Orbon is indeed a soft cor like you have to understand the sort of relationship between twentieth century fashism and anything that sounds a lot to you. He has the same basic problem as all these regimes, which is that he's in conflict with a higher power that he's not going to defeat. All of hungary's intelligencia simply just looks to the eu, and they become european. They lose their upper class because their upper class regards the true authorities as being in london and new york. And so when people see even a leader like trump, who basicallydraws from the same lower middleclass, or true middle class, or whatever you want to call
Former computer programmer and political theorist Curtis Yarvin is considered by many to be a dangerous thinker. He has been named in the New York Times and Vanity Fair as a founding member of the burgeoning 'New Right' and caused a stir on Tucker Carlson.
His theories of power seem to have made their way from the fringe blogosphere into the mainstream media. Now, people are trying to make sense of some of what Yarvin wants for the Western nations he criticises and where his thinking might go next.
One particularly bold claim made by Yarvin is that America would be better run as a monarchy, rather than a democracy.
To dig deeper into this esoteric political philosophy, Freddie Sayers invited Curtis Yarvin to the UnHerd studio.
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