Political Memes

I believe there is method behind it:
Thiel bought the government. Thiel likes Yarvin. Yarvin says "Fuck it all up!"

Vance cited in his 2022 Senate Campaign Yarvin's "strongman plan to 'retire all government employees,' which goes by the jaunty mnemonic 'RAGE.'" In a 2021 interview, "Vance said Trump should '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.’”

Yarvin (...) praised Trump for breaking from Republican practices of trying to "play ball and help the system work" and instead "trying to move all of the levers of this machine that he can move"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Both are true.

I feel like it's more a reflection of their base. Not all these politicians are stupid. Many have CVs showing very high functioning, sometimes even in academics. I think this is more about how stupid they think their base is.

Granted a lot of it is them acting outside of their expertise. Ben Carson was a good example. Definitely not a stupid guy but looney tunes crazy as a politician because he was acting outside his field.

Their are some nepo-trust-fund idiots though. Maybe it's more like a stew of idiotic behaviors from various etiologies.