The remarkable thing thus far about the 2024 presidential election is that the so-called conservatives, and therefore the Republican Party, have gone into this process without having prepared for it. They have experienced two presidential cycles that went entirely against their interests, yet they have not done anything over the last eight years to prepare for this cycle. Their plan, if you want to call it a plan, is to pray the other party eliminates Trump for them via lawfare.
We know with a fair bit of certainty that the party told the collection of munchkins showing up at debates that they expected Trump to be disqualified. In the first debate, the zombie-like Asa Hutchinson blurted this out during the questioning. In the last debate, Ron DeSantis said something along the lines that the option for voters is what was onstage due to Trump’s legal troubles. It was long rumored that he decided to run based on the assurance that Trump would be eliminated.
Now, that is a plan, of sorts, but only if you think the only problem you have as a party is this one man wrecking your fun. Get rid of the bad man and the party, along with the so-called conservative movement, can go back to the old times. They are even bringing back the neocon nutters to promote a dingbat. It is as if they think they are just one more court ruling from going back to 2000 when they could pass off a simpleton to their voters as the updated version of The Gipper.
Of course, Trump is not an isolated phenomenon. He exists because of what the so-called conservatives did in 2000 with George Bush. The populist revolt within the Republican Party is the response to the bait and switch, along with massive amounts of lying, by the party and so-called conservatives. The reason millions continue to support Trump, despite all of his well-documented flaws, is that the “party of Lincoln” thought they could fool all of the people all of the time.
The reason the party is unprepared for 2024 is their intellectual engine ran out of fuel back in the Reagan years. In retrospect, the 1980’s were the last gasp of the old bourgeois liberalism that defined America into the 20th century. Buckley style conservatism was a bug fix, a cumulative patch, to the progressive software of the 20th century and once that work was done, conservatism had nothing left. It was a room full of people trained to fix something that was about to be replaced.
It is why conservatism looks like a collection of unfrozen cavemen unaware of the time that has passed while they were frozen. National Review still puts out nonsense about how progressive cultural production is actually conservative. That is when they are not swearing that blacks will start voting Republican any day now. The reason that so-called conservatives are locked into the 1980’s is they evolved for the moment and once the moment passed, they no longer had a purpose.
In retrospect, conservatism of the Buckley sort was a reaction to one narrow set of claims made by progressives in the 20th century. Put another way, it was a delayed response to the reforms of the FDR generation, who were sure that government could right the wrongs of American society. Through force they could fix race, poverty, inequality and the trade-offs of the marketplace. Conservatism was a response to the failure of this project to achieve its aims.
With the end of the Cold War and the arrival of the Clinton machine, the old left of government reformers was replaced by a new generation of reformers. These were the sons and daughters of the managerial elite who were marinated in the ideas of post-Marx culturalism, once called political correctness but now called woke. It is the totalitarian project to cleanse the world of whiteness by harnessing the power of the institutions, like a team of horses pulling the reformers.
Conservatism has no answer to this because conservatism was evolved to fix the bugs of the old progressive software. As a result, the Bush years were not spent addressing the cancer unleashed by the Clinton machine, but instead poured trillions of new dollars on federal agencies as they ramped up the cultural revolution. White people sensed things were getting worse as a result of the Bush presidency. The Obama years confirmed this and thus the populist revolt began with the 2010 election.
What white people in America faced in the 1970’s was a government that was terrible at the basics of government, but focused on righting the wrongs of the world. The antidote was conservatism that promised to reverse this. What white people face today is an army of antiwhite bigots running the centers of cultural production and protected by the federal government. They need a movement and party that promises to reverse all of this, but instead they get unfrozen caveman conservatives.
That is what you see on the debate stage at these debate shows. With the exception of Vivek Ramaswamy, who is a Trump catspaw, the rest are some versions of what you can see at the Reagan Museum. They skim over some of the cultural issues, but refuse to address the racial issues. If any of them noticed that there are no more white people in television ads, he would rocket up the polls. None of them mention these things because for all of them, the present is a foreign country.
Nature abhors a vacuum, which is why Trump exists. The system is lucky in that Trump is not very good at politics. A more skillful political animal with Trump’s instincts would be the Red Caesar the system fears. The inevitable failure of Trump to scratch the itch that has needed scratching for decades will not make the itch go away. It will simply lay the groundwork for a more skillful and more cynical version, because in the end no political system can survive making war on itself.
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This is an excellent article. In fact, its thesis would be good political science dissertation fodder if you could find a poli sci department that wouldn’t expell you and report you to the FBI for even broaching this topic.
One suggestion, however: lose post-Marx culturalist–such a mouthful–and replace with poststructuralist.
This is a “Throw Mama From the Train” primary season.
Republicans want Trump out, but can’t be seen to do it.
Democrats want Biden out, but can’t be seen to do it.
Sounds like a ripe opportunity for bi-partisan deal-making!
Too bad us Dirt People don’t have any sort of organization to take advantage of the resulting chaos at the local and state level.
Perfect analogy!
I can just imagine Slow Joe sitting in the Oval Office yelling “OWEN!!!!!!! You Clumsy Poop!”
The next phase of conservatism will primarily be grifting. Grifting is bad now, but will get worse in 2024. There really isn’t much left in mainstream conservatism other than fleecing as many people as possible.
Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Roosevelt. Those are your American archetypes: a warrior populist, and a nerd backed by business/financial interests. I’m not sure the pattern holds, but if it does, that’s good news. It looks like a big war could be on the horizon, then again MIC is now one of those interests spoiling to be cut down to size.
