the thing about Chris Rufo is, okay, there were Institutions he didn’t like. i get it. we all have institutions we don’t like that are nevertheless “important”, so seem oppressive. 1/

he could have, like, built new ones! tried to compete! persuaded people his were better! he’s good at getting millions and millions from Ron DeSantis and ideological fellow travelers. 2/

but he knows his positive program is paper thin. it could never compete. so he takes over institutions other people built, runs them into the dust but lives for a brief while off the inertial reputation and prestige that were the life’s work of other people. /fin