Curtis Yarvin says America was Rotten Since the Beginning (YouTube)

YouTube ^ | May 19, 2026 | Rufo & Lomez

[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.

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“Woke right” is a silly, stupid, propagandistic term. There’s nothing “woke” about the alt.right.

[ek_hornbeck]

“Woke right” is a silly, stupid, propagandistic term. There’s nothing “woke” about the alt.right.

I use the term "woke right" to describe politically correct Republicans, i.e. those who support the woke left's hobbyhorses like tearing down Confederate statues, removing Andrew Jackson on the $20 and replacing him with Harriet Tubman, and those who favor liberal immigration policies towards Third World peoples. They've absorbed the left's values systems while voting Republican, perhaps because they just want a tax cut or some particular deregulation.

[ek_hornbeck]

Your entire line of argument confuses that which is invented with that which is discovered. British-style constitutional monarchy and the US constitutional Republic were creations of specific cultures and peoples, a self-expression of their personal instincts and values systems. It wasn't some abstraction that existed in its own right to be discovered - indeed, it is something utterly bizarre and alien to most non-Western (particularly non-Anglo) people. That's precisely why attempts to "democratize" the Middle East are doomed to failure.

Your thinking is analogous to somebody who believes that the internal combustion engine is something that existed a priori nature, like gravity or electromagnetism, as opposed to being the outcome of people's creative impulses.

[Albion Wilde]

Weekend bump

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That makes more sense than applying it to the nutcases on the alt.right.