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Print November 29, 2016 161 comments

The Alt Right:
Obituary for a Brand?

Greg Johnson

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spencerpressAudio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.”

It is ironic — or maybe just sadly fitting — that Richard Spencer, the man who launched the Alternative Right brand, may have just destroyed it. But that seems to be fallout of his speech at the recent National Policy Institute conference, which he ended with the words “Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail Victory!” Spencer then raised his empty liquor glass in a toast. Some people in the audience, however, predictably responded to “Hail Victory!” (Sieg Heil) by giving Nazi salutes.

This was, also predictably, caught on video by The Atlantic, which had been invited into the conference to make a documentary about Spencer and the Alternative Right. When the video was made public, it was of course rapidly propagated. For years, the Left has been pushing the increasingly tired slur that Jared Taylor, Peter Brimelow, Kevin MacDonald, etc. are just “suit and tie Nazis.” But Spencer breathed life into this charge by furnishing visual “proof.” There was surely rejoicing in the offices of the ADL and SPLC, as well as the Washington Post and New York Times.altright

Now I do not wish to split hairs about the motives and culpability for this public relations disaster, except to say that I do not believe the charge that Spencer was intentionally sabotaging NPI and the Alt Right. Instead, I wish to comment on the consequences of this affair and how we should respond to it.

First and foremost, Donald Trump, when confronted with the video, naturally condemned and disavowed the Alt Right. He’s not a Nazi, after all, and he probably found it as embarrassing as I did. This is a pity, because Trump has to know that almost no mainstream intellectuals and commentators defended his candidacy and vision. But people on the Alt Right did.

Moreover, we have an enormous pool of talent and brainpower. Our public writers and activists are only the tip of the iceberg. The vast bulk of our people are secret agents, with clean public records. My hope was that during the first Trump administration, the Alt Right could start mobilizing this talent to craft policy proposals to help show that Trump’s ideas about immigration, trade, and foreign policy are morally defensible, politically desirable, and practically feasible. In fact, I rather hoped that the National Policy Institute would take a hand in crafting some of these national policies.

It was always a long shot, of course. Over the past two years, there has been a massive influx of talented people into our movement, but our organizing and fundraising have lagged far behind. We honestly don’t know what to do with all these people. We have a lot of work ahead of us if we are going to actually influence policy, and the way forward is not always clear. But when you are at a loss about what to do next, at least do no harm. Spencer really had one job: not to embarrass us or Trump, and he blew it. Now there is zero chance of any proposal coming from NPI being taken seriously.

But there is no reason why the rest of us have to share Spencer’s fate, which is why various Alt Right and Alt Light figures have distanced themselves from him. Mike Cernovich and Paul Joseph Watson have been most vociferous and strident, accusing Spencer of intentionally sabotaging the Alt Right. Stefan Molyneux recommended Cernovich’s take. Vox Day does not think Spencer is controlled opposition but that he nevertheless behaved in a self-aggrandizing manner and made a serious public relations error. Ramzpaul declared the Alt Right brand irreparably damaged, so he is now simply going to refer to himself as a man of the Right.

Those who actually spoke at NPI made more measured comments. In an interview, Jared Taylor declared, “I was very surprised. I was very saddened by it. I think it’s a terrible, terrible pity. I don’t endorse any form of National Socialism. I think that’s a completely inappropriate and crazy model for the United States.” Peter Brimelow at VDare and F. Roger Devlin at The Occidental Observer both rejected the Nazi brand, attributing Spencer’s words and the salutes from the crowd to “juvenile bravado” and “rowdy behavior on the part of a few overzealous and partially drunken young men.” In an interview, Matt Tait basically endorsed the analysis offered by Colin Liddell and described Spencer’s final gestures as “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” and “undoing what is good about the Alt Right.”

Spencer’s defenders have been pushing the line that we should not air our differences in public (of course). But there are problems with this. First, if Spencer speaks and we remain silent, people will assume that he is speaking for us. Second, criticizing Spencer is not about changing his behavior. It is about social signaling: communicating our differences to the public we are trying to persuade. So obviously it cannot be confined solely to back channel whispers. Finally, it presupposes a false unity to the movement. Literally the only thing that unifies us is common goals (and with Spencer I am not even sure about that). But if our movement is inherently pluralistic, colonizing every niche in the cultural and political ecosystem, then the only way to establish and maintain our different approaches is to criticize one another. Of course it can go too far. And there are some people who spend all their time attacking movement people rather than our enemies. But with healthy pluralism comes healthy dissent and debate.

Richard Spencer does not speak for me either. Spencer has damaged the Alt Right brand — perhaps irreparably — by associating it with Nazism. The Alternative Right began as a particular brand, the name of Spencer’s webzine. But it quickly became a generic umbrella term encompassing a range of different alternatives to mainstream Republicans and conservatives.

But from its start, the Alternative Right webzine was an entryist tool for White Nationalists. It was a platform for outreach and conversion of people who are closer to the mainstream. It created a safe space where “normie” conservatives could encounter human biodiversity, ethnic nationalism, the Jewish question, paleomasculinity, etc. without having to adopt stigmatizing labels like “Nazism.” But after Spencer’s NPI speech, there is good reason to think that will no longer work.

What’s wrong with branding the Alt Right as Nazi? Here are a few thoughts.

  • What is White Nationalism based on? Is it based on objective facts about human nature and politics, facts that are true in all times and places? Is ethnonationalism a political system that is good for all peoples, not just the white ones, much less just the Axis nations? Or is it based on what happened in Germany between the World Wars? If ethnonationalism is objectively true and universally valid, then why bring the Nazis into it at all? Particularly because:
  • Regardless of the truth about National Socialism, our enemies have invested decades of work and billions in capital in turning it into the ultimate political taboo, a toxic stigmatizing brand — the kind of brand that is seared into your flesh. If the NPI audience had broke out into cries of “Hail Satan!” we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Some of our people conclude that all these defenses must hide the enemy’s greatest weakness. I think that is silly, but even if it were true, only a fool attacks the enemy’s best defended spot, especially when they are incredibly weak elsewhere, e.g., denying the reality of racial differences, proclaiming diversity is a strength, supporting open borders, free trade, hate speech laws, etc.
  • Even if there were nothing wrong with the Nazi brand at all, it would still have been wrong for Spencer to in effect foist it on people like Jared Taylor, who choose not to use it and trusted Spencer because they thought he understood this.

Please don’t give me the tired argument that they’ll call us Nazis anyway, so we might as well become them. First, some of us really aren’t Nazis. Second, even if you are, we’re only fighting against the whole damn world, so why take on additional and needless burdens? Third, just because your enemies are out to get you doesn’t mean that you should make their work easier. (Compare the press coverage of the recent NPI conference to the coverage of the NPI press conference back in September, then explain to me how the saluting made no difference at all.) Finally, they’ll call you Jews, informants, and fags too. Do you want to own those labels as well?

Please don’t tell me that all publicity is good publicity. There really is such thing as bad publicity.

Please don’t tell me that Spencer’s critics are all simply trying to make friends with an implacably hostile press. First, our concern is obviously not persuading our enemies but reaching people who are sympathetic or neutral. Second, if the press is implacably hostile, why is Spencer so focused on courting it?

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The great irony here is that I have published quite a bit about Hitler and National Socialism at Counter-Currents, whereas literally the only thing Nazi-like about Richard Spencer is his haircut. This is why everyone found this gaffe so surprising — some pleasantly, others unpleasantly. When I first met Spencer in 2008, he was dating an Asian woman (something now public because of an article in Mother Jones). The only foreign regime he strongly identifies with is Putin’s Russia, which is valiantly battling against “Nazis” in Ukraine. As long as I have known him, Spencer has been chummy with Jews like Paul Gottfried. NPI, like American Renaissance, has always played patty-cake with certain Right-wing Jews. Before Spencer came on board, NPI had published Edward Rubenstein, Byron Roth, and Michael Hart. But, unlike American Renaissance, they published Kevin MacDonald as well. Spencer has continued in that vein, publishing additional books by Roth and Hart, plus Richard Lynn’s The Chosen People, and various essays and introductions by Paul Gottfried. Before long, Spencer will be back to business as usual, which means that most of his new-found friends will simply go silent — or be back at this throat.

Literally everything about this controversy, from Spencer’s “Nazism” to the press coverage to the adulation of the Nazi troll army is at best superficial and at worst fake. But that’s the stuff of which politics and publicity are made. The negative consequences, however, are real.

Now some Alt Rightists are rejoicing that Spencer’s gesture has caused Alt Light poseurs and “cucks” to abandon the Alt Right brand. But that is self-defeating. Outreach efforts only work by attracting people who don’t already agree with us. These people are only a danger if we fail to convert and assimilate them. But apparently some people don’t want to be bothered with converts.

I do want to end on a hopeful note. There is no question that the Alt Right is a useful brand, and because of that, it may well revive. But even if the Alt Right is dead, White Nationalism is still very much alive and growing. What happened at NPI was foolish and self-defeating. And there is always a danger that too much self-defeating behavior will add up to a simple defeat. But our progress has always been two steps forward, one step back. So let’s just learn from this setback and keep pressing forward.

 

 

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161 comments

  1. uh says:
    November 29, 2016 at 11:26 am

    Greg, the alt-right is and always was a swamp.

    1. Old Bullion says:
      December 1, 2016 at 10:15 pm

      Just like the Left.

  2. Evangelos Aragiannis says:
    November 29, 2016 at 11:36 am

    Okee Dokee!!!!
    Can we see your face now?

    1. Reinout van Hulst says:
      November 30, 2016 at 5:21 am

      Greg Johnson is not stupid, like those drunk Nazi LARPing Sieg Heilers at the NPI. And please explain what contributions you have made, comparable to Johnson’s.

      1. Evangelos Aragiannis says:
        December 1, 2016 at 3:44 pm

        None.
        Still tho, why can’t we see his face?
        Richard went full public from day 1 and now he’s paying for it by the very people who glorified him hours ago.

  3. Curt Doolittle says:
    November 29, 2016 at 11:41 am

    I said it would happen. It was a sucker’s bet. Obvious.
    The dems, republicans, left and right need restructuring.
    Discrediting the SJW’s online is emotionally rewarding but essentially meaningless.
    Arguments AGAINST something and FOR an ideal get a movement nowhere.
    One has to advocate for long term change by incremental policy change, OR, for outright revolution while holding a manifesto for institutional change in hand.
    I got flack from the Alt’s for not towing the line.
    But that’s because there was a damned noose at the end of it.
    Time to graduate from high school rallying and shaming to doing the real work of political change.

    1. uh says:
      November 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm

      And you’ll be doing that from the Ukraine on your Facebook account, correct? Tell us again how propertarianism is *the* answer to all our problems.

      1. Curt Doolittle says:
        November 30, 2016 at 4:43 am

        Straw man. I didn’t say it was. I said that either we propose incremental, institutional solutions and a plan of transition, and demand it by violence, or we are just asking the left to double down and marshall against us by further controlling the discourse. The only reason the past few years have been possible is because they didn’t regulate right-speech. But as you see, (like bitcoin can be regulated) it is entirely possible to regulate right speech under false pretenses.

        I consistently make the same criticism: the only solution is a solution demanded by violence that overthrows the system that makes our oppression possible. There is no answer in the alt-right. It’s a good tactic while you have ‘permission’ to ridicule on the same terms as the left. But in the end, their profession is ridicule and gossip and rallying and shaming. And our profession is violence. Or we have no profession at all.

        1. uh says:
          November 30, 2016 at 3:06 pm

          Then you definitely have no profession.

  4. John says:
    November 29, 2016 at 11:50 am

    I’ve always labeled myself as pro-White because keeps it simple. To me you are either pro-White or anti-White. But the bottom line is that if you are pro-White and want a homeland for White kids the respectable conservatives & rest of the anti-Whites will label you a NAZITHATWANTSTOKILLSIXMILLIONJEWS. We will never win the title of Respectable from the ” mainstream” so call yourself what you want and let’s get on with establishing a Whites Only homeland somewhere.

  5. Carpenter says:
    November 29, 2016 at 11:54 am

    I really don’t believe the Alt-Right brand has been irreparably damaged by this. Not even close.

    I’m not even so sure anyone in the Alt-Right is fine with simply branding the Alt-Right as Nazi. 5 guys give Roman salutes at NPI and it’s over? I bet those 5 guys aren’t even National Socialists. So, the media does what it has always done but with footage of 5 guys saluting. The knee-jerk reaction by some to disavow and back away seems somewhat faint-hearted for people who were public activists.

    This was not an unpredictable event. Can’t we come up with a better way of dealing with this than suggesting the Alt-Right has died? Do we really think similar events will not occur again?

    Just say you’re not a Nazi. There’s a video somewhere of Oswald Mosley defending the Roman salute as a counter-gesture to the clenched-fist salute of Marxism. At the very least, it might be a good idea to point out that the “Roman salute” has been popular among MANY right-wing nationalist movements. I might just be too far outside normiedom now, but it’s hard to see how making a Roman salute = definitely a Nazi yet writing and speaking positively (although with criticism) of Hitler and the NS and Fascist regimes = not a Nazi.

    1. NeoApollo says:
      November 29, 2016 at 3:39 pm

      Thank you this is exactly what I’m talking about. The beta cuckery needs to stop.

    2. Othmar Regin says:
      November 30, 2016 at 3:34 am

      That all might be true, but we won’t win with cool-headed arguments against the Left and the dumb-ed down public at large – we need to play smart or we will fall down tripping on our own shoelaces, just like the original “Nazis” did btw. they lost because they (over)valued ideology over street-smarts.

