect the following works to have more new stuff in them.

00:51:52.860 Uh, you know, uh, uh, regime change was a book that came out, uh, uh, recently.

00:52:01.260 I'm, I don't know why I'm suddenly blanking on the gentleman's name who wrote it.

00:52:04.740 Uh, Patrick Deneen, there it is, Patrick Deneen, um, and, uh, Patrick Deneen's regime change.

00:52:12.300 I loved why liberalism failed, but regime change was really a book called regime change with

00:52:17.600 no regime change in it.

00:52:19.320 It didn't do anything that it said on the, on the wrapper.

00:52:22.600 Uh, this book does, this book does actually at least begin to address the problem of what

00:52:28.140 you would do, um, if you want to change a regime peacefully.

00:52:32.160 Uh, again, it's only the starter.

00:52:34.600 If you've read Yarvin's work, you won't find a lot of brand new stuff there, though.

00:52:38.500 Perhaps it is, uh, addressed at different angles that will help you better grasp it.

00:52:43.940 Uh, but, uh, again, if you, if you were looking for one comprehensive volume that gets rid of,

00:52:49.320 uh, the Yarvin isms, uh, and like, you know, makes it clear and precise and, uh, you know,

00:52:55.660 uh, really lays out new ground.

00:52:57.820 This is not the book.

00:52:59.060 Uh, you know, it's not there yet.

00:53:00.760 Uh, I would dare say that you might be better off picking up some of the, uh, picking up

00:53:06.080 the first, uh, you know, the first volume of his collected unqualified reservation stuff.

00:53:11.700 Uh, I think that actually probably lays things out better.

00:53:14.480 It's much longer, uh, but I think probably better overall.

00:53:17.560 Uh, that said, I am looking forward to subsequent volumes because I think they will dive into,

00:53:22.700 uh, more use, you know, more practical stuff that this was, this was, you know, your theories

00:53:28.200 of government are wrong, your theories of history are wrong and all of that's true.

00:53:31.260 But if you've read that with Yarvin before, then again, no, no big new information there.

00:53:37.660 All right.

00:53:38.380 So let's go over to the questions of the people here real quick.

00:53:41.460 Let's see here.

00:53:45.840 Uh, and on reviewer says, uh, what prompted the Italian elite theorists to study the mechanics

00:53:51.140 of power?

00:53:52.060 What problems were they trying to solve?

00:53:54.940 Uh, well, that will depend on who we want to identify in the Italian elite school, right?

00:53:59.960 So Machiavelli would be the founder.

00:54:02.280 Uh, he was trying to address the problem of, uh, Italian independence.

00:54:06.600 Uh, specifically, he was very skeptical of the power of the church.

00:54:10.000 Uh, but he was also, uh, in favor of uniting Italy because he saw United citizens, Sydney

00:54:16.220 city States as being kind of the future or not city States, nation States, uh, as kind

00:54:21.960 of the future.

00:54:23.020 Uh, and so he, he was interested in that.

00:54:25.420 He wanted, uh, Italian, his Italian city state, uh, specifically to be able to defend itself

00:54:30.260 without mercenaries.

00:54:31.080 Uh, so he had a lot of motivations.

00:54:32.540 If you get to McHale's, he was looking at German workers parties.

00:54:36.500 Uh, guys like Pareto and Mosca were basically doing class analysis from the right, uh, you

00:54:42.020 know, Mosca was doing, uh, I think more political analysis as where, uh, Pareto was doing sociology

00:54:49.200 that was applicable to politics.

00:54:51.820 Uh, then you look at guys like Bertrand de Juvenal who aren't technically Italian, but,

00:54:56.300 uh, you know, guys like me, we'll, we'll put them in with Italian elite theory.

00:54:59.780 And, you know, he's somebody who, uh, is definitely trying to understand the problem of sovereignty

00:55:05.280 and the way that it relates, uh, to, you know, uh, secular power and the church and all these

00:55:10.280 things.

00:55:10.520 So that's kind of a wide question with a lot of, uh, answers to it, but, uh, I'll just

00:55:14.960 stop there.

00:55:15.420 Cause I could prattle on about that for quite a while.

00:55:18.980 Uh, let's see here.

00:55:20.900 Lacerifon.

00:55:21.380 Sorry if I got that wrong.

00:55:22.940 Betwixt the phantasms.

00:55:24.320 Well, now I don't feel bad cause you're going to make me read something that, uh, is difficult.

