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Richard Hanania Returns: How Status Competition Created the Culture War

From the New World

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The Fascination With the Alternative Right

Yarvan: I think Yarvan is seen as, you know, to the extent that this class has an intellectual representative. With him specifically, there was an obsession. He's not as false, Elon Musk, but the fact that he was well-spoken, he was good looking. That's the fascination. It's also like they're just more, yarn, anyone with ideas is more inherently interesting to them than some backwoods preacher who's praying then saying Donald Trump is said by the Lord to strike her out.

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