  6. ExPostFacto says:
    November 29, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Stop punching right.

    We will be called Nazis no matter what we do. Making a joke out of the whole Literally Hitler® smear is the best way to defang it. Frontal attack – reframing Nazi meme with Pepe images, six gorillion, etc – is working,

    The Alt-right trolls, /Pol, and TRS have done more for the movement than all the desperate-for-respectability pearl clutchers constantly begging for acceptance from the left that will never be granted. They want us dead.

    1. Daniel says:
      November 29, 2016 at 3:14 pm

      Flippantly using Third Reich imagery or jokes works in one particular context.

      When our enemies or their unwitting collaborators with religious-like seriousness put forth the Holocaust or Spielberg Nazis as a way of psychologically intimidating our people, puncturing that mind control regime with taboo shattering humor is effective and appropriate.

      It wrong foots our enemies because, straight off the bat, it shows them their most time-proven weapon doesn’t work on us. And it acts as a psychological release for our own people who are still held mesmerized by such mind control techniques. Mockery really is the best way to undermine and break the pall of a religion.

      But this stance is only appropriate as a RESPONSE to their own overdone pietism. Nazi memes are funny as forbidden humor only because anti-Whites themselves have become so humorless and self-important.

      The mistake is to think that adopting Nazi imagery is a witty or effective tool as a stand alone thing. The mistake is to think that what works as return fire, illusion-breaking also works as a separate self-identifying brand.

      The fool may mock the king but he’s still the fool. When mockery of your enemies has served its purpose you then need a positive self identity which is not just reaction.

      1. Anon2016 says:
        November 29, 2016 at 7:15 pm

        I didn’t see any humor in what Spencer said or did.

        He doesn’t seem to have much of one anyway. He should just strop trying–in other contexts (I think much of that speech was in earnest).

      2. Reinout van Hulst says:
        November 30, 2016 at 5:15 am

        Thank you for this answer! It explains very well how and why memes and real life must be distinguished. Often people cannot understand why a Nazi Pepe humorous image is ok, while real life Nazi LARPing is not.

    2. Dov says:
      November 29, 2016 at 3:53 pm

      It’s not punching “right”; it’s punching stupidity. Giving Nazi salutes is about as clever as jumping on a table at your local bar and howling to the room about Jews, Blacks, and the Federal Reserve.

  7. Mario says:
    November 29, 2016 at 11:56 am

    Yeah, I was making so much progress with redpilling my family until my great aunt, an Italian-American matriarch who is very race-conscious but whose brother died on a beach in Normandy, France, saw that clip and disavowed it. Awhile back, Nathan Damigo did a YouTube video about framing, and that is very pertinent here.

    1. Anon2016 says:
      November 29, 2016 at 7:30 pm

      A lot of other people are reporting similar reactions from their families, friends, acquaintances. Not just in the United States, but in Europe and the rest of the Anglosphere. Very unfortunate. Yet Spencer just keeps on talking to the media as if he is the leader of the Alt Right. And as if he has some kind of inside track into Trump’s thinking.

  8. John McKenna says:
    November 29, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    The refugee crisis hasn’t gone away so neither will we. It was a bit of a stumble but events will continue to carry us forward. A few more Islamist attacks and a few drunken salutes will begin to pale in comparison.

  9. Robert o says:
    November 29, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Alt-Right emerged as an edgy online presence via pol/trs/mpc/ds and Twitter trolling. Had nothing to do with the alternative-right blog from 2009.

    Richard Spencer decided to appoint himself Alt-Right leader despite not really getting the memes and banter.

    Spencer holds an NPI conference and is surprised when violent anti-fa turn up to the Alt-Right leader’s gig.

    Spencer invites hostile media – The Atlantic – which records inebriated hailing goys who were unaware of its presence.

    Pool parties, book clubs and forums were a better model for IRL meet-ups.

    NPI could have been useful as a front organisation for the Alt-Right – not part of the Alt-Right.

    NPI was apparently a Sam Francis vehicle. The Trump phenomenon was Sam’s MARS. That’s what the conference should have been about with a discreet Alt-Right presence.

    Spencer learnt nothing from the Budapest debacle.

  10. FKA Max says:
    November 29, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    Thank you very, very much, Mr. Johnson!

    We/the Alt Right needed to hear this from you! This is a YUGE relief…

    I will continue to use the term Alt Right to describe my worldview and my pro-WASP activism and advocacy.

    I have no ill will towards Mr. Spencer, but I am very grateful, that his conduct and behavior is finally being examined more critically and thoroughly. Since he is so closely associated with the term ‘Alt Right,’ he needs to be held to the highest of standards.

    Quality Trumps Quantity.

    Thank you, again, Mr. Johnson, for again! stepping up to the plate, when it was most needed: https://counter-currents.com/2016/10/what-the-alt-right-isnt/#comment-1369666

  11. Dov says:
    November 29, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    Something that the neo-Nazi contingent is seemingly incapable of grasping is that one cannot simultaneously espouse Nazi ideology and White Nationalism (or even pan-White identity). Adolf Hitler was *not* a White Nationalist; he was a Germanic/Nordic supremacist. To say that Hitler was, at his core, “pro-White” is to make an embarrassing misstatement.

    Regarding NPI’s utility in shaping policy and widespread discourse… I’m always skeptical of the potential of sites that rely on Disqus for commenters to post their thoughts. Inevitable shenanigans result (for instance, I saw someone on Radix smoothly admit that he’d posted on the site under (at least) three handles, and it’s far too easy for trolls and plants to pollute discussions. I actually wish that AmRen had a Facebook option – I regularly post pro-White (and certainly anti-anti-White) comments on sites that have FB commenting sections, and I think that this does lend a degree of seriousness and credibility compared to Disqus.

    Finally, while Spencer cannot be directly blamed for the incident at NPI – it was not he, after all, who gave the salute – the catalyzing action reflected a wannabe LOTR-style LARPing that’s very common among the Identitarian Right. I can imagine Spencer thinking that after he gave his hails, he’d be greeted with a resounding, unified “HAIL!!!” from everyone in the room. His speech was also way over the top (“children of the sun”? really?), and I’m not sure that such attempts at waxing poetic are likely to draw in anyone other than committed nerds.

    1. Anon2016 says:
      November 29, 2016 at 7:41 pm

      Spencer’s speech was peppered with Nazi references, including actual German words. He ended the speech with “Hail Victory [Sieg Heil]! Heil Trump!” and an ambiguous rapid upward gesture with his arm. He sports a “fashy haircut.” The salutes by Tila Tequila and friends from the night before were already circulating in the press and causing controversy. Spencer was on notice.

      I have to think he knew exactly what he was veering into.

    2. Sylvie says:
      November 30, 2016 at 7:19 am

      Adolf Hitler was *not* a White Nationalist; he was a Germanic/Nordic supremacist. To say that Hitler was, at his core, “pro-White” is to make an embarrassing misstatement.

      This is (((enemy propaganda))) from WWII, to divide us. As is well known, the NS race concept was ARYAN, not German. Every European was included (and many fought with them).

      And yes, in wartime things changed, the own people was glorified and the enemy was vilified in ugly terms – on both sides – as in every war.

  12. Xenophon says:
    November 29, 2016 at 1:29 pm

    I see the validity in all of your points, but I think you’re massively overblowing this (as have many others). The alt-right has been spamming social media with Holocaust jokes for the last year and a half and has only grown ever faster.

    Conversely, attempts at respectability have failed for decades.

    I can understand saying this is a tactical misstep and that you disagree with it, but the venom and fatalism (not so strong from you as from others, but still there) is not necessarily productive.

  13. Miha M says:
    November 29, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    Nice recap of salute-gate but im much less pessimistic about it.

    Of course Trump denounced us. I would advise him to denounce us myself. Most people are still living in thought prison. I agree that we shouldn’t use nazi brand or any of its symbols for reasons you stated. Damage was not that big. Taylor should stop using the brand anyway. He’s married to Jew and denounced national socialism (doctrine not the brand). Watson, Ramzpaul and Cernovich will continue their work under the brand, because this is business for them. Nothing more nothing less. Even if some of them stop… does anyone remember Milo? There is so many other entry points. There is zerohedge, breitbart, infowars and so many others. Additionally troll and meme army is over every board and comments section and they are noisy bunch.

  14. Renzo says:
    November 29, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    Many of us intellectual types like to think we can influence the public mood and way of thinking by rational argumentation and clever persuasion. Sometimes, I wonder if our role is just a commentary on unfolding mass psychological events that would play out that way just the same in our absence.

    What articles and books do is mostly giving people the words and ideas that best correspond to something much more fundamental and primitive.

    I’m from Italy, and when I see our Minister of the Interior (Alfano) proclaiming that people will have to give any free house or apartment they have available to sneering Somalis fresh off the boat OR ELSE, while our leaders keep marching us straight to ruin, that bit of news is more powerful that any essay, book, or video.

    I believe things have progressed to a point where subtle intellectual analyses are nearly inconsequential, for the simple fact that our continued existence is more and more VISIBLY threatened. In “normal” circumstances, politics is at best 80% instinctual and emotional, and 20% rational. At the moment, it is perhaps 98% instinctual and emotional.

    “Conservatives” are sheep in search of a shepherd that won’t butcher them and throw them to the wolves for a little while longer. Leftists are basically religious zealots worshipping the wolves, immolating their own as human sacrifices. The rapidly growing ethnonationalist crowds are the first clear sign of a much delayed visceral reaction that, once fully active, will sweep the West like a red flood. People are waking up to the fact that politics in the formerly white countries is really now a struggle for SURVIVAL.

    Greg, you are my favorite author in the movement, and you make, as usual, very valid points, but I think you are far too optimistic about the possibility to slowly, patiently, reasonably influence the social and political currents in the next few years.

    Our (((enemies))) have reduced the white nations to a giant powder keg of misery, distrust, centuries old feuds, barely contained hatred and blood-lust. It is only a matter of time before some bigger than usual Muslim attack, some outrageous genocidal demand of overconfident overlords, the unintended consequences of a false flag or – most likely – a sharp economic downturn in the middle of a new migrant wave sets it all off.

    The election of Donald Trump has just tripled the pace of the train headed for race war, or civil war, most probably both. It will happen within the next 10 years. 5 is probably more like it.

    That is the great genie waiting to explode out of a cracking bottle, and in light of that, I find hair-splitting discussions about brands and public relations quite useless. Nature is about to come back in from the window, with a vengeance. The good news is, they can’t stop it. The bad news is, we can’t control it.

    When it happens, Hailgate will look like some squabble about the font for a new business card, and we are going to wish we would have used this time more wisely.

    What should we do then?
    I don’t know. Perhaps we should just strive to popularize our most fundamental, irrefutable memes in the most easy, immediate, digestible, normie-friendly form, so that the highest number of white men will have had some time to process them and won’t hesitate that one second too long at the moment of truth.

    1. German Warrior says:
      November 30, 2016 at 3:57 am

      This is not first comment of yours that completely overshadows the article itself. Perhaps it feels like that because I share your view completely. Looking at our movement not only from political but also economic, environmental and biological angle it quickly becomes clear where this is going. All the knowledge is already out there for long time. Yet its so compartmentalized that even the greatest minds of Alt-Right fail to put all the pieces together.

      Darwin was able to predict this 150 years ago already. Why cant our leaders? So the only explanation I can come up with is that they do, and they are trying to control the aftermath. Ultimately there is only one way to deal with threat of entropy. And to remove that threat without morally and mentally harm our people is not an easy task.

  15. Gunnar says:
    November 29, 2016 at 1:39 pm

    Stop picking at it.

  16. Matt Grey says:
    November 29, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    Brand Alt-right may or may not recover but the more you think about Richard Spencer’s current situation you have to realise what deficits this generates for pro-Europeans everywhere. Perhaps the best move for everyone would be if Mr. Spencer to just receded into the background. A shame and a sad waste because NPI and Radix did provide stepping stones for alt-lighters moving forwards toward more reality based world views, even if NPI was more than a tad chummy with outliers from tribe J. Spencer’s obviously unprepared and ill-conceived interview with that Christian Negro Gentleman (or human-bulldog genetic hybrid?) is further proof that, at least in current incarnation, Richard Spencer is basically not up to the task that ambition would have otherwise driven this still youngish man onward and upward to.

    1. Anon2016 says:
      November 29, 2016 at 7:12 pm

      Perhaps the best move for everyone would be if Mr. Spencer to just receded into the background.

      I strongly agree. He should give one last press conference making clear that he does not speak for the Alt Right. And that he is not associated in any way with Trump.

      And yet, Spencer keeps talking and talking and talking. Documentary coming out on him in the Atlantic in December. New article in Vox. And a newly released one-hour radio interview in which he got thoroughly schooled by Jamie Weinstein.

  17. Petronius says:
    November 29, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    Best comment on the affair so far. Thanks for staying reliably sane and grounded.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      December 1, 2016 at 3:30 am

      Thank you

  18. Reinout van Hulst says:
    November 29, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    The Roman salute is associated with a desire for genocide in our culture. It does not matter whether that is fair or not. People who use it in public are either autists with zero social intelligence or shills.

    It is not a matter of punching people that are more to the right. It is about the smart use of symbols.

    The left never punch to the left, or have to excuse themselves. Why? Because they are in power, that’s why! But we are not, so we must be smart.

  19. NeoApollo says:
    November 29, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    Can we all stop punching to the right please? Keep focus on the enemy. Christ have we learned nothing from Trump’s success? This whole thing could’ve been handled easily if we all disavowed publicly those four people who saluted and kept moving forward with the agenda. We’re falling for the same leftist attack as we have time and time again. They get us focusing on ourselves and not on them the enemy, by the way the left never does this to itself only the conscious right does.

  20. Tom says:
    November 29, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Cowards…

    “Better is heart | than a mighty blade
    For him who shall fiercely fight;
    The brave man well | shall fight and win,
    Though dull his blade may be.

