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I have “conservative” friends and family members who enthuse over the political commentary of Victor Davis Hanson. His columns appear on American Greatness (AG), where its writers regularly huff and puff against liberals and Leftists.
At first glance, what’s not to like about this fifth-generation Californian of Swedish and Welsh ancestry who is a retired Classics professor, a military historian, and a part-time farmer who broke ranks with the Conservative Inc., National Review bottom feeders from the DC Swamp to write and speak in defense of and support for Donald Trump?
In addition to his affinity for the blue-collar working class and flyover country, and his contempt for the Clintonista mafioso, there are two big issues that Hanson appears to be on the “right” side of that make him appealing to Right-leaning American readers.
The first is illegal immigration. In 2007 Hanson published the book Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, in which he chronicled the destruction of California by the flood of illegal Mexican immigration.
The other is the capture of the universities by Left-wing ideologues:
Students now leave campus largely prepped by their professors to embrace a predictable menu: the glories of larger government, income redistribution, greater entitlements, radical environmentalism, abortion, multiculturalism, suspicion of traditional religion . . .
Pausing to reflect on what Hanson’s “conservative” appeal means for understanding the current configuration of metapolitics in seeming descent into chaos brings to mind a phrase coined by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890): “a blooming, buzzing confusion.” It was used to describe a newborn’s experience of the world.
I can’t recall my experience as a baby, new to the world, but it seems fair to suggest that “buzzing confusion” could aptly describe the world of any normal human being after a “walk on the wild side” for a day or two, trying to fathom how the world looks to CNN, MSNBC or FOX News talking heads. Consider, if you will, the helpless confusion of the many Americans who contemplate the preponderant evidence of advanced senility and decrepitude in an obnoxious, bought-and-paid-for dunce installed in the office of chief executive. This is qualitatively, appallingly, mind-bogglingly different. How did this flagrant imposture happen? Why can’t someone put a stop to it? And worse, what sinister machinations operating behind the frozen faces of the octogenarian placemen are underway for the presidential election to be held 11 months from now?
The mainstream media pretends that all is unfolding in a more or less normal, election-cycle way. The intent, as always, is to treat the campaign like the NFL playoffs — analysis by hyped-up bloviators, predictions by “experts,” and fake solemnity by programmed, cable-channel talking heads — as a form of low-brow entertainment to distract the proles from the reality of its outcome’s irrelevance to what the ruling class is really up to.
Confusion — particularly in its continuing “blooming” manifestations — reigns, which makes it increasingly challenging for white Americans to “celebrate diversity” and to distinguish — shades of Carl Schmitt — their friends from their enemies.
The establishment propaganda organs add to the confusion by framing moral and political language with the memes and stereotypes of groupthink. Groupthink typically proceeds with rigidly uniform patterns of utterances designed to mark those whose utterances break the pattern as enemies of the people, outside of the protection of the state. You can’t help but notice that all the mainstream media outlets use the same talking points and style sheet.
The demonizing intent of groupthink as it comes at us from every direction is infused with the ideology of victimhood: “Black lives matter,” “Hate has no home here,” “No human being is illegal.” Its vocabulary consists of pseudo-social science neologisms such as “systemic racism” and “transphobia,” and edifying but elusive moralisms such as “human rights,” “diversity is our strength,” and “reproductive freedom.”
Certified victimhood is a coveted commodity. Its possession exempts you from the rules that bind the victimizer and lets you jump the queue ahead of the victimizer for access to society’s goodies. Hence the “protection” of “protected classes.” “Protection,” you might say, is another ruling class euphemism used to justify the imposition of a caste system based on the contrived immorality of the lower caste. “Protection” also ratchets up the politics of victimhood which comes with employment opportunities. Without victims, there would be no need for the growing class of protectors and compliance enforcers who operate their vast apparatus of coercion.
The question of who gets to become a victim in today’s America is the ultimate power question. Put another way that shifts the question from a passive to an active voice, and puts the focus entirely on the locus of power: “Who gets to decide who are the victims?” The answer to this should clear away much of the confusion manufactured by the usual culprits, the state-controlled propaganda organs.
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing response has forced Americans to decide between two sets of victims, the Jews and the Arabs. It has us deep in an emotional turmoil of moral revulsion and makes us vulnerable to manipulation by atrocity language skillfully deployed by the propaganda organs of each side. Beheaded babies, the bombing of schools and hospitals, ethnic cleansing, and genocide? Who really did, and is doing, what? You have to take someone’s word, and who you believe depends on whom you trust.
Putting my cards on the table: Given Benjamin Netanyahu’s warm reception for Jonathan Pollard, the most damaging spy in American history and the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, to cite just a couple of the many instances of Israeli perfidy over the years, it’s prudent to say, “Don’t trust anything they say!”
Which brings us back to Victor Davis Hanson, his take on the who the bad guys are, and why he and his ilk are not to be trusted to lecture us about victimhood in the Middle East.