00:55:27.420 Uh, penumbra that, uh, even divinity, uh, divinity's edge rins, uh, keen unto the, uh,

00:55:35.560 dunnest smoke of all hell.

00:55:37.680 Uh, air I can, uh, wit folly to mine, my, uh, mine self.

00:55:43.700 Yay.

00:55:44.500 Mine and sanity are far too sane.

00:55:47.200 Holy Albion empire.

00:55:49.080 Uh, autism.

00:55:50.840 Uh, I guess it's supposed to be autism.

00:55:52.440 Yeah.

00:55:52.620 I don't know what, uh, what, what passage that was, but there we go.

00:55:55.700 I made it through, uh, Cooper weirdo said, uh, what, uh, that Cthulhu swims left shirt

00:56:01.720 is looking kind of out of touch now.

00:56:03.700 Uh, doesn't Orrin, uh, tell you what you may, uh, you can, uh, you can make a dead Cthulhu

00:56:09.520 sleep, uh, sleep shirt and I'll buy one.

00:56:12.260 Uh, so again, I don't think that the model is entirely inaccurate as Yarvin points out

00:56:16.480 here.

00:56:16.700 I don't think we're just throwing away, uh, all of Neo reaction.

00:56:19.720 The fact that the, the administration itself is both putting, uh, many of Yarvin's policies

00:56:25.180 into action and taking his understanding of the problem of the deep state and Burnham's

00:56:30.200 wider, uh, problem of the managerial state, Sam Francis's, the fact that they are, they're

00:56:34.600 putting these into play, I think means that there's a lot of the model that's correct.

00:56:38.400 However, um, you know, there, there are adjustments that need to be made.

00:56:42.740 I would say that the, the, the, uh, Cthulhu swimming left process that Yarvin explains

00:56:48.460 and that land explains and that I explained to my book, the total state still applies.

00:56:52.800 However, uh, that does not mean that conservatives can't win.

00:56:55.740 That doesn't mean that the right can't win, which I, again, have explained in detail, both

00:56:59.980 on this channel and the book.

00:57:01.240 So I don't think that that truth is entirely gone, but I am certainly glad to see Cthulhu,

00:57:05.840 uh, have to take a backseat for a while.

00:57:08.680 Uh, Unmeal says, uh, hi, R, hey, Oren, uh, love your ability to break down complex ideas

00:57:17.120 for us, plebs, Yarvin, et cetera.

00:57:19.180 Well, thank you very much.

00:57:20.080 I certainly appreciate, uh, you guys watching.

00:57:23.140 I enjoy going through all this, uh, even if sometimes I am reading clumsily on a live

00:57:27.540 stream.

00:57:28.080 Uh, but, uh, like I said, it very, very good to break down some of these essays, post

00:57:33.200 everything that has happened and understand, uh, where Yarvin feels he was wrong and how that

00:57:38.200 applies to what we're going to be doing going forward.

00:57:40.900 Uh, Cripper Weirdo says, good to see Yarvin apologize to Rufo, shows maturity in class.

00:57:45.100 It's nice living here in Turleyville.

00:57:47.680 Yes, Steve Turley and all the winning.

00:57:50.300 And yes, I do think this was a good move on Yarvin's part.

00:57:53.160 Like I said, uh, it's very easy to double, triple down, bury yourself into the take bunker.

00:57:58.520 Uh, Yarvin did not do that.

00:58:00.140 You know, he didn't throw his model away.

00:58:01.560 He didn't say I'm wrong about everything.

00:58:03.100 Uh, but he said, look, adjustments need to be made.

00:58:05.560 If I, you know, if I mispredicted something, I need to understand it.

00:58:08.940 Uh, and I think that's the right thing to do. 0.98

00:58:11.060 A tiny stupid demon says Rufo made a great point about the amazing amount of organization 0.99

00:58:15.880 and preparation that must exist behind, uh, this, that few people saw coming. 0.99

00:58:21.480 I look forward to the story that of that come, uh, coming out.

00:58:24.780 Absolutely.

00:58:25.640 And again, not only did there have to be a high degree of coordination, again, that elite

00:58:29.720 coordination that we were looking for, that we were hoping for, not only did that have

00:58:33.320 to exist, but it's amazing the amount of it that did not leak.

00:58:36.680 Think about how leaky the white house has been and, you know, how leaky the Trump administration

00:58:40.200 was, especially the first time around the fact that so many of these moves were done,

00:58:45.700 were coordinated, personnel was ready to go.

00:58:48.300 Policy was ready to go.

