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# 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
- URL: https://werd.io/reboot-revealed-elon-musks-ceo-dictator-playbook/
- Published: 2025-02-07T15:48:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-07T15:48:10.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Gil Duran in The Nerd Reich](https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/)\]

[Curtis Yarvin's influence](https://werd.io/2025/the-interview-curtis-yarvin-says-democracy-is-done) is felt again:

> " In an essay on his paywalled Substack, he imagined a second Trump presidency in which Trump would enable a radical government transformation. The proposal will sound familiar to anyone who has watched Musk wreak havoc on the United States Government (USG) over the past three weeks."

As Duran points out, none of what's happening right now is exactly *new* or a *surprise*:

> "What surprises me most is how the political press generally fails to inform the public that Musk is taking a systematic approach, one that has been outlined in public forums for years. (Some press outlets, like the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, are owned by billionaires keenly interested in kowtowing to Musk and Trump.)"

For many people, the myth of American exceptionalism may be so deeply in their bloodstream that they simply can't imagine our institutions falling to this. But of course they can: this is the country that gave us McCarthyism and Jim Crow. it's happening in plain sight.

[#Democracy](https://werd.io/tag/Democracy)

\[[Link](https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/)\]