From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm David Marquesie.

For a long time, Curtis Jarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer,

had been writing online about political theory and relative obscurity.

His ideas were pretty extreme,

that institutions like the mainstream media and academia have been

overrun by progressive groupthink and need to be dissolved. He believes that government bureaucracy

should be radically gutted and that American democracy should be replaced by what he calls

a monarchy run by what he's called a CEO, which is basically his friendlier term for a dictator.

To support his arguments,

Yarvin relies on what sympathetic ears

might hear as a helpful serving of historical references,

but which others hear

as a distorting mix of gross oversimplification,

cherry-picking, personal interpretation presented as fact,

and just plain inaccuracy.

But while Yarvin himself may still be obscure, his ideas are not.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance has alluded to his notions of forcibly ridding American institutions of so-called wokeism.

You know, there's this guy Curtis Jarvin, who's written about some of these things.

Incoming State Department official Michael Anton has spoken with Yarvin about how an

American Caesar might be installed into power.

You're essentially advocating for someone to, you know, an age-old move, right, which is

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