Years before he was the Republican vice presidential nominee, however, Vance openly touted that influence.
“So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things,” Vance said on a right-wing podcast in 2021. Vance didn’t stop at a simple name-drop.
He went on to explain how former President Donald Trump should remake the federal bureaucracy if reelected.
“I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
This “piece of advice” is more or less identical to a proposal Yarvin floated around 2012: “Retire All Government Employees,” or RAGE.
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They've been talking about ignoring court rulings for years. Now they're in a position to actually do that.
It may well happen soon that they ignore a Supreme Court ruling. It depends how far they think they can push it.