An overview of fringe theorist – dark enlightenment, neo-reactionary – Curtis Yarvin’s ‘RAGE’ (Retire All Government Employees) and ‘Butterfly Revolution’ ideas, which together form a companion to the Project 2025 strategy. Yarvin calls for a “systematic renewal of America’s institutions”, in which the new regime should “seize all points of power, without respect for paper protections,“ and “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat” to “replace them with our people” — what he calls a “de-woke-ification program,” which, it seems, extends well beyond the government. Duran encourages us to take these people at their word: “we are witnessing the methodical implementation of a long-planned strategy to transform American democracy into corporate autocracy. The playbook was written in plain sight and is now being followed step by step. Some dismiss the Yarvins of the world as unhinged nuts, but that’s the point. These guys, with their bizarre and dangerous ideas, have gotten very far in 2025. Just look at the news.”


