JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the antidemocracy movement in America | Robert Reich

JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice-president, will almost certainly be the Republican presidential candidate in 2028, regardless of whether Donald Trump wins in November.

Or does Vance have an agenda over and above mere political ambition?

Hello? Freedom is incompatible with democracy only if you view democracy as a potential constraint on your wealth and power.

Yarvin comes as close as anyone as being the intellectual godfather of the anti-democracy movement. He has written that real political power in the United States is held by a liberal amalgam of universities and the mainstream press, whose commitment to equality and justice is eroding social order.

Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.