Read my series on JD Vance and the Pro-Slavery New Right

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Meg Conley

Meg Conley

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Read my series on JD Vance and the Pro-Slavery New Right

Prologue: A Dripping Dread

When we describe an order of power - in writing, on a group chat, over dinner - we are observing its limits. We are helping each other see the boundaries of the world that order creates. Once we've marked every boundary, we can see where that world ends

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Pt 1: JD Vance and the Pro-Slavery New Right

The New Right wants to establish dominion over us. And I mean that literally. These people want to bring back slavery. Like actual slavery, modeled on the Ancient Roman system of enslavement. They believe the “natural relationship” between a master and a slave is the foundation of good governance. According to them, a well-ordered society requiresslavery.

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Pt 2: The New Right Wants to Scale Slavery, I guess

JD Vance and Peter Thiel love Curtis Yarvin. Yarvin is a 4Chan Sophist King. He sounds like Mr. Collins - if Mr. Collins was a member of an edgelord clergy and had been distinguished by the patronage of Thomas Carlyle. Yarvin tries to use Matrix anti-fan fiction and irony to distract people from what he’s actually saying. But he’s not very good at it. So, despite his best efforts, t’s always obvious he said what he said. And what Yarvin says over and over again is: Democracy is bad. Authoritarian rule is good. And slavery is a requirement of a well-ordered society. 

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Pt 3: Trump's Charismatic Succession Plan

Tech billionaires have the power to influence us but they don’t have the authority to compel us. They’re using Trump to legitimize their power so that they can make us obey.

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Pt 4: JD Vance's liberty requires your subjugation

Every single time you hear JD Vance talk about “liberty” or “religious liberty,” he is using traditional idioms to serve an ancient politics. Vance means Roman libertas - a concept that co-evolved with the development of state-sanctioned slavery. In ancient Rome, a man could only claim his full share of liberty if he could exercise dominion over others. When billionaire and Vance-funder, Peter Thiel, wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible;" he was referencing this concept of liberty. He believes his liberty - and the liberty of his entire class - requires your subjugation.

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Women and Children First

JD Vance and the Pro-Slavery New Right are going to strip women and children of the right to survive.

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