Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

That’s the point. Thiel and Vance – along with Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Blake Masters, tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone, blogger Curtis Yarvin, and others in the anti-democracy movement – believe that the only way true libertarians can win in the US is for a Caesar-like figure to wrest power from the US establishment and install a monarchical regime, run like a startup.

I can only say that whoever signs on for that role should give some thought to what happened to Julius Caesar. And, eventually, what happened to the Roman Empire. The Republic lasted longer.

I just can't stand Libertarians. They embrace ideas any sane person should give up at the age of 17.