October 2026
2.2 JD Vance
- Who: Vice President. Formerly at Thiel's Mithril Capital (from 2017, per CBS) [V]. Catholic convert (2019) [R].
- Yarvin: on Jack Murphy's podcast (Sept 2021), from a transcript filed in federal court (CourtListener exhibit; also Vox, The Verge) [V]:
- "there's this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who's written about some of these things."
- "fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say the chief justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it."
- The Verge notes this closely matches Yarvin's 2012 "RAGE" (Retire All Government Employees) proposal.
- Policy: in Paris (11 Feb 2025) he said "excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off" (American Presidency Project, AP) [V].
- Doesn't show: dispensationalist belief. His project is institutional capture (Yarvin and RAGE), which is a secular power program, not a prophetic one.