Thread by @davetroy

1/It's time we focus on Mark Skousen. He is central in about six different ways to the libertarian extremist movement behind January 6th. His uncle, Cleon Skousen, was an influential John Birch Society + Council for National Policy mainstay.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Cleon_…

2/Mark founded FEEFest in 2002, which later became the libertarian conference "FreedomFest" packed with fascist luminaries and LARPers like Candace Owens. @TheFreedomFest promotes Project Veritas, O'Keefe, etc.

3/Mark is, of course, pushing gold (Nicaraguan no less) and is once again, still predicting financial catastrophes. He's a free market absolutist who believed Adam Smith's "invisible hand" theory was "inspired of god."
markskousen.com/offer/fs-decad…

4/Mark is a founding member of ZEDE Camp, an effort put forth by zealots of Austrian economics looking to co-opt lands in Central America to do large scale libertarian experiments without consent of the existing populations.
bakerstreetherald.com/index-people/

5/Mark claims to have been a CIA economic analyst, adding yet another "former CIA" link into this network. And he has written for and appeared at events for Oxford Club and Agora Publishing, deeply connected to the CIA and the gold-bug agenda.
oxfordclub.com/about-alternat…

6/And Mark is part of the Mont Pelerin Society, the hardcore libertarian club founded by Friedrich Hayek and frequented by the likes of Peter Thiel.
markskousen.com/the-1-lesson-i…

7/The current conflict is rooted in gold/crypto vs. fiat and in hierarchical vs. cooperative models for societal organization. Misanthropes who don't like the world the way it is are trying to reshape it into something they comprehend; and without democratic input.

8/Folks like Mark Skousen are at the nexus of both theory and practice for this network and they should be exposed with the maximum possible sunlight. This is what precipitated #Jan6; we need to talk about this conflict axis in mainstream media. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Skou…