Straussian pipeline for American Caesarism

Certain conservative intellectual networks transmit philosophical arguments (via teachers, institutes, and podcasts) that convert abstract political theory into an explicit political program for authoritarian rule. Damon Linker highlights how figures (Harry Jaffa → Michael Anton → Curtis Yarvin) and institutions (Claremont Institute, right‑wing podcasters) operationalize those ideas into talk of a 'Red Caesar.' — If correct, it reveals how academic ideas travel into practical plans to bypass democratic institutions, making intellectual genealogy a live factor in contemporary threats to democratic norms.