00:58:49.680 Implemation or, uh, implement implementation, everything hit the ground running.

00:58:55.540 And we didn't know about most of it.

00:58:56.940 It wasn't splashed all over the New York times.

00:58:58.820 It wasn't, it wasn't, you know, uh, everywhere it was, uh, it was done well.

00:59:03.500 It was executed well.

00:59:04.520 And, uh, the media was not prepared for it.

00:59:06.700 The left was not prepared for it.

00:59:08.080 And that is very impressive.

00:59:09.520 Again, like you said, I'm, I, I'm interested in hearing that story, but I'm interested in

00:59:13.320 hearing that story after the victories are won, right?

00:59:15.380 Like let's, we'll save the documentaries.

00:59:17.240 We don't want to give away the plan at this point.

00:59:19.820 Uh, you know, let, let them win, let them continue to execute.

00:59:23.660 Uh, let's see here.

00:59:25.100 Um, uh, pseudo analysis, uh, or pseudo analyst says, this is the biggest black pill yet.

00:59:33.860 Uh, I'm not sure how that, uh, that he won or they was wrong or he's wrong about the right

00:59:40.060 winning.

00:59:40.480 I seem, seems pretty good to me, but, uh, I guess continue on with your black pill if

00:59:44.900 you must, sir.

00:59:46.140 Um, Ritha Gullican, again, sorry about the, uh, pronunciation there.

00:59:51.480 One of the issues with our side is it's belief that Trump was not genuine and betrayed his

00:59:57.320 base.

00:59:57.740 He failed true, but he tried and now he came and now he came ready.

01:00:02.140 Also recommended, uh, talking to Tom Lungo or King Pilled.

01:00:06.840 I've had King Pilled on, uh, the show.

01:00:09.500 I am not familiar with Tom, but I'll, I'll see.

01:00:12.160 I'll take a look at that. 0.91

01:00:13.420 Uh, but yeah, I, I think that ultimately, again, Trump is a flawed human being. 0.77

01:00:18.080 I want to make very clear Trump is suboptimal in many ways.

01:00:22.100 Trump did fail, you know, uh, a good bit of his base early on.

01:00:26.960 However, you have to deal with the facts on the ground.

01:00:30.840 The facts on the ground are that it seems like Trump does want what's best for America.

01:00:35.300 Even if at times he can feel a little bit of cheesy, feel like a grift from time to time.

01:00:40.200 Ultimately, whatever that is, it's better for America than whatever was running the deep

01:00:45.140 state.

01:00:45.420 So even if Trump is less than ideal, you know, you've got the platonic ideal of what a right

01:00:52.080 wing, uh, leader would be if he's not that, but he's much better than the alternatives.

01:00:57.140 There you go.

01:00:57.960 Right?

01:00:58.200 Like we're not going to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

01:01:01.260 And again, that, that, that failed assassination attempt, that bullet, I think changed everything.

01:01:07.000 I think that brought us a very different Trump.

01:01:09.440 I'm sure we would have gotten a better Trump this time around either way, but I think we got

01:01:13.060 a truly, uh, hardened, a serious focus Trump, uh, because of this, which is a huge deal,

01:01:19.680 at least to the extent that Trump is right.

01:01:22.320 He's still going to be cutting jokes.

01:01:23.420 He's still going to be doing a policy while he's doing golf, right?

01:01:26.420 Like this doesn't mean he's spending over every day, you know, sitting up behind the

01:01:30.500 desk, uh, you know, uh, only doing that.

01:01:32.560 But, uh, as, as serious and focused as Trump gets that way, that's what we got life of

01:01:37.460 Brian says, uh, Kamala was clearly a job or one faction of the oligarch clearly wanted

01:01:42.440 the deep state laundering mechanism raised.

01:01:44.880 Yarvin is a slot merchant.

01:01:46.160 Uh, I mean, okay, I think you're probably joking there, but I can't tell for sure.

01:01:51.580 Um, uh, but yeah, my theory is that, uh, actually the deep state did not want to be destroyed.

01:01:56.660 The regime did not want its, uh, long-term power questioned.

01:02:00.820 Uh, so any, any assertions that ultimately the regime wanted Trump, and this was all

01:02:05.940 according to plan.

01:02:06.880 And that's why they put Kamala Harris out there. 1.00

01:02:08.680 Cause they really were hoping that the leftist patronage network was destroyed and the fall

01:02:12.620 of some foreign policy was reigned in and a large amount of personnel were cut at the

01:02:17.440 FBI and the DOJ.

