Curtis Yarvin helped inspire DOGE. Now he scorns it.
Silicon Valley’s neo-monarchist muse compares the Trump administration’s bureaucracy slashers to an orchestra of chimpanzees.
By Peter Jamison and Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post
Before gutting the federal workforce became Elon Musk’s job, it was Curtis Yarvin’s dream.
Yarvin — a Silicon Valley blogger and software developer who argues for replacing American democracy with a dictatorship — spent years outlining an assault on what he calls “the cathedral” of elite power and consensus. Long before the U.S. DOGE Service launched in January, Yarvin coined his own four-letter acronym for bureaucracy-slashing: RAGE, or “Retire All Government Employees.”
