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"Crack-Up Capitalism": Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & Movement to "Shatter" the State

"Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics"

Note: 1. Government should be run like a corporation. 2. Deconstruct the administrative state. Christian nationalism.
No liberal fairness/equity junk by government. 3. Right wing accelerationist vision. Destroy the administrative state.

See - The accelerationists, if you have never heard the term, are an extreme subset of white nationalism whose goal is to bring about chaos and destruction. The basic tenet of accelerationism argues that since Western governments are inherently corrupt, the best (and only) thing supremacists can do is to accelerate the end of society by sowing chaos and aggravating political tensions.
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· Yarvin: [asked how to change ‘the regime’]: “You have to break it in a single step (…) I would divide the things that are needed, using the rocket analogy, into a first stage and the second stage. The first stage is basically the way in which you establish absolute power.”

· Vance: “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. . . And when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say ‘the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’” (James Pogue, “Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets,” Vanity Fair, April 20, 2022)

· Balaji Srinivasan: “What I’m really calling for is something like Tech Zionism. A movement supported by a global network to take back territory in the city, floor by floor, street by street, block by block, policeman by policeman. You have a foothold of private property and you have a group membership (…) the hard part is to take control of the streets. How do you fence off of the streets and make it clear that it’s under grey [his self- ascribed tribe of visionaries] control.” (September 2023 on the Moment of Zen podcast)

· Thiel: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” (“The Education of a Libertarian”, Cato Institute, 2009)
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Who are the minds behind DOGE, and what do they really believe? Historian Quinn Slobodian says three strains of conservatism have converged to form the second Trump administration's anti-democratic coalition: finance-backed corporate interests previously friendly to the Democratic Party, Christian conservative think tanks who have long advocated for the end of the administrative state, and the online-driven movement of reactionary extremists who traffic in white supremacist and neo-Nazi rhetoric. Meanwhile, says Slobodian, "Trump is a person who doesn't believe in much, but he believes in money," leaving him willing to enact the political visions of these three pro-capitalist projects. Slobodian, an expert in German history, also discusses the connections between the Trump sphere and Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, supported by Musk and Vice President JD Vance.

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