Yes of course the Trump administration is the Intellectual Dark Web administration

Pinker dancing for joy over Trump's
defeat in 2020
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Yes, like the Intellectual Dark Web, the Trump administration is chock-full of unqualified morons, racists, grifters and right-wing extremist plutocrats. 

I made the connection between J. D. Vance and the IDW back in August.

Trump supporters Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are hard-core believers in race pseudoscience - I noted Trump was pushing race pseudoscience during the campaign.

The Conversation, an opinion website funded foremost by religious conservatives, is celebrating this victory of IDW-style racism and fascism über alles in an article by Jamie Q. Roberts.

Roberts, an Australian, is a true believer in the Intellectual Dark Web, working on a forthcoming book about the IDW.

It's obvious that Roberts adores the idiocracy:

Donald Trump had his own celebrities, such as Hulk Hogan, but he was also supported by a group of converted Democrats: Joe Rogan, Tulsi Gabbard, (just chosen as Trump’s director of national intelligence), Robert F. Kennedy Jr (Trump’s pick to head the federal health agency), and Elon Musk, who has been selected to co-lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. 

Rogan is a self-confessed moron.

Gabbard is also a moron and a Russian asset.

Stephen Colbert recently had some great lines about Gabbard: “Tulsi Gabbard has been named Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence. Now, I... I... I have met this woman. I interviewed Tulsi Gabbard right over there during the 2020 presidential campaign, and I gotta say... uh... when, I think Tulsa Gabbard, the word intelligence is not the first one that comes to mind. Or the second. And, a reminder, a reminder: Gabbard is known for spreading Russian propaganda on fringe, far right sites, which is why Hillary Clinton said Tulsa Gabbard is being groomed by Russia, but only because she’s too old to be groomed by Matt Gaetz.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaxxer and animal-corpse-abusing kook.

Elon Musk is also a Russian asset and a full-blown corrupt oligarch in the Russian tradition, who needs to be deported back to South Africa.

The best part of the article though is when Roberts links Trump's victory to the IDW grift of Steven Pinker.

While Trump won for many reasons, including immigration and the economy, my sense is that Trump, forever the populist, harnessed a widespread dissatisfaction with a form of identity politics promulgated by a quite often well-paid, white-collar class: psychologist Steven Pinker’s “chattering class.”

Pinker can be seen a month ago worrying about a Trump presidency. While comparing Trump's fascism to "culture wars" and the woke mob.

Pinker's dislike of Trump while loving much of what Trump stands for is likely more evidence of Pinker's intellectual incoherence: he likes to have things both ways, a personality trait which many critics have noticed.

I hope Steven Pinker's devotion to the IDW grift will henceforth be recognized as an important factor in the triumph of fascism over American democracy.