Thank you, Brian! Always appreciate your work and look forward to future interviews!
For those interested, I've created a regularly updated voting guide (quick index + full guide). Except for people whom I know personally (or whose work I admire), it doesn't "endorse" candidates; other listed voting guides are doing that already. Instead, the guide is for those who want to learn more about evaluating candidates and making informed decisions at the ballot box with help from the many available tools and resources -- including, of course, Brian's Primary Pulse and Gem State Substack.
You’re free to tell Yarvin that doesn’t know history, but in the meantime, the thought that his essay is food for is to ask how our government works today compared to how our Founders created it. Is it right that the president has little oversight of the Executive Branch, as most of it is career civil service jobs? Is it right that Congress has delegated a ton of its authority to the Executive Branch? Today’s conservatives vehemently defend most of the New Deal, or at the very least have no plan to undo the massive reorganization and expansion of our government it brought about.
So in light of that, I find it interesting to read outside the box ideas. Our current system is irreparably broken, and simply repeating “we have to go back to the Constitution” doesn’t help anything.
Note I’m not endorsing Yarvin’s ideas, merely that I often find them thought provoking.
If your presentation of the article is to say that the executive branch is acting like a monarchy, that (1) operates above the law, (2) operates outside the law, and (3) exercises waivers for preferred parties, then I agree.
Thank you, Brian! Always appreciate your work and look forward to future interviews!
For those interested, I've created a regularly updated voting guide (quick index + full guide). Except for people whom I know personally (or whose work I admire), it doesn't "endorse" candidates; other listed voting guides are doing that already. Instead, the guide is for those who want to learn more about evaluating candidates and making informed decisions at the ballot box with help from the many available tools and resources -- including, of course, Brian's Primary Pulse and Gem State Substack.
➡️ Quick Index (short URL): https://tinyurl.com/5xw99zvx
🔖FULL Voting Guide (short URL): https://tinyurl.com/yh8jhppm
Brian, this monarchy article is not only NOT “Food for thought, in any case,” it is satire, or someone who knows little to no history.
You’re free to tell Yarvin that doesn’t know history, but in the meantime, the thought that his essay is food for is to ask how our government works today compared to how our Founders created it. Is it right that the president has little oversight of the Executive Branch, as most of it is career civil service jobs? Is it right that Congress has delegated a ton of its authority to the Executive Branch? Today’s conservatives vehemently defend most of the New Deal, or at the very least have no plan to undo the massive reorganization and expansion of our government it brought about.
So in light of that, I find it interesting to read outside the box ideas. Our current system is irreparably broken, and simply repeating “we have to go back to the Constitution” doesn’t help anything.
Note I’m not endorsing Yarvin’s ideas, merely that I often find them thought provoking.
If your presentation of the article is to say that the executive branch is acting like a monarchy, that (1) operates above the law, (2) operates outside the law, and (3) exercises waivers for preferred parties, then I agree.