Counter-Currents
Judd Blevins
1,411 words
Judd Blevins was recently recalled from his position as a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma. This was not because of any malfeasance on his part, but because he has views and past associations which are deemed as “problematic” in Our Democracy.™
Blevins received 40% of the vote to his opponent Cheryl Patterson’s 60%. The election had an extremely high turnout, with 1,390 voting in the recall as compared to 808 when Blevins was first elected. Even so, only about 12% of independents, 40% of Democrat, and 33% of Republican voters showed up for what was a special recall election. Blevins estimates that he won about 57% of the Republican vote.
This election was actually a loss for both sides. Once we scratch the thin veneer of snide jubilation off of the Left, one finds a distinct sense of unease and even panic. For Blevins, this was a tactical loss. But for the establishment, it was a Pyrrhic victory and a strategic loss.
Enid, Oklahoma is a small town of slightly more than 50,000 people. Blevins lost due to a smear campaign that employed national-level resources to attack him for his involvement with the pro-white activist organization Identity Evropa and his attendance of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. PBS, CNN, and other losers and haters from the failing legacy media chimed in to create a hysteric firestorm.
Cheryl Patterson also outspent Judd Blevins by $3,000, and this does not include her campaign’s indirect funding and support, which was substantial and dwarfed Blevins’s resources several times over. Blevins had to essentially fight five different campaigns: against Patterson; against the Enid Social Justice Committee (ESJC) funded by Leftist non-governmental organizations; against the media at the local, state, and national levels; against the Chamber of Commerce faction; and against Enid’s Mayor. Even the Oklahoma Democrat Party joined in. As Nancy Presnall, the Chair of the Garfield County Democrat Party, declared, they “received tremendous support from the Oklahoma Democrat Party” such as “phone banks, text banks postcards, door to door plans and more,” despite this being a non-partisan race between two Republican candidates.[1]
Only perhaps in Trump Derangement Syndrome has the unity of the uni-party system been more apparent.
This election was an expensive and inefficient game of whack-a-mole. If the establishment had to play it against a hundred Judd Blevins scattered across various elections throughout the country, it would become ruinously expensive. Furthermore, the Saul Alinsky tactic of polarizing, freezing, and isolating Blevins worked well this time because it had a single target. But it would naturally have diminishing returns if it had to be spread out among hundreds of candidates. The Enid election was tantamount to an army diverting an entire division to deal with a single partisan.
Judd Blevins was attacked and recalled because the enemy doxed and identified him. But as a former chapter leader of Identity Evropa, I can assure you that most of our people remain undoxed. Some of them, moreover, are already in positions of power and influence. The old Alt Right has grown up, and many of us are doing quite well. Furthermore, there is a growing phenomenon of people already in positions of power becoming red-pilled to varying degrees as our ideas spread, or cautiously coming out about what they already knew but kept hidden.
You can buy Greg Johnson’s Toward a New Nationalism here.
Most of the Left’s hysterics have little to no basis in factual reality. But their hysteria about so-called “crypto-fascists” is a major exception.
Many redditors and other assorted Leftists seem to agree with my analysis that this game of whack-a-mole was a strategic loss. We see 60% of the voters in MAGA country siding with literal Communists against a nationalist. The Left sees 40% defying a media onslaught and expressing indifference to the previously reliable hand-wringing about Unite the Right and accusations of racism. Given the way things are going, the number of people who are indifferent to such tactics, or perhaps who even side with us, will only continue to grow. That almost two-thirds of Republicans didn’t even show up indicates that the underlying problem here was not hostility toward Blevins among the base, but indifference that was overpowered by Leftist zealotry. A real victory for the Left would have been 80-90%, not 60%. They know this and are deeply disturbed. They should be.
Cheryl Patterson was also swept to power with great ease. Patterson casts herself as a business-orientated fiscal conservative and claims her campaign did not have dealings with the far-Left Enid Social Justice Committee (ESJC). But there was certainly tacit endorsement and cooperation given that the ESJC was essentially created to attack Blevins and campaigned heavily against him. As reported by The Justice Report, the ESJC’s core consists of antifa and their sympathizers.