I can’t work up an interest in the inner workings of the GOP. They are not going to win in ten months. Guys, 2020 actually happened. It was total fraud. They’re not going to let someone who might start digging, win. Their freedom, and possibly their lives, depend on that. They would start hot war with Russia and China before letting that happen. When Trump was (not actually really; can you say “trial balloon”?) removed from the CO primary, his life insurance premium should have dropped. If he gets near the white house again, the only flying steamroller will, oh… Read more »
The conventional wisdom is that bill Clinton moved the party to the center and away from the liberalism of Walter Mondale.
But I think this mistakes what people really think of when they think of liberal. They mean the sort of technocratic Ted talk kind of liberalism. And in some ways it was bill Clinton who moved the party in that direction.
So would you guys agree that liberalism is a personality more than it is an ideology?
Mythmaking. The GOP congress of that era pulled Clinton to the center, so he said “Hey, look at me, I’m a mainstream centrist.”
The issue in America is race. Clinton continued the war on whites, as did Bush II. That’s all that matters. They were and are the enemy. His wife can’t stop vomiting hate on the white population. Moving to the center on anything else is trivial, and if he did move anything to the center it was because he couldn’t sell the left’s beliefs, particularly their seething white-hating racism to the demographics of 90s America. Thanks to immigration they no longer need to fear the “Silent Majority.”
I still believe Col. Douglas MacGregor once had it in him to rescue America but now he’s more concerned about milk and cookies. That guy was our last opportunity to avoid a terrible end to the empire and he crapped his pants.
I have heard many of the Roman Empire/GAE comparisons for several years now. A subset of that is wondering if an “American Caesar” will ever arise. The subject is pretty broad and I am not one who believes that history repeats itself (although it DOES rhyme) so there is no need to go into the specifics. However there is Roman history factoid that is never considered and that is that there were many proto-Caesars before the real Caesar showed up. The first ones (The Grachii) and the last one (Caesar himself) are well known but there is almost 100 years… Read more »
Rome had propraetors and proconsuls who’s commanded armies were more loyal to them than to the government. There is no modern equivalent.
We will never get a caesar. Maybe a Yeltsin, but not a caesar.
There could be an equivalent, simply because it’s hard to imagine a horde of mexican soldiers being loyal at all to the US government
Good point. What many people miss about Caesar is that he’d been planning and acting to accomplish that goal, not just posting on whatever passed for an internet. It didn’t just happen. No one has been doing the equivalent of becoming Governor of Gaul, or gaining wealth and glory to sway the people of Rome to your cause. He made common cause with a military guy and financial guy in the 1st Triumvirate of Rome, which is no longer possible. Every governor is a cuck, the military has been purged of the disloyal, and every aspect of our financial system… Read more »
I think Trump is peculiar to present-day America.
There will be no American Caesar because the last two possible candidates – Douglas MacArthur and George Patton – are long dead and the system has seen to it ever since that no similar men will arise.
FDR was the closest thing America has had to a Caesar – and back in his day Americans were better at keeping their government in check.
Jannie: “Douglas MacArthur and George Patton” Patton & MacArthur were ne plus ultra unfrozen cavemen. It never dawned on them that (((Morgenthau))) had seized control of Military Intelligence, and that copies of all of their correspondence were being forwarded, in real time, to (((Ben-Gurion))) & the Council of the Sanhedrin. Patton Correspondence http://tinyurl.com/ywsaz8bw MacArthur Correspondence http://tinyurl.com/ybjr2dzm http://tinyurl.com/5n72kepj I myself only realized it because of Dino De Laurentiis’s epic production of Thomas Harris’s masterpiece, “Manhunter”. If you’ve seen the movie before, then the spoiler comes at about the 1:39:00 mark. However, if you haven’t seen the movie, then I strongly urge… Read more »
Hot Link to 1986’s Manhunter
http://tinyurl.com/mwhf8xdc
The spoiler is at about the 1:39:00 mark.
The Clintons pulled off the great political coup of re-orienting corporate America and the rich away from the GOP to the Democratic Party. Outsourcing production and importing cheap labor has been a boon for corporations and their shareholders. All the woke stuff is just psychological warfare to prevent any reversal of the gravy train. The GOP still loves corporate money, which is why they have been unwilling to oppose the outsourcing of the economy and the browning of America, even though it is political suicide for them.
Yep. What’s kept a cap on wages? Immigration. It’s openly acknowledged and discussed (among the various economists that I read). That’s why the old-school left was anti Immigration. It hurt the wages of the workin’ man. And by damn, they were right.
The New Americans are likely also the biggest patrons of Wal Mart. That cheap shit and those wide-screen TVs top anything you can get in their nations of origin. Consoom, baby, consoom! And cue up the griller points on how capitalism has lifted billions from poverty and made them consooomers of American entertainment output.
Meh. It’s still trivial to set a Morton building on a slab outside of town and set up Fred’s Discount Warehouse or Johnson’s Tire Barn. Still lots of places you don’t even need a business license to do so.
Yes, it’s more difficult to set up your own petrochemical business, but you could at least go into business making and bottling industrial products kinda like Simple Green, hire a bunch of that cheap labor everyone thinks exists, and take treasure bath after treasure bath, all day long.