His December 4 AG piece has a promising title: “Weimar America.” Oh, good — some cultural history to help us understand American decadence. Weimar’s Jewish-spearheaded, “progressive” cultural revolution bears a striking resemblance to the cultural wars in drag queen story hour, non-binary America. Introducing Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. You could say Dr. Hirschfeld was a hundred years ahead of his time as an agent of sexual liberation.
[R]ecognition of transgender identity is no recent phenomenon: Some doctors acknowledged gender-nonconforming people far earlier than most might realize. Perhaps the most important pioneer was German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who was born 150 years ago, in 1868 . . . Hirschfeld’s approach was all-inclusive. In his view, all “sexual intermediaries” — whether L, G, B, T, Q, or I in today’s parlance — were worth recognizing and protecting. He once calculated that there were 43,046,721 possible variants of human sexuality. That was simply another way of saying that the human species was infinitely diverse. “Love,” he said, “is as varied as people are.”
In keeping with Dr. Hirschfeld’s diversity-of-love theme and thousands of “possible variants of human sexuality,” as one might suspect, variants of a deviant kind rose to the top in Weimar Berlin. That city remains the prototype of cultural decadence. From a synopsis of the book Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon (2000):
Between 1921 and 1933, Berlin developed a reputation for debauchery unrivaled by any city before or since. Unlike European capitals like Paris, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, where brothel districts were extensive but discreet, in Berlin sexual tourism was a primary industry. On any given evening, over 600 establishments, from massage parlors to sex clubs to cabarets to private torture dungeons, promised unique sights and pleasures . . . Mel Gordon has put together a controversial exploration of Berlin’s erotic demiworld and its relationship to the rise of Nazism.
Now, you might think that the decadence and debauchery of Weimar Germany “and its relationship to the rise of Nazism” would be a tempting topic for a historian with conservative credentials such as Hanson, who is looking to compare Weimar Germany with twenty-first century America. Instead, he resorts to the well-traveled, explanatory victim-template that turns any and every conflict involving Jews into innocents who serve as helpless targets for the blind hatred of . . . Nazis. There is no explanation beyond the surd of visceral hatred of these cretins for “the other.” History came to a screeching halt in 1945, and every international crisis since is a replay of Hitler and his hate regime — Saddam Hussein, Slovdan Milošević, Vladimir Putin, and now Hamas.
It’s all about the Nazis, as Hanson writes:
At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel . . . As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.
It seems unlikely that this Queens high school “pack” had much experience “hunting down animals,” but Hanson doesn’t want his Jewish readers to think he’s going soft on these feral anti-Semites. So, the rhetoric is heavy with intonations of predatory brutality by conflating insults and vandalism with murder.
The Nazis had lots of reasons for hating the Jews — the legitimacy of those reasons is a complicated topic for a different discussion — but for not being white was not high, if at all, on the list. Hanson maybe doesn’t know that Hitler’s Japanese allies weren’t white.
That Hanson would allege that the Queens adolescents hate Jews because they “are white” suggests that he is either ignorant of the history of Zionism and Israel’s founding or that his philo-Semitism is impervious to the constraints of reality. The aftermath of Hamas’ 10/7 attack is a clear case of long-standing, deadly tribal conflict. The Queens students and pro-Palestinian demonstrators hate the Jews because they perceive them as a tribe that has persecuted their tribe for decades. The Israeli Jews are clearly the enemy of the Palestinians and openly regard them as such. Their history shows that from the beginning they intended to expel the Palestinian Arabs from their ancestral homeland. One merely needs to look at the maps of the Levant that Bibi Netanyahu in September waved before the United Nations General Assembly last September that show the erasure of Arab Palestine.
How, then, to explain why Professor Hanson has so dutifully turned himself into a megaphone for Israeli propaganda by using the predictable imagery of Nazi Germany? Hamas’ attack in October against the Israelis has blown a wide hole in American Left-Right, liberal-conservative metapolitics. It has split liberal, Jewish Democrats into hostile camps and exposes Republicans, Jews, and gentiles alike to be cheerleaders for Netanyahu’s current project of ethnic cleansing the Gaza Palestinians. “Anti-Semitism” is the Republican’s cudgel to beat down that Left-wing rabble of the Democrat Party who refuse to play nice in the Jewish sandbox, and who are applying the German “N”-word to Bibi and using “genocide” to describe the fate of the Gazans, a violation of Jewish copyright restrictions for exclusive use.
For his conservative readers, Hanson aims to keep the horror of “anti-Semitism” flourishing, because it is useful for funneling American taxpayer money into defending Israel and turning the pro-Palestinian demonstrators into present-day Nazis. Hanson claims that the current outpouring of hatred for Israel is a piece of “racist” Left-wing, anti-white ideology. That is a massive howler. Anti-white, “systemic racism” mania emanates from the resentment of black Americans, who have long been unable to overcome their chronic underachievement. Moreover, it has been fomented and organized by black politicians, Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Jewish-run newspapers such as the New York Times. Is Professor Hanson familiar with the 1619 Project?
