Elon Musk and the Dark MAGA Cult

How an obscure blogger named Curtis Yarvin became the ideological voice of the New Dark Right

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If you are an observant person, you may have noticed that Elon Musk now wears a gothic-looking black MAGA cap, first introduced during the 2024 campaign. Priced at $40 (USD), sales skyrocketed after Musk wore one at an October rally, and proclaimed himself part of the “Dark MAGA” movement.

Trump’s campaign sold matching T-shirts and sweatshirts that raised $1.25 million, and that number increased after Musk wore the Dark MAGA hat again, during a CPAC event, generating $400,000 in additional sales, revealing the commercial and political clout behind the dark MAGA branding.

This subcult of the Republican right are not Trump supporters, they are “Dark MAGA.” This isn’t just some clever marketing. It is an ideological platform based on years of planning. Dark MAGA is the real power behind the Trump throne. Elon Musk along with Peter Thiel and the PayPal Mafia are not just backing Trump—they are using him to build a technocratic state. Elon Musk bought his seat at the White House with a staggering $289 million donation to the Republican Party. This is in addition to the $283 million that the Trump campaign had already raised.

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Their goal is to do exactly what they are doing: Dismantling American democratic institutions and replacing them with a corporate monarchy where billionaires run America. Trump is just a useful and willing pawn in this game.

JD Vance is being promoted as the new “MAGA heir-apparent” in order to help implement this transition. His role is to act as the mediator between the tech right and the populist right factions within the Trump coalition.

From a report by Politico, on March 18:

Vance opened his speech Tuesday by identifying himself as “a proud member of both tribes” on the right and acknowledged the apparent points of conflict between the “techno-optimists” and MAGA populists like Bannon. But Vance went on to argue that the conflict between the two camps was not as intractable as outside observers had made it out to be.

“This idea that tech-forward people and the populists are somehow inevitably going to come to a loggerhead is wrong,” said Vance, speaking to the audience of tech executives and conservative politicos gathered in the gilded ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington.

Peter Thiel mentored the young JD Vance and helped him set up his first Venture Capital firm in Silicone Valley. Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded $15 million to JD Vance's successful Senate run—notable because Vance had absolutely zero political experience.

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel co-founded a company that became PayPal. Other executives at PayPal went on to create or lead other big tech companies, including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many Venture Capital firms. This group became known as the PayPal mafia and they have significant influence in Silicon Valley—and now they have infiltrated the White House.

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NEO-REACTIONARIES AND THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign. The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment, espoused primarily by Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug. He blogs under his own “reactionary enlightenment” brand Unqualified Reservations.

Yarvin originally called his ideology “formalism,” but in 2010, the libertarian blogger Arnold Kling referred to him as a “neo-reactionary.” Other bloggers, such as Anomaly UK, Nick Land (who coined “dark enlightenment”) and Michael Anissimov, started to self-identify as neo-reactionary, or NRx.

Yarvin is unabashedly anti-democractic, and claims in one of his epic rants, that, “The Western world is moving toward a globalized, transnational free market in which politics is increasingly irrelevant, and technocratic experts and NGOs play larger roles in fighting corruption, protecting the environment, and delivering essential public services.”

Can you say global technocracy any louder?

Peter Thiel, who calls himself a libertarian, is one of Yarvin’s biggest supporters. Thiel, who boldy claimed that “freedom and democracy are incompatible,” has praised Yarvin’s work as his “most important connection.”

Yarvin appeared on Tucker Carlson and preached that the media and academia represent “The Cathedral”—the group that secretly controls power and needs to be dismantled. He believes the “masses are asses”—people are too dumb to govern themselves—and therefore, Yarvin proposes turning nation states into corporations with the king as CEO and the aristocracy as shareholders. He claims that democracy is an “outdated software” and openly opposes it, claiming government agencies should be dismantled and the U.S. should be broken up into “patchworks” controlled by elite tech billionaires who should rule because they have the intelligence to “fix” society.

