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(THREAD) There’s no right-wing intelligentsia—the contemporary American right is a kleptocratic cult of internet trolls. But it’s scary to realize that as Trumpism tries to squeeze out *a few* intellectuals—like Curtis Yarvin—they’re neomonarchists openly trying to end democracy.
1/ It can be hard for Americans to understand the stakes of the 2022 elections, which should never again be called the “midterms”—they’re the “2022 national elections”—because U.S. media is exclusively focused on horse races. There’s almost no discussion of the real implications.
2/ So here are the implications: January 6, 2021 saw a premeditated, coordinated, paramilitary attack on the US government aimed at obstructing the peaceful transfer of power long enough to allow neomonarchists to end our democracy. It *wasn’t* “the insurrection” in its entirety.
