Contemporary populist movements on both right and left (Trump, Elon Musk) promote a radical lack of trust in institutions and advocate destroying existing institutions and reinventing civilization from scratch, which mirrors the revolutionary position of Leninism and Bolshevism from a century ago.

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Yuval Noah Harari

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the Republican party today in the United States is a re is a revolutionary party

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Yuval Noah Harari: Free Speech, Institutional Distrust, & Social Order | Making Sense #386Sam Harris
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:26:14 PM

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