[T] he racist DEI industry assumes that all intersectional nonwhite communities are victims of white privilege and supremacy. Therefore, as permanently oppressed, they are declared incapable of being racist themselves. And so they can harass with impunity the supposed victimizers — in this case American Jews, who are declared culpable whites.
What, then, was it that turned American Jews into “culpable whites”?
The dark mood [happening in America] is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.
Given the dominating leadership of elite American universities by Jews, and the demonization by Jewish-run media such as the New York Times of white Americans for their “racism” and resisting immigration from “illiberal nations,” the raging anti-Semitism Hanson complains of is largely a Jewish creation, blowback from decades of supporting anti-white movements such as Black Lives Matter and massive Third World immigration.
To understand where Professor Hanson is coming from with his flurry of columns dramatizing the horror of Hamas and demonizing Iran, a country neocons Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham want to bomb to smithereens, it is important to first understand the vehicle that disseminates his opinions: American Greatness.
AG’s publisher and lead editor is Chris Buskirk. If you read his biography, a number of things should arouse great suspicion. He is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and has written for the Washington Post. He is a frequent contributor to FOX News, NPR’s Morning Edition, and the PBS NewsHour. How all of this squares with a guy running a site that excoriates the Left and appeals to the MAGA boys suggests that he reeks of the stench of controlled opposition.
Second, you will note that he is an alumnus of Claremont-McKenna College. Claremont is the epicenter of West-coast Straussianism, the godfather of which is the late Harry Jaffa, an exponent of Leo Strauss’s theory of natural right. Strauss, who was Jaffa’s mentor, is widely regarded as the philosophical fons et origio of neoconservatism. The details of the internecine quarrels between Jaffa and his East-Coast Straussian rivals such as Allan Bloom and Harvey Mansfield, Jr. can be found here, and here. But for the present purposes of discussion, I would simply say that the core of Jaffa’s political philosophy focused on Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence as the founding document of the United States, with its moral assertion of human equality.
Thus, the ideal of human equality is the centerpiece of the Claremont, West-Coast Straussians such as Hanson. They believe that a multi-racial America is achievable if, somehow, we can purge the Left and return to our original republican form of limited government.
From AG‘s “Our Declaration of Independence from the Conservative Movement,” dated July 2016:
Today, movement conservatism offers the American people not a choice, but an echo of the Left. Because of this, American Greatness is not an alternative to movement conservatism; it is a refounding of a distinctly American conservatism based upon the self-evident principle of human equality and the rights that flow from it. Just government exists to protect and promote these rights and is therefore necessarily limited, constitutional, and republican in its form.
This “self-evident principle of human equality” means that for the AG Straussians, race realism is out of the question. “Racism” is real evil, which makes the Alt Right movement, like the Left, a political enemy. In a June 2022, Alexander Zubatov wrote a piece for AG ironically titled “How to Create White Supremacy in Seven Easy Steps.” Step one is:
Dismantle the Idea of Race-Blindness. If our goal is more white supremacy, our big obstacle is that lots of people don’t dwell on race, and when they do notice themselves thinking about race, they try to tamp down the thought.
Race consciousness, you see, is the big problem, because not only does it fuel the Left’s power grab, but it produces the backlash that leads to the rise of “white supremacists” — you know, those terrible people who believe that if blacks and whites were left alone to manage their own affairs, “racism” would no longer be a problem.
Zubatov concludes:
Trump’s election, in other words, was not the genesis of a new white racial consciousness but rather, if anything, a consequence of it, of the Left’s betrayal of the Martin Luther King, Jr.’s colorblind dream, of identity politics run amok, of people being attacked again and again for having had the misfortune of being born white in 21st century America.
White “misfortune” was the elevation of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the victory of the civil rights movement. A “conservative” movement that locks on to MLK’s “I have a dream” speech as its guiding light is delusional beyond comprehension. As an illustration, take a look at a December 4, 2023 AG piece by Eric Lendrum, “Doctor, Secretary, Vice-President? This ticket is as close to perfect as it gets.” Lendrum’s perfect Republican 2024 ticket is Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson as his running mate:
Dr. Carson is the perfect candidate that could draw black men to the Republican ticket in 2024. His life’s story — growing up in poverty, raised by a dedicated single mother, and ultimately achieving the American Dream through hard work and a consistent faith in God — sets the ultimate example for this particular demographic.
I do not doubt that Ben Carson is a fine man with many admirable qualities. But anyone who believes that black men will join white conservatives in a movement to roll back the current welfare state that is loaded up with the perks of black victimhood has no contact with reality. Only white conservatives are enthralled with smart black conservatives.
The Claremont gang is a pro-Israel, heretical sect of neocon Republicans who have embraced Trump — whose four years in power were a disaster for white America, along with lots of favors for Israel. One of his parting shots was to grant clemency to former black Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for two dozen crimes he committed while in office.
Hanson and his colleagues at AG believe that it is possible for conservative Americans to appeal to blacks in order to enlist their help in defeating the Left and returning America to its republican, constitutionally-governed form. They live in a dreamland and offer nothing but buzzing, blooming confusion to white voters who are trying to understand what the enemy is up to.
