MAGA’s New Hero is a Total Crackpot

I can't do better than James Fallows's assessment of Curtis Yarvin, the Caesarist Internet crank who has a grip on many members of the techno-Right, including the vice president of the United States of America, J. Divan Vance, and who also seems to be a dumb person's idea of a smart person, if the dumb person is playing Dungeons & Dragons while watching Gladiator on mushrooms.

If you're having trouble viewing this email, view in browser What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers  The Newest MAGA Intellectual Hero Was Just Denounced as a Total Crackpot I can't do better than James Fallows's assessment of Curtis Yarvin, the Caesarist Internet crank who has a grip on many members of the techno-Right, including the vice president of the United States of America, J. Divan Vance, and who also seems to be a dumb person's idea of a smart person, if the dumb person is playing Dungeons & Dragons while watching Gladiator on mushrooms. Read More Here's More Damning Evidence That Trump's Administration Is Reestablishing White Supremacy The current administration's fiscal bloodletting is the culmination of years of congressional neglect and underfunding, as though that is any surprise to anyone who knows the history of this country and its Indigenous peoples. But it's also a component in a project vital to this administration—the reestablishment of white supremacy in all levels of government and at every level of American society. Read More A Republican Senator Actually Said, "Well, We All Are Going to Die" in Response to Backlash on Medicaid Cuts Well, it looks as though my old pal, Joni Ernst, the junior senator from Iowa, had a bit of a time with the home folk at her town hall this week. (Props to her for even having one, Republicans having suddenly been struck with unbreakable periodontal appointments once they got back home.) Read More Trump and Vance Were Dead Wrong About Ukraine. There's Still Plenty of Fight Left. A country under massive bombardment by a ruthless dictator who revels in destroying population centers with promiscuous contempt puts together a nearly perfect counterstrike on a huge percentage of its opponent's airborne missile carriers. It was planned for an entire year and a half in immaculate secrecy. Turns out they were wrong, all of them—the president, vice president J. Divan Vance, and the microscopic remains of Marco Rubio. Ukraine has a few more cards to play. Read More Trump Continues to Go After Harvard with Vengeful, Reckless Stupidity This Proclamation was part and parcel of what was a busy day of presidential chest pounding and Proclamatin'. He also announced that he was simply banning all migrants from 12 countries, many of them violent wreckages of what they used to be. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2025 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779 Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Unknown View my complete profile Blog Archive ▼  2025 (211) ▼  June (22) The Best TV Episodes of 2025 I Went to Trump’s Joyless Parade What the F@$% Is Going on at Paramount? 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