    Brave men better | than cowards be,
    When the clash of battle comes;
    And better the glad | than the gloomy man
    Shall face what before him lies.”

  21. Sartor says:
    November 29, 2016 at 4:06 pm

    Thanks Greg. Sound analysis as always even though your sense of outrage is evident. ( I note a quite uncharacteristic number of typos in your this article. Speaks volumes.)

    It was all very depressing but you provide grounds for hope. If we can make it Spencer’s problem and the NPI recognises that too, we can still salvage the brand.

    The conference was a PR disaster but the problems won’t go away and we are the only people honestly addressing them.That’s got to win out in the end. As you say ,and it is also evident from the range of comments here, the Alt Right is not one man or one entity ; it is a movement and as such the brand will and should survive.

    1. Sartor says:
      November 29, 2016 at 4:11 pm

      Typo of my own. Should read: “your article” ; please delete the stray ” this”.

  22. wsigma says:
    November 29, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    I think the media/image criticisms that Greg and others have made are true , but they are true within the context of Jewish media hegemony, because Jews have come to dominate the discourse on these matters with their interests, not because we are all personally morally tormented by the evils of Nazism.

    I also agree it’s been extremely useful to have the Cernovichs and PJWs in this outer, safer ring of the AR. Although they never represented WN, when it comes to White-oriented politics, diversity has proven to be a strength – particularly in this election campaign, as long as we are all more or less pushing in the same direction, even if we don’t want to endorse each other. That’s a strength. And it’s been significant factor in the growth of this and gaining new interest.

    What troubles me though, is this disproportionate bitching aimed at Richard Spencer personally over something that was clearly a well-intentioned, heart-felt moment combined with some exuberance and that the media, being the opportunistic liars they are, magnified into a scandal …as they do…

    Seeing how brittle the Right can be when a little media pressure is applied, when it’s presented with the ‘Nazi’ word, doesn’t inspire confidence among the converted. If I was to ‘distance’ myself from this, it would be because of the extraordinary display of disloyalty, which to me is a far greater concern than ‘Hail Trump’.

    If the media hadn’t exploited this, none of this criticism would exist. No one would think about it.

    1. Robert o says:
      November 29, 2016 at 6:13 pm

      Is Spencer a leader?

      Greg’s forum approach was preferable for metapolitic thinking.

      NPI should have been a policy front group for the Alt-Right. Spencer is delusional if he thinks he will get funding now.

    2. Anon2016 says:
      November 29, 2016 at 7:19 pm

      Spencer has no right to speak for anyone but himself, NPI, and, possibly, “his readers.” But that’s not how he presents himself to the media.

  23. Xaltotum says:
    November 29, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    You guys still do this? Knowing 99.999% of the public today literally forgets mass shootings in less than two weeks? Yet each time something like this happens we have to go through this again. Moreover, If I went out tonight and tomorrow and asked EVERYONE that lives in a fifty mile radius of me who Richard Spencer is, and got a dollar for everyone who knows, I would be shocked if I could buy a cheeseburger with the money.

    It’s long overdue we stopped being the first casualties of the media.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 29, 2016 at 5:29 pm

      David Duke’s photos in Nazi and Klan regalia have been recycled for decades

      1. NeoApollo says:
        November 29, 2016 at 8:32 pm

        There’s a difference here between Spencer and Duke. They have radically different backgrounds, also this kind of backpedeling is what the left wants us to do. Waste time arguing amongst each other and and lose sight of the movements goal. Besides us millennials are the least likely to accept myths of the 20th century unlike Duke’s audience. It’s a lot easier to grow and spread pride in ones European ethnic heritage especially when it’s being so severely and openly attacked. This is a new phenomenon and different from what boomers and gen x were facing.

      2. Xaltotum says:
        November 30, 2016 at 2:56 am

        Most people don’t know who David Duke is. Again, stop being one of the first casualties of the media. You guys also focus too much on what our enemies and the Left think. STOP. WORRYING. ABOUT. THEM. Concentrate on the rest. Most of them never even heard about this incident. The ones who did are already forgetting it. It’s been days now. They didn’t care anyway. Gatlinburg burning down is all the news and FaceBook posting this side of the Mississippi now.

        1. Greg Johnson says:
          November 30, 2016 at 3:40 am

          This is idiotic. You can’t premise politics on the denial of reality.

          1. Petronius says:
            November 30, 2016 at 8:17 am

            It seems to me a lot of Altrighters are in denial of what actually happened here, and they can’t let it sink in and admit it, being afraid of appearing as “cucks”.

          2. Wilhelm says:
            December 1, 2016 at 10:22 am

            There is of course an amount of reality denial going on. That said, you can’t underestimate the extent to which “reality” has changed for many who have recently joined this movement. For many of these young Nazi-larpers, the stigma of Nazi imagery and symbols has either been completely erased or had never fully taken hold in the first place. Being on the older end of the Alt-Right age spectrum, that stigma is deeply ingrained in my own psyche, and yet even I can testify to just how much this stigma has lessened its grip on my own mind in the past two or three years. Nazi symbols no longer provoke in me the same danger/disgust response that they once did, and I now find the general Nazi aesthetics to be quite awe-inspiring and even beautiful; almost the complete opposite response I would have had three years ago. That said, because I’m old enough to have the presence of mind to know that others do not share my changed view, and because these symbols are not my own, I feel now need to adopt them and would nevere personally Nazi-larp. Given his age, Spencer should likewise have had the presence of mind not to Nazi-larp; or if he insisted on doing so, being sure that he controlled the cameras, which was completely within his power to do.

  24. Captainchaos says:
    November 29, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    How many here would agree with the statement “The Jews should be physically removed from my country”?

    Hate to break it to you, friends, but if you agree to that, for all practical purposes, you are a “Nazi”. In for a penny, in for a pound. And if you do not, you are a pussy.

    1. Robert o says:
      November 29, 2016 at 6:08 pm

      Right.

      But the JQ is usually the final and most bitter part of red pilling.

      The Alt-Right & Alt-Lite had a kind of symbiotic red pill pipeline going. Ramzpaul was an effective populist. Even some of the eBook salesmen.

      Spencer broke the pipeline.

    2. J Bonaccorsi, Phila says:
      November 29, 2016 at 10:59 pm

      If what you’ve said is correct, then why hasn’t Richard Spencer said as much? Or has he? In the little bit I’ve heard from him since this trouble arose, he’s mouthed nonsense: What happened at NPI was “exuberance,” or “ironic exuberance,” or I-don’t-know-what. If there’s anyone toward whom some straight talk should be addressed, it’s Spencer. He should be told that he should explain himself. If he thinks of himself as a Nazi, then he should say so and say what that means. If he doesn’t, then he should explain his Nazi theatrics in that NPI speech. The explanation might be a simple, embarrassing acknowledgment that he allowed himself to be influenced by persons with whom he’s not in sympathy. Whatever is the truth, he should simply say it.

      1. Michael Bell says:
        November 30, 2016 at 5:39 am

        If he backtracks or even comes close to apologizing, he’ll be seen as weak by both us and the media. That would ultimately be terrible in the long run. I think he already explained himself pretty well by arguing that the stiff arms were just done out of exuberance. Greg, you have a good point about the NPI now not having a chance to influence the Trump administration….but I think that if you write an article about the perceived need to “punch right,” it would be a net negative. It would just be giving license to various leaders within white nationalism and the alternative right to engage in unnecessary infighting. Better, perhaps, for leaders within our movement to simply communicate with one another privately.

      2. Captainchaos says:
        November 30, 2016 at 11:42 am

        Harold Covington is the only one who is going to give it to you straight. He’ll come out and tell you he’s a Nazi. He will openly say that our only hope for racial survival ultimately lies in effective armed resistance. From the rest you’ll get some meager slivers of truth, mixed in with a heaping helping of neatly parsed, obfuscatory bullshit. Image is important, keep muh shekels rolling in. This isn’t necessarily a criticism, it is just the way things are.

        1. Michael Bell says:
          November 30, 2016 at 3:29 pm

          That’s black-pilled defeatist bullshit. Have you been paying any attention to the successes that WNs have accomplished lately?

    3. uh says:
      November 30, 2016 at 3:10 pm

      “You’re a pussy if you don’t want to do something totally impossible.”

      ~*CaptainChaos*~

  25. Aschwin says:
    November 29, 2016 at 5:07 pm

    Much ado about nothing. I think those in the alt/new right are a bit taken aback by the media response to this “incident”. But guess what?

    This is what it’s like being in the lime-light as a dissident movement. Are we seriously concerned about Spencer toasting to Trump and about 6 out of 275 of the attendees sticking their arms in the sky?

    As a true dissident movement, we have to provide an alternative to the mainstream in which their moral judgements hold no weight. We deal with the aftermath of world war two (or one, to be more precise) in our own way. The alt-right has done a fantastic job appropriating the Hollywood Nazi stereotype and mocking it relentlessly, while terrifying the SJW’s and cuckservatives who have modelled their political and personal identities in opposition to the aforementioned stereotype.

    In an interview on Red Ice radio, just after the conference, Mike Enoch and Richard Spencer respond in an admirable manner, and I encourage everyone to watch it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFalXA-RNjI

    We can either stress ourselves out over the possibility that a few young dissidents are caught on camera giving salutes, or we can shrug it off. And that is the difference with the old neo-nazi movements. This isn’t about larping or foolishly trying to embody the Hollywood Nazi stereotype, this is about trivializing it. This is about reducing the symbolic power of the aforementioned stereotype (its late, excuse my repetitiveness) by turning a Hitler salute into a harmless prank. I guarantee you, this will be a breath of fresh air to your average goy.

    The alt-right brand was being high-jacked by cultural libertarians. There was a legitimate danger that a slightly edgier reincarnation of mainstream republicanism would effectively destroy the immediate need for any serious alternative for dealing with SJW’s and political correctness. A portion of the alt-lite will move in our direction, the rest will either be converted in the coming years or they will have to resign to the fact that they are little different from the safe-space dwellers they used to mock.

    Spencer’s toast has not destroyed the alt-right brand, it has saved it.

    1. Robert o says:
      November 29, 2016 at 5:51 pm

      Spencer doesn’t get the /pol/mpc/trs/ds jokes and memes. The parts of his speech which were Alt-Right memes didn’t work. The Hail Trump finale enthused trs goys to salute whilst THE ATLANTIC, invited by Spencer to film a documentary about the Alt-Right Wonderboy, was recording.

      Spencer has no banter. Roland Martin with kangz and cotton got the better of their interview.

      Who appointed Richard Spencer the face of a movement that derived it’s energy from an trolling, amorphous and largely anonymous mob?

      1. Anon2016 says:
        November 29, 2016 at 9:04 pm

        Well it derived its energy from the online anonymous banter you refer to, but also from the Trump campaign and some public dissidents. Spencer really had nothing to do with either of those two forces. He’s kind of glammed onto both.

        I also agree with you that he “has no banter.” If he continues in politics, he should really just drop all pretense at humor and just speak earnestly with dialectic and rhetoric about policy.

    2. Zachary O. Ray says:
      November 29, 2016 at 6:51 pm

      Good point.

  26. Friedrich Schmidt says:
    November 29, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    You make a lot of good points, Greg. Richard Spencer has made me cringe a few times with things he has said or done. But there are a few things that bother me about the reaction to the controversy. Is the media calling us nazis now really any different from them calling us nazis pre-Salutegate? Yes, they have “proof” of Roman salutes caught on camera, but our racist views were already all the “proof” that they needed. Hell, the media tried to smear Trump with his Alt Right nazi Twitter followers (it didn’t work). Donald Trump was “literally Hitler” for wanting to deport illegals and ban Muslim immigration.

    When I joined the Alt Right about two years ago, it was already associated with Fascism and National Socialism. I joined the Alt Right because I didn’t give a damn about being called a nazi for my beliefs any more. I had outgrown Jared Taylor and other moderate race realists. I think that some people are over-estimating the effect that this incident is having on “normies.” Those that are appalled by it would probably be equally appalled by any association with racism. Some are probably beginning to see through the media’s biases and recognize the irony in the NPI video.

    Maybe I’m wrong, but I view this as a minor setback at worst. Perhaps it seems shocking because things have been going so well for us for the last year. Does this NPI incident really damage the “Racist Right” more than Dylan Roof did?

    1. Robert o says:
      November 29, 2016 at 6:03 pm

      Spencer made himself the face of the movement. No one asked him to.

      Now Alinskyite tatics can be used against him by the media. They have someone to pin down and attack.

      1. Anonymous says:
        November 30, 2016 at 8:39 pm

        “If you push a negative hard enough it will push through and become a positive” (Alinsky).

    2. Zachary O. Ray says:
      November 29, 2016 at 6:47 pm

      As one of those who has come to Richard’s defense, I actually think this is a great piece that is worth serious consideration. That said, I also agree with you that I don’t think this will hurt us in the long run, as most Americans are beginning to understand irony again. Only time will tell. I say we let the dust settle and keep chugging on.

      1. Anon2016 says:
        November 29, 2016 at 8:58 pm

        A clear distinction needs to be made as soon as possible between Spencer and the rest of the “Alt Right.” Otherwise, this thing is just going to continue to bleed out. The connection between the inflammatory words and images at the NPI event and the rest of the movement will solidify.

        Spencer should tell the media in no uncertain terms that he only speaks for himself and NPI. That if he gave another impression he was mistaken. That his views diverge from much of the rest of the movement. Spencer can perhaps do this at a press conference.

        He can also take that opportunity to explain how his Nazi-era terminology and iconography was intended to be sarcastic and to give context to some of his other more extreme sentiments (advocacy of ethnic cleansing; of a “pure” White ethnostate on U.S. soil.

