Biden Out + JD Vance’s Postliberal Monarchist Catholicism (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

In this episode, we react to President Joe Biden’s surprising decision not to seek reelection, focusing on Kamala Harris’s rapid emergence as the new Democratic frontrunner after raising $60 million in one day. 

We examine the implications of a Harris candidacy and explore JD Vance’s connections with reactionary Catholic intellectuals and Silicon Valley monarchists. 

Additionally, the show reviews Patrick Deneen’s vision of ‘common good conservatism’ and Curtis Yarvin’s radical political ideas, while touching on the influence of conspiracism in American religion and politics. The discussion highlights how certain religious traditions can prime individuals, especially American evangelicals and Christian nationalists, to believe in conspiracy theories.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/biden-out-jd-vances-postliberal-monarchist-catholicism/

Who is Curtis Yarvin, the monarchist, anti-democracy blogger? - Vox

…Yarvin argues that a creative and visionary leader — a "startup guy," like, he says, Napoleon or Lenin was — should seize absolute power, dismantle the old regime, and build something new in its place…

 ... Besides Vance and Masters (whose campaigns declined to comment for this story), Yarvin has had a decade-long association with billionaire Peter Thiel, who is similarly disillusioned with democracy and American government. 

"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible," Thiel wrote in 2009, and earlier this year, he declared that Republican members of Congress who voted for Trump's impeachment after the January 6 attacks were "traitorous." 

Fox host Tucker Carlson is another fan, interviewing Yarvin with some fascination for his streaming program last year. He's even influenced online discourse — Yarvin was the first to popularize the analogy from The Matrix of being "redpilled" or "-pilled," suddenly losing your illusions and seeing the supposed reality of the world more clearly, as applied to politics…

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug