We need to think not of what gives us hope, but of who gives us hope in the midst of this challenge to democracy.

Initially published under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin’s ideas are extreme even by the standards of the American right.

Dark Roots: From Moldbug to Monarchy At the heart of the Dark MAGA ideology is Curtis Yarvin, a former software engineer and self-proclaimed“Dark Elf” philosopher.

Writing under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug in a 2008 blog, Yarvin advocated for a dictator-led monarchy to replace democracy in the US.

Under the alias of “Mencius Moldbug”, Yarvin wrote a 120,000-word blog called ‘An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.’ It lobbed a hand grenade at the heart of democracy as long ago ...

He first came to their attention when he was blogging as one Mencius Moldbug and dropped a 120,000-word dung-bomb onto the innocent Intertoobz. From the The New Yorker: ...

Yarvin—formerly Mencius Moldbug, currently the "Dark Elf" of the dissident right—isn’t just an edgelord with a blog. He’s the house philosopher of Silicon Autocracy.

In the mid-2000s, writing under the name Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin began articulating a new political philosophy that would become known as the “neo-reactionary” or “dark enlightenment ...

In 2013, an article on the news site TechCrunch, titled “Geeks for Monarchy,” revealed that Mencius Moldbug was the cyber alias of a forty-year-old programmer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin.

Curtis Yarvin plots against America. Plus: Ronan Farrow on what Elon Musk’s alleged drug use means for DOGE—and for the rest of us.

Then there’s the more obscure but influential network of alt-tech and crypto libertarians – people like Balaji Srinivasan, Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug), and various “neo-reactionary ...

Writing under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, a play on “goldbug” and a Confucian philosopher of the Zhou dynasty, Yarvin gradually constructed a radical critique of liberal democracy.