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37 comments
Thank you for this excellent piece. Back in my conservative days, I was a great fan of VDH. But as more and more scales fell from my eyes (unlike St Paul, not an instant process) I grew more and more puzzled and disappointed by the author of Mexifornia.
How can someone who sees and chronicles in detail the destruction of his home region through invasion by Aztecs not make the next and necessary conclusion? Sadly and ironically, it is the refusal of this brilliant man to face the reality of race which traps him in a functionally anti-White thought loop. His Claremont background may explain a lot. I hope one day that the arch-lie of Equality will seem as arbitrary as the divine right of kings. As well, seeing what happens to any public intellectual who crosses the line may keep him in line. He is a tragic figure for me.
PS. Apologies. I tried to restrain myself, but it’s fons et origo. Without the extra i.
When you say “unlike St. Paul” are you referring to Ron Paul, by any chance?
I’ll admit that I too had an affinity for Paul between 2004-2012, but I’ve long since repented of it.
St. Ron? Nope. The original. After his road to Damascus experience he was struck blind. When the healer showed up for him, “something like scales fell from his eyes and his sight was immediately restored.” Took me much longer.
I had a one year transitional libertarian phase back in 2000 or so but when I discovered their open borders attitude and then 9/11 came along….well, that was the end of that.
I left a very similar reply, and it never got posted. I recently allowed for some “updates” to my computer. I wonder if I’ve inadvertently installed some woke “bot” which is now messing with my ability to post at CC? I left another reply to Mr. Connolly further down the email thread, and it did not post, either. I’ll be interested to see if this comment gets posted.
I agree with the author that VDH is a brilliant man with deep understanding of 1) the illegal invasion crisis, and 2) the decay of higher ed due to far left and commie prof and staff.
When he writes about anything else, my eyes glaze over and I skip it. He is a “colorblind” civnat. He is not on our side.
Thank you again Mr. Foster for another brilliant essay. I too read Hanson’s piece and was thinking most of the things that you just wrote. Thank you for tying down the loose ends, connecting the dots and wrapping it all up in a bow.
Question for you or anyone else: What’s your take on Stephen Miller? Can he be trusted? I was just wondering if you think he’s sincere with his anti white discrimination lawsuits?
I’m not Mr Foster, but I’ll give my take. I had read about Mr Miller for years but never saw him or heard him until recently. I was in a store I frequent where the owner insists on playing Fox News. I make a point of never looking at the screen when I’m there because then he’ll say “What do you think about that?” The store owner’s not a bad guy outside of that. The other day I heard by far the worst-sounding voice I’ve ever heard on radio or TV while in the store, ten times more annoying than Mark Levin. And it was saying the most ridiculous fake things, ten times more fake than a Trump campaign promise. I had to see who or what was doing this, so I violated my rule and looked at the screen. For a split second before it switched to commercial, it showed an ugly man with the caption Stephen Miller at the bottom.
If you’re going by looks. He could pass for Jonathan Greenblatt
Victor Davis Hanson is simply another conditioned Baby Boomer. He’s about as helpful as a broken condom at a brothel.
He lived, saw, and experienced first hand what making California less white has resulted in, yet is completely indifferent to it. He’ll give occasional lip service to the reality of a war on white men, the horrors of the transgender movement and the radical Left, etc, but he still won’t publicly admit the differences between races, nor will he claim that the USA was built by whites, for whites — that we have a right to be its majority population, and to be in charge of its government and institutions. Whatever minorities we had before the Civil Rights movement were never to be in charge of a country they did not, and could not, build. They only had the privilege of residing in it. Everyone took this for granted less than a human lifetime ago.
What good is someone who identifies a war on whites, yet won’t call for whites to reclaim their country? What good is someone who calls for an ALLIANCE with blacks to stop Leftism, when black on white crime is higher than ever before?? I could go on for weeks!
I think the Boomers really need to step aside altogether at this point. Whatever marginal few actually understand the truth and would otherwise call for what’s truly necessary to put a stop to this wouldn’t be given the time of day anyway.
Interesting little nugget of Generational Astrology there, fella, but do you have any statistics to back up what you’re saying? Or is it simply a tired meme you’ve absorbed online by osmosis?
From every statistical analysis I’ve ever seen, younger people are far more “anti-racist” than any other age group.
For starters, how about a stat about what percentage of 20-year-old whites actually “call for whites to reclaim their country”? And if you can find such a stat, how about comparing it to older whites?
I mean, just because you may know a half-dozen entirely anonymous self-proclaimed young’uns on Discord who are racially radical does not an entire generation make. Neither does Victor Davis Hanson represent an entire generation.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe you’re the one who’s been conditioned?
And do the “Boomers who need to step aside altogether at this point” include the guy who wrote this article?
Way to build white unity, pal—by telling an entire generation of whites to step aside at this point.
