I don’t agree with Yarvin. He has a rather top-down view of societies. The concrete-and-steel world doesn’t work that way, quite.
My model is a mishmash of Paul Johnson “Birth of the Modern”, plus Bernard Anderson “Imagined Communities”, plus some of Gramsci - Yarvin cribbed a lot from Gramsci - and Codevilla puts it all together.
Codevilla has over 60 mentions of the Democratic and Republican Parties in that essay.
The parties and the elected politicians are the least important and influential part of the Regime.
Don’t believe me ?
Watch as Biden is pushed aside. The important players are not elected politicians publicly stating he should not run. They are waiting for the elite media to announce Biden shouldn’t run. Then the politicians will join that position.
The Cathedral decides when it is time for a player change in The Show.
Biden is not important. Despite being the supposed Head of State, he is clearly not in charge.
The fight over Biden running again is a contest for influence within the Regime. But it is a contest for power by people who are not elected politicians.
David Ignatius had an op-ed in the WashPost yesterday stating Biden and Harris should not run again. Ignatius is the media figure closest to the CIA and the Intel Swamp in all of Washington.
His op-ed is the National Security Swamp view that Biden has to go. But The Castle is the least important and influential group in the Regime.
When the Post and the NYT run editorial board opinions that Biden and Harris should not run, that will be the Cathedral speaking, and that is when it will happen.