Story time! Guess who got JD Vance into the Claremont scene and inspired the founding of American Moment, which is led by Nick Solheim and Saurabh Sharma, with Vance's direct involvement to this day! That's right, Mr. Piggy himself, Matthew "WAGTFKY" Peterson! That's why I felt it necessary to write 9,000 words about his NatCon Jerusalem speech. You might not know who he is, but he's been working to create this WAGTFKY-Right monstrosity for years. If we roll back to 2021, the backstory starts with WAGTFKY Peterson and other Claremonsters seeing JD Vance on Twitter dumping all over the anti-lockdown movement in March/April 2020 and claiming it was really a distraction from his war on "globalism." Their brand of "anti-globalism," which is also intrinsically anti-MAGA (but in a hidden, parasitical way that works in hiding from within) needed a champion. JD fit the bill, and his well-heeled buddy who was making him a thing (P. Thiel) was aligned enough to make it work. See, most of these guys (not sure about Peterson) liked COVID lockdowns initially because it was a pretext to shut the borders, limit international travel, and rant against free trade (which they blamed for the American medical supplies industry having insufficient capacity to make COVID masks, etc.), and blame the pandemic on "globalism" carrying a foreign virus into their fantasy Autarkic Fortress America. That is, they had a goal to "fundamentally transform America," and COVID lockdowns were in line with that goal, even though they were working inside the Republican Party and conservative movement. Then Fauci came along and stole their thunder in a way no Republican or conservative could countenance for long, so they all reinvented as anti-lockdown, just like Tucker Carlson did after talking Trump INTO the lockdowns in March 2020 (look it up, he's the one who talked Trump into it). Up until that point Claremont (and Thiel) had been using "dark elf" corporatist-monarchist weirdo Curtis Yarvin to make similar arguments. "Auron MacIntyre" (nhrn) appeared weirdly on the scene literally out of nowhere behind an impenetrable pseudonym to boost Yarvin in this effort before later being hired by Peterson to work at Blaze Media, where he remains today (although Peterson left last year). Meanwhile Peterson recruited Vance to do it. Before long, Vance wrote an infamous piece in 2020 about the utility of the lockdowns, demanding we use them to "End the Globalization Gravy Train." He went on to call it one of the most important things he ever published, speaking two years later at the 2022 Steubenville conference. So, what is American Moment (funded both by "Maximum Leader" Charles Haywood and the Hewlett Foundation that these guys all insist are funding a "Neocon surge")? It's a DC staffing agency dedicated to producing copies of JD Vance (and now also Stephen Miller, whatever you think of that) and filling the U.S. federal apparatuses, including Cabinet staffers, with young (under 30) New Right radicals. That is, it's a Woke Right entryism program meant to fill our federal government apparatus with a new permanent bureaucracy (counter-Deep State) operating as a JD Vance surrogacy and patronage network with real power. The point here is that Matt "WAGTFKY" Peterson was behind that effort, in addition to the internal transformations of Claremont and Blaze Media he oversaw (while also co-founding New Founding, a bizarre Christian Nationalist investment firm run by Nate Fischer and Joshua Abbotoy, to great and many controversies). That is, Peterson, who you don't know beyond WAGTFKY fever dreams, has been a primary operator in constructing the institutional apparatuses of the New Right that are now ruining everything at this most crucial moment. Stay tuned for more story below.