I think the Generational Astrologists really need to step aside altogether at this point. They are neither needed nor wanted. Nothing propels them beyond empty, misplaced venom. The facts certainly don’t support a single thing they assert.
Thank you for this much appreciated admonition.
Another ” astrology ” of this sort is the well known classification between alphas, betas and other variants.
With the same people having so little experience with real psycho-sexual relationships between men and women ( 24/24 watching Asian anims not helping), that I’ve often seen them cite George Clooney as the exemplary alpha… this Hollywood leftoîd reject…
The same people also accuse women of all the evils, especially since they’ve been given the right to vote, whereas outside the Anglo-Saxon sphere, women tend to be more right-wing than men.
I’m not a boomer, but I’ve noticed that the wigger phenomenon, the obsession with rap, has especially taken off with the gen’x. (they’ve been conditioned, but …).
Finally, it’s worth noting that the aim of this constant denigration of boomers and women is, of course, to divide whites and, incidentally, to keep a certain tribe of hostile aliens away from any criticism.
It is called diversion.
I don’t know this Hanson, but it seems that he takes great care not to offend his sponsors, who assure him a comfortable position. And this has little to do with his boomer status.
There is no hope for unity if everyone wants to stab each others eyes out because a potential ally does not agree 100% on every issue. The youngns want to blame the boomers for everything analogous to little disciples of Greta Thunberg. Plenty of grey hair types dismiss the young generations as entirely woke and useless clueless types… but I remember being in that state too.
If I may cautiously add to the debate, as people gain life experience, their views often evolve over the years. The usual journey is they start out liberal, then become libertarian, then become conservative, then become reactionary.
Of the young Boomers, some got involved in the Counterculture scene. That’s where they got the reputation for being red diaper doper babies, as Dan Savage put it. Being the colorful oddballs that they were, they left a pretty significant cultural impact. What’s not remembered so well these days is that there was a “square” culture as well as a “hip” culture, and most people were “squares” back then.
Be that as it may, most of the Counterculture types grew up. Now it’s today’s younger age cohort that is mixed up in weird leftist pursuits, often because of the indoctrination they got in school. Eventually they’ll grow up too.
Great article, with one quibble: Hanson was a huge cheerleader for the Bush Cheney gang’s post-9/11 attack on Iraq. He even compared Donald Rumsfeld to George Marshall. He tried to justify the whole sordid boondoggle by employing “war for democracy” WWII era sloganeering. It was totally revolting. There’s a reason why midwit queen Megan Kelly keeps having him on her show – he gives a general impression of wisdom and statecraft, without being actually dangerous. His kind of patriotism and advocacy serves the Kosher mafia, not the true interests of the American people.
“He even compared Donald Rumsfeld to George Marshall.”
Thanks, I did see this somewhere. He’s always been a neocon.
I’m sorry, but I had to stop half-way through. Yes, there were fine discussions of our never-ending border problems, which we do not even call it by its proper name — worldwide border invasion — and I did not get far enough to see if the author was going to name our primary problem, as Americans, and as White people: which is that White people worldwide are not getting together and getting married and having at least 3 to 6+ children. We are being swamped on this planet by 90% of the ‘others’ who do not like us. That is what most of the wars and other squalling is about. Face it.
Conservatives are aware of some of our problems and discuss them from the fence-wall occasionally, but we have to give up on politics ever being in our favor as a race — we have far too much enmity from the Left, not to mention the Arab, Africans, Asians, and of course, the dear Jews.
I came across a show of ‘hillbilly ‘pickin’ music” the other night while changing channels, and noted the entire audience was white. I’m not saying to change your music, but do know there are pockets of ‘pure us folks’ still in existence.
And have you checked out Scandinavia lately?
I enjoyed this study of Hansen, with a lot of deep insights. I think Hansen is a good speaker and offers good, well-thought analysis and arguments that are traditional, but in the end he is a spokesman for the status quo. All that happened since 1945 is justified, and America is good and great, amen. Now, let’s vote harder. But I do enjoy his rumblings on national decline and uncertainty. Just that the “Good, Great War” standard of his leaves me cold.
Aushwitz and Hiroshima are the foundations of our rule. One gives us unchallenged moral superiority to intervene wherever we deem necessary; Hiroshima reminds what we physically do.
is this world structure now ending? I’m not sure. it is no longer shiny, but it’s amazing how long indifference and fear of something new can keep stagnation going.
Weimar America: what we saw in the 60’s was in effect the commercialization and mass marketing of Dadaism and Weimar culture. They made a new break in social morality; we made a buck.
Victor Davis Hansen is simply an old Boomer whigger unable to live with the current reality. Asking him to be different than what he is is fruitless. He’s not going to be able to write against the world of his birth which made both him and the current thing.
Hail Victory !!!
Pastor Martin Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian / Aryan Nations of Missouri
According to this, you’re only five years younger than Victor Davis Hanson. So, tag—you’re a Boomer!