      2. Anon2016 says:
        November 29, 2016 at 9:00 pm

        P.S. Spencer should also make absolutely clear there is no connection between the Alt Right (or himself) and Trump and that he has no special insight into Trump’s thinking.

        1. Some Guy says:
          November 30, 2016 at 3:15 pm

          This is how I know someone has never read anything from Spencer, and probably only knows him from a 5 second video clip. Spencer has said time and time again that there is no official connection between himself and Trump, except for ‘psychic’ one. He has said Trump wasn’t Alt Right. He has also said that he isn’t a nazi and thinks that it is a movement that should be left in the 20th century.

  27. Robert o says:
    November 29, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    NPI could have been a perfect Trotskyist style front group for entryism to mainstream institutions.

    But clueless Spencer decided to invite Tila, Jews and Jeffrey Goldbergs The Atlantic.

  28. Some Guy says:
    November 29, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    While I understand your concern, and I feel it was a mistake, I think that saying the “brand” is irreparably damaged is a huge over statement. At least one of the people you cite in your article thinks chem trails are real, but race isn’t.

    Tomorrow we are all still going to wake up in a declining multiracial empire, where there are machete attacks on college campuses done by freshman Somali refugees. A little ole Roman salute doesn’t seem so bad when you compare it to what the average White American is up against.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 29, 2016 at 8:37 pm

      Surely you are correct that the things our enemies fret about are far less worrisome than the hellish consequences of their own ideas. But here’s the problem: they still have the media megaphone, so their narrative dominates the minds of the people we need to wake up. That video is manna from heaven to our enemies. They are going to be playing decades hence.

      1. Some Guy says:
        November 30, 2016 at 3:08 pm

        Maybe. Again, you make some good points and I have deep respect for your work and your opinion. The problem is Spencer was already tagged by “the establishment”. He was already cataloged on SPLC. He got purged from twitter BEFORE the conference. Sure, he wasn’t a house hold name, but the chances of walking the halls of congress were already extremely low before the video.

        He calls himself an activist. His primary job is to spread ideas. When exerts of his speech are played on CNN that is exactly what is happening.

  29. Frank Walus says:
    November 29, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    Ever since Hillary’s alt-right speech, and even before that in regard to social media supporting Trump, the mainstream (((media))) has been aching to attach the “nazi” label to the alt-right (and in fact doing so) – this was happening long before Richard Spencer’s speech. So the thing about “they’re going to call you that anyway” is surely true. If the public is so frightened of “nazi” that it will shrink in horror and affix the mark of Cain to anybody even CALLED nazi, then there is not much hope for success. If that is all it takes to crush a foe, that is exactly what an unscrupulous system will do, sooner or later, to any enemy. How does one then lessen the impact of this go-to smear of the establishment? Mock it and make fun of it, which is in large measure what the alt-right online community is doing, and one could say Richard Spencer was doing in his speech. He was acknowledging the connection the media had made and, to a certain extent, ridiculing it by playing along in a light-hearted way. Anybody who can’t see that is not likely to be in the vanguard of a radical movement — sheeple are sure to believe what their TV is telling them until it is telling them something different. Certain of them might be red-pilled by life but not by any call to reason or history. The speech did generate a lot of publicity and if the jewsmedia wish to question Spencer about how “nazi” his meeting was, he can expose the cumulative media lies which account for such a reading. So a tempest in a teapot, and, while I greatly appreciate Greg Johnson, don’t think the piece he wrote here was at all necessary.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 29, 2016 at 8:33 pm

      Frank, you are surely right that we need to take the sting out of the Nazi smear by mocking it. These people want you to believe the Mitt Romney is literally Hitler too. But do you also agree that we can also take the sting out of it by not acting out the part before the cameras of the world media?

      1. Rus says:
        November 30, 2016 at 8:06 am

        Had the Nazi images from the conference been limited to Tila Tequila flanked by jews, the spirit of mocking our enemies could have been retained. I agree that a room full of men with Nazi haircuts hailing victory was a mistake and bad optics. But, a big part of the publicity and growth of this movement in the last year or so came from mockery and the absurd, such as jewish journalists being memed into gas chambers with Trump operating the lever. I hope that spirit won’t be diminished by the fallout from hailgate. After some reflection and a deep breath, let’s get back on offense where we belong.

        1. Anon2016 says:
          November 30, 2016 at 7:40 pm

          I agree with respect to Tila. That was irony or sarcasm.

          Spencer’s speech came off as earnest. The salutes at the end came off as earnest.

  30. Randy says:
    November 29, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    I doubt a few European salutes matter one way or the other. We are in a vicious war. They hate us, we hate them. We are right. That are Satanic. Hail Victory.

    1. Othmar Regin says:
      November 30, 2016 at 3:24 am

      With an attitude like that you might as well tear down your clothes and run butt naked into the bayonets of our enemies shouting “Heil Hitler, Sieg Heil” – what outcome of that do you think would be?

  31. Aiser says:
    November 29, 2016 at 7:06 pm

    While Spencer did get over excited over the recent election and felt the need to say something high in stamina, I think it’s unfair to say that he somehow damaged the brand… or gave it a mortal wound. Those that gave the Roman/Nazi salute how ever should have been more reserved and I wonder how they feel now. I am sure most of them if not all were gesturing that simply out of fun, though there is always the possibility of someone that actually means or agent provocateurs or both.

    As was discussed over at the War Room TRS, it’s best if we simply stay firm and hold our ground. By cringing back, attacking and black pilling our own is what would ultimately lead to a collapse. Holding our ground is really the only recourse of action we have, the media would have eventually found their “smoking gun” as to what alt-righters really are. That smoking gun could have been anything, a red ice radio podcast, a TRS PODcast with Spencer or Johnson on it, a Counter Currents article or an AMREN article. The fact that they by now they have not replayed some Daily Shoah monologue with everything that is said there by now is itself a surprise. The recent media attention will eventually die down and go down the memory hole anyways.

    There are always reasons to be optimistic. I was in a crowded NYC train on my way to my NAVY recruitment center just yesterday and something happen that made my face go, o.O. There were 3 school children chatting and were grouped next to me. One was a rather pretty white girl, a white male and a smaller midget sized Jewish girl. They were chatting about school life and the topic of Jews came up. Eventually their chatting came around to joking around their Jewish friend about “gassing the Jews” and how so many of their friends would joke in the same manner. The Jewish girl apparently also joked around in the same manner and stated that some of her male Jewish friends would draw swastikas on their own notebooks just for fun..No one in that massively crowded train cart seemed the slightest bit disturbed over this rather loud joking.

    It’s really just the older generations that are bothered by these salutes and hails, eventually that will change.

  32. Moe Oeolycus says:
    November 29, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    Look on the bright side, in our hyperreal world this will be forgotten about in a week or so (I’m guessing it’s largely forgotten already) and we’ll all go back to being “Nazis” again anyway to the media.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 29, 2016 at 8:29 pm

      I think that video will be shown in 30 and 40 years, just like David Duke’s photos in Nazi and Klan garb.

      1. Some Guy says:
        November 29, 2016 at 11:05 pm

        Another thought on this Greg. Few other phrases have been dragged through hell and back like “White Nationalist”, and you still prefer to call yourself that.

        1. Greg Johnson says:
          November 30, 2016 at 12:16 am

          If White Nationalist someday becomes as stigmatized as “Nazi” I will drop the label immediately.

          1. Anon2016 says:
            November 30, 2016 at 11:21 am

            Let me elaborate on this. It is clear from the recent Jamie Weinstein interview of Spencer, and the NPR interview of Ramzpaul, that the media is going to home in on this goal of “White Nationalism” and what its implications are for non-White residents of the United States. Whether or not the Nazi label is attached.

            Some of the implications are CONCEIVABLY sinister are they not? Deportations, partition, uprooting, removal of voting and other civil rights with respect to non-Whites. The specter of any of these things happening would legitimately frighten non-Whites to the point that anyone espousing “White Nationalism” in American politics and leaving the door open to them is probably going to get stigmatized. The media, out of sincere concern for the purported implications, or because they know it is stigmatizing, are focused like a laserbeam on the possibility. That is obvious in the interviews. And I didn’t hear Spencer or Ramzpaul allay these fears. My estimation is that a movement that does not rule out those implications will be dead in the water politically. That means that anyone seeking political success must disavow.

          2. Greg Johnson says:
            November 30, 2016 at 2:00 pm

            You are obviously a system troll, and a good one, but this will be your last appearance here.

          3. Old Bullion says:
            December 1, 2016 at 9:57 pm

            “Some of the implications are CONCEIVABLY sinister are they not? Deportations, partition, uprooting, removal of voting and other civil rights with respect to non-Whites. The specter of any of these things happening would legitimately frighten non-Whites to the point that anyone espousing “White Nationalism” in American politics and leaving the door open to them is probably going to get stigmatized. The media, out of sincere concern for the purported implications, or because they know it is stigmatizing, are focused like a laserbeam on the possibility. That is obvious in the interviews. And I didn’t hear Spencer or Ramzpaul allay these fears. My estimation is that a movement that does not rule out those implications will be dead in the water politically. That means that anyone seeking political success must disavow.”

            I have a couple of questions for Anon2016. I realize that he/she is not going to be allowed to respond but I think the above propaganda needs to be countered (if you’ll excuse the phrase).

            1) How do you get diversity without reducing the White percentage of the population?
            2) Is it in the best interests of Whites, politically, culturally and economically, to be a demographic minority?
            3) How do Whites avoid minority status with our current mass non-White immigration policies?
            4) And in order to act “affirmatively” doesn’t that require discriminating against Whites?

            Liberals and Leftists monolithically support affirmative action, diversity and mass non-White immigration. This in spite of the fact that these policies “legitimately frighten” Whites. Yet there is NO stigmatizing of these policies or the ideology that brought them to the fore. Funny how that works out.

      2. Kadphises says:
        December 7, 2016 at 6:08 am

        in 30 or 40 years we will be either victorious or an irrelevant minority

  33. Alaric says:
    November 29, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    The left has always mocked whites as having paranoid fears, and then once they were able to get their way, they would rub our noses in it.

    Desegregating schools isn’t going to lead to interracial marriage!

    The 1965 Hart-Cellar Immigration Act isn’t going to change the demographics of America!

    Decriminalizing homosexuals isn’t going to lead to gay men adopting little boys!

    The solution is just to mock the MSM and left as paranoid over a bunch of “nazis” in North Virginia. Then the moment we have the ability, we shove as much of what they hate and fear down their throats.

  34. Guile says:
    November 29, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    Privately I agree that what Spencer did was a combination of poor OpSec and Bad optics.
    Unfortunately Alt-Liters are equally if not more irresponsible in their public condemnations and hand-wringing as Spencer.

    Cernovich and those like him committed three cardinal sins simultaneously.

    – Punching right in public: I shouldn’t even have to say why no one who wants to shift or expand the overton window should
    – Reacting to the Legacy Media: If you react to the evidence the media supplies rather than getting the media to react to the evidence you supply, you’re being controlled by the Media. Not intentionally, not as a ‘shill’ but simply that they are able to dictate your moves and thus outmaneuver you. The media wanted this to become a big scandal, they wanted to make the alt-right label radioactive, and most of the alt-lite did precisely what would be needed of them to accomplish both.
    – Accusing people of being shills on flimsy evidence: Ramzpaul and Andrew Anglin accusing eachother of being ADL Shills is wasted energy. Spencer is not a shill, and Cernovich is at worst only a shill in terms of book sales, but probably isn’t on anyone’s take.

    As an aside, there’s are two extremes to this whole “movement”. You have people who think anyone who doesn’t make nauseating cultural libertarian talking points about individualism and nonjudgementalism is an SJW or Soros shill, on one side. On the other side you have people who think if your oven’s not at a full 1488 degrees, and don’t endorse the most avante garde proclamations about final solutions to the JQ, it must be because you privately enjoy being soddomized by the afro-semite.

    The worst part about it all is that most of the disagreements between the two extremes are semantic and/or aesthetic, i.e. not substantive.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 29, 2016 at 8:25 pm

      I am writing an entire article doing away with the idea that “punching Right” is a bad thing.

      The media did not make up the video out of whole cloth, and pretending that they are the problem, rather than what actually happened at NPI, is just an evasion of responsibility.

      Accusing people of being shills or controlled opposition without evidence, or merely by citing Hal Turner, should be every bit the taboo that “not punching to the Right” is.

      1. NeoApollo says:
        November 29, 2016 at 8:48 pm

        Greg I’m writing this as someone who has been very inspired by your work, and I’m still a young man with many friends who have all been able to accept a lot of what the new right preaches. Both young girls and young guys (we’re all in our early twenties or late teens). You specifically wrote about this in the New Right versus Old Right. How the old right were able to be so successful because they adopted the tactics of their opposition. So it is especially confusing to see Counter Currents making claims that punching right isn’t bad. I never see the left do this, I see them say they don’t believe in nominal values that are about as vague as they can be. Why not use this against them? Young people tired of being told we are inherently evil because of our race and sexuality need group cohesion not dropping the label because of liberal attack. Its what kept and brought young people to trumps movement. By belittling the opposition for calling him racist and sticking to his principles this led to his victory and I think we can apply this strategy as well. It’s what the cultural Marxists did in the 60s and 70s.

        1. Greg Johnson says:
          November 29, 2016 at 9:07 pm

          Leftists constantly fall out with and purge one another all the time. The reason Hillary Clinton is not asked to denounce Bill Ayers is that the press is on her side. If the Left were back on its heels, yes, she would feel pressure to denounce Ayers lest she show the world that she’s a moral imbecile.

          1. NeoApollo says:
            November 30, 2016 at 8:28 am

            Maybe I’m too young to have seen this on the left, I definitely haven’t noticed it. I’m sure you have good reasons for this call though, just giving a different perspective although may have been a little hyperbolic. I appreciate all the material you guys produce and still have faith in the growth of the movement.

