Link: https://www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-curtis-yarvin-jd-vance-guru-plans-to-flee-usa/

Some Good News: Curtis Yarvin, the anti-American “Dark Enlightenment” guru credited as “the philosopher behind JD Vance,” believes the Trump administration is doomed to fail.

Fearing retribution from a future Democratic administration, a terrified Yarvin declared on October 5 that he is already planning to flee the country.

Wrote Yarvin on Substack:

The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat. Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020—because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first—I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well. And it is not even clear that it will wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.

(He later edited the essay to remove the “I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country” line.)

While most people see Trump violating the Constitution in unprecedented ways and trying to seize dictatorial power, Yarvin sees only weakness and failure. On Twitter—where Vice President Vance follows him—he has criticized the Trump administration for not going far enough to wrest control of the nation and permanently dislodge Democrats from power. Back in March, Yarvin wrote that the Trump regime would “wither and eventually dissipate” unless he went full authoritarian.

Yarvin doesn’t think Trump has the guts to pull off a full fascist nightmare. Instead, he casts the administration’s actions as merely performative stunts with no lasting impact:

They look tough. They’re doing something. That they are not even doing 0.01% of what it would take to solve the problem—that, at much more risk to themselves, the most they could probably do is 0.05%—matters not.

Of course, Trump has turned ICE into an American Gestapo and is deploying US troops to American cities for no reason. Last week, he told a meeting of the nation’s top generals it was time to fight an “enemy within.” This is all quite unprecedented and horrifying to most Americans.

But it’s still not enough for the shit lord of the Dork Enlightenment. What, exactly, would satisfy him? Yarvin:

Getting rid of all the liberal judges is easier than getting rid of all one liberal judge. Getting rid of all the judges is easier than getting rid of all the liberal judges. Getting rid of the whole legal system is easier than getting rid of all the judges. Getting rid of the whole machine of government is easier than getting rid of the whole legal system. Getting rid of the whole philosophy of government is easier than getting rid of the whole machine of government.

Nothing less than a full-on destruction of the United States can sate his thirst for power.

Yarvin, clearly feeling paranoid and pressured, has experienced significant reputational decline in recent months. Notably, he has become a target of mockery and scorn from fellow right-wingers who see his approach as a political dead end.