A Real Path to Grand Politics
2nd November 2026
Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug).
My view is that the second Trump administration has had 10x the impact of the first, easily. Almost all of these impacts have been positive. Nonetheless, the overall impact (domestically) is negligible. This is easy to show: you could easily imagine 10xing it again—at least twice. Probably three times. Somewhere in those orders of magnitude, for example, is the executive power of FDR—the founding emperor of our republic, whose personal monarchy survived his death and became our permanent bureaucracy.
My view is that a Republican administration should deprioritize “good government” entirely, and focus on reducing the capacity of the enemy to resist. A compromise might be to focus directly on winning elections—rather than focusing on winning them indirectly through the popular approval created by acts of good government. Note that the impact of governance on popularity remains mediated by the media.
Note also that this fundamentally military attitude has been the political lodestone of the Democratic Party for the whole lives of those now living. When right-wing boat people wanted to escape from communist Vietnam in the mid-70s, Democrats like Jerry Brown and even Joe Biden were the loudest voices screaming about “our jawbs.” The “lib” has no shame and no belief system at all: he can be all about blood and soil in the Ukraine, and full globalist “It’s a Small World After All” in Hungary. He is just a power junkie; watch his actions, not his words; if power lie in the west, never shall his feet take him east. In South Africa in the “Rand Rebellion” in 1922, communists carried signs reading “Workers of the World Unite—To Keep South Africa White.”