          2. Greg Johnson says:
            November 30, 2016 at 1:52 pm

            Well, there’s the story of Stalin and Trotsky.

          3. NeoApollo says:
            November 30, 2016 at 4:48 pm

            Kek and zog and JFK.

      2. Anon2016 says:
        November 29, 2016 at 9:08 pm

        Greg,

        I think Spencer’s own conduct–words, attire, arm gesture at the conference as well as prior statements he has made–combined with his claiming to speak for the Alt Right would be highly problematic and put the movement in danger, even if certain audience members hadn’t given Nazi salutes in response to him that night.

        1. Stronza says:
          December 1, 2016 at 11:22 am

          One really wrong thing Spencer did was ignoring the govt of Hungary’s advising him that he was not welcome to hold his conference there in 2014. WTF. Who does he think he is?

          1. Greg Johnson says:
            December 1, 2016 at 4:08 pm

            He is Gumby, dammit.

      3. Austro Hungarian says:
        November 30, 2016 at 2:36 pm

        Not to split hairs, but is Spencer to our right? The theatrics come straight out of anonymous (or pseudonymous) internet culture, where everything is ironic and nobody can be pinned down. There’s no contradiction between anonymously posting an image of a Hitler motorcade with Trump’s smug face photoshopped in and putting on a suit and singing the Star Spangled Banner with hand over heart and tears in eyes–but being confused about which behavior belongs where implies that someone is less seriously right-wing than he should be.

        We’re seriously (and serious about being) far-right. If Spencer isn’t, we’re punching left.

      4. Rona says:
        December 1, 2016 at 6:47 am

        Greg, a very good article that made me rethink my initial response to Spencer’s gaffe.

        While recognizing that Spencer’s heil toast/salute was monumentally stupid and approach to media a result of ‘I’m so clever and well dressed they can’t possibly present me in a bad light’ thinking about himself, I firmly held that we shouldn’t criticize him publicly.

        Now I don’t know.

        I truly believe that No enemies to the right must be a cardinal rule of the Right if we are to maintain position and not drift to the left.

        I’m very interested in your view of punching right in general, especially as it concerns NS, as it’s the issue that is central to any right-wing movement.

        Bowden said that one cannot pussyfoot around this, that if one wishes to oppose Left fundamentally, one “has to go over there” and “has to touch certain thinkers” that will get one called a fascist.

        Now, I’m not a NS, but certainly approve of many things uncle Adolf did. Maybe because W. Pierce had a huge influence on my thinking years ago when I got serious about politics.

        Since then I’ve grown up enough to know that Hitlerism is poisonous to our cause and must be discarded or even actively attacked, from the perspective of European ethnonationalism which opposes destruction of any European ethnicity.

        Rona

  35. Lorenz Kraus says:
    November 29, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    I wish Spencer would follow up with a press release asking Trump to ask Congress and all students in public schools to watch Adolf Hitler the Greatest Story NEVER Told, to retire the Hitler slur from American politics. War propaganda has no place in political discourse.

    I also salute the salute to our people and to our victory. I can make one prediction in 2017. People will do the salute in front of the White House every hour and do their selfies.

    You are only demonized, if you let yourself, be demonized. If you can defend your intentions as good for white people, the media and the political system will cave. Their efforts count on your self-implosion. Defiance defeats them. Defiance attracts people, especially, young idealist people.

    Trump is the post-propaganda president. The WWII propaganda failed to stop his victory. Instead of Hitler is evil as the axiom of our cultural life, the public vote for Trump signifies that nationalism is good.

    Nationalism is good. Hitler was a nationalist. Hitler is good. Trump is Hitler. Trump is good.

    This is what the media wanted to demonize, but 2 million views and lots of news is very good. Plus Spencer hasn’t backed down.

    The alt-right is a sandbox to develop tools to stop White Genocide: cuck, pepe, memes, anti-semitism, ((())). Of course, Cernovitch, Milo, Cuck Watson weren’t alt-right. They don’t care about white genocide and they don’t name the Jew.

    There’s no way to trick the public into white nationalism or national socialist policies. And if you did, they would be pissed off for being deceived.

    What differentiates those who are afraid of the pro-Hitler view, from those who believe in it, is a conception of how people evolve from one position to another.

    If you believe people are dynamic, you will find a truthful and congruent presentation of Hitler will, with time, cause people to re-evaluate, re-calibrate, and awaken. If you don’t believe people are dynamic, you will be disappointed about why they won’t wake up. Hitler woke people up and converted millions of communists to his side. How hard can it be to convert a majority of whites out of white genocide ?

    The hard part is getting into the media, and that is why Spencer is a success. He fell into it, and should make the most of it. It’s a great gift.

    Like with Dylan Roof, it isn’t the action that counts with the media, but the intention behind it that must demonized.

    Our enemies aim to demonize the will and intention to fight for white survival. That’s all that really counts. We must emphasize that white intentions are GOOD, no matter the situation, real or fabricated.

    Those who pander to the existing peanut gallery will never win that peanut gallery over, whether it is alt-right, or some other code word.

    Speak to the future the truth and you will win the youth. Pander to the cowards and self-deluded, and you’ll never get anywhere. The truth is Trump’s victory rehabilitates Hitler.

    Trump is Hitler, and the American people voted for him, anyways. So what’s the problem?

    http://lorenzkraus.com/index.php/alt-right-rehabilitates-hitler/

    1. Peter says:
      November 29, 2016 at 9:20 pm

      Well… it may be hard to grasp for some but…the fact that some 99% of anything about Hitler, Third Reich and WW II is a lie STILL doesn´t mean that Hitler-NS was good. A totalitarian regime is NOT a good system. The present liberal capitalist system isn´t good, either as it simply means oligarchy of the merchants, i.e. essentially the Jews. I can only speculate about viable alternatives. But what I´m sure of is that dictatorship is not the alternative. Beware of delusions!

      1. Lorenz Kraus says:
        November 30, 2016 at 5:48 am

        Totalitarianism upon Jews in 1900 would have averted WWI, WWII, and the Bolshevism. It’s a tool, like anything, and has merits when properly used. If Jews were never emancipated, Europe would not have been threatened by Jewish imperialism (communism).

        When Jews have infected all your systems, everything has to be cleaned out: media, schools, churches, publishing, banking, and business; not much different from the USG. Jews use nihilism to penetrate and remain our nations. They depend on endless tolerance and treason (Vitamin T), while indigenous blood-European survival depends on excellence and exclusion (Vitamin E). We are different animals. Jews must destroy all standards, taboos, and traditions to remain among us. They must get you to tolerate everything from Ebola, Africa, and Islam to the nadir of child-eating Satanism. Once standards return, and Jews are exposed, spirit-cooking Jews are collectively-excluded and expelled in a forceful, mother-instinctual, merciless backlash, perhaps in 2017. Jews can never relax when it is our nature to have standards (“hate”) and their nature to destroy them.

        One of Hitler’s aides mentioned that Hitler planned to disband the party after the war. Fascism means NATIONAL RENEWAL. It’s a temporary condition for an emergency situation. Remember that Bavaria fell to communism, which is, proportionally, the same as the Southern Confederacy, and that the Soviets, and others, aimed to subvert Germany in wartime. Once the Jews were gone, there would have been very little ugliness to “suppress” as the nation would have gone in the direction of self-cultivation, health, strength, and beauty.

        The problem with the American experiment is that liberals have no answer to those who use legal means to subvert the system (lobbying, media control, campaign financing, gate-keeping). That is why Jews can, legally, hijack the system and put you in a globalist system of totalitarianism. The only way to get back control is to declare war on Jews, if you can, to suspend their rights and citizenship; or start a new agency to ASSURE self-government. Your enemy is not your equal and can’t have equal rights. Jews will put you in a gulag, if you don’t put them in camps. That’s the end -game. Just listen to the hysterics of Tim Wise and what he planned to do to white nationalists had Hillary won.

        Legalized subversion:
        http://www.renegadetribune.com/rhodes-mafia-sponsor-white-genocide/

        Board of Trustees Technique:
        http://www.renegadetribune.com/using-board-trustees-technique-stop-white-genocide/

    2. Stronza says:
      November 30, 2016 at 9:30 am

      There’s no way to trick the public into white nationalism or national socialist policies. And if you did, they would be pissed off for being deceived.

      But Trump, judging by his about-face on various promises starting with “They’re [Bill & Hillary] good people. I don’t want to hurt them”, has deceived a good portion of those who voted him in. When are they going to get “pissed off”?

  36. Peter says:
    November 29, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    If I had written an article of such logical clarity, so concise, so comprehensive, and then gotten these comments… I would feel like… eating a gun. Endless respect for soldiering on anyways, Greg.

  37. Sylvie says:
    November 29, 2016 at 9:01 pm

    Funny discussion. Seems we are swallowing the bait again, hook-line-and-sinker.

    Greg is discussing questions of tactics, not facts:

    Is it advisable to do something our enemies hate? Should we avoid symbols/gestures they have vilified/prohibited? Is it useful to enter that fight?
    As a politician’s tactics, he may be right.

    When it comes to the facts – the NS worldview and its concrete goals point by point – the Alt-Right overlaps 90% with National Socialism.

    And even the remaining 10% (in Gregs list “The Relevance of the Old Right”: 1)imperialism, 2)treatment of Poles and 3) totalitarian state and mass muder) are debatable, because more his own view of history.

    So should we deny our roots, our spiritual heritage?
    I think we should make clear that
    a) we dont share the vilification of National Socialism imposed on us by political correctness, but defend our right to an independent judgement
    b) we have other solutions to similar problems because our political/historical context is different.

  38. Shawn says:
    November 29, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    I agree with just about everything in the article, but yes it is a bit odd coming from Counter Currents, which publishes a lot of pro Nazi & fascist material, albeit highbrow.

    1. Robert o says:
      November 30, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      Greg didn’t offer himself as the leader and face of the Alt-Right. Greg didn’t invite hostile media to record inebriated conference attendee’s misinterpreting a larpy Hail toast.

    2. Greg Johnson says:
      December 1, 2016 at 3:31 am

      Something that I actually acknowledged in the article above.

  39. Nick says:
    November 30, 2016 at 4:57 am

    Trump shaping policy by listening to NPI’s ideas?
    Overly optimistic to put it mildly.

    The whole nazi thing was overblown by the MSM and a lot of people in our ranks took the bait.
    A storm in a teacup imo
    NPI and Spencer will survive bc he has a strong brand and charisma/age/looks.

  40. ISK says:
    November 30, 2016 at 7:46 am

    Greg, you seem to be a fundamentally decent man with an strong instinctive urge to be polite and not cause other people discomfort.

    What did you see in Trumps behavior this past year, and the American people’s response to it?

    We are past the point where we can be polite like our grandparents were. Now is not the time.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 30, 2016 at 2:07 pm

      Bad analogy. Everyone likes to see an aggressive and intelligent leader who shows speaks frankly and breaks the rules to do so, but show real warmth and commitment towards his people. That does not mean that people will respond the same way to aggressively eccentric and marginal people LARPing as Nazis.

  41. FB says:
    November 30, 2016 at 8:51 am

    For 99% of white people, credible association with Nazism is all they need to dismiss a movement completely.
    Before this, an intelligent person could perhaps see that the media shrieking about alt-right Nazis was a tired attempt to discredit us (and Trump).
    After a video comes out with an alt-right spokesman making numerous Nazi references, with an audience giving Nazi salutes, and with an overall tone that is clearly sincere, our ability to plausibly deny a Nazi association is deminished.
    Unfortunately, unless we have some huge swing in popularity, the actual impact of this will be nearly impossible to determine.

  42. Michael says:
    November 30, 2016 at 8:53 am

    I would agree that this was a big faux pas given the largely public nature of NPI. We have a public image that we need to maintain and although snapping to attention with a “hail victory” is not wrong we need to know how we come across to the public. This will pass and will not mar the face of the Alt-Right or NPI in any substantial way and most of the average joes I know haven’t heard anything about this incident and probably never will. This kind of action belongs at a pool party not NPI.

  43. George Kerby says:
    November 30, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Are we really so fragile?
    NPI 2016 and the incident are no longer News.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 30, 2016 at 2:01 pm

      I am sure David Duke said that about his Nazi and Klan photos decades ago. Spencer gave the enemy some valuable footage. You are in denial if you think this will be gone with the news cycle.

  44. Chuck says:
    November 30, 2016 at 11:39 am

    Excellent work, Mr. Johnson.
    (Sorry for the wall of text, but this essay has been dying to get out for a few days now)

    As a white nationalist, this whole nazi salute thing concerns me deeply. Not because I deplore National Socialism (on the contrary, I think Hitler and the Third Reich were pretty great), but rather because I feel like a soldier watching his (self proclaimed) leader behaving in a manner, which if continued, could lose the war.

    To those people who don’t see what the problem is I ask, “What is our goal and how are we to achieve it?” Our goal, obviously, is to retake control of our historically white nations and run them for and by those of European descent. The problem seems to be that many who could be considered to be part of the “alt right” seem to have not sufficiently considered how we are to achieve this goal.

    Are we going to achieve this goal by means of bloody civil wars against a state armed with the most sophisticated military hardware known to man (hardware which, thanks to advances in technology, is becoming easier to operate by fewer actual humans) or are we, like the NSDAP itself, going to achieve it by democratic means? If by democratic means, then we must reach out to the largest number of whites possible and even to some of the more high functioning blacks and hispanics and take power by means of the ballot box (this does not imply that at some later date we couldn’t expel the majority of our non white populations). If we are for the democratic option, then the problem with those on the Alt Right publicly giving the “Nazi Salute” (this is what every single person who we are trying to reach knows it as) should be self evident. In no way does making intelligent tactical decisions in the struggle for the existence and dominance of our people imply “cucking”.