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An article in the Guardian, quotes Robert Evans, an extremism researcher and the host of the podcast Behind the Bastards, that explores notorious figures in history:

“He has influenced a lot of people in the incoming administration and a lot of other influential people on the right. But a lot of the stuff he advocates is the same windmills Republicans have been tilting at for a while. What’s unique is his way of rebranding or repackaging old reactionary ideas in a way that appealed to libertarian-minded kids in the tech industry, and in eventually getting some of them to embrace a lot of far-right ideas. That’s the novelty of Yarvin and that’s his real accomplishment.”

The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating. We are literally watching the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE do this in real time.

Vice-president JD Vance cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021,

“So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things", which included "Retire All Government Employees" or RAGE. Vance said that if Trump became president again, “I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"

The goal is to replace government with private corporations, and eliminate elections because they are “obsolete.” They will accomplish with distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance. Trump is their useful idiot who will be retired once they can wrest control. This push is coming from the Republican right-wing, who are still on an election high, and they are too distracted to realize what is happening right in front of them.

From a prescient article in Vanity Fair, from April 2022:

“Political reporters, at least the ones who have bothered to write about Yarvin, have often dismissed him as a kook with a readership made up mostly of lonely internet weirdos, fascists, or both. But to ignore him is to underestimate how Yarvin’s ideas, or at least ideas in conversation with his, have become foundational to a whole political and cultural scene that goes much deeper than anything you’d learn from the panels and speeches at an event like NatCon. Or how those ideas are going to shape the future of the American right, whether or not Vance and Masters win their Senate primaries.”

Yarvin is making inroads into the upper echelons of American politics, even interviewed by the New York Times in January of this year.

YARVIN’S DEEP STATE CONNECTIONS

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: Yarvin is Jewish. His grandparents were liberal, secular communists. Yarvin is an atheist.

Both his parents worked as diplomats for the American Foreign Service. His father, Herbert Yarvin, was a member of the UN Economic and Social Council, which would produce a report for the Commission on Science and Technology for Development in May, 1999.

From a detailed look into the Yarvin family history, by Johnny Vedmore:

In June 2000, Norman [Curtis Yarvin’s older brother] was still publishing at Yale when he was assigned a role in a DARPA-sponsored project that culminated in a paper entitled Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions, Quadrature and Interpulation, alongside authors Hong Xiao and Vladimir Rokhlin. Between 1991 and 2006, Norman Yarvin would help produce seven papers through Yale’s Department of Computer Science, most of which were sponsored by DARPA.

Herb Yarvin’s technical thinking skills saw him create a name for himself within the foreign service. In the early 1990s, Herb headed to Arlington, Virginia, closer than he had ever been before to the halls of American power. It would be during the first administration of President Bill Clinton that Herb Yarvin would find himself appointed to the State 2000 Force, a group tasked with redesigning the entire US approach to foreign affairs as part of the US Department of State Management Task Force. As a member of the State 2000 Force, Herb found himself heading up the section of the report which would advise the administration on how to exploit technology, economics and global issues. Entitled: State 2000 : A New Model for Managing Foreign Affairs, the report was released in January 1993.

In 1997, Herb was again tasked to write a report on behalf of the Clinton administration on the subject of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how it was affecting miners in South Africa.

Yarvin’s theories are nothing new, for anyone who has been following the WEF and their plans for a Great Reset and a Fourth Industrial Revolution. Yarvin is just clever enough to repackage Klaus Schwab’s Stakeholder Capitalism with some cool rebranding, making his appeal to tech savvy billionaires, who are looking for some ideological justification for a digital coup of the American government.

Yarvin is essentially advocating for a technocracy ruled by hereditary corporate monarchs, who will manage the world, human beings and the world’s resources through artificial intelligence. The Dark MAGA sub-cult is the marketing strategy to convince the MAGA cult that this is a libertarian project to reduce government and weed out corruption.

In an epic plot twist, that is guaranteed to break the irony meter, it is now up to the Democrat Party hopefuls to awaken from their Woke slumber, in order to fight this techno-coup of American democracy. In another political tragedy, it is apparent the Republicans are not going to resist, because the MAGA cult members are comatose after massively self-injecting with the orange Kool Aid.