Ja, Ja, Ick ben ein White Supremacist Dual-Seedline Christian Identity Old Right ZOG-Loathing Boomer
Jim Goad — who my GenX friends call “Jim Choad” told me that his haet-response was not published here — has a good put-down on behalf of the Boomer Defense League of accusing everyone born after 1964 of “Generational Asstrology” which is a put-down deflecting blame from a witlessly selfish and parasitic [de]generation of vipers. Back in 1996 when it becum obvious that Boob Dolt the Greatest Degeneration Republicuck Candidate would be whupped by Bubba Caligula the First Boomer Prez-o-dint followed by Dumbya then Obongo then Cheeto-Jesus the ZOG-Emperor Drumpf, the past 30 years of Boomer Prez-o-dints have seen the decay of the Mighty Evil ZOG/Babylonian Empire ending with Senile Joe the Silent Degenerational Final Suckcessor. I wrote an article for my paper zine I put up on my political web page, called “Cult of the Me-God” in which I analysed the sundry ZOG degenerations of the 20th Century.
http://pastorlindstedt.org/lindstedt/me-god.html
Having been in the Movement since after the Ft. Smith Sedition Trial of 1987-88 one of the things I despise the Internuts Whigger Nutsionalist [Bowel] Movement for is Boomers yapping about being hated because of shit they can’t change such as theys’ age just like niggers and jews whine about being hated for shit they were born into as opposed to being what they are. Us Baby Boomers were born in a world in which a Mighty Evil Empire was a super-power world hegemon in which we benefitted due to a quirk of history. Now the Empire is failing and the entire world is tired of our ZOGshit. Victor Davis Hansen is nothing other than a Boomer shill with no more sense of a declining environment than Abraham would have had if born in the previous generation of Ur of the Chaldees which suffered from salinization and barbarian invasion finally in 2005 BC to where the idea of becoming a refugee to Canaan seemed like a good idea or a citizen of Sodom/Gomorrah thought it a bad idea of kidnapping caravan travellors on the trade route between the Red Sea and Mesopotamia and judicially robbing and murdering them and then when Jesus Christ and the Archangel Michael sought the bring about a regime-change against the judges using 10 righteous men thought to have a little forced homosexual rape. Whenever a formerly successful social order is on the way out the population suffers in the decline and fall.
Now you were raised as a downtrodden Catlick hybernigger in Philtydeliphia and I was raised by my immigrunt Swedish/Prussian grandparents born in 1894 on the Lone Prairie of South Dakota. And yet regardless of loving or loathing Mighty Evil Imperial Satanic ZOG/Babylon we both are mere Boomer whigger guppies living in much the same aquarium and have problems in thinking of how to destroy the glass bowel of our world, and thus cannot feel any remorse for being ZOGling whigger Boomers, regardless of the scorn and contempt of younger people who will not live as well as we have and who blame us for it, fairly or not. We can no more change than the aristocrats of King Louis XV1 in France in 1789 or Russian nobility of Tsar Nicholaus II in 1917. We can live and prosper if we go into exile from our Dying ZOG now undergoing the death-throes of our Late ZOG-Age Collapse or if we join tomorrow’s Jacobins or Bolsheviks and seize power by serving the next Napoleon or Lenin.
The upgraded link from the Pierre Capital Journal was from an interview granted to make it quite clear as to the result — similar to Rudolf Jewliani about ZOG doing away with the First Amendment by civil lawfare for defamation of nigger or jewlatto ZOGbots. Jewliani dared to call out two she-boons who were loading up harvested ballots for Senile Joe in (Tw)Attlanta the nigger state capital against Cheeto-Jesus the ZOG Emperor and for this ZOG-disparagement the ZOG korts took all his property. For daring to point out that Bryan Reo was a homosexual jewlatto ZOGbot infesting the Dual-Seedline Christian Identity Movement I was assessed $2.75 million and my inheritance sold at auction in violation of South Dakota State Law 15-16A-6 forbidding such execution prior to final appeal in May 2022. The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded these four judgments made without jury trial, violation of the 8th Amendment, etc. on 8 Dec. 2022 but South Dakota judges still want to seize my property. Thus my policy is because the South Dakota Supreme Court violated theys’ own law, that their Vesuvious of these Missouri River impoundments are to be destroyed and the state capitol of Pierre and Stanly County seat of Ft. Pierre are to be destoyed by flooding and never rebuilt as was done to Sodom, Gomorrah, Ademah, Zeboyim and Zoar for running a corrupt court system of these Canaanite jew judges kidnapping and killing those outside the proper jurisdiction. My sister was charged $150,000+ because she refused to quitclaim the inheritance deeded over to her by me to Bryan Reo. She was threatened with losing her inheritance. Which is why I have no scruples about [Redacting] every single lawyer, judge, policeman or politician of theys’ entire families. Act like Sodom and Gomorrah be treated like Sodom and Gomorrah. Insofar as Ohio is concerned for allowing Bryan Reo to sue my Aryan Nations Church, I’ve advocated chernobyling the North Perry Nuclear Power Plant because I told everyone that Bryan Reo while a jewlatto homo pretending to be a white supremacist and Dual-Seedline Christian Identity subpastor of Baal Finck and Eli James was also a ZOGbot running the analog of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
