Curtis Yarvin

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Reporting documented that several tech executives placed in senior federal positions were explicitly implementing governance ideas associated with Curtis Yarvin, a blogger who argues democracy should be replaced with corporate-style CEO rule. Officials in DOGE and affiliated agencies described reorganizing agencies to eliminate democratic accountability structures and concentrate decision-making authority in single appointed managers, explicitly citing Yarvin's neoreactionary framework.

Passage Press hosted the Coronation Ball at the Watergate Hotel's Moretti Ballroom on January 19, 2025, the night before Trump's second inauguration. Politico reported Yarvin was an informal guest of honor due to his outsize influence over the Trumpian right. Yarvin exchanged friendly greetings with Vice President J.D. Vance, had lunch with State Department Director of Policy Planning Michael Anton, and met with young conservatives entering the new administration.

The New York Times Magazine published a long-form interview titled "Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening." Yarvin told reporter David Marchese, "I don't believe in voting at all," and praised Franklin D. Roosevelt for governing in what Yarvin called a dictatorial manner. The interview ran two days before Trump's inauguration and signaled mainstream legitimation of openly anti-democratic theory.

Politico reported that Steve Bannon, then chief strategist in the first Trump White House, read Yarvin's blog and that Yarvin had opened a line to the administration through an intermediary. The Atlantic, Mother Jones, and The Independent picked up the story. The reporting marked the first major mainstream coverage of neoreactionary thought reaching senior White House staff.

Writing as Mencius Moldbug, Curtis Yarvin coined the slogan "Retire All Government Employees" (RAGE) in a 2012 blog post on Unqualified Reservations. The phrase proposed mass dismissal of career civil servants as a precondition for restoring executive control. RAGE later became the rhetorical template for Schedule F and DOGE-era staffing plans.