Silicon Valley’s neo-monarchist muse compares the Trump administration’s bureaucracy slashers to an orchestra of chimpanzees.
Yarvin — a Silicon Valley blogger and software developer who argues for replacing American democracy with a dictatorship — spent years outlining an assault on what he calls “the cathedral” of elite power and consensus. Long before the U.S. DOGE Service launched in January, Yarvin coined his own four-letter acronym for bureaucracy-slashing: RAGE, or “Retire All Government Employees.”
That’s because efficiency isn’t the goal. They’re firing people just to hire them back and rewriting code that works fine simply because it’s old.