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Curtis Yarvin says America was Rotten Since the Beginning (YouTube)
YouTube ^ | May 19, 2026 | Rufo & Lomez

Posted on 05/21/2026 11:54:14 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

Curtis Yarvin joins Christopher Rufo and Jonathan “Lomez” Keeperman to dissect Trump’s two administrations, the hollowing out of GOP power, and performative vs. real politics and to debate America’s founding history.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: criticaltheory; curtisyarvin; whataretheirfrnicks; wokeright; yarvin
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It is so odd to me when we discover that there are people who are said to be "on the right" but they have such white hot hatred for the American Founders. Yarvin starts in with his insanity and propaganda at about 53:30 of the video and it goes downhill fast from there.

This is why James Lindsay started calling them Woke Right but he got more specific and down to the problem.

Curtis Yarvin is a part of the group of people who espouse Critical America Theory.

https://newdiscourses.com/2026/03/critical-america-theory-left-and-right/

The biggest fallacy of all that Yarvin suffers under is that he thinks the American Revolution was a left wing revolution and that could not be more wrong. Our Rights are a gift from God, that's not left wing.

1 posted on 05/21/2026 11:54:14 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Shameful anti-American cover of the New Yorker Magazine.

Shows the trend for fighting against patriotism and pride in the 250 year birthday of the USA.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2026-05-11


2 posted on 05/21/2026 11:58:13 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Opinions are like assholes, everybody’s get ‘em.


3 posted on 05/21/2026 11:58:13 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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This guy has pull though.

There are a lot of Gen Z who are embracing Woke Right and Critical America Theory - it is happening by the millions. Progressives have spent decades in government schools teaching students to hate the Founding and Yarvin figured out the formula to exploit it for an anti-progressive, Woke Right purpose.

This is not a thing to take lightly, there’s a reason why Rufo and Lomez had him on the show in the first place.

These are your future voters.


4 posted on 05/21/2026 12:01:35 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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Wow Curtis Yavin said THAT!! No way …NOT THE Curtis Yavin!!! The world famous Curtis ! Ol’ Curtie ! THAT Curtis Yavin wow!!


5 posted on 05/21/2026 12:04:18 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

And Massie may be their candidate in 2028, which would guarantee a Rat win.


6 posted on 05/21/2026 12:04:51 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Interesting take. Is what you posit true?


7 posted on 05/21/2026 12:07:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Yet, once again, they never seem to want to leave the country they hate so much.

It is a puzzle.

8 posted on 05/21/2026 12:07:22 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: dfwgator

Now you understand the Yarvin threat. Its real.


9 posted on 05/21/2026 12:07:57 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

...since the beginning of the progressive era


10 posted on 05/21/2026 12:13:06 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Yarvin aka "Mencius Moldbug" is a kook who thinks that America needs a monarchy. I wonder who Moldbug thinks should be the founder of the dynasty - perhaps Moldbug himself?

It's bad enough that we have political dynasties in which grossly unqualified people rise to positions of power because of family connections. Enshrining that nepotism into law will only make the problem worse.

11 posted on 05/21/2026 12:15:52 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ProgressingAmerica
These are your future voters.

Western Civilization is undergoing collapse. It will not survive.

12 posted on 05/21/2026 12:29:38 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“””””Curtis Yarvin is a part of the group of people who espouse Critical America Theory.”””””

The only reason such a group would form or exist is to go Orwellian on humans, to brainwash them, and the only reason for that is to control them and the future of America by instilling in them Pavlovian response to everything America, education, political campaigns, traditions, American celebrations and revivals, monuments, old books and literature, old movies and historical images, everything.


13 posted on 05/21/2026 12:30:22 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: dfwgator

SOME ALSO HAVE HEMMROIDS


14 posted on 05/21/2026 12:30:52 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
rogressives have spent decades in government schools teaching students to hate the Founding and Yarvin figured out the formula to exploit it for an anti-progressive, Woke Right purpose.

This reminds me of how Denish D'Souza and other politically correct conservatives echoed the Left's talking points about Andrew Jackson and about the Confederacy, and managed to sell it to many conservative Republicans on the grounds that Jackson and Jefferson Davis etc were "Democrats", completely ignoring the fact that a Democrat in the mid-19th century had absolutely nothing in common ideologically with Democrats from the 21st.

As a result, you had Republicans repeating the Left's demand that Andrew Jackson be replaced by Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill and that all statues of Confederate Generals need to come down. It's a cheap sleight of hand, but it worked. Moldbug and company are doing much the same thing in a slightly more sophisticated way. The term "Woke Right" fits both.

15 posted on 05/21/2026 12:33:54 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Then how can they remain in this country? They need to leave today.


16 posted on 05/21/2026 12:34:01 PM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: escapefromboston

Most of what Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug) writes is cribbed from Hans-Hermann Hoppe, at least the things he writes that seem semi-sensible and intelligent. The few ideas that he comes up with on his own are basically just pretentious babble.


17 posted on 05/21/2026 12:39:49 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ProgressingAmerica

It is so odd to me when we discover that there are people who are said to be ‘on the right’ but they have such white hot hatred for the American Founders”

It’s because they’re communists in sheep’s clothing. Including Yarvin. Don’t believe what he says about himself.

This is a fundamental method in communism. Essentially sleeper cells.


18 posted on 05/21/2026 12:57:18 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The story of every nation on the planet has triumphs and tragedies. The United States is no different.

What matters is whether a nation learns and evolves or if it sinks into corruption and despotism.

The Founding Fathers were the product of their era. They should be judged not by the standards of today but what they did to advance civilization and the cause individual liberty for all people. The Declaration of Independence certainly made the case for individual liberty and self governance in an era where authoritarian rule by hereditary monarchs was the rule. The Constitution institutionalize a republican government which did not end slavery or include women’s suffrage but it did provide a framework which could be expanded to be more inclusive over time. It also institutionalized a rule of law that protected property rights and facilitated the growth of a capitalist economy which allowed the US to become the largest and most prosperous economy in the world.

The great gift of the Founders was creating a representative government that ultimately extended unalienable God given rights to all citizens AND protected the exercise of those rights by citizens pursuing their own destiny. This was a turning point in the advancement of human civilization. That accomplishment cannot be diminished or denigrated by anyone who truly believes in liberty.

Measured by the advancement of liberty over the past 250 years in America, the progressives of today’s left are failures. They reject universal natural rights, granted by God, for privileges given to citizen servants of the state based on arbitrary and ever changing “values” determined by the ruling class.


19 posted on 05/21/2026 1:07:30 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: reasonisfaith

I see more and more people “on the right” saying we should be like China.


20 posted on 05/21/2026 1:08:52 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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