http://bryanreo-lawsuits.xyz/Reo_19CV001304_Fed/2020/Oct20/26Oct20_ML/2103_Doc47-1_2017%20501c3.pdf
Back in 1996 I wrote when I was running a militia or two I suggested collecting of deer carcasses killed by Chronic Wasting Disease in late winter and cooking up and spreading “prion poisoning” to new areas. Within four years Dane County Wisconsin suffered a major outbreak spreading to Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota. Soon afterwards, an e-mail possibly by Steven J. Cannel asked if prion-poisoning could be used as a biological weapon. I pointed out that it would take years to become visible thus those spreading it would get away with using it. Cannel wrote a novel called “The Devil’s Workshop” in which I was the insane Lt. Colonel Reverend Fannion Kincaid running racist hobos using “Pale Horse Prions” aimed at jews and niggers using a Pale Horse Prion” created by a mad scientist funded by Zionist generals and admirals getting around the biological warfare treaty. The book was a hoot. Michael Crichton in his Jurassic Park II novel “The Lost World” having the dinosaurs dying of prions from sheep protein and having the baby dinosaurs in “emergent behavior” as they are not trained by their parents. I think Crichton developed this plotline independently. Missouri was doubtless prion-poisoned by deep-woods Christian Identity because it first showed up on Adair County wherein lives a jewboy with jew ass-GAIDS/Chrons and then Boone County Arkansas and has since spread nearly to where I live. Presently of the population in nursing homes dying of Alzheimers a large portion ofthem doesn’t have Alzheimers but New Variant Jacob-Kruitsfelt prion disease. Those suspected of prion fatalities are invariably cremated as a prion-poisoned brain can be put in a vat of mayonaise or peanut butter killing millions.
A second civil war is inevitable and it will be lost by ZOG. The Boomer DeGeneration will suffer in the collapse especially, unless they turn anti-ZOG.
This matter is discussed at length on my Odysee video page:
https://odysee.com/@PastorLindstedt:f/MDM-15Dec23_TDZpt1b—Copy:c
Hail Victory!!!
Pastor Martin Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri
OK, Boomer.
US HOLLOW BOOMERS
IN THE DYING ZOG’S LATE ZOG-AGE COLLAPSE
(With apologies to T.S. (Tough Shit) Eliot)
I
Us Boomers are the hollow men
Us Boomers are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. All-ass!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry whitened sepulchres
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
non-Violent souls, but only
As the pathetic hollow men
The self-stuffed men.
Spawned after the 2d Khazar Wars
In which the best part of us
Drained down our whore mother’s skank legs.
V.
Between the coonception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the khazarian Shadow
Meaningless Life is very long
One CONstipation to drule them all.
One CONstipation to find them,
One CONstipation to bring them all,
And Under Satan’s Administration (((USA!!! USA !!!))) bind them
In the ZOGland, where jews rule and niggers & faggots run wild.
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Boomer-whiggroid Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way our world ends
This is the way our world ends
This is the way our world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Despite his superficial appeal and scholarly demeanor, I figured out Hanson a long time ago. I listened to one of his WW2 lectures that started off by saying the Germans had no chance to conquer the world. Twenty minutes later he repeated the conformist history of WW2, namely that the Germans represented and existential threat to free institutions. Ugh.
Recently I listened to one of his monologues about the Civil War which was a tribute to the war criminal, William T. Sherman, the man who openly waged war on southern civilians, burned cities and committed war crimes for which men were hanged in the 20th century. Hanson had great admiration for Sherman’s prescience in seeing that the north would have to invade the south, to kill 300,000 Southerners and to destroy the social structure of the South to “save the union.”
Even apart from all that, I’ve heard him brag about his non-white family members. Ugh. He’s a colorblind conservative, the operative word being “blind.”
Hanson’s phony gravitas makes me want to puke. Hanson is a fraud. Period. Some of his books about classical history might be good, but that’s about it.
The current Gaza War is, as the young people put it, a “permission slip.”
To millions of normies, Hamas is every BLM mostly peaceful protester(c) tossing a molotov cocktail, every illegal alien trampling across the former US border, every unarmed teen(tm) gang flash mobbing a law abiding citizen, every antifa agitator shouting down a conservative campus speaker, every DIE commissar babble machining the party line in the workplace or classroom.
Consider how the “D” word (deportation) is now coming back into the national conversation. Or the Congress is (finally) turning its attention to the totalitarian regime on the universities.
The dilemma is in transferring the normie focus away from Eurasia (Gaza) and focusing it on the situation here in Oceania (the Homeland). Orwell in 1984 points out that once people have been worked up into a state of war hysteria, it takes very little to make the switcheroo. This can go along a couple agitprop lines:
Deport the illegals.
End anti-Whiteness.
True in Victory Square.
Make it true in the Homeland.
