"The history of ideas since 1789 is an endless record of mass murder in the name of the people."
Curtis Yarvin, described as "The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance," argues that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced by monarchy. A software engineer turned political theorist, Yarvin has grown his online following through his trenchant critiques of liberalism and the myth of inevitable progress.
Yarvin has profoundly influenced American politics, counting among his readers Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and Vice-President J.D. Vance. In January, he attended Trump's inaugural gala as "an informal guest of honor" due to his "outsize[d] influence over the Trumpian right."
"There's this guy, Curtis Yarvin. Who's written about some of these things...I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." — J.D. Vance
