Note: This week’s Taki post is related to today’s post, but it is a more high brow look at the subject of ideological fanaticism. There is a podcast up behind the green door which delves into the same topics.
Arguably, the first casualty of the antiestablishment uprising that began toward the end of the Obama administration was David French. Unlike most of Conservative Inc., French was too dumb to avoid mixing it up on-line with the smart kids who create clever memes and troll establishment media figures. He became the poster boy for what came to be known as the cuckservatives. As Tucker Carlson noted, French is the sort of person who can only exist in the world of non-profit Conservatism.
What makes a dullard like David French stand out in the bland nothingness that is the conservative intelligentsia is his unbridled narcissism. Most of Conservative Inc. knows they are just overly paid time-servers lucky to have comfortable lives. That is why they make sure to never say a discouraging word. David French, on the other hand, imagines himself to be a world historical figure. He does not believe in much, but he firmly believes in the importance of David French.
That may seem like a bit much, given that he is a dumpy old bald man with the voice of Mickey Mouse and the IQ of Goofy. Remember, this is a man who serious thought about running for president in 2016. That’s right. He spent a month doing a Hamlet routine at NRO over whether he should run an independent campaign to block Trump in the general election. Only a narcissistic fanatic could imagine himself going from C-list pundit to national political figure.
This is what brought French to the attention of most people. Prior to his embrace of smarmy anti-Trump crankery, he was just the guy you skipped over when scanning a conservative website. He was the nobody’s nobody. Then he piled into the clown car known as the NeverTrump movement. His obnoxious blend of narcissistic fanaticism and comical mediocrity made him the face of conservatism. For many, David French became the prime example, of what went wrong with the Right.
This over-the-top zeal was not a new thing. Back in 2010 when he was promoting himself as the most Bible-believing Christian on earth, he and his wife flew to Africa and brought back an African child. You see, his version of Christianity told him he had to go and save the world. Sure, it meant stepping over any number of orphaned kids in his own backyard, but all the cool people were adopting Africans, so America’s greatest Christian could not settle for a local orphan.
Ever since he has been waving the kid around to remind us of his goodness. Here we have a piece in the far-left site The Atlantic, where America’s greatest Christian, a Chris-like figure himself when you consider it, tells us we are letting him down. Here he is on NPR, repeating the same slanders. You see, owning an African was not the boon to his career that he imagined, so it must mean America is full of bigots. America is just not good enough for a benevolent figure like David French.
Now, the CRT debate offers him a chance to wave around his trophy kid and lecture the rest of us about his goodness. Here he is arguing in The New York Times that the people who oppose Critical Race Theory are bigots. To prove he is America’s messiah, he partnered with a black guy who hates white people, a Jewish guy who claims Trump is actually Hitler and a mulatto who hates himself. You see, America’s leading Christian is uniting the races in the war against the bigots.
In that Times essay, they claim that banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory and its variants is wrong because we are supposed to have an open society. This demands an open debate of ideas. French writes, “These laws threaten the basic purpose of a historical education in a liberal democracy. But censorship is the wrong approach even to the concepts that are the intended targets of these laws.” Just a few days later he was cheering the removal of Nicholas Fuentes from Twitter.
David French regularly reminds us that in addition to being America’s leading Christian, he is also the William F. Buckley of this age. He is the voice of conservatism fighting against the dark forces of intolerance and populism. Say what you will about Bill Buckley though, he would have noticed if his biggest fans were on the Left, but the praise and applause is all that matters to French. To the narcissist, attention and praise are the narcotic of their existence. The source is unimportant.
It is tempting to dismiss David French as just another a public buffoon, but there is something darker at work here. French not only waves the African kid around like a bloody shirt, but he clearly worries more about her future than the future of his natural born white children. He has never been moved to write a long essay about his concerns for their future as minorities in nonwhite America. His position on CRT suggests he does not think about them at all. They don’t serve the cause.
It is difficult for normal people to understand the mind of someone who uses their children as props in their narcissistic fantasies. Similarly, it is hard for normal people to understand the mind of the those who enthusiastically commit atrocities in the name of their cause. These are people who thoroughly confuse their own identity with that of the cause they serve. Their narcissism tells them that everything they do is justified, because they are a world historical figures.
Critical Race Theory is by definition cultural genocide. This is the appeal to the sorts of people who think starting over from a clean slate is the best course. The people who look at every human tragedy as a chance to advance their cause and thus advance their own heroic story are the sorts of people who think the death of a million people is nothing more than a statistic. They are not just consumed by ideology, but driven by a narcissistic fanaticism that excuses all excesses.
C. S. Lewis famously wrote that “a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” The sorts of people who torment us for our own good do so with the approval of their own conscience. That is what we see with the antiwhite fanatics pushing things like CRT. Guys like French have no trouble slamming the oven door shut because he never stops believing in his righteousness. History’s greatest monsters were all driven by this same certainty.
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Say what you will against William F. Buckley (and there’s plenty to be said against him) no one ever doubted that he was smart, and that he hated Communism. French is most certainly not smart, and he revels in the applause of Communists. He’s is a very good example, not just of the flaws of the general ConInc approach, but of its intellectual and moral decline over the last thirty years. As someone once said “Sad!”
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We have to remember that the mass media is not about news and analysis of current events. It’s about generating copy and revenue. The mass media’s apex predators are howling lunatics as a result. Common sense is boring and won’t generate sales.
As our blog host points out from time to time, these clowns write what the editors pay them to write. The more controversy and outrage and sensationalism – the better.
French will reap the consequences of his foolishness. Outside the Conservative Inc circus tent, he will be met with contempt and derisive laughter. And – he will be struggling to raise a feral niglet which should provide him with years of suppository red pills.
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When I was reading your comment, my brain auto-corrected “ConInc” to “colonic”. They both work.
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The NRO was one of the things that started me on my journey over the great divide. I used to enjoy the NRO and then it slowly went weird. Eventually I was wondering who in hell these guys were – and wondering if I was a lone crank howling in the wilderness – because I had nothing in common with these “conservatives”. Alot of these guys were older too and I don’t get that. What is it that causes older conservatives to fink like that? I saw so many of my peers and elders applauding the antics of morons like french – it was really amazing. My dad and father in law are supposedly conservatives and they hated Trump with the heat of 1000 suns. They absolutely loathed my politics which run congruently with the dissidents for the most part.
Perhaps the Conservative community will redeem itself when these old morons are dead and gone?
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I was never a rapid trump.fan though I so enjoyed him winning in 2016 but the Trump hatred among people I know is completely bizarre. I’ve never been able to suss out what the real reason is. Actually my problem is probably putting it in the realm of reason when it’s clearly just so visceral. But why is it so visceral? I think it was my first clue of the widespread psychological manipulation that’s been going on in the populace that encourages people to work against their own interest. And obviously with this covid nonsense it’s just ramping up even more. Speaking of monsters check this out
https://mobile.twitter.com/nicola1charles/status/1413654819898753027
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We shall call him; Bruno French
https://youtu.be/0ofpRxc0GVg
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Z, I have been waiting months for a blistering David French critique. Bravo good sir.
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Me too French is such a smug asshole, or if it gets edited ill say A@##$hole that seeing French get his comeuppance is so justified and fantastic to see.
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Speaking of “adopted” Africans, a few years ago I was in an uber-bobo coffee shop in Charleston SC. The smarmiest possible White guy was in line in front of me — the kind of SWPL that makes you think the Black Panthers might have a point. This guy tells the barista “I’ll take a tall Ethiopian, please.” I couldn’t help myself. I cracked up, and when the young lady I was with asked me why, I said “I bet that’s not the first time someone said that in this town.” Yes, we broke up soon after. Nowadays I’d probably get arrested; ain’t progress wonderful?
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I’ve always agreed with the people who claim cucked Christianity owes its nation-rotting nature to a misinterpretation of The Sermon on the Mount style Christianity. It’s where we get the flickering digital jumbotron banners outside mega-churches with the “Love thy Neighbor” images featuring women in black hijabs with only their eyes visible, or a Gay Pride banner. The guy I see over my fence looks like a white dude, not a muslim in a hijab or a gay guy in an S&M outfit on parade, but what do I know?
Thinking of David French’s rage, though, shows that prog Christianity isn’t just society-rotting, but is ultimately about bloodshed. Seeing French as violent is laughable on the surface since he’s a p*ssy, but plenty of antifa p*ssies are quite violent. And it ties in with the religious idea of blood being shed as a blessed sacrament of renewal. They’re not explicitly saying a white guy being shot by a jogger on a golf course is a ritual, but I’d hazard in their hearts they feel that this (or Muslims cutting apart English people in the streets) is kind of their transubstantiation. I guess because the Biden admin stokes interracial bloodshed that technically makes him a progressive Catholic.
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I live near that guy. I saw a picture of his wife and his two young sons. I pray that they grow up to be Warriors
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All the world online wondering how Gareth Southgate made such a horrendous coaching error in England’s penalty kick line-up. The same guy they have been bleating about over and over again how he is a wonderfully “progressive” coach the last couple weeks. What does being progressive have to do with coaching or sport? In soccer coaches don’t do that much during a game, maybe tweak a formation once and a few substitutes in the 60th minute. And yet Southgate intentionally removed the guy who assisted a goal at 2 minutes (Trippier) to put in Saka, and made two other changes last minute just so they could take penalty kicks (PoC who both missed). If England put Englishmen on the field they would have won.
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The same kind of thing happens in American football all the time. A decent but not great team figures hiring a negro is just the thing. The team immediately becomes much worse, because the coach keeps making elementary mistakes. But the fawning press coverage gets better in proportion to the decline of the team’s record, so you see the anointed black coaches going from job to job, for decades.
