Is there a season to burn? And are we now in it?
Vice President JD Vance guest-hosted the Charlie Kirk Show, in lieu of his assassinated friend. At the end of the webcast, Vance gave one of the most extraordinary closing monologues in TV history.
Visibly upset, naming the Soros Foundation and the Ford Foundation as wealthy accomplices to violent left-wing radicalism, he promised little short of vengeance, a righteous fury that would purify America of the institutions and actors that have legitimised political violence.
There can be no doubt that Vance spoke for tens of millions of Americans who are sick of the growing radicalism of the woke era. But how far will this vengeance go?
Is the right now ready to take on the structures of power themselves?
One man who might know is Curtis Yarvin. Yarvin is America’s foremost advocate for the proposition that democracy is outdated.
He represents a more radical view from Charlie Kirk of what should be done. For him, to take power always means to reform its deepest structures -- and that requires a will to power that leaves little off the table.
It’s time to talk about the limits of anger. To whom can vengeance belong, in a democracy? What does the present moment demand?
Wrath and the future of the conservative movement: this time, on View From The Danube.
View From The Danube is the video podcast of the Danube Institute, a conservative think tank based in Budapest. This month, it stars Curtis Yarvin, Zsófia Bódi-Rácz, and Calum Nicholson. It is hosted by Rod Dreher.