One thing the Current Thing makes clear, is exactly where the limits of dissent lie. Whether it’s “distinguished” figures like Hanson, or wacky weirdos like BAP, or downhome, salt of the Earth “Christian Nationalists”, the unquestionable thing — the “third rail,” if you will — is Israel, whether it’s conceived as “our greatest ally,” “bastion of Western civilization against the Muslim hordes,” or “The Holy Land.”
Left wing: Support Israel, because gay pride parades!
Right wing: Support Israel, because Hamas bad!
As in 1984, “Proles and animals are free.” For example, Evangelicals are allowed to advocate banning abortion, burning biology textbooks or putting up monuments to the Ten Commandments in their rural shires that Jews never visit, much less live in, as long as they provide the most fervent support for what really matters: Zion.
This could be seen as good news. The boundaries of dissent are wider than we may have thought. (The chain is still there, but it’s longer than we thought) And, it’s clear when we are over the target.
VD Hanson is a golem. No one outside of classics majors would have ever heard of him if not for neocon patronage.
And Jim, with respect, you are wasting your time trying to rehabilitate the boomers in these circles.
WHOOSH! I’m not trying to “rehabilitate boomers,” I’m laying out in concrete terms how everyone who buys into the moronic ideas of generational astrology has been duped by a divide-and-conquer PsyOp and needs to be deprogrammed. You act like a pack of brainwashed zombies who run screaming from any sincere requests for statistical evidence to support what is clearly a myth that you’ve eagerly swallowed and treated as unquestioned scientific truth.
Jim, you’re really going to have to form a Boomer Defense League soon. It can be made up of wise, old Trad Buddhs.
BOOMER DEFENSE LEAGUE
Thank you Mr.Goad for providing excellent links above. There are and were plenty of Boomers who were pro-white and to scapegoat an entire generation is laughable.
“Trying to rehabilitate the Boomers?” I hate to say it, pal, but we’re all that’s keeping this country together – and even marginally civilized. Granted, the Boomers have played a bad role in US history, but not nearly as much as the Ungreatest Generation – the real culprits who destroyed Western Civ and white America. I was 3 or 4 when the traitor LBJ rammed the immigration invasion act through Congress. Even an Old Boomer like Trump was only 18-19. The Boomers didn’t shove totalitarian racial integration down the throats of innocent Americans, nor were we responsible for the opening of our borders to race replacement.
And speaking in imprecise and somewhat unattractive group generational terms, the Boomers, as an age cohort, are not nearly as awful as the Millennials – let alone Generation Z(ombie), the most pathetic as well as woke-indoctrinated bunch of losers in history (just look at their reported rates of “mental health” problems). Once we Boomers are mostly gone from the scene, starting about 2040, this country’s collapse will be astonishingly rapid. While I expect every aspect of American life to worsen continuously over my remaining 2-3 decades, I predict that, assuming America still exists as a 50 state Union in 2040 – a larger than some might realize assumption, the difference between the country in 2040 and 2050 will be like moving today from France to Algeria, Britain to Pakistan, or America to Mexico.
Life is going to get very, very bad, especially for whites. We must prepare, individually and, if possible and preferably, collectively, for the horrors that we prowhites understand better than literally anyone else are inevitably coming.
“Victor Davis Hanson, his take on the who the bad guys are, and why he and his ilk are not to be trusted to lecture us about victimhood in the Middle East.”
Hanson has been a shill for the jews for decades. When his “Father of us All” book was released, in 2010, he did an interview on c-span’s book tv here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?293853-1/the-father-all
Here he’s pushing war with iran for israel (at 40 minutes).
It’s been a long used technique in insect control to release large numbers of sterilized male insects that the females mate with instead of fertile males.
VDH is one such “sterile male” who diverts necessary attention from the true problem by bringing up neocon causes like traditional values etc.. He ignores the very cause of all such problems like immigration that threaten traditional values that made the USA and the other Western nations #1.
Worst of all, the guy hates Robert E. Lee.
I didn’t know VDH hated Robert E. Lee. That is truly terrible. Lee was one of the 5 or 6 greatest Americans who ever lived.
VDH seems to just make things up whole cloth once he realizes that the progressives have advanced and captured more ground. Recently I’ve seen him basically say that America was designed to be a multi-cultural empire and argue that we must be doing all we can to be colorblind to make it succeed just like Rome did. He has said other such nonsense. Meanwhile his buddy at AmGreatness, Dennis Prager, is just full on overtly and brazenly declaring the supremacy and primacy of Jewish people and Judea as the beginning and end of Western Civilization.
VDH is powerless and you can see in him a perfect example of a conservative in full retreat. The shots you hear are not of a sniper but of a panicked midwit running full speed away from the battlefield frantically shooting his gun off in the air.
Great critique. I’ve often thought VDH got as close to truth as a “mainstream conservative” could get without being banned by the Hoover Institution and the mainstream media. But then he’d let it slip out that he owned a lot of farmland and employed a lot of illegal Mexicans.
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