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Anyway, not to switch topics again but here's a long article on where the right may be heading and while I think most of us realize it already, this gives a more in-depth look at a lot of the people inside it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

Some excerpts:

Vanity Fair reports...

And the way conservatives can actually win in America, he has argued, is for a Caesar-like figure to take power from this devolved oligarchy and replace it with a monarchical regime run like a start-up. As early as 2012, he proposed the acronym RAGE -- Retire All Government Employees -- as a shorthand for a first step of an overthrow of the American "regime." What we needed, Yarvin thought, was a "national CEO, [or] what's called a dictator." Yarvin now shies away from the word dictator and seems to be trying to promote a friendlier face of authoritarianism as the solution to our political warfare: "If you're going to have a monarchy, it has to be a monarchy of everyone," he said.

People at the conference seemed excited about being in a place where they weren't alone. I skipped most of the talks -- which ranged from sessions about confronting the threat of China to the liberal influence on pop culture to "Worker Power." Hawley gave a keynote on the "assault on the masculine virtues," and Cruz offered up a traditional stump speech, evoking Reagan and saying he thought conservatives would soon prevail at the ballot box. "I'm pretty sure a lot of the 20-somethings rolled their eyes at that," Yarvin said to me afterwards with a smirk. The 20-somethings had a bigger vision.

"What this is," she said, "is a new thought movement. So it's very hard to put your finger on and articulate what it is outside of Trumpism. Because it really is separate from the man himself, it has nothing to do with that."

"I think Trump is going to run again in 2024," [Vance] said. "I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people."

"And when the courts stop you," he went on, "stand before the country, and say--" he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order -- "the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it."

This is a description, essentially, of a coup.

"We are in a late republican period," Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America awaiting its Caesar. "If we're going to push back against it, we're going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with."

I'd asked Vance to tell me, on the record, what he'd like liberal Americans who thought that what he was proposing was a fascist takeover of America to understand.

He spoke earnestly. "I think the cultural world you operate in is incredibly biased," he said -- against his movement and "the leaders of it, like me in particular." He encouraged me to resist this tendency, which he thought was the product of a media machine leading us towards a soulless dystopia that none of us want to live in. "That impulse," he said, "is fundamentally in service of something that is far worse than anything, in your wildest nightmares, than what you see here."