Counter-Currents
They Can’t Help Themselves:
From Mar-a-Lago to Dark Brandon
Greg Johnson
Caravaggio, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (1610)
1,171 words
Author’s Note: On the August 28th, 2022 Counter-Currents Radio livestream, Gaddius Maximus asked me to share my thoughts on the Mar-a-Lago raid, which I also discussed on The Political Cesspool on August 20th. Hyacinth Bouquet transcribed my answer, and I have edited it, adding in some comments on Biden’s sinister Philadelphia speech. I wish to thank all of them for their help.
When I heard about that Mar-a-Lago raid, I was rubbing my hands together like a very happy dissident, because I don’t see how we can lose from this. It’s a heads-we-win, tails-they-lose proposition that the Biden administration fell into.
The Biden administration’s clear intention is to prevent Donald Trump from running for President again by indicting, trying, and locking him up. That, in their minds, is the best outcome for this. That’s actually my best-case scenario, too.
If Donald Trump can’t run for President again, he will be a martyr. But from my point of view, Trump is more useful as a martyr.
Trump’s main accomplishment was simply running a campaign that broke with the establishment consensus never to question the value of immigration and economic globalization. Now that the national-populist genie has been released from the bottle, it is not going back in. Trump forced the establishment to show its hand. Trump forced the Left to drop the mask of sanity and civility. Those are permanent metapolitical victories, and Trump won them before he got in the White House, before he even got the Republican nomination.
On the political level, though, Trump was far less successful. Trump was an entertaining candidate, but he was a frustratingly inarticulate advocate of nationalist and populist ideas, and once in office he was a weaker President than the wimp Jimmy Carter. Trump nevertheless deserves credit for slowing down the Great Replacement, which gave whites some time, but we need a better President than Trump to make that time count.
If Trump is legally prevented from running for office, this will outrage a lot of people. It will red-pill a lot of people. The system will suffer an enormous decline in its already shaky credibility. And it will leave the field open for better candidates to run. That’s the best-case scenario in my mind.
Better candidates would include people like Ron DeSantis, who is a more articulate nationalist and populist politician; he’s also a much more effective leader. He actually knows how to use political power to advance his agenda.
The oligarchs need to fear the state again. Currently, the state fears the oligarchs. But DeSantis has made Disney — has made the Mouse — tremble before the power of the state. DeSantis uses state power for the interests of the people. That’s what we need. I think he’d be a much more effective President than Donald Trump could be. But if DeSantis ran against Trump for the nomination, Trump would trounce him. DeSantis would have about as much chance as Liz Cheney.
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Another person who would be a far more articulate advocate of nationalist and populist ideas is Tucker Carlson. But again, if Tucker threw his hat in the ring against Trump, Trump would trounce him — there’s just no question about it.
Trump has the name recognition. Trump has an absolutely enormous and, in some ways, debilitating cult of personality around him. But if Trump is taken out of the picture, then we have the possibility of better people running.
So the Left’s best-case scenario is actually my best-case scenario. If they win, we get a martyred ex-President. They are going to be roasted for all eternity as the villains that they are. The mask will be permanently down. The illusion of civility will be completely shattered, and there will be no going back. And America might just get a President who can turn the world around.
Of course, if Trump is not indicted or convicted or jailed and can run again, he will get the nomination, because people love Trump, and they want him to have his shot at revenge. But objectively, rationally speaking if Trump couldn’t run, we could have somebody even better.
No matter how much the cucks would like to go back to being the subs in Mistress Nancy’s bondage dungeon, which is what the mainstream Republicans seem to be perfectly happy doing, it will never happen if the establishment takes Trump down in this dirty way. If they fail to take Trump down, all the negatives that they suffer will be the same, and Trump will be triumphant; he will ride all that outrage back into the White House.
Then we will probably have four more years of frittering away scarce time as the Great Replacement continues to tick along. I just don’t have any confidence in Trump. Even Trump in a vengeful mood, I think, is a weak person. He’s a great campaigner, but he’s a weak President, and doing the same thing again, expecting a different outcome, is a definition of insanity.
As if the Mar-A-Lago raid were not enough of a political blunder, then came Biden’s Philadelphia speech, complete with its fascistic staging, declaring that half the American electorate is a threat to democracy. Biden made it crystal clear that they don’t just want to bring Trump down, they want to bring down all of his supporters. We all saw this coming, but good luck convincing normies. Now Biden has convinced them for us. This, too, is a huge blunder on their part and a huge boon to us.
I would eventually like to be in a position where we don’t have to depend upon our enemies to defeat themselves. I’d like for us to be able to defeat them outright. We’re getting closer to that time as they weaken themselves with political blunders like these.
Shouldn’t our enemies know better? Don’t they realize they are playing with fire?
Last week, as a friend exercised a quick maneuver in her car, she said, “Don’t worry, it’s in the interest of the other drivers not to damage their cars.” I thought, “That’s true,” but to count on rational self-interest is naïve. Counting on rational self-interest is how the frog allowed the scorpion to crawl on his back.
But if rational self-interest really ruled, then there would be no road accidents. There would be no ruined relationships, unhappy families, and collapsing societies. There wouldn’t be any tragedies in the world. Nor would there be absurd political blunders, like the Mar-a-Lago raid and the Dark Brandon speech.
Why do people do stupid things that defy rational self-interest? Ultimately, they can’t help themselves. There’s something stronger than rational self-interest. It is nature. It is identity. All politics is ultimately identity politics, because the final argument always boils down to “This is who we are.” Fortunately for us, our enemies are arrogant fools on a collision course with reality. This won’t end well for them. Let’s just hope they don’t take us down with them.