I see it around here. They build the strip malls, the corporate chains move in, then they build housing and move in the livestock. Lots of white suburbanites. Black and brown soon follow. Just another farming operation, when you get down to it.
“The GOP still loves corporate money, which is why they have been unwilling to oppose the outsourcing of the economy and the browning of America, even though it is political suicide for them.” Is it really though? Think about Normie and the fact that he still roams around with his favorite brown guy NFL jersey on and still believes things like “when WE take over the Senate, or when WE take over the house”. I think the GOP continues to be made up of clueless retards is because they can, and there are plenty of white normies who still eat… Read more »
Which strain of virus? I believe we’re suffering from several.
The (((mind virus))).
Transmitted via (((Talmudvision))) & (((Scr0tial Media))) & an unbreakable grip upon both lower & higher edmukashun.
Tired Citizen: I just scanned Gayway Pundit and dozens of comments by normiecons swooning over ramaswarthy. They want him to be Secretary of State or VP, but all agree he merits an important post in the Trump administration. No concerns about his past financial dealings, his pharmaceutical shenanigans, his WEF ties, and least of all his subcon ancestry. He fulfills all their rose-colored dreams of a perfect magic paper ‘murrican, true red white and blue because he believes in muh freedum and democracy. It’s only evil notsees who consider putting a hindoo in the oval office to be less than… Read more »
@3g –
You see what I see. I don’t see anyone waking up. The NFL stadiums are more packed now than ever. For me I don’t ever expect it to be fixed or improve. The good guys don’t always win and this war is over. For me, until an armed conflict comes about, I care nothing about it, and I won’t pay attention to it. Nothing else is going to fix it.
The only way to beat evil is to permanently remove it. Take that as you will.
People on the Right are often desperate for a Cope. For those like us, the #1 Cope is that if we just post the right argument online the Normie will wake up and do all the work for us.
Normies by their nature cannot wake up. We need to stop caring about them. They aren’t coming to save us. No one is.
Yeah… it is so pathetic. Like the swooning when the Bain guy who won the Virginia governorship (Youngkin?) had as his Lt-Gov that black lady who was a former Marine. A weird pleasure of mine – gotta be a German word for it — is reading Instapundit and the griller con comments. Glenn Reynolds is one of the stupidest people in the world, and it’s all downhill from there. Anyway, with regard to Lady Marine: “I like the cut of her job!” “Look at all the blacks voting for Trump!” “Real Jews support Likud and the Gaza bombing!” Is “american… Read more »
What has really, really bothered me is the absolute nihilistic bloodthirstiness of much of the ostensible “conservative”/museum type base, eg Instapundit and PowerLine, who of course amplify and repeat the expected talking points. And cheered on in the comments. The Scofield heresy has done its work well, aided and abetted by the corruption and “americanization” of Protestantism. It’s sad from both a cultural and spiritual standpoint. They don’t care about the desecration of Confederate monuments because they wuz Democrats but by God, dare ye not touch a hair of the head of our favorite ally. The end of the united… Read more »
Damn, forgot to point out that the bloodthirstiness was related to Gaza and the deaths there.
“What has really, really bothered me is the absolute nihilistic bloodthirstiness of much of the ostensible “conservative”/museum type base, eg Instapundit and PowerLine”
Both Instapundit and Powerline are NeoCon websites. You’re kind of slow if you only recently realized that.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds is ((( ))), never mind the “Reynolds” surname.
Instapundit a NeoCon site? Heavens to Betsey!
Actually, lad, I’ve been monitoring Instapundit since 9/11 and know exactly what it is and what they do. I derive a sort of great and hopeless amusement from their drooling stupidity. Especially Reynolds. Got a sauce for the ((( ))) wrt Reynolds?
“…conservatism looks like a collection of unfrozen cavemen unaware of the time that has passed while they were frozen.”
And when they used the toilet for the first time, they are wondering what the sea shells are for.
Of course even in Demolition Man, no one successfully explains how the three seashells work either.
Ironically if we did have a Caesar it would be Gavin Newsom. A man of pure avarice and good breeding wielding power in a state that looks like a Roman Province full of brown hordes serving their hyper educated masters in their palatial coastal villas. No middle class to speak of. He’s a born Caesar chiseled from marble. Had cocaine been synthesized in ancient times I’m sure the Caesars would have loved the nose candy just like him.
He did let his wife get molested by the Crassus-like Weinstein. I wonder if the public will ignore it.
I know this, I don’t want another Democrat in the White House for, at least, twenty years.
If Gavin runs; I’ll donate $15.51 cents to his election campaign.
Don’t you mean $3.15?
A ten dollar bill.
A five dollar bill.
A fifty cent coin.
And one penny.
What do these units of currency all have in common?
$14.92
http://tinyurl.com/y6scbvxf
$3.50
http://tinyurl.com/yw25u3dh
A lot of wise thoughts, well expressed, in this column. But this one stood out to me as especially strong:
“…the ‘party of Lincoln’ thought they could fool all of the people all of the time.”
Just so. It cuts to quick the pretensions of the “conservatives” (especially the propagandistically-named Lincoln Project), while memorably exposing their contempt for the people they pretend to represent. Nice work.
Don’t forget the degenerate “Log Cabin Republicans”.
Excellent comment. One’s attitude to Lincoln is something of a litmus test for me personally.