Machiavelli recognized that those who come to power with ease keep it only with great difficulty, because they will have to confront all the problems they initially sidestepped, while those who come to power with difficulty will keep it with great ease because they have already overcome their problems on the way up. Patterson is now in a similar position to Biden on his inauguration day. Both were swept to power by an alliance of Republicans RINOs and Communists, helped by megadonors raining cash and dishonest media coverage upon them. To win the next election, Patterson will have to maintain the uneasy RINO-Communist alliance, and both RINOs and Communists are duplicitous backstabbers who will betray her and/or each other at a moment’s notice. Patterson will likewise need a similar amount of cash and media coverage, because she will soon find that Enid’s potholes are indifferent to virtue-signaling and accusations of racism. Like Biden, she will probably be a one-term blunder.
This is regardless of whether Judd Blevins runs against Patterson again or not. Blevins’s intentions are currently unclear. If he were to run for a higher office, he would force the system to expend even more resources, because the stakes would be even higher.
Furthermore, almost no mainstream or even quasi-mainstream media entities gave Blevins fair reporting. But Tucker Carlson and others are becoming more open to engaging with us. For instance, Tucker recently interviewed Lydia Brimelow of VDare. The Left has relied so heavily on a decades-long media monopoly that they do not know what to do now that it is broken. Dozens of hit pieces can be rendered ineffective by just one fair report or interview.
Ideally, Blevins would run for office with the intention of winning. But there is more than one way to win. In the long run, we will not win until the mainstream Republican Party is destroyed. To do that, Blevins could just run as a spoiler candidate. If Blevins wins as a nationalist, great. If a Leftist wins, a Republican’s career may end permanently. If a RINO wins with Communist backing, it will be highly instructive. No matter what the outcome, there will be more radicalization in the long term.
In short, nationalists simply can’t lose in such a scenario. Moreover, Blevins need not garner 40% of the vote for this scenario to unfold. He might only need 2% to end a RINO’s career. Even a threat of winning 20% would be enough to instigate chaos. Blevin’s recall had a relatively high turnout compared to his initial election, but it was still low compared to other types of elections. Higher voter turnout — especially among Republicans — in a campaign for a higher office would be a wildcard that the establishment could not risk dismissing.
The establishment could theoretically ignore candidates such as Blevins. That would be the wisest course for them. This is not an option in practice, though, because the rank and file are too emotional to think strategically.
The Enid election does, however, raise some difficult issues which we must confront.
It should provide an important reality check for dissidents who want to run for office. Even though we advocate for our people’s interests, we cannot count on their support. Remember how mainstream conservatives abandoned their own people after January 6, and only really began to care when the 2024 election approached and the regime started to persecute high-profile targets? They will have even less solidarity with pro-white candidates. And for now, white jurors should be relied upon even less than white voters.
The only way to reduce these headwinds is to continue to educate and radicalize the public. Win or lose, campaigns such as Judd Blevin’s are highly educational.
Note
[1] See the video from the City of Enid, “Mayor and Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting — April 16, 2024” at one hour and 41 minutes.
Enjoyed this article?
Be the first to leave a tip in the jar!
* * *
Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those who donate at least $10/month or $120/year.
- Donors will have immediate access to all Counter-Currents posts. Everyone else will find that one post a day, five posts a week will be behind a “paywall” and will be available to the general public after 30 days. Naturally, we do not grant permission to other websites to repost paywall content before 30 days have passed.
- Paywall member comments will appear immediately instead of waiting in a moderation queue. (People who abuse this privilege will lose it.)
- Paywall members have the option of editing their comments.
- Paywall members get an Badge badge on their comments.
- Paywall members can “like” comments.
- Paywall members can “commission” a yearly article from Counter-Currents. Just send a question that you’d like to have discussed to [email protected]. (Obviously, the topics must be suitable to Counter-Currents and its broader project, as well as the interests and expertise of our writers.)
To get full access to all content behind the paywall, please visit our redesigned Paywall page.
13 comments
Thanks David Zsutty ,
You made good observations:
“Furthermore, the Saul Alinsky tactic of polarizing, freezing, and isolating Blevins worked well this time because it had a single target. ”
David, I’d like to introduce myself to you and some of the other very good thinkers and writers here at Counter Currents.
I’m (Nom De Plum) Jack Ryan/Jaye Ryan. I’ve been a writer at Hunter Wallace’s Occidental Dissent and am the cultural correspondent (music, book and movie reviewer) on Jame Edwards’ TPC The Political Cesspool Radio Show.
You reference Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”.
I’d like to discuss with you about writing a very similar “Rules for our Radicals” that updates Saul Alinsky’s very practical tactics that did work and do work. As JL Rockwell said/wroter ~ 1966, we need to get away from American Conservative tactics and just thinking that don’t work, get out of the Conservative Sand Box that ‘s been pooped in so often it’s kitty litter.
Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” isn’t a long book, let’s make one even shorter and produce a companion book, slide show, videos about propaganda that works, worked in the past, but updated to work now – reach the hearts and minds, bodies and souls of our people where we/they live here in now year 2024.
Like so many things that count, American White Conservatives tend to really SUCK at propaganda.
Thanks David
J Ryan
Occidental Dissent
TPC Radio Show
jackryanod (at) protonmail (dot) com
50,000.people is not a “small town”.
Impressive analysis.
I think destroying the republican party is a mistake. Taking over the republican party is a much better strategy. Republicans are already over 90% White, most do everything they can to get away from blacks and support strong law and order policies that keeps blacks out of our hair. Republicans are also proud of their heritage and oppose policies that show disdain for America’s founders. Republicans are also fond of their children and career advancement so oppose affirmative action. All of this favors White nationalists and our future. Work within the party, don’t tear it down.
Excellent response (one I was about to make until I saw your comment) to the one flaw in this otherwise penetrating article. Perhaps when Zsutty says “the mainstream GOP must be destroyed” what he is really saying is that the Hard Right must do as you (and I would) prescribe and take over the party with a view towards refashioning it into at least a solid Middle Americanist movement (which we here should understand would be a bridge to an eventual large scale white nationalist movement).
OTOH, if what Zsutty means is that the GOP must be literally destroyed so that a new Party of the Right can emerge in its place, I would suggest he spend some time studying the history of American third party efforts. That history does not provide grounds for prowhite optimism. It is much easier in America to conduct the oft-cited “revolution within the form” – to infiltrate and reshape an institution – than to wholly destroy and replace an entity long established.
If Trump were a far more substantial historical figure than he is, he could be the “Republican Caesar” we desperately need to conquer the GOP and marginalize all the RINOs. Indeed, to a smaller extent, he is actually doing this, relentlessly stocking lower level party positions with his own acolytes. This will ultimately be a real improvement, but a small one, given that many Trump loyalists are far from being true Hard Rightists, let alone WNs.
Yeah, I don’t understand why people like TRS keeping saying that things will somehow change if the GOP is destroyed.
I hate the GOP but I hate the Democrats even more. This is some kind of magical-thinking accelerationism, I guess.
The only thing that might make a difference is if BOTH the GOP and the Democrats were destroyed somehow.
They seem to think that if White people supported the Dems instead of the GOP, which gives them nothing, that the Dems would do something for them? Total B.S.
For one thing, neither political party operates from the succor of the people; they serve the elites, and not national elites, either. The elites they serve means Jews and Neocons, RINOs, and Chamber of Commerce Neoliberals.
Furthermore, third-party candidates NEVER throw elections. That is a huge myth.
In the election of 1912, where former President Theodore Roosevelt ran on a progressive third-party ticket against his former deputy, the incumbent President Taft, you could make a case that splitting the GOP actually put Woodrow Wilson, a progressive Democrat, into office. You could make that case.
Always look at your Electoral Votes, folks.
The last time that a third-party ticket got ANY electoral votes at all was former Southern Democrat George Wallace in 1968 when the Democrats had thoroughly freedom-raped the South.
In 1992, Ross Perot got a respectable 19 percent of the “popular vote,” but he never got a single Electoral Vote. NOT ONE! And even if we assume that all of the votes cast for Perot would have gone to Bush instead, George H.W. Bush would still not have taken a single electoral vote away from Clinton.
The best that Wallace could have done in 1968, if he had gotten a lot more Electoral Voles, is that he could have denied Nixon a majority, which means that the House of Representatives would have elected the President. In 1992, in the imagined case of Perot getting a barrage of Electoral Votes, this means that Bill Clinton would have been elected anyway.
I’ve explained this so many times in comments sections and fora that I think it is deliberate obfuscation (but I guess it makes for edgy podcasts). Billionaires like Perot and Trump have a shot at doing some good IF they can actually get elected ─ i.e., get a majority of Electoral Votes. But even so, can they really be our guy? President Trump’s administration was so bad that it almost seems like incompetence or even sabotage.
But the alternative is far worse.
A new White party has a shot IF both the GOP and Democratic parties can be destroyed somehow. Also, there needs to be a grass-roots foundation of political support, so state and local politics, activism, and lawfare remains extremely important.
