We witness Fall 2020 US GOP political collapse. The feral nihilism behind the white tribal authoritarian Movement irrrevocably exposed. And rejected.
For over 15 years this site revealed Rightist Movement middle brow (and lesser) policy entrepreneurs hijacking the GOP apparatus. We described in detail how these mediocrities commingled their fragile white male racialism with ill-digested Continental fascist and neo-fascist authoritarian critqiues to attack liberal democratic empiricism.
For readers, ours was a lonely 15 year effort. US political and media Status Quo resolutely ignored our warning US Right’s open drift first to anti-Semitism, many radicalized by Iraq and prone to lazy Neoconservative generalizations. This site diagrammed the Rightist segue from there to white racial nationalism, Putinism and Trump. And how the Movement devoured the GOP from within.
It took Trump unleashing unfiltered white racial authoritarianism to wake people up. Until Trump’s palsic Id spewed political truths, the US remained singularly unprepared for and vulnerable to Rightist anti-Enlightenment political hacking. All happened in open sight. Tragically, US political culture did not understand the 2002-2008 Neocon authoritarian, anti-empirical impulse is merely the flip side of Trumpism and today’s Movement and its enfeebled GOP host.
Obama and US Status Quo unwisely sought to “turn the page” in 2009. Ignorant of ideological politics and Continental political philosophy, they naively discounted Right radicalism as a temporary fever. The hubris left America wide open. Never forget that David Frum, The Atlantic contingent and NED crowd among many others insisted Trumpism is economics (sadly still peddled by the Sanders horseshoe Left).
They, US media and US political culture generally lack philosophical grounding in Continental politics and could not see its open emergence in the US Right. Naturally, US Right racial authoritarian rage caught them completely by surprise. As did Putin’s parallel revanche. US political journalism’s lack of education in political philosophy and sense of history still remain the Rightist Movement’s most potent asset.
US racial authoritarians seized temporary, calamitous political successes 2010-2020. America pays a needlessly heavy price for a generational awakening. But it is happening.
It’s now clear – viscerally – to the American electorate US Rightist mediocrities act out white male psycho-emotional collapse. Their imposed psychodrama mirrors equally reactionary patriarchal, racial impulses from Russia, Orban’s Hungary, AfD in Germany, both Le Pens in France, Salvini et al. in Italy – and most comically – the BREXIT fiasco stupidity. It is a pan-civilizational crisis in white identity.
We celebrate their imminent US defeat November 2020. Losers all.
Let us memorialize the original Patient Zeroes. Scott McConnell. Jim Pinkerton. Gavin McInnes. Steve Sailer. Richard Spencer and his ex-wife Nina Kouprianova (Dugin’s English translator). Stephen Miller. Steve Bannon. Jared Taylor. Robert (and Rebekah) Mercer. Franklin Graham. Jerry Falwell (both). Peter Thiel. Roger Ailes (Emeritus). Paul Weyrich (Emeritus). Pat Buchanan. And so on.
The list is long. A roll call of fragile white male enraged mediocrity.
Whom would you add?