Chuck Darwin<p>Yarvin and Laurenson bounded out of the crowd as the cheers were still ringing. </p><p>They were giggling, seeming to have had some wine. </p><p>“Nixon—Nixon!”Laurenson said, <br />still laughing. </p><p>I couldn’t tell if she was delighted or horrified.</p><p>A couple of hours later I found Vance standing up by the bar, <br />surrounded by a circle of young and identical-looking fanboys. </p><p>I went over. He asked what I’d thought of the speech, and he suggested we find somewhere to talk.</p><p>He asked me to turn my recorder off so we could speak candidly. </p><p>I agreed, with regret, because the conversation revealed someone who I think will be hugely influential in our politics in the coming years, <br />even if he loses his Senate primary, <br />as both of us thought was possible.</p><p>It also revealed someone who is in a dark place, <br />with a view that we are at an ominous turning point in America’s history. </p><p>He didn’t want to describe this to me on the record. </p><p>But I can show it anyway, because he already says it publicly, and you can hear it too.</p><p>That night, I went up to my hotel room and listened to a podcast interview Vance had conducted with Jack Murphy, <br />the big, bearded head of the "Liminal Order" men’s group. </p><p>Murphy asked how it was that Vance proposed to rip out America’s leadership class.</p><p>Vance described two possibilities that many on the New Right imagine<br />—that our system will either fall apart naturally, <br />or that a great leader will assume semi-dictatorial powers.</p><p>“So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things,” Vance said. </p><p>Murphy chortled knowingly. </p><p>“So one [option] is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself,” Vance went on. </p><p>“And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved,” waiting for the “inevitable collapse” of the current order.</p><p>He said he thought this was pessimistic. </p><p>“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,” he said.<br /> “And turn them against the left. </p><p>We need like a <br />de-Baathification program, <br />a de-woke-ification program.”</p><p>I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. </p><p>“I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: </p><p>Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, </p><p>replace them with our people.”</p><p>“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say<br />—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order<br />—“the chief justice has made his ruling. 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