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The Judeo-Left did not get where it is by not capitalizing on mistakes. I think the Jews have overplayed their hand, but it’s not clear that they’re not making the best moves for them. If they want to rule with absolute impunity, they have to pick a time to do it and now is a pretty good time from their perspective.
The national GOP is a clown-show, GOP states are in the process of being demographically altered with millions of non-White, non-English-speaking invaders streaming in from the South coming into those states and being embraced by cheap-labor Democrats and Republicans alike. Local governments in White-majority areas are among the least ideological governments in lower North America. They don’t have a culture of waging culture or demographic warfare. With a complicit national GOP, a local GOP that is often weak or wavering on immigration and race, things look good for the Judeo-Left moving quickly and decisively to disenfranchise all resistant elements in lower North America.
I don’t like Desantis. There are too many Jews in Florida who wield too much electoral and financial power to trust the guy. In fact, I think he’s America’s equivalent of Eric Zemmour.
Desantis is the mouthpiece for Jews concerned that the Judeo-Left is rilin’ up the White folks and would like to take the steam out of emergent White Nationalism by restoring ‘race neutral’ policies that (eventually) benefited Jews nicely.
Desantis is part of the ‘Anything But White Nationalism’ crowd. They’ll make huge concessions to White sensibilities as long as they don’t have to (a) call it that and (b) those concessions diminish the growth of White racial consciousness.
It’s important to understand that, for ideological movements, every time you’re ‘winning’ you’re creating the conditions to be losing. The more you ‘win’ the more the ‘What have you done for me lately?’ syndrome kicks in.
The fact that people like Desantis exist indicates that there’s trouble in Jewtopia and White Identity Nationalism is one of the causes.
But White Identity Nationalism could achieve substantial improvement for White lives without even ever haven been an above-ground political movement.
I think it doesn’t change anything. Trump supporters see it as unstomachable persecution of trump by a deep state gestapo and never trumpers say “he’s basically done now,” they think this is final proof of trump’s perfidy and that he can never run again(but they already thought that). I doubt one person’s position was changed by the raid.
I am not sure exactly where to post this, but in the wake of the President of the United States recently at Independence Hall essentially calling Nationalist and “Make America Great Again” critics of the regime, traitors ─ people who have to be suppressed for the sake of Democracy ─ I think the time is rife for ever more debate, no matter whom it might offend.
I wanted to comment on a recent event ─ the speech successfully given by Jared Taylor at Arizona State University on Friday, September 2nd, 2022 ─ given the day after President Biden’s greatest teleprompter oration.
Alas, in spite of recently renewing my TRS subscription for the year, I seem to be banned from posting for calling out two anonymous and youthful “Fascist” podcasters for calling Alexander Hamilton a Jew based on the scantest source material (coming exclusively from Jews).
When I tried to clarify their position on this Judaization, they angrily walked back the goalposts (maybe) and it seems obvious to me at least that this really is another example of the bane of White Nationalism as I have known it for forty or so years, with tabloid-journalism and conspiracy-theory mistaken for real scholarship. (I realize that we are talking about a podcast here.)
I am simply not sure why it is “Fascist” to calumniate the two most Fascist, and certainly the most Nationalistic of the Founding Fathers ─ Washington and Hamilton ─ but clearly this “Kritarchy” thesis needs some work.
What it means for me is that I have decided NOT to financially support the National Justice Party at this time, which had (from what I understand) a very successful private rally over the Labor Day Weekend.
I will revise my position on this in one year if the NJP continues to hold successful rallies and cogent political demonstrations while (presumably) continuing to apply the principles (adapted for the 21st century) that were first laid out by George Lincoln Rockwell called “Legal Psychological and Political Warfare.”
These core principles, if they had they been applied at Charlottesville, would have prevented much grief.
This begs some comment about the recent Jared Taylor event at ASU.
I heard about it and wanted to attended myself but the ticket provider was apparently shut down since JT is a “White Supremacist.” I thought the event had been cancelled, which is unfortunate since I wanted to attend.
Anyway, it went off without a hitch on Friday. There were a score or two of black-uniformed Antifa mustered to protest, plus the usual dregs of society, including some twerp who said that they “transitioned” in the Army. He/She/It was wearing an Army costume and looked to me more like a TDP (Trainee Discharge Program) than a soldier.
The campus police did an excellent job of protecting the speaker, and allowing the small throng of interested attendees safely into the ASU auditorium and to safely leave the event. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
The noisiest protester was a big ol’ African buck dressed in black Antifa uniform with a bullhorn, who actually said that there would be “violence by any means necessary” to end “White Supremacy.”
I think these vermin will one day eat words such as that.
Clearly, the Left wants to equate someone presenting ideas that they do not like with deplorables, who somehow deserve nothing but violence as the consequence for freely exercising their speech. This is unacceptable, as was the recent vicious stabbing of anti-Muslim writer Salman Rushdie.
The size of Mr. Taylor’s audience seemed disappointingly small, but the accomplishment made on Friday, I think is enormous. Mr. Taylor went right into the Marxist lion’s den to make his point.
Since Charlottesville, it has been almost impossible for Rayciss intellectuals to present a case at Universities.
ASU President Michael Crow and his confederates, who normally cant hard for “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity,” was unwilling to exclude the pale-faced Mr. Taylor a priori ─ and in fact, Mr. Crow was careful NOT to actually refer to Mr. Taylor in public as a “White Supremacist.” I was mildly surprised by this.
Mr. Taylor may be soft on the so-called Jewish Question ─ but he has solid ideas on Race, and I think the NJP and White Nationalists should take note of the importance of building on successful WN events, particularly on University campuses.
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