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Cheez Whiz's avatar

Yarvin and Bannon are what passes for an intellectual foundation of Trumpism, hazy dreams of a fuedal world based on wealth and tech, retrofitted onto a golden goose who they believe they can con into giving them power. Like everything around Trump, the election, the campaign, the devotion of his base, none of it is rational. A collection of resentments and self-indulgent fantasies posing as analysis to justify tyranny of a self-appointed micro-elite of billionaires and snake-oil salesman. And they want us to take it all seriously.

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Bridget's avatar

Having never heard of Yarvin before a few days ago when I heard Marc Andreesen citing him as some kind of super brain whilst also spouting the notion that FDR, even though dead for almost 80 years, keeps our government in thrall and in check in order to accomplish nefarious mischief, I can only conclude that the lot of them — Yarvin and his disciples — are nut cases to the max. Thank you for confirming, in writing, my conclusions. These people — Yarvin, Andreesen, and their ilk — are in need of a comeuppance. Where are Ramona and Henry Higguns when we need them most?

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