You have to ask yourself, why would anyone with an “R” beside their name want to be president in 2025-2028? The 30 million plus illegal immigrants have drained (and are continuing to drain) the social services that should be set aside for our elderly taxpayers, the military is now disheartened and filled with people who would have been kicked out of a recruiters office when I served, which will lead to the illegals ( who would happily turn their service weapons on citizens ), becoming the majority of the Armed Services. Police, who are not your friends, are already turning… Read more »
I have been under the impression that whoever wins in 2024 is going to end up being the fall guy (or girl) for a lot of bad stuff. Kind of a Hoover. A reverse Bill Clinton. And it doesn’t really matter who it is since this stuff is baked in the cake. But be that as it may, the “left” is unable to just sit idly by and watch Trump get elected again.
It would be a stroke of luck if this was stolen from Trump as it would finally transform our politics at a faster than glacial pace. I’m absolutely unconvinced that the new “punished Trump” will be anything more than an old gelding with a big mouth wasting yet another four years while every world problem is pinned to him. The system itself needs to be discredited among the most thick headed..
But he will be very pro-Likud.
” the social services that should be set aside for our elderly taxpayers”
You can always tell who is a conservative. The first thing they want to do, for any problem whatever, is to run to the government for “help” – or at least the illusion of it.
Maybe. Alternatively, if the point is that if one wants to encourage productive behavior, you don’t completely de-incentivize it. If you don’t give SOME return on investment in SS and Medicare, what’s the point of even being a taxpayer?
Do YOU buy financial products which promise to not only pay you no interest, but also not even preserve your principal?
At this point I don’t expect to see any SS payment worth a damn when I am old enough to collect it. Then again, it was always a ponzi scheme from the beginning. But I was never given a choice to opt out, was I?
We have massive generational divide right now. We get people collecting something called “Social Security” insisting that everyone is a loser for wanting socialism.
It’s so ridiculous to even think of it as a savings or investment program, but there it has to be because otherwise they are poor people on welfare.
Rando: I don’t expect to get anything from Social Security. I don’t want Medicare. It’s irrelevant to me that the fedgov has taken tons of our money to ostensibly fund these bennies ostensibly for us, and then pissed it all away – that’s what it has always done. Same with the tens of thousands it takes in taxes. But it’s always the same old song – no more foreign aid, no more welfare, give me MY social security. They just don’t get that it was never their money in the first place – maybe it was 200 years ago, but… Read more »
PaulJ- Nope. Not a conservative. I don’t want to conserve a damn thing. I do, however, want what’s mine. According to my last SSA statement, the government has taken $298K from me over my 40+ years of work. I want it back. If they will just give it to me, I’ll sign away any future “benefits” they might want to permit, but you know that’s not going to happen. They simply don’t have it. Given away to every lazy bitch, bastard, illegal and “minority” they could find.
True…We need a Caesar, and we’re getting a Cato…We need someone who uses the military and national guard to forcibly expel these aliens, and we’re not going to get him….
I can understand why you would think this, but assuming the system “breaks” i would much rather the Republicans be in charge than the Democrats. Just imagine the insane things they will want to push through in such a crisis. Now, I also grant that the bulk of the political class, even the GOP side, are stupid, evil or both, so there is no guarantee they would be better able to deal with a broken system. Still, it’s hard to imagine them being worse. If the aliens break the system of social support, the Democrats will “fix” it by finally… Read more »
Dems and Reps have the same paymasters. There would be no difference, as they are just middle management.
Where is my red Caesar? Where do I trade this orange tard who would buy magic beans from Jack for my red Caesar? I would kill for a red Caesar.
Would you settle for a Sulla?
You may have to kill to get him….
Whatever, as long as he doesn’t proscribe his Democratic enemies?
That would be too uncivilised.
If the progs went Todo Loco over an Eighties-era liberal like Donald Trump, imagine the howling outrage should they be confronted with a real man. And no Ivanka in the West Wing to tell him what to do.
Careful.
Napoleon may have been a good thing for France over the long term, but short term he was a disaster for the common man of Europe…especially Frenchmen.
Revolutions almost never are good for the commoner.
Napoleon was the stabilization of the French Revolution. Revolutions generally are very bad for everyone involved. It turns out even the worst elite are better than getting rid of them.
This line, sir, is H.L. Mencken-level quality: “It was a room full of people trained to fix something that was about to be replaced.” Spot on. I once thought they were playing their assigned role intentionally, and while conservatards did lead the lambs to slaughter, they mostly were oblivious to that reality. Now, of course, their Soma babble is obvious, but if they acknowledge even a little of what is actually happening their entire ideology is exposed as the fraud it always has been, no matter how sincerely it may have been espoused in the past. Excellent column. The move… Read more »
Jack: Nothing so clarifying as living amongst genuine White dirt heritage Americans. We had a totally destroyed flat tire Christmas Eve day and lots of issues with switching cars with our son etc., all one short holiday week before my husband has to drive hundreds of miles on another business trip. I could write a very long comment on all the ways that so many friendly, courteous, professional, and genuinely good White people solved all our vehicular problems, along with a dollop of down-home wisdom and Christian goodwill, but suffice it to say that I thank God (and my husband)… Read more »
Wonderful news, 3g. At some point, if not already, you question how you ever lived otherwise.
[…] ZMan shakes his head. […]
We all saw the Russia hoax. We all saw 2020. So we should all know that there is a plan for eliminating the Orange threat in 2024. I expect that plan involves keeping him off the ballot, and in a more effective way than the Colorado gambit. I can’t predict precisely what it will be, I couldn’t have predicted the plandemic, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know it is coming, just as I knew “something” was coming then. Civnat G. Normiecon will happily turn out for Haley to in order to defeat Biden. Even some dissidents will. Importantly, the… Read more »
Except for the portion about Haley–she would put the final stake in the fading heart of the GOP, I would have agreed with you up until quite recently. For whatever reason, the Regime apparently now thinks they can keep their NPC’s from seceding if Trump goes back into office, and he can exhort his followers to die for “their” country.
I hope both of those things are wrong, of course.
Even if, hypothetically, the top clouds have made their peace with another Trump term, there is nothing, zero, that they can do to get the great mass of the “left” to go along with it. The well is too poisoned. And that great mass of the “left” includes many high ranking people.
But tp be fair. the rehabilitation of Bush/Cheney does suggest that, given a decade, they could eventually do the same with Trump.
To be clear, I think the 2020 election was stolen precisely because the Regime knew the Left would flip out. Initially I did not think so but that’s what makes sense now. Do they really think the Left, which as you point out includes people well-positioned, can be kept in line? It seems it or the need for cannon fodder overrides that.
Interesting, and this hinges on Normie’s response to the eventuality of Mean Tangerine being precluded from the ballot. You may be right and certainly BOM as bogeyman gets out the vote and cheat for Grandpa Stinkfinger. However, Normie’s response could be very different. Normie needs motivation to get off the couch and Trump gave them that. Without Trump on the ticket, Normie might prefer to watch reruns of J.A.G. instead of voting. Dickless Cheney appeals to very few normals outside of those with a fetish for grandmothers who smell like curry. Her performance during the last “debate” at the hands… Read more »
“Normie needs motivation to get off the couch…”
This is the popular wisdom of the DR. It’s also largely wrong, or possibly even projection. The “normies” I see every Sunday at church aren’t considering skipping the vote due to laziness, but because they are as sick of the “politics as usual” as you are. They see boycotting the vote as the only means left to them to effect change short of the 4th box.
“Nikki” would likely be even worse than Biden..If she somehow got on the ticket, I and many others would vote for RFK…
Certainly. But don’t tell me, tell Civnat G. Normiecon. She is guaranteed to get us into a new war since she has to prove how tough she is.
Nimarata or RFK, either way Israel wins.
“They skim over some of the cultural issues, but refuse to address the racial issues.”
The racial issue and the woman issue are the ONLY issues. Cons are terrified to look in their direction and lost them a long time ago. It’s been over for a long time.
Voting for Trump is just a protest vote. In action, he sucks and proved it thoroughly as president.
The one benefit to having the ineffectual Trump trotted out as a trial balloon is that it will help the future Red Caesar war game the leftist response to his tactics.
An accurate but incomplete statement of the situation we’re in…Trump won’t do most of what we need done…But he won’t go to war against Iran, Russia or China…and that’s super important…..
The advantage of a Trump election has absolutely nothing to do with policy or what he will or won’t do. That ship sailed long ago, there is no hope for reform. It has everything to do with acceleration and the response by the left. The outrage from the lunatics will be like nothing else this country has ever seen, and it will usher us into the conflict that is necessary in order to rid ourselves of the virus people.
The racial issue and the woman issue are the ONLY issues.
You forgot to mention the one issue that rules them all.
The GOP is now just a containment vessel for the frustrations of Grillers. It has no intention of “winning” anything because “winning” isn’t its purpose. The last 8 years, when viewed in this light, become a lot more understandable. Basically Trump is running his “campaign” outside the parameters of the GOP even though he seeks the GOP “nomination”. This poses a serious dilemma for the GOP: does it risk publicly breaking with Trump and losing any shred of credibility, or does it leave itself open to uncontrollable “Red Caesars” going forward? I think the party apparatus has been paralyzed by… Read more »
“The GOP is now just a containment vessel for the frustrations of Grillers. It has no intention of “winning” anything because “winning” isn’t its purpose”. Just so! I was frustrated and baffled in 2012 when the GOP shut out the Ron Paul voters by banging the chairman’s gavel at the convention. I thought they could have thrown the nutters a few bones and kept them in the big tent, instead of thoroughly pissing them off, which made them stay home on election day. Now I am wiser. The party, as you say, doesn’t care about winning. It cares about keeping… Read more »
They only care about winning their safe Senate and House seats.
Nothing else really matters to them
Our future in modern America is watching negro sports ball with every commercial showing us a black or a homosexual as our betters while we work on an old appliance in our basement because the managerial state has managed to make any new appliances unreliable and unaffordable.
We will look like Cuba in 1975.