In America, this is because the league is set up with in such a way that you don’t need to win, or even have fans in the stands, to make money, so it’s all about the ego stroke for the owners. Interesting to see what will happen in England, with national pride on the line.
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My favorite example…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Willingham
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I was watching an English stream, I couldn’t believe how bad the commercials were. They are the same as Canada, blacks, Muslims, everything and anything except white males (and when there is one it’s a total soy boy).
Yet tens of thousands of full blooded englishmen swilling beer and yelling in the stands cheering as a Nigerian is kicking the ball up the field.
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Immediately after the game, I pointed out to a friend that the three misses by England were by duskier “Englishmen”, while their two successful spot kicks were by actual English. And just like clockwork, this morning we find out that Rashford, Sancho, and Saka were allegedly subjected to “racial abuse”. In reading articles on this topic, I can’t find a single one that includes an example of this alleged “abuse”, which I assume amounted to nothing more than a couple Cockney yobs tossing virtual bananas at them on some back alley message board. But we all have to pay obeisance to the numinous negro, thus the royal family, the FA, and the PM all had to condemn this outrageous behavior.
The point stands, however, that Southgate almost surely, unconsciously perhaps, chose his players based on DIE. Sancho and Rashford had hardly seen action the entire tournament but were dutifully trotted out at the end of extra time in order to be England’s heroes. What a story it would have made, these new, model Englishmen giving the nation the European championship that had eluded generations of white players.
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The exact same thing happened here, some feather indian on the Edmonton Oilers called “Ethan Bear” was supposedly facing racist abuse on Twitter.
Again the media never gave an example of this abuse but instead just complained about how hockey fans are racist. Basically another totally made up story that doesn’t exist. (Also, if you’re getting cyber bullied, just turn your computer off).
The left is truly monstrous. There just doesn’t seem to be anything that is off the table as far as advancing their ideology. No amount of lives ruined or, for that matter, lost will dissuade them or shake their fervor.
The vaccine is another good example. No one knows (or maybe they do and that’s the plan) what the long term consequences of this thing are, but they don’t care – we have to stop the spread of this new “black death” – can’t you see all the bodies piled up in hospitals and the streets?? Take it to save granny, or at least mankind – or else…
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“…this new “black death” – can’t you see all the bodies piled up in hospitals and the streets??”
That’s the thing about Covid. If it hadn’t been given a name and all of the lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine crusades, etc. hadn’t been foisted upon us, we wouldn’t have noticed that Covid existed.
The people in the Middle Ages didn’t need to be told that the Black Death was occurring.
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Precisely. And we wouldn’t have killed hospital patients by jamming tubes down their throats and inflating their lungs in a panicked effort to appear like we’re doing something. We’d have also quietly realized that HCq and Ivermectin were effective and they would have become standard care. And at this point, 18 months into the spread, no one would be talking about it all.
This is why the number one target of the revolution, whatever form it takes, has to be the channels of communication. Nearly all our woes stem from the complete control of media and entertainment that the left enjoys.
What’s always alarmed me about the “vaccine” is first, the hysteria over stopping ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, etc as treatment, and currently the demand for everyone, including young people, and those who have already had Covid to get the jab. They really, really are desperate to get a needle in every arm. Why? The discovery of graphene oxide by a Spanish research team in the vaccines recently certainly doesn’t allay my fears. If that’s true, what the hell is going on?
We have a whole bunch of do gooders trying to oppress us stemming from their inflated self righteousness. I still haven’t read anything from this idiot, too busy reading the years of archived essays from Sloppy Williamson, a major four star cuck in his own right.
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The Taki article is a tour de force, bang on, top drawer (and other adjectives that mean really good).
Conservative Inc. is the definition of cuckservatism, but a special loathing can be reserved for David French. He goes out of his way to appeal and please the Left.
Of all the candidates in Con Inc, he will be the first to write “The Conservative case for Heritage Americans Genocide.”
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Thinking of French in the context of the podcast Friday he’s such a minor figure in the herd of cloud-people lick-spittles it seems a shame to invest time thinking of him at all but it was a withering blast of spot-on criticism, “I am entertained.” Today’s Taki essay was a direct hit for me in that I’ve been thinking a lot about the trajectory we are on, forgetting the why for the moment and just focusing on predicting where this all likely leads. Do the masses of regular people ever come out on top when a society’s elite turn on them? This new race of cloud-people view the rest of us as an infestation, leadership of our people must view them as a cancer.
I was not convinced about the Asians having a safety net due to homogeneity, the most spectacular cruelties and mass-murders / genocides in modern history have been perpetrated there for ideological reasons. Although I would qualify that assertion with the admission that my ‘bourgeois objectivism’ still considers ideology mostly a tool for the pursuit of land, wealth, power etc.
The emergent behavior we observe in animals is useful for explaining why so many follow the lead bird in human affairs but we are different from the birds and bees and fish and I haven’t been able to abandon the idea that in human affairs there are lead birds making reasoned choices informed by perceived self-interest.
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