    For those who still can’t recognize the problem, I’ll try to make it more clear. The millions of almost red pilled blue collar workers in America don’t like Nazis. They like America, and winning, and law and order, and peace and prosperity. But they don’t like weird Europeans like that ranting lunatic Hitler who was planning to invade America (I’ve actually spoken with regular Joes who believe this). They still remember the boys who died storming fortress Europe who were supposedly murdered by crazed Hitler Youth and black clad Waffen SS fanatics. The more soft hearted of them are even disgusted by a regime which they believe murdered millions of civilians in concentration camps – crazy, I know!

    The situation is just as bad regarding the red pillable white collar workers surrounded by nu males and clucking hens. Over the short term the average white collar worker has very little incentive to join our ranks, and now our glorious leader, that political mastermind, that inspiring master of rhetoric and propaganda, Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute, has just reduced that incentive even further.

    We need these redpillable white folks. We need them to vote Trump in for a second term. And after eight years of life actually getting better in America, we need them to vote for another implicitly, or perhaps even explicitly, pro-white pro-America candidate. If we fail in this task, our best case scenario will be a civil war with an uncertain outcome (and don’t forget that the jews and the corrupt white elites would rather call the Chinese PLA for help than lose their power and position). The worst case scenario will be the genocide of our people. Is it not worth forgoing the lulz we get when publicly Sieg Heiling in order to avoid this outcome? Is this not an amazing time to be alive when we can forge a new world order through force of will and discipline alone, rather than by means of a civil war resulting in the deaths of millions of our countrymen?

    What is most frustrating is that we are in the perfect position to be both controversial and righteous – just like Trump himself had been during the entire election. We on the Right can make inflammatory racist statements like, “Europeans create the most safe and prosperous nations in the world” and “We believe in diversity”. Either the left attacks us on these kinds of statements and does our job for us by forcing the blue pilled masses to consider the veracity of these statements and by exposing the sophistries the left uses to attempt to discredit them; or they remain silent and cede the floor to us to disseminate our red pills unopposed. Very few people who would otherwise not become red pilled are going to become so because they saw Richard Spencer and a room full of Neo Nazis giving the Nazi salute. On the contrary they’ll file the alt right under “crazy people” and become even more resistant to ideas like race realism. I’m well aware that Spencer merely raised his glass and cried “Hail Trump, Hail Victory, Hail Our People!” I’m also aware that the average brainwashed American now thinks that the Alt Right are literal Neo Nazis and that only a fool would aid the mainstream media in creating that impression.

    The masses which we must reach are composed of decent, moral, white men and women who have been brainwashed from birth to hate the nazis and in recent years even themselves. We have something to offer them which they desperately want – a promise of a better world and the satisfaction that goes along with being a decent capable person who can contribute to something greater than themselves. In effect, we’re already offering them something akin to National Socialism. Ironically, one of the very few things that we shouldn’t do is overtly tie this message to “Nazism”. If what happened at the NPI conference isn’t confirmation of something that I’ve believed for a long time, namely that Richard “tits on a bull” Spencer is worse than useless, then nothing is.

    1. Peter says:
      November 30, 2016 at 8:39 pm

      So… it´s a safe bet that upon this big, this all extended effort to explain everything, the reactions will be:

      -aah they call us Nazi anyways; never apologize; don´t punch to the right; don´t cuck
      -the media misrepresents all that; everybody knows by now that the media is lying
      -it was only ironic
      -HAIL VICTORY HAIL VICTORY HAIL VICTORY
      -can´t we say “Hail”?, it´s in the national anthem; can´t we salute that way, it´s the Bellami Salute
      -it was only some Jews who did the Nazi Salute
      -it will soon be forgotten, no big deal
      -we have that much bigger problems, how can you harp on that incident

      All this argumentation was pervasive in all comment sections, in many podcasts and videos of the alt-right. The level of ignorance, the lack of intelligence, the incapability to understand an argument, to see the real relevant point no matter how often it was pointed out, no matter how clear the points were made… these are the people of my side, these are the people that we are supposed to win the war with…all this is so discouraging that… as said in a previous comment, it just makes me feel like eating a gun (and again, as said: endless respect to all who take that and stay positive and soldier on).

      1. Greg Johnson says:
        December 1, 2016 at 3:32 am

        You’ve got the Spencer apologist playbook down to the letter. Good work.

  45. FlorianGeyer says:
    November 30, 2016 at 11:39 am

    Come of it Greg. You can’t surely be taking the high road. I’ve been coming to this website for years to read the exellent articles on Leni Riefenstahl, the cinema of Veit Harlan including Kolberg and Opfergang, the esoteric National Socialism/Hitlerism of Savitri Devi etc. You can’t suddenly disavow our obvious links with the spectres of past and you can’t turn around now and put the blame on Richard Spencer. I’ve been a part of this movement for over thirty five years and seen these scandals come and go. We should as a movement be showing solidarity with Spencer, not distancing ourselves from him.

    The one thing to take from Donald Trump is never apologise.

    1. FlorianGeyer says:
      November 30, 2016 at 11:41 am

      *off – sorry typo

    2. Greg Johnson says:
      November 30, 2016 at 1:50 pm

      Yes, I have acknowledged this irony. I am not going to apologize for the things I publish. But I am also not going to pretend that NS 1.0 or any of the subsequent versions are anything but a trap for our movement in the present world. Again, the question is this: what is WN based on? Is it based on objective reality, or what happened in Germany between the ends of the 2 World Wars? If the former, then we have to ask how best to communicate this objective truth. And obviously, given both history and the present power structure and prevailing mindset, NS is just unnecessary baggage.

  46. Joel says:
    November 30, 2016 at 12:40 pm

    Something lacking in all the criticism of Richard Spencer has been specifics regarding exactly what he did wrong and what the critics would have done differently. It’s one thing to not like what happened, but another thing entirely to say it should have been predicted and avoided.

    Should alt-right speakers refrain from ending speeches on an energetic note?

    Should they always refrain from hailing anything?

    Should the organizer of a public conference be held responsible for the behavior of all attendees at all times in and around the event?

    Let’s assume we all get our wish and the alt-right has events in the future that draw thousands. Does anyone honestly think that a crowd of 5,000 alt-righters won’t contain 100 or more trolls that will give the jewish media all the bad optics they want 10 times over.

    For God’s sake, Donald Trump couldn’t have a rally without guys saluting.

    If the alt-right was so flimsy that it could be destroyed by Tila Tequila and 4-5 drunk TRS goys then I’m left wondering what we have all been investing our lives into for the past several years.

    I guess meming a shitlord into the Presidency is at least some consolation.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 30, 2016 at 1:45 pm

      Sure, here are some constructive suggestions.

      1. Spencer should not have had press cameras present.
      2. Spencer knew that people were heiling it up earlier in the evening, so he should have known it could have happened after his speech, on camera.
      3. To avoid that, if he wanted to toast Trump, he could have ended by saying, “Now, I want you to pick up your glass and join me in a toast of our next president Donald Trump.” And if he wanted to, he could have thrown in “Hail to the chief” at that point, which would have provoked some mirth but probably not any “Heil to der Fuhrer” behavior.

      Spencer really is primarily responsible because he invited in the press and did something embarrassing in front of them. His own hailing was really the bad thing. The fact that people in the audience saluted was just a predictable consequence.

  47. McCauley says:
    November 30, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    I used to think highly of Richard Spencer when I first discovered the alt right back 2012. But some of the ridiculous things he talks about like a new ‘Occidental Empire’ make me think he’s delusional. Can’t say I’m much surprised by this.

    Let’s hope in the coming years the alt right can put forward better leadership figures. One of the most unattractive things about the alt right is the bitterness that comes from being pessimistic about our society. Yea I know it’s impossible not be disappointed given our current situation but being so negative doesn’t help. I think Ramzpaul is someone who does a great job of avoiding this and presents his views without seeming like an antisocial reject. Just my two cents. Great job as always Greg.

  48. Red says:
    November 30, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    When this first happened I would have agreed with Greg, however, as I have listened to many on the right speak about this and given it more thought I think Greg is wrong. The “brand” has taken a hit bit is far, far from dead. PJW and Cernovitch never were Alt Right and know next to nothing about the movement and especially about leaders like Spencer and Taylor (and Greg himself).

    We will see but in my opinion the Alt Right is like an iceberg with massive, yet silent, support beneath the surface globally. This is just the beginning.

  49. tripod says:
    November 30, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    Could someone please make some lemonade?

    1. Othmar Regin says:
      December 1, 2016 at 10:34 am

      I don’t think there is any lemonade to be made of this.. best IMO is to without condemning or condoning let it pass – and if somebody asks about it just say it was taken out of context and they should go and watch the whole thing before passing judgment(and nobody will want to do that anyway) – just shroud it in obscurity

      1. tripod says:
        December 1, 2016 at 9:05 pm

        I already forgot… what was this whole brouhaha about?

        1. Greg Johnson says:
          December 1, 2016 at 10:24 pm

          You’ve also forgotten how stupid this “It’ll be gone with the news cycle” evasion is.

          1. tripod says:
            December 3, 2016 at 11:15 am

            I’ve forgotten that too. I try to keep my eyes on the prize.

            I’d like to encourage you rather than discourage, so if my drivel does the latter, I will shut up.

  50. Anonymous says:
    November 30, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    I guess there are two separate issues here.

    One is whether it’s ever appropriate to use NS-redolent imagery, and even if so, whether it’s a good look for NPI specifically.

    The other issue is whether it’s constructive to amplify the MSM’s narrative by writing about the incident in such a pessimistic tone. If you’re really convinced that this is an own goal by Spencer, wouldn’t it be tactically preferable to ignore or minimise it in public, then maybe seen him an email or call him up and have a chat, instead? To pursue the sporting metaphor, it’s a bit like if the coach of a football team were to tell the press after a losing game “Well, our season’s over now!”

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 30, 2016 at 9:40 pm

      I understand your point, but I think I have already answered it in the body of the article. The purpose of putting public distance between oneself and Spencer is not to improve Spencer’s character or performance, but simply to communicate that he does not speak for those who reject NS as a poisoned brand. The audience is the public at large, primarily sympathetic or neutral people who are our natural audience.

      I also made it clear that the only thing that has really been damaged here is (1) a brand name, and (2) Spencer and NPI. The movement itself is very much alive and will continue to grow.

  51. Petronius says:
    November 30, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    Back in summer, when everybody wanted to be “Alt-Right”, from Anglin to Watson, I thought it was a good idea to keep the term floating, keep it suggestive and open it up like a large umbrella and see what happens. WN would just be a player under that umbrella – I mean why call it Alt-Right, if it is just WN under another name?

  52. Generation Abyss says:
    November 30, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    The events that will determine whether or not this incident will help or hurt the movement have not happened yet.

  53. Peter J says:
    December 1, 2016 at 1:06 am

    I can excuse anything about this situation….apart from the fact that Spencer was courting the Mainstream Press (just after Trump’s victory and before he takes office). The Press is irredeemable…and Spencer is too clever by half…

  54. Patak says:
    December 1, 2016 at 3:25 am

    Hello! Long time reader and lurker here.

    I don’t doubt that the whole hand rising affair was a net negative and that it would have been better if it hadn’t happened than if it had. However, given the massive usage of Hitler and swastika imagery and general sentiment in these circles, isn’t it naive to think that something like this wouldn’t inevitably happen, sooner rather than later? If the alt right was to live only as long as first MSM camera catches the first 5 people throw out a heil, was it even worth living?

    Let’s face it, this was inevitable. MSM paints everyone as a nazi, which has been pointed out a lot. However in the case of alt right, this actually is a correct accusation quite often, making media’s job that much easier. Now we can argue if NS is good or bad or in between, fact remains many of the more hardcore alt righters are in fact either literally nazis or are flirting with nazism in a very obvious and blatant way, openly on their podcasts, videos, articles etc. Was it then surprising that sooner or later the MSM would get their “proof”? And if it wasn’t surprising, was giving up from the alt right name really the plan? And if it wasn’t the plan, how encouraging is it for anyone on the fence to see a movement that hasn’t planned for something that was obvious and inevitable? I perfectly understand people on the verge can be turned off by heiling Trump and Victory, but looking unprepared and easily panicked doesn’t help much either.

    As such, the saluting part doesn’t look like such a massive disaster to me. A setback, sure, but one that was inevitable and as such should either be easy to survive or the whole movement wasn’t worth to live in the first place, which I don’t think is the case. Most damage seems to me to be coming from the panic within the alt right itself.

    The problem I do see here is Spencer’s behaviour after the fact. I saw the 30 minute video of him against some black TV host (you’ll excuse me for not knowing who it is, I’m a central/eastern Euro so not into such details) and he looked very unprepared and was seemingly dominated by a black man who yelled, used seriously dumb arguments, as well as let him off the hook when he openly stated that ww2 should never have happened, something an average media jew or collaborator would crucify him on. That a public face of a movement can perform so poorly against such a weak opponent is not a good sign for the movement. So from that angle, I see why Spencer should be challenged in his attempt to present himself as the speaker for the whole movement.

  55. Bjorn says:
    December 1, 2016 at 4:36 am

    Anybody else here haunted by the vision of the leftist, SJW & (((collaborators))) laughing their a.. off at the sight of this discussion thread and the intensity of it? They could not have asked for a more effective and at the same time unintended(?) gift of a divide and conquer into the new right.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      December 1, 2016 at 4:13 pm

      Just more lame and dishonest Spencer apologetics. Apparently you think that Spencer can say anything he wants in front of the camera, but we have to speak in whispers, lest we harm the movement. That’s just stupid. Try again when our comment thread — which mostly casts our movement in a positive light anyway — exceeds the “Hail Trump!” video in views. Which is to say: never.