The time of keeping ’46 Chevy’s running and on the road is here, only it’s not Cuba and it’s not cars. I have a basement full of 20 year old appliances that I bought from auctions and fixed just to be able to have a fridge that doesn’t think it’s smarter than me, a furnace that doesn’t automatically go into “eco mode” when it’s 10 degrees outside and a washer that will actually let me fill it to a level that will clean clothes. Unfortunately, every other thing in my house that plugs into a wall is probably listening to… Read more »
As 3D printers evolve they will eventually become little robotic tabletop factories capable of *assembly* as well as printing. I imagine that older designs for everything from washing machines to furnaces in digital form will become available along with “open source” novel ones to fill the need for home gadgets that actually work for anyone who needs them. Of course, the regime will try to outlaw this just like it has with 3D printed guns. I doubt this will ultimately be any more effective than keeping people from printing AR magazines has been. The Carbon Crazies and their “climate aware”… Read more »
“We will look like Cuba in 1975.” Not quite. The Castro regime in 1975 could tell men from women, it hated negroes and sodomites, it did not mutilate the sex organs of children, and it did not allow the sexually degenerate into positions of authority. Our ruling elites resemble the patrician class of late Republican Rome, with a bit of Fellini thrown in. Our foreign policy resembles that of the Athenian Empire right before and during the Peloponnesian War. Our culture resembles that of Weimar. How did all of those work out? We await a Caesar, a Lysander, an Austrian… Read more »
Correct, that’s their goal, but I think that regime would collapse before it got much of that done…
“but I think that regime would collapse before it got much of that done…” Trying to chase down every guy with an “outlaw” energy hogging water heater or blender might well be the mechanism the regime uses to exhaust itself in fact. As I recall, Castro didn’t bother persecuting all those guys running their ’57 Chevys. He probably even quietly approved since the Cuban mechanics kept the island from being a total basket case. Our bugman commissars, however, will demand that every illegal nut, both, and screw be tracked down and vaporized – and that will be how the regime… Read more »
Dallas is only 28% White and way outnumbered by beaners and blacks. This mayor undoubtedly was only elected due his magical negro status. With those demos, a White republican has basically no chance going forward. The old saying “don’t mess with Texas” is now a joke to be replaced by Texas is a mess… As a life long republican (and former voter), the idea of blacks joining up en masse would be the final nail in the supposedly conservative coffin – the absolute last thing anything needs is more freaking blacks. Finally, the idea that any intelligent, sentient being would… Read more »
“…the idea that any intelligent, sentient being would vote for that warmed over non-american curry slag, Haley, is absurd.”
Unfortunately “intelligent, sentient” doesn’t apply to most voters.
Nice essay this morning – eloquent. Thanks!
They have experienced two presidential cycles that went entirely against their interests, yet they have not done anything over the last eight years to prepare for this cycle. To be fair, the GOP really doesn’t need to prepare in any way because they really don’t care whether they win or lose. Sure if they win it might be easier to give tax breaks and subsidies to their donor cronies, but even if they lose there will still be enough of them in D.C. to see to it that their donors still get to keep their noses in the trough. All… Read more »
I have started to think the GOP and larger system have resigned themselves to a possible Trump presidency. I would not have written such even two months ago. The reason likely is a bad one, too: they want whites to buy in and sacrifice their children to a war with China, Russia and/or Iran. White males in the South and Midwest are the only people left in the United States who are not totally defective and deranged and who still could fight a war for Israel and Jewish business interests. The good part is that the people they hope Trump… Read more »
I’m still of the opinion that the regime will under no circumstances allow Trump to win the general election. It’s too personal for them. If they don’t legally kneecap him, they’ll give us an uber-fortified election. Optics be damned.
I would have agreed as recently as six or eight weeks ago but the Regime apparently thinks it can keep its unhinged NPC’s from peeling off now. That’s my perception, anyhow, and I hope it is wrong.
I would like to think that among the younger men of the Deep South, there is less interest in the military and hence a disinterest in dying for Likud. Some of this is due to wokery, some possibly due to the ongoing desecration of Confederate memorials. The image of the statue of Robert E Lee (in my humble opinion the greatest man born on this continent) being melted was powerful in a way perhaps not intended.
But Trump was resolute against the neocons on Iran, so they would need to replace him…But the fact of the matter is that any of those wars would destroy the USA, and I suspect that many in the Deep State are aware of that, so I doubt they will try…
Jack
Excellent post. You make some good points. I think the divide is already underway. I have moved to where I have the right kibd of neighbors.
Quite true. The GOP wants power to make money. The Dems want money to get power.
A fair number of them (dems) seem to enjoy both.
This brings to mind an observation (for which I have no attribution): Republican politicians are split in thirds. One third believes none of the conservative program and are actually progressives, but they have to disguise themselves as Republican to be elected. One third care nothing about policy, but only want to have the power that comes with elective office and will sway with the wind to survive. The last third are the only ones who believe the standard conservative catechism. So we have a full two thirds who are either plain woke, or willing to blow in that direction; they… Read more »
“Sure if they win it might be easier to give tax breaks and subsidies to their donor cronies…” That is incorrect on its face. Leftie boilerplate. Every tax break (which really just means less armed robbery by the government) for ages has meant that the wealthy donor classes pay more in tax, not less. They have all been skewed heavily towards middle and upper middle class. Subsidies, same, same. The subsidies go heavily to progressive businesses and progressive businessmen. You don’t see subsidies to Moe’s Bar and Grill or Joe’s Plumbing. At best, they get the tax breaks you complain… Read more »
“National Review still puts out nonsense about how progressive cultural production is actually conservative.”
Even during the Shrub years, Con Inc. made me uncomfortable with all its efforts to justify cozying up to dominant pop culture. I recall how the noxious potato that is the offspring of neocon Norman Podhoretz fancied himself a movie reviewer. And of course there was neocon Jonah I-Married-My-Mother Goldsomething who couldn’t stop drooling over children’s fare like Star Trek.
This is National Review trying to be hip, at the 1:04 mark:
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=Austin+Powers+Scott+Evil&&mid=03AD46DDC61B7321D56203AD46DDC61B7321D562&&FORM=VRDGAR
Jews are notorious tight wads, yet enough of them still give money to Commentary magazine to allow Jon Podhoretz to pay himself over $400k a year to get it published. By their own standards he is a buffoon solely in his job because of nepotism.
Let’s not forget Shelby Steele, “What the GOP needs is a hip-hop makeover.” I told a local repub party rep who I used to work with that should that ever come to pass, I’ll vote dem from now on.
I am not sure whether it is sad or funny reading some of the stuff at National Review. It’s all “what would Reagan do?” handwringing. Even worse is the “W was a good man who brought freedom to the Middle East.” These dolts look on Iraq and Afghanistan as US wins. Frozen cavemen indeed.
No I don’t subscribe. The give you a few free articles per month.
Bingo. The Bush ME crusade was the very antithesis of Conservatism. A real Conservative understands that culture is cumulative and that biology matters. We couldn’t replicate Des Moines in Kabul because Pashtun goatherds aren’t Iowans. 560 years elapsed between the Magna Carta and the Declaration.
“We couldn’t replicate Des Moines in Kabul..”
Truth. So in the eyes of the ruling class, the goal is to replicate Kabul in Des Moines. Which is going swimmingly.
Nature abhors a vacuum, which is why Trump exists. The system is lucky in that Trump is not very good at politics Here’s my paranoid take: When you disenfranchise, demonize and and displace white people, a Hitler-shaped hole appears in the political landscape. The usual suspects know this, and to pre-emptively stop that hole from being filled with something else, they promote ineffectual buffoons like Trump, Farage, Wilders, Meloni and Le Pen. The reason they hate so much Trump is not because of who he is or because of his politics. They freaked out because one of the carnie acts… Read more »
I suspect that Trump might have been tagged to play the role of Judas goat to lead whites to another blood-drenched war. The open border has soured so many people that it likely will not work, and it is unsettling that the Regime fails to recognize this.
Yes. People recoil at the thought but you cannot rule out the possibility that Trump was, should we put it, part of the problem all along. His design to waste dissident energy.
I suspect that Trump might have been tagged to play the role of Judas goat to lead whites to another blood-drenched war.
That doesn’t really compute because he didn’t start any wars.
I don’t think Trump was supposed to win; he didn’t even seem to believe that himself because he didn’t prepare for it.
True, he didn’t start any wars, but Israel wasn’t really threatened, either, during his tenure.
Maybe there’s a connection?
“I don’t think Trump was supposed to win; he didn’t even seem to believe that himself because he didn’t prepare for it.”
He didn’t think he would even win the Republican nomination. He was just having a good time speaking his mind and perhaps promoting the Trump brand. He thought he’d be lucky if he placed second. Then he won the nomination and didn’t expect to prevail against the hildebeest. When he did he was “shocked and then horrified.” What had started out as fun and games had morphed into something serious.
In The Candidate (1972), Robert Redford plays a Democrat running for a Senate seat in California against the popular Republican incumbent. He “can’t win” and so is free to “tweak the establishment”.
Of course, he ends up winning. The last scene of the movie is the Redford character looking at his campaign manager (played by Peter Boyle) and asking “what do we do now?”
Plausible Felix. But…. All that would require a level of competence and intellect that none of those guys possess. If these guys actually WERE intelligent and competent, we wouldn’t have gone into the Kraine, Covid would never have happened, Obutthole and Biden would never have been allowed the positions they occupied. All of these things are incredibly bad for business. Just throwing this out there: what if no one is in control? What if all these grifts and cons are all separately run and controlled? Sure, there will be a few nodes where connected guys like Biden and the jewry… Read more »
If these guys actually WERE intelligent and competent, we wouldn’t have gone into the Kraine, Covid would never have happened
You’re assuming they’re trying to help America.
And Trump may be a clown, but there are some exceedingly clever people running the circus.
“..there are some exceedingly clever people running the circus.” Maybe. I’m still leaning towards no one is running the circus per se, but rather each player is trying to advance his own interests — wealth, power, whatever motivates — and this all tends to move the same direction. For example, there’s certainly no genius level puppeteer behind Wray or Milley. Whether to further their own power, or because they are just that stupid, they behave as if “white rage” or people who listen to mass in Latin are the real terrorist threat. And, to be fair, that will probably be… Read more »
The powers that be are not that capable. We are on a randumb walk to disaster.
#WhiteVotesCount
For now. Or unless the election is close.
The operative word is White.
That is a lot of time on the National Review website. Last I had seen they were only allowing subscribers to comment, but it looks like that may have changed that now. I am curious how many more true believer comments the article about the black mayor of Dallas switching parties will get. Someone made a good comment on the Home Alone column questioning how a superficial movie that pushes the dumb adult/clever kid combo is conservative. But, hey the author is a lecturer at Yale, who are we to question him.
I don’t think I ever saw the movie but I got the impression it was about a family so wrapped up in work/consume/display that they forget their son exists and nearly lose him to the predations of some “white ethnic” creeps. That’s conservative in a sense, but it’s not Republican-conservative. In fact the irresponsible family is Reagan-supporter “coded” according to the media cliches of the time. The image of the white left as economic winners hadn’t yet prevailed (but it soon would). They were about *having* rich parents, not *being* them—except on Thirtysomething, which invented the Clintons. Normal commercial movies… Read more »
Not really. Home Alone is a slapstick comedy from the early 90s about a rich family in suburban Chicago that forgets one child at home when they go on vacation to Paris for Christmas. There are two moron burglars going through the neighborhood and the 8 year old outsmarts them with various booby traps. The mother has typical Christmas time travel issues trying to get home after they realize they forgot their son. John Candy plays the leader of a polka band that gives her a ride in their van. It is fairly harmless, but calling it a conservative movie… Read more »
The link to Jesse Kelly is interesting. I pick him up on a Denver station. He actually shows, at times, promise. He flirts with the proper ideas and comes close to speaking the truth and then he talks of the “communists” being the problem. That’s when I tune him out. This thing is about race, not some 150 year old ideology. Then, listening more, he shills for his Israel cruise. He would be at home in the NRO and in the tired old conservative circles of the 1980’s.
