I finished The Lost Cause by @pluralistic a couple of nights ago, and in the final few pages, the main character is mulling over the motivations of the antagonists (MAGA types) who push back against bottom-up organising and top-down legislation that removes obstacles.
This quote really hit me:
"The Flotilla believed that some of us were born to be wise kings, and that winning in the market was the modern equivalent to pulling a sword out of a stone, and that Uwayni and the GND were doomed because they had defied the natural order of things, like trusting toddlers to run the factory.
"The Magas who believed this were a combination of pathetic and outraged: convinced that they were inferior to the superheroic “inventors” and “founders” they worshipped, but also sure that they were smarter than the rest of us, because we were too stupid to recognize our betters."
(the Flotilla is a floating sea-stead of AnCaps)
The second paragraph hit me hard (the first is only included for context), that whilst they might be nominally "anti-government" or "anti-elite", they absolutely still believe in "great men", the John Galt bullshit, and look down on us for daring to question the greatness of such self-made men (cough) as Musk, Bezos, Gates and so on - (until those people start doing things they don't like, of course)
There's a lot to unpack about this book - I really enjoyed it - but it needs some thought.