  56. Yohan says:
    December 1, 2016 at 6:38 am

    The AP has now stated they will associate NPI and the alt-right with neo-nazism. And no, the media did not do this before. They called us racists and white supremacists, but not neo-nazis. The hail salutes has now given the MSM exactly what they wanted, it was idiotic.

    The overton window can only be shifted gradually. It is only just getting acceptable to openly call oneself a racist. But if you think public displays of Nazi/Hitler larping is fine, then you are a moronic autiste.

  57. Joseph Klaus says:
    December 1, 2016 at 7:23 am

    As of now the “Hail Trump” video has more than two million views. That doesn’t count the people who saw it on television. I saw the video shared by Facebook friends in outrage. For millions of people the very first thing they learned about the Alt-right was that it was a Nazi movement. Millions of doors were closed to us. For all the talk about the Meme War and the Troll army, the Atlantic video has more anti-altright comments than pro, something I’ve never seen before on any Alt-Right or WN themed video. Hail Trump was a mistake.

  58. Reinout van Hulst says:
    December 1, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    I think that still a lot of good may come from ‘HailGate’.

    By criticizing Spencer and the Nazi LARPers, we will get the best of both worlds. On the one hand, the Alt-Right got a lot of publicity by the actions of Spencer. On the other hand, if people start looking into the Alt-Right, they will see the critique of Spencer and all the other different opinions. Then they will understand that we are not the ‘evil Nazi’s’ the media has made us to be.

    The only people who will lose out from the critiques are probably the ‘Hollywood Nazi’s.’ In fact, the people I got into an argument with about this are indeed actual National Socialists. They want to take over the Alt-Right, so that is why they want us to remain silent and not critique Spencer.

  59. Consigliere says:
    December 1, 2016 at 5:02 pm

    The “alt-right” press conference held in DC before the election with Spencer, Taylor, and Brimelow should have convinced everyone that none of the three will do as “Voice of the Alt-Right.”

    In the short-term, some sort of “Communications Director” should be used that can field press inquiries and answer clearly regarding the interests of our group – a younger Ann Coulter would be a perfect “type”.

    As I’ve mentioned before here at CC, a leader is someone in the mold of Le Pen, Farage, Orbam, etc. Our prototype should be a “Thiel”-like clone in stature and intelligence. We need much smarter people in the movement too. The whole top-side of the operation should be exclusively staffed from the “140+ Club” (just like AH’s staff or FDR’s staff … or Bezos’ staff or Inmelt’s staff or Blankfein’s staff … or Oppenheimer’s…)

    In the Current Year, the “alt-right” is very good at documenting the situation passionately, and using technology to further its audience. It kinda stops there. Spencer’s misstep makes it more difficult to those with desirable attributes for the movement to step out of the shadows.

  60. JGinTX says:
    December 1, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    Greg, I think you are spot on. When I first saw Spencer’s self aggrandizing idiocy my thought was that he had gone full Sarah Palin – absolutely consumed with the rush of fame, everything becomes about him with no thought given to the horrendous damage he has inflicted. Cast as the go-to guy on the Alt-Right we’ll doubtless see more and more of him on TV. Ugh.

    On a more positive note, I first became aware of you through your great interview on The Decline of the West podcast. You are obviously in possession of a first class mind and remind me of the late Sam Francis with a bit of the best of Tom Flemming’s rhetorical flourish (and none of his worst).

    Thank you.

  61. LaughingLion says:
    December 1, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    So why all of the commotion over this incident? Nearly every figure associated with the Alt-Right has come forward to express their position on this event and most view it as a defining moment for the Alt-right. The various figures that make up the Alt-right overestimate their role and impact on this election, which is understandable given its historic nature. The movement received airtime in the final days of the campaign, specifically called out by Clinton in a last ditch attempt to play the ever-dissolving race card. Many on the Alt-right see themselves as the vanguard of a broader movement, justifying more irreverent and extreme positions or tactics to help awaken non-red pilled normies to forbidden truths. But assuming that the Alt-right led the charge to Trump’s election would be like equating a Clinton victory to groups such as BLM. The victory could have very well been secured despite that group’s effort, not because of it. The realization of the desired outcome, Trump’s election, leads to an inflated sense of power over an outcome the Alt-right may have had little effect on or even been counterproductive to. And with this newly perceived power comes newly perceived opportunities and responsibilities. The responsibility to not punch to the right, to refrain from certain offensive language or hand gestures, to unite against a common enemy, to continue to shift and expand the Overton window, to gain mainstream acceptability, to influence policy or be more pragmatic. Hence all the navel-gazing and some hyperbolic reactions: “He’s a fed!”

    There’s no need to cater to some abstract mass of normies who, if only fewer Nazi salutes were raised, a much greater number of whom would have begun their great awakening. You wouldn’t have handled it as Spencer did? Ok, someone step up and show him how it’s done. Even if you believe Spencer blundered massively by allowing himself to be painted as leader of a neo-Nazi movement on camera, didn’t he at most trash his own brand? Isn’t truth on our side? Won’t the next person just pick up the flag and move ahead? Trump didn’t gain the White House because enough normies started to buy white nationalism or explore the JQ. Grim reality and self-interest/preservation are to credit for the shifting tide. The people within the Alt-right sphere of influence enjoy listening to and discussing sound, rational ideas about creating a better future for themselves and their families more than PR strategies and disavowals. If they have to suffer a few Roman salutes and media faux hysteria to hear it, I’m sure they can handle it. We’re not fragile people, and this won’t be a fragile movement.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      December 1, 2016 at 10:26 pm

      Actually, we are doing the constructive thing here: analyzing the mistake, learning from it, and moving forward.

  62. Bob says:
    December 1, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    When Richard Spencer closed his speech he merely raised his glass in a toast and said, “Hail victory!”, referring, of course, to Trump’s win. It was the four or five (out of 300) people in the audience who responded with Roman salutes (one of them the Asian Tila Tequila), obviously in fun. I doubt they even realized that that was being filmed. So 4 people inadvertently trolled the entire western world’s mass media. This was bad optics but not really Spencer’s fault.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      December 2, 2016 at 1:23 am

      No, it was Spencer’s fault because: (1) he invited in the press, (2) knew that people had been heiling earlier, and (3) ended his speech in a manner that obviously invited the same behavior in front of cameras.

  63. Tim Buck II says:
    December 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    Spencer is always LARPing: historian, philosopher, scientist, radical traditionalist, Nazi, etc. The guy once said he was Batman. He’s a vain opportunist and his only objective is to charm fans (which is quite easy to do in our loyal niche-market). His success comes from making ironic jokes and shocking normies.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love a good troll!

    The TRS guys are great trolls, but they don’t position themselves as legitimate thought-leaders or welcome in the media in order to speak on the record as a representative of the Alt-Right. In my opinion they rarely “get it wrong” on TRS, but their analysis of #Hailgate missed the point entirely.

    Condemning Richard for our enemies’ sake would be cucking. Nobody’s doing that. We’re forced to condemn Richard for our own sake. All those working-class normies who would have gladly identified as Alt-Right during Trump’s reign will remain cuckservative for the time being and thus slightly out of reach. The dishonest media had no power to call us Nazis. We did it to ourselves. It didn’t matter what they said about us. All that mattered was winning over as large an audience as possible for political security. In this regard, Richard failed big league.

    Bernie Sanders said Crooked Hillary has bad judgment. He never met Richard Spencer.

  64. Terms of Engagement says:
    December 2, 2016 at 6:24 am

    In the Stanley Kubrick film Doctor Strangelove the eponymous character, an old Nazi scientist working for America during the Cold War, has a robotic arm that involuntarily sig heils when he becomes excited, causing him to have to struggle in a comedic fashion to pull it down with his other hand. I suppose the joke is that the ghostly nerve endings still think it’s 1940.

    People need to keep their heil hand down in front of cameras and not embody the Strangelove parody. Dressing up as a Nazi in front of cameras didn’t help David Duke or George Lincoln Rockwell when they were being serious and it doesn’t work as comedy either, especially when the viewer doesn’t know it’s done partly as a joke. (An exception might be Tila Tequila since she is Asian and thus obviously not really a neo-Nazi.) On the other hand, pretending to be a Nazi in a facetious way does work on the audio side of things, and programs like the Daily Shoah which use a lot of dark humor to subvert Holocaustianity have been hugely successful. If one listens to the Daily Shoah even for a minute one discovers the “Death Panel” is designed to agree with and escalate the slander of the Left that the right are Nazis for the purposes of satire. It’s not purely facetious though because they do adopt some fascist ideas. However, if one sees a photo of someone sig heiling he would probably assume the person is being entirely serious. Photos can be used to mislead people much more quickly and efficiently than an audio soundbite.

    One cannot blame Spencer for a few people in the crowd sig heiling because he could not have anticipated that they would do that but one can blame him for inviting in the media which filmed it. Mainstream media narratives are patently false and the sorts of people who would gravitate to that industry are those that would have no problem lying and slandering. What’s more, leftist reporters are notorious for trying to vilify crowds at right wing events when they can’t get a suitably embarrassing quote from the speakers. One of their favorite tactics is to claim someone in the crowd yelled a threat. It’s impossible to definitively dispute such claims because no one could possibly hear everyone in the crowd to confidently claim otherwise. We should communicate with the media but with press conferences where trained speakers like Spencer and Kevin MacDonald address field their questions. However our conferences should be closed to the them.

  65. Wen says:
    December 2, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Greg, you publish Savtri Devi. How the heck can you call anyone else out for “LARP”ing as a Nazi?

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      December 2, 2016 at 1:26 pm

      Your question presupposes a logical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

      The proper answer is: my views of Spencer are sound, regardless of other articles and authors I have published.

  66. Greg Johnson says:
    December 2, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    Um, because I really am a racist, and I really am not a Nazi. Beyond that, even if I were a Nazi, I would keep it quiet because it is not necessary to make a case for our ideas, and beyond that, it is an actual impediment. And I really want to win, so why hobble ourselves and sabotage ourselves as Spencer did?

    The irony here, of course, is that Spencer is 100% truthful when he defends himself by saying that he was being insincere (“ironic”) in his hailing, but he has still managed to taint his brand with Nazism anyway. That’s really quite an achievement when you think about it.

  67. Lyle Bright says:
    December 3, 2016 at 11:29 am

    I lost one post. Let’s see if this one gets on. In short, I understand Greg’s concerns. And I think Spencer made a mistake. I think he noticed it and I think everyone did, including the Red Ice people though they seemed to want to gloss it over. They all looked a bit shook.

    The ‘opposition’ will select people, as it had been selecting Spencer, and set them up for a fall. If it isn’t Spencer it will be someone else. It is not a Roman Salute (which to everyone means Nazi salute) that is the problem for our Opposition, but a whole group of view, opinions, ideas and perspectives which are very threatening indeed.

    In the end I feel it is necessary to stick together. I like Richard Spencer and have always appreciated his activities, his discourse, and also his humor. He does have a somewhat wicked sense of humor and that is where the Hail Trump thing came from. We all know this, but the Atlantic crowd doesn’t of course.

    The Alt-Right brand if it is not tainted now will get tainted soon enough. It will not, not anytime soon, be an acceptable ‘brand’. The brand that does get accepted will be Alt-Lite and this will be the result of an effort to create dissension between one camp and another.

  68. WWWM says:
    December 3, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    This is a very good discussion. I was about ready to disagree with Greg’s analysis, which I rarely do, but I think the whole topic brings forth some great things to get on the table.

    The person who took this neo-Nazi stuff to the max was Commander George Lincoln Rockwell. From his example, I would say if you are going to go Nazi, you need to go all the way. An article by James Mason talked about “trash canning” the old 1930s tactic and to start getting on with a modern day method of public relations. It would be easy to call out Greg on self-contradiction (a “Triumph of the Will” article comes up on my feed at the bottom of this article) but we have to recognize, as Mason did, and Ernst Zundel, that Hitler’s tactics were suited for his place and time. A mature people will find what is right for their time.

    The enigma of Hitler will never really leave us. Charles Kraft’s artwork is similar in vain to Salvador Dali’s awesome painting. Hitler, it seems, is everywhere. Hitler is someone for whom I have the greatest admiration. But his ultimate victory will come when he is relegated to his proper place in history. Not demonized or exalted, but looked upon as a German nationalist who was simply devoted to his people. Our movement if today has a greater task than Hitler’s. This time the world.

  69. Kadphises says:
    December 7, 2016 at 3:47 am

    “Please don’t give me the tired argument that they’ll call us Nazis anyway, so we might as well become them. First, some of us really aren’t Nazis. Second, even if you are, we’re only fighting against the whole damn world, so why take on additional and needless burdens?”

    What does ‘becoming a Nazi’ even mean in contemporary America or Europe other than deciding to wear the ultimate “bad guy’s badge”? Can we even claim we understand what happened in National Socialist Germany and what National Socialism means as an ideology after decades of brainwashing? “What would Hitler do?” if he was the German chancellor now. Would he support the Ukrainian nationalists or Putin? Would he be pro- or anti-Israel? Would he cooperate with Al Quaeda to make the U.S. empire collapse or would he see Islamic expansionism as the greater danger for European survival? Would the answers to these questions provide us with guidelines for political action or are they merely of theoretical interest? I tend to believe the latter, and I think there are too many fights about labels, symbols and gestures in our movement now. It is, in deed, as if a handful of participants >>had broke out into cries of “Hail Satan!”<< on an atheist conference.
    Courageous young men love breaking taboos and wearing the . If we conceive ourselves as a revolutionary movement and not just a hipster version of conservatism, we need to get over it, even if I agree on most of your strategical criticism of this incidence at this point of time.
    Nevertheless we need to get back to shape our vision for the future and make it become reality. And we need to be prepared to purge our movement of those who unironically call for terror against innocents or even genocide. The more successful we become, the more attractive we will also be for psychopaths and criminals. This is the real danger, not swastikas and Bellamy salutes.