I don’t get conservatives or republicans who call the democrats communists or progressives. It is just stupid. Communists and progressives are not on the ballot, democrats are. It’s not progressives turning criminals loose, it’s democrats. It’s not communists who threw open the border, it’s democrats.
If you can’t even name your enemies, what chance do you have to defeat them.
Couldn’t agree more. As is famously said, “The Democratic Party is where progressive movements go to die.” It serves to rope off any real leftist movement and to tease and tantalise the left-leaning segment of the population with a Judas goat like Sanders. As for the “communist” moniker, gimme a break. Are they calling for nationalisation of the cartels and corporations that control economic and (to a large extent) political life in the US empire? No. They represent a certain sector of the oligarchy while the Repubs represent another. US “democracy” …. As Governor George Wallace (RIP) pointed out over… Read more »
We have the choice between communist-flavored fascism, and fascist-flavored communism.
I’m not much impressed with people who want to maintain a distinction between democrats, communists, and progressives. They all amount to about the same thing in the end, a mad scramble for power. “Who does what to whom.” R’s are no different.
“We have the choice between communist-flavored fascism, and fascist-flavored communism.”
This is a good point, but really understates the problem. Fascism, whether you use Mussolini’s or Hitler’s description, is socialism within a nation’s borders, while the various strains of communism stress international socialism.
“Do you want America First Socialism or Citizens of the World Socialism?” is all that’s on the ballot. And often not even that. (Looking at you, Romney.)
The only reason not to name them “commies” is that it costs independent voters who aren’t ready to admit just how far the policies of the US have shifted leftward. The important bit is to explain why (D)s are commies, not to leave it at what is generally considered an epithet.
Since the DR isn’t seeking to win any elections now, but rather to move the Overton Window, what’s the harm in calling a spade a spade?
There are still heavy consequences for calling a spade a spade, even in your personal life. At some point when the Boomers go not so much but for now “Communist” is as good as it gets when talking about the JQ in public.
“Communists” are as close to “Jews” as a normie raised in this culture will hear. I use the construct all the time to prevent people for shutting out.
“That is what you see on the debate stage at these debate shows. With the exception of Vivek Ramaswamy, who is a Trump catspaw, the rest are some versions of what you can see at the Reagan Museum. They skim over some of the cultural issues, but refuse to address the racial issues. If any of them noticed that there are no more white people in television ads, he would rocket up the polls. None of them mention these things because for all of them, the present is a foreign country.” The people funding these marionettes are anti-white. Ramaswamy can… Read more »
The fact NRO reopened the comments is telling. It indicates the disinterest in their snake oil requires them to attract trolls. If that doesn’t work, look for them to create their own.
I often wonder who the individual will be that will take the stage like a bolt out of the blue.
As Z wrote, if he responds to the question,”call me racist; I notice the world around me”, I wonder how many heads would explode.
To be honest, there are a few on this site that would do a much better job of leading whites out of the darkness, including Z, than anyone currently running.
Exactly. Or, put another way – I’m waiting for the person who does NOT begin their sentence with: ‘I’m not racist, but…’
The head explosion scale would register an 11 on a scale of 1 – 10.
Professional Team R politicians have just conceded that the Great Replacement has reached a point of no return. The party exists to carve out scraps from the table while existing on the margins.
In ten years, maybe sooner, Texas will be as blue and as unassailable as California. 30 years from now no one will believe they were ever red.
It’s no accident Texas has been slammed for so long or as had with the blessings of immigration as Texas.
So, is Greg Abbot really clearing out potential Democrat voters from Texas?
ProZNoV: Texas passed the point of no return, demographically, at least a decade ago. And the old White repukes who remain vote for people like Cornyn and Abbott and George P. Bush. Texas absolutely flips to the ‘D’ column within 4-8 years. As far as 30 years, I expect not to be around by then but seriously doubt the GAE will be either.
The system is very lucky when it comes to Trump. A Caesar would not have spent 2020 sleepwalking through the year and would, on that day, have pointed to the Capitol and told his zealots to kill every living thing inside.
But Caesar was not a merchant.
Trump is more Clodius than Caesar. They know this, which is why they leave him alive.
I remember a time when the ruling class/Left/tyrants in charge would’ve used subtlety to remove/disqualify Trump. The diversity has now overwhelmed them and guile has been replaced with clumsy aggression. I have no doubt Trump will be eliminated from the ballot. The clumsiness is how these girlboss/diversity hire types are doing it piecemeal with these ridiculous charges with these kangaroo courts filled with shitlib/diverse jurors that will always vote to convict. The problem for the ruling class is that the guy that comes after him hopefully won’t be as malleable. Watching the GOP field, with the exception of the hilariously… Read more »
The donors are living in the 1980’s. That system won’t last forever.
Your right about Pres. Trump. Thing is, what worried me wasn’t DT, but what follows.