01:02:19.860 I'm doubtful.

01:02:20.760 Like I doubtful that was intentional.

01:02:23.280 Okay.

01:02:23.820 He follows up and says, yes, he was being ironic.

01:02:25.520 Life of Brian says, irony aside that 500 billion for the AI, uh, techno, uh, uh, dystopia grid

01:02:33.040 does, uh, require scrutiny.

01:02:35.200 A lot of money for dubious people, uh, Ellison, uh, Altman, et cetera.

01:02:40.340 Yeah.

01:02:40.700 I think that was a typo is one.

01:02:42.140 It wasn't 500 billion.

01:02:43.160 That would be quite a bit is 500 million.

01:02:45.000 Uh, but that's, I believe, uh, but that said, yes, no, it is.

01:02:48.020 Again, I raised those questions on Friday with my, uh, show with, uh, Joe Allen from, uh,

01:02:53.960 war room if you want to check that out, but we got into the AI question.

01:02:57.280 I would agree that ultimately that is concerning.

01:03:01.120 It's part of the, part of the coalition, but, um, uh, but I, I do think that you have to be

01:03:06.980 careful about it getting too much sway.

01:03:08.860 Uh, pseudo analyst says as the DR idea ideas become more mainstream, our voltage differentiation

01:03:16.420 also gets destroyed and we were still getting mass Indian migration, continued abortion,

01:03:21.360 et cetera.

01:03:21.680 Well, again, that's a fair point.

01:03:23.660 Like that's true, right there.

01:03:25.140 There's a lot of energy that came onto the scene because these ideas were getting adopted

01:03:29.800 because young, uh, exciting, uh, people were entering in to the administration and working

01:03:36.420 with Elon, uh, you know, these ideas are circulating a lot of energy.

01:03:40.960 You're right that there is that possibility.

01:03:43.160 But again, as Yarvin pointed out, it took 80 years for that to run down in, uh, FDR's

01:03:49.460 administration.

01:03:49.940 Do we have, do we not have as much energy as FDR?

01:03:53.900 Probably not.

01:03:54.700 So could it run down faster?

01:03:56.700 Entirely possible.

01:03:57.620 Something to watch out for.

01:03:58.900 That said, we're two weeks in, man.

01:04:01.260 So give it, give it a minute.

01:04:03.420 You know, the ideas are being implemented.

01:04:05.240 We're seeing big changes.

01:04:07.800 The American people seem to overall support them.

01:04:10.820 Take the W, you know, plan for the future, continue to push to win.

01:04:14.480 That doesn't mean, you know, give up or, or just, you know, go grill.

01:04:18.140 It's not a, you don't have to worry about it.

01:04:19.700 It's not a problem, but like big things are happening.

01:04:23.420 Let, let, let's, let's let this play out before we entirely say, oh, well, I'm sure the

01:04:27.820 energy will dissipate, you know, after week four, and then we'll just go back to business

01:04:31.260 as usual.

01:04:31.780 Uh, Torgo, the white says, uh, this is actually a splendid use of AI, which I guarantee Musk

01:04:39.440 is doing.

01:04:40.220 Hey, Grok, based on these budgets, uh, what, uh, what does all this federal money flow to?

01:04:45.460 Yeah.

01:04:45.680 I mean, again, despite my concerns about AI, uh, the fact that it allows, uh, you know, someone

01:04:52.480 like Musk or just the general public to go through an entire congressional spending bill,

01:04:56.460 uh, to go through, uh, entire regulations, pick all this stuff out and have it, uh, site,

01:05:01.360 uh, just, uh, uh, uh, uh, using words here.

01:05:06.180 Sorry.

01:05:07.520 Uh, to have, to have it differentiated, to have it all put in its different silos, uh, that

01:05:12.280 allows you to see the whole scheme, right.

01:05:14.240 To understand where your money's going sifted.

01:05:16.700 That was the word I was looking for.

01:05:17.900 Jeez.

01:05:18.300 Uh, sifted the fact that you can sift through all of this and, and find out where the money's

01:05:23.520 going and what the plans are and where the power lies.

01:05:25.800 That's a huge deal, right?

01:05:27.020 That's a huge deal.

01:05:27.800 So, uh, while I, I am skeptical of AI, uh, you're right that it is being used for this.

01:05:33.440 And, uh, that does allow us to bypass a large amount of lobbyists and, uh, congressional

01:05:38.080 aides and all these other people who are obfuscating where the money goes, where the power 0.72

01:05:42.220 goes, what's actually happening here.