  70. Pastor Lindstedt says:
    December 13, 2016 at 1:35 am

    The Goal Shouldn’t Be a Peaceful One Ethno-state, but 10,000 Warlordcies . . .

    I have several advantages in writing last. By doing so I can see what happens within the time frame and comment with an advantage. Also, my comment is the first seen.

    Since this article was written by Dr. Greg Johnson, Richard Spencer has had other venues and more jewsmedia publicity, thus becoming “The Face” of the Alt-Right. Since all of Spencer’s rivals and detractors are not nearly as photogenic or like Dr. Johnson refuse to be seen, Spencer wins being known as the foremost “alt-rightist” by default.

    Four years ago, the “Hail Victory!!!” salutation was largely confined to Dual-Seedline Christian Identity Aryan Nations types, like myself. I then noticed that Harold Covington’s right-hand man Andy Donner, then the rest of the Covingtonistas used it, then Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer. Saying “Hail Victory” was overtly White Supremacist / White Nationalist / Nazi and understood as such. But now it has spread as a salutation’ largely because it is optimistic, not defeatist, or cucked in tone. Victory and survival and life shall indeed come to YHWH’s Servant Nation of Aryan Christian Israel and defeat, extermination and death shall come to the jews, muds and mongrels if only we take advantage of the inevitable fall of ZOG/Babylon the Third and Final. We don not have to create anything resembling a social order but rather all we need do is to ride the inevitable course of History and with Peak Oil, Peak Soil, and Peak Civilization there won’t be enough carrying capacity to support over a billion hue-men worldwide and 100 million whiggers within the coonfines of the open-air nuthouse that is Amurrikwa. There can be no rebuilding until the current Beast System is destroyed absolutely to the very foundations.

    This is where all the schemes of White Nationalism falls apart, in trying to build out of crap a bowel Movement. They forget Dr. Lothrup Stoddard pointing out in his masterpiece “The Revolt Against Civilization — The Menace of the Under-Man” that it is implacable minorities that know what they want and ruthlessly get it that inevitably rule over the herd majority and their degenerate and incompetent rulers. Harold Covington is trying to get 1,000 “alphas” and has maybe a dozen, max. The rest of the bowel Movement is hoping and preying that ZOG will give them have their own private Whiggerton as county seat of Whiggeranusia. Not gonna happen.

    So with the victory of Trump the Alt-Right thinks that the god-Emperor will write us a check from his political capital. Not gonna happen, even if they want to party like it is Nov. 9, 2016 forever.

    Now I’m an infighter of Christian Identity. I’ve fought jew infiltration in the bowel Movement for years, and some of them are well within the bowel Movement still. Let me tell you a little story of how the jewsmedia always lies about us from 21 years ago.

    Within the week of 19 April 1995 OKC false-flag bombing, not only did the State of Missouri infiltrate two Missouri Highway Patrol spies within the Militia Movement, but the local TalmudVision station wanted to interview a real live militiaman. I had founded two above-ground militias in SW Missouri. The original militias of pre- and post-Waco were altogether less than 20 members who were long-time family and friends who were Christian Identity / Klan (most post-1980 Klans are CI based). It wasn’t until late 1994 or early 1995 that suburban whiggers wanted to play “CONstipational Militia”. (Article 1 of which does away with the local township militias to state-organized militias able to be federalized. There is no such thang as a CONstipational Militia of private citizens.) So I took some survivalists who wanted to play at politics back then in reaction to Clinton. On 21 April ’95 I “lost” 120 prospective militiamen who wanted to stay underground.

    So here is some cute little infobabe who cum to my hovel, along with 3 other decaying houses which I’d bought cheap the month before. She asked about my “compound” and I looked at her like she was stupid. She was dishonest as well. She got fired for lying against her station 6 months later, but that was no help to me.

    So I made the point that us militiamen thought the OKC was a ZOG false-flag event in order to finish off the CONstipational Militia [bowel] Movement. What was aired was not what was recorded. Every single time I would say something, there was a cut to the still smoking Murrah federal building. Made me look like a mad bomber and that was a decade before being illegally locked up in a State NutHouse and the half-beard.

    Now I had a pack of whiggers that I’d let join my militias bitch about how I “made them look like violent idiots” and how I “needed to resign.” I told the chicken-headed&hearted&shitted tards that they were free to go run off and form their own new militias. So they shushed.

    None of us, unless a ZOGbot, are ever going to get fair treatment by the jewsmedia. Never.

    So far from Richard Spencer ruining the brand, the jewsmedia is even more infatuated with the “Alt-Right” being another name for “White Nationalist” which is another name for “White Supremacist.” They are lumping Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and every single white Trump voter with us as well. They claim that we are spreading “fake news.” Which is good, because in lumping whiggers with us they make some of them want to be us in real life. Good.

    We shouldn’t even try to pretend to be “policing our own.” Not when there is neither ability or desire to do so. I don’t bother to tell Richard Spencer how to run his milk-toast “National Policy Institute.” He don’t set policy for me. I bet if I gave him $20 to set up a cross-lighting at my mother’s cow pasture just outside Granby that he probably wouldn’t do a good job of it, much less give me back $5 in change. Much less work on getting Dylann Roof acquitted of murder charges because of double-jeopardy between the federal and state courts trying Roof on fraudulent show-trial haet-crimes. (Where is the Fifth or any other Amendments of the Bill of Goods to the CONstipation when us revolting ex-whigger Soopremists really really need it?)

    We have, like it or not, a thoroughly decentralized and unorgaanized [bowel] Movement. Each of us can believe in “waking up” or edjewmacatin’ whiggers and in trying to build up our own little private haet-empires, or we can activate local warlords unknown to all, who will our People’s “Rick Grimes” or “Negans” given the onrushing ZOGling Zombie Whigger & Mamzer Apococrapsyse.

    Hail Victory!!!

    Pastor Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky Lindstedt
    Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri

  71. Pastor Lindstedt says:
    December 13, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    The Goal Shouldn’t Be a Peaceful One Ethno-state, but 10,000 Warlordcies . . .

    I have several advantages in writing last. By doing so I can see what happens within the time frame and comment with an advantage. Also, my comment is the first seen.

    Since this article was written by Dr. Greg Johnson, Richard Spencer has had other venues and more jewsmedia publicity, thus becoming “The Face” of the Alt-Right. Since all of Spencer’s rivals and detractors are not nearly as photogenic or like Dr. Johnson refuse to be seen, Spencer wins being known as the foremost “alt-rightist” by default.

    Four years ago, the “Hail Victory!!!” salutation was largely confined to Dual-Seedline Christian Identity Aryan Nations types, like myself. I then noticed that Harold Covington’s right-hand man Andy Donner, then the rest of the Covingtonistas used it, then Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer. Saying “Hail Victory” was overtly White Supremacist / White Nationalist / Nazi and understood as such. But now it has spread as a salutation’ largely because it is optimistic, not defeatist, or cucked in tone. Victory and survival and life shall indeed come to YHWH’s Servant Nation of Aryan Christian Israel and defeat, extermination and death shall come to the jews, muds and mongrels if only we take advantage of the inevitable fall of ZOG/Babylon the Third and Final. We don not have to create anything resembling a social order but rather all we need do is to ride the inevitable course of History and with Peak Oil, Peak Soil, and Peak Civilization there won’t be enough carrying capacity to support over a billion hue-men worldwide and 100 million whiggers within the coonfines of the open-air nuthouse that is Amurrikwa.

    This is where all the schemes of White Nationalism falls apart, in trying to build out of crap a bowel Movement. They forget Dr. Lothrup Stoddard pointing out in his masterpiece “The Revolt Against Civilization — The Menace of the Under-Man” that it is implacable minorities that know what they want and ruthlessly get it that inevitably rule over the herd majority and their degenerate and incompetent rulers. Harold Covington is trying to get 1,000 “alphas” and has maybe a dozen, max. The rest of the bowel Movement is hoping and preying that ZOG will give them have their own private Whiggerton as county seat of Whiggeranusia. Not gonna happen.

    So with the victory of Trump the Alt-Right thinks that the god-Emperor will write us a check from his political capital. Not gonna happen, even if they want to party like it is Nov. 9, 2016 forever.

    Now I’m an infighter of Christian Identity. I’ve fought jew infiltration in the bowel Movement for years, and some of them are well within the bowel Movement still. Let me tell you a little story of how the jewsmedia always lies about us from 21 years ago.

    Within the week of 19 April 1995 OKC false-flag bombing, not only did the State of Missouri infiltrate two Missouri Highway Patrol spies within the Militia Movement, but the local TalmudVision station wanted to interview a real live militiaman. I had founded two militias in SW Missouri. The original militias of pre- and post-Waco were altogether less than 20 members who were long-time family and friends who were Christian Identity / Klan (most post-1980 Klans are CI based). It wasn’t until late 1994 or early 1995 that suburban whiggers wanted to play “CONstipational Militia”. (Article 1 of which does away with the local township militias to state-organized militias able to be federalized. There is no such thang as a CONstipational Militia of private citizens.) So I took some survivalists who wanted to play at politics back then in reaction to Clinton. On 21 April ’95 I “lost” 120 prospective militiamen who wanted to stay underground.

    So here is some cute little infobabe who cum to my hovel, along with 3 other decaying houses which I’d bought cheap the month before. She asked about my “compound” and I looked at her like she was stupid. She was dishonest as well. She got fired for lying against her station 6 months later, but that was no help to me.

    So I made the point that us militiamen thought the OKC was a ZOG false-flag event in order to finish off the CONstipational Militia [bowel] Movement. What was aired was not what was recorded. Every single time I would say something, there was a cut to the still smoking Murrah federal building. Made me look like a mad bomber and that was a decade before being illegally locked up in a State NutHouse and the half-beard.

    Now I had a pack of whiggers that I’d let join my militias bitch about how I “made them look like violent idiots” and how I “needed to resign.” I told the chicken-headed&hearted&shitted tards that they were free to go run off and form their own new militias. So they hushed.

    None of us, unless a ZOGbot, are ever going to get fair treatment by the jewsmedia. Never.

    So far from Richard Spencer ruining the brand, the jewsmedia is even more infatuated with the “Alt-Right” being another name for “White Nationalist” which is another name for “White Supremacist.” They are lumping Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and every single white Trump voter with us as well. They claim that we are spreading “fake news.” Which is good, because in lumping whiggers with us they make some of them want to be us in real life. Good.

    We shouldn’t even try to pretend to be “policing our own.” Not when there is neither ability or desire to do so. I don’t bother to tell Richard Spencer how to run his milk-toast “National Policy Institute.” He don’t set policy for me. I bet if I gave him $20 to set up a cross-lighting at my mother’s cow pasture just outside Granby that he probably wouldn’t do a good job of it, much less give me back $5 in change. Much less work on getting Dylann Roof acquitted of murder charges because of double-jeopardy between the federal and state courts trying Roof on fraudulent show-trial haet-crimes. (Where is the Fifth or any other Amendments of the Bill of Goods to the CONstipation when us revolting ex-whigger Soopremists really really need it?)

    We have, like it or not, a thoroughly decentralized and unorgaanized [bowel] Movement. Each of us can believe in “waking up” or edjewmacatin’ whiggers and in trying to build up our own little private haet-empires, or we can activate local warlords unknown to all, who will our People’s “Rick Grimes” or “Negans” given the onrushing ZOGling Zombie Whigger & Mamzer Apococrapsyse.

    Hail Victory!!!

    Pastor Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky Lindstedt
    Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri

  72. Peter says:
    December 22, 2016 at 4:00 am

    “Literally everything about this controversy, from Spencer’s “Nazism” to the press coverage to the adulation of the Nazi troll army is at best superficial and at worst fake.”

    I agree. Spencer is not a “NAZI”. He is not calling for the return of Memel, Danzig and other stolen territories to Germany. He is not calling for Germany to stop the mass murdering Bolsheviks at the border. He might admire the camaraderie, friendship and happiness that the National Socialists brought back to Germany after the misery of the 1920’s and while he is fine with having Jewish acquaintances or friends, it appears he has become aware of the “Jewish question”. Anyone that is not, would allow the Jews to continue to demonstrate their anti-white hatred and push anti-white policies such as genocide of whites. The last time the Jews were confronted, they were murdering tens of millions of Ukrainians and Russians, were trying to spread the violence to western Europe, such as in the Spanish Civil War and were brutal towards nationalists in eastern Europe. The Jews were spit out by Germany, Austria, Poland and much of eastern Europe for their anti-European hatred and Jared Taylor would allow the Jews to do it again here.

    There is no one working to make Germany a superpower again, but the USA and the west continue to work to expand Jewish domination of the world while the Jews push for the genocide of whites thru mass immigration and multiculturalism.

    The National Socialist salutes given at the end of the conference were the equivalent of mocking the Jews, such as naming podcasts “Fash the Nation” (Fash meaning “Fascist”, “The Daily Shoah”, “KulturKampf” or even using the German word “Lügenpresse”. To the hateful Jews and the hundreds of millions of western minds they control thru the media, anything German is bad and if you can “trigger” these idiots, as they have mercilessly done to others since the end of the war, it’s all the better. Here is Alison Chabloz doing it in her video “(((Survivors)))” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmY6iItnP0. The other possibility is the salutes were given by Jews themselves, posing as Nationalists, such as the two Jews that posed with Tila Tequila did, seeking to discredit the conference.

    What all these people have in common (and it’s not just whites) is a wakening up to the Jews hatred against anyone that isn’t a Jew and some (Tila Tequila) becoming aware of the Jews lies about Germany and Germans.

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