There's more roles now to fill since Trump's in. There's this refusal of power. I think progressives are actually literally uncomfortable with the exercise of power, because of what you learn. When you're too educated you understand the total disconnect of the exercise of power.

All activism is fake activism.

Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.

Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.