01:05:43.600 Um, limplier says, uh, Lindsay may swing his bay blade slowly, but it only swings right

01:05:51.400 word.

01:05:51.820 There you go.

01:05:52.480 The new Cthulhu, uh, and, uh, desert tour, uh, tortoise says, uh, what implications does

01:05:59.560 this have for Yarvin's other theories like proxy voting?

01:06:02.860 Yeah.

01:06:03.380 Good question.

01:06:04.140 I think that, uh, Yarvin would keep the proxy voting thing, right?

01:06:08.440 Because that would only be the Republican party, the right, uh, in general getting

01:06:13.500 better at turning people out and continuing to secure victory, right?

01:06:17.480 That that's Yarvin's entire point is that a victory is something that makes the next

01:06:20.940 victory easier.

01:06:21.940 And so if you could implement something like the proxy vote, uh, then it would more reliably

01:06:27.320 produce the outcome that he's hoping for.

01:06:30.220 Uh, how does it apply to some of his others theories?

01:06:33.400 I mean, uh, you know, uh, I don't think it probably directly applies to something like

01:06:38.080 patchwork, uh, that, that kind of thing.

01:06:40.520 Um, but, uh, but, but, you know, there, again, we can see many of Yarvin's principles and

01:06:46.180 practical, uh, solutions, uh, to the extent that he's offered practical solutions being

01:06:51.120 reflected, uh, in, in kind of what the government is doing now.

01:06:55.260 So I'm sure he's certainly happy about that.

01:06:57.300 He's probably not going to get the CEO monarch making, uh, you know, small, uh, techno futuristic

01:07:03.660 city States that he had written about directly off of this.

01:07:06.940 However, if that's ever going to happen, well, you know, this is some step in the right direction

01:07:11.840 and either way, it's certainly a right, a step in the right direction for the country,

01:07:15.560 which is ultimately what we're looking for here.

01:07:17.960 Uh, you know, Yarvin, I can't speak for him.

01:07:20.120 Maybe he's trying to produce exactly the, the right political, uh, system.

01:07:25.620 My goal is to produce what is best for the American people.

01:07:28.600 This is my country.

01:07:29.580 This is my nation.

01:07:30.560 These are my people.

01:07:31.720 I want it to flourish.

01:07:32.920 And so if it flourishes under, uh, the current system, fantastic.

01:07:37.060 If it flourishes under, you know, the techno, uh, futuristic city state model, fantastic.

01:07:43.580 I want to see the people of my nation do well and prosper, uh, to the extent that that's

01:07:49.520 possible.

01:07:49.940 And so, uh, I, I hope, uh, that we have, we create the, the political system that is best

01:07:56.240 for that, but I am less married to a specific system.

01:07:59.320 I think there are deep problems with democracy that ultimately it is unstable and that, uh,

01:08:04.160 certainly the, the current formulation that we have is, is very unstable.

01:08:08.160 So I, I'm worried about maintaining it exactly the way it was previously.

01:08:12.540 However, as Yarvin points out here, uh, the, the, the shift in emphasis can allow for a significantly

01:08:19.360 different government while technically operating under the same constitutional banner.

01:08:24.580 And so perhaps for at least in this moment, that is the correct way to go.

01:08:28.480 That doesn't mean you stop thinking.

01:08:30.140 It doesn't mean you stop exploring theory.

01:08:32.000 It doesn't mean you stop moving towards modes of governance that will be better ultimately

01:08:36.540 for you and for, uh, you know, the rest of the country.

01:08:40.620 However, uh, in the moment when your victories, right again, take win, take the victory, take

01:08:46.560 the W use it to acquire more power.

01:08:48.880 These are the things that you should be doing.

01:08:50.500 This is what Trump is doing.

01:08:51.760 And that's why Yarvin is saying he's wrong.

01:08:53.280 He didn't think that Trump would take these steps.

01:08:55.620 He still wishes Trump would do more.

01:08:57.660 He still doesn't think that Trump is probably like the last guy needed to secure a victory

01:09:02.020 and make sure that things go the right way.

01:09:04.340 However, more steps in the right direction than Yarvin predicted.

01:09:07.760 And therefore he writes this, right?

01:09:09.900 And that's really what we're looking for.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - February 03, 2025

Curtis Yarvin Apologizes for Being Wrong About Trump ｜ 2⧸3⧸25

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