🙂
Always good to see our guys refuse to recant or back down. Judd Belvins seems like a good man.
Well it shows you how strongly jews believe controlling our political system is, which means it is a valuable tool. Given jews control vote counting and media, we may have to vote with our feet.
I’m a bit curious about something – do there have to be specific grounds for a recall election? It seems the only reason in this case is that someone didn’t like his politics. In any event, perhaps we could be doing similar things in other places with similar provisions, such as getting the Soros prosecutors booted out of office.
Soros prosecutors deliberately cause harm. They promote anarcho-tyranny. They refuse to arrest real criminals and go after political prisoners.
For example, the following four innocent defendants are victims of Soros prosecutors and Democrat judges: Derek Chauvin, Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao.
Arizona has Initiative, Referendum, and Recall, which I have always thought was a good thing.
However, when a citizen initiative passes the first thing that happens is that the state legislature and the courts try to gut it, so it is not as great a populistic tool as one might expect.
For example, Arizona was one of the first states to legalize medical marijuana ─ but it actually took many, many plebiscites to make it effective. Now many adjacent states have effectively legalized marijuana recreational drug use. Arizona resisted, although the medicinal aspect at least was a very popular measure and the corporate media was supportive.
The Recall process has turned into a big question mark, in my opinion.
Recall has only been used (i.e., abused) once in the state’s history ─ in 2011 to Recall the State Senate President Russell Pearce, who sponsored the Arizona SB 1070 law for the state to control its own borders by making it illegal for illegal aliens to reside in the state.
SB 1070 was enormously popular and kicked off the modern anti-immigration sentiment in the country. Previously a lot of border states belched a lot of hot air over “controlling the borders” and illegal immigration. RINO Senator John McCain, for example, would do campaign photo-ops at the border wearing a cowboy hat while saying stuff on cue like “build the dang wall!”
But the reality is that corporate agricultural interests and the Chamber of Commerce always sabotaged anti-immigration efforts by saying that we needed more Illegals “to do the work that White people won’t do.”
SB 1070 put the lie to that, and the Establishment got worried.
The corporate media was always hostile to SB 1070 but the Obama courts easily managed to gut the Arizona law, and that opened the door for the RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) to ally with the almost-always-cloud-cuckoo Democrats to get GOP Sen. Pearce recalled from the legislature in 2011, and to replace him by a RINO Republican and fellow LDS church member named Jerry Lewis (send in the crying clowns).
The Recall process in Arizona made it possible for the Globalist wing of the GOP and the Democrats to jointly remove Senator Pearce, despite great support for him and SB 1070 from Conservatives, Republicans, and Mormons.
(In my experience affluent LDS tend to be Libtards, or at least virtue-signallers, but that is another topic.)
Arizona politician Jerry Lewis, who had been both an LDS Bishop and an LDS Stake President, was endorsed by fellow RINOs Mitt Romney and Sen. Jeff Flake, but he was not reelected to the Arizona Senate in 2012 ─ and then was sent to the proverbial clown world showers. Lewis hasn’t dabbled in politics at all since, as far as I know.
The voters then elected a pro-immigrant Presbyterian Democrat named Ed Abelser who earned Martin Luther King diversity awards and made Christian arguments about helping “the least of our brethren” (i.e., Illegals and Somalian refugees).
A few takeaways… Russell Pearce was incredibly based and a very decent guy.
In order to scuttle SB 1070, the corporate media was able to ferret out some of the most execrable Latter-Day Saint front groups who endorsed pro-immigration RINOs and the execrable Democrats and falsely (at least then) presented this as mainstream LDS positions.
Russell Pearce, who was a devout LDS member, was portrayed as a Nazi who favored sterilizing Darkies ─ and grooming hot-blooded yahoos like J.T. Ready, who later committed suicide after killing his Mexican girlfriend and her two daughters, including the daughter’s fiance. JFC.
I met J.T. Ready at several David Irving conferences held in Phoenix. He claimed to be an ex-Marine but I always found him suspicious. At one time Sen. Pearce baptized Mr. Ready into the LDS church, and he vied unsuccessfully for election to the Arizona State Legislature and the Mesa City Council ─ with extremely bad press.
Jeff Flake ─ Joe Biden’s current ambassador to Turkey, and the Senator from Arizona who wet his pants when trapped in a Capitol elevator by a squad of angry Sistahs of Color during a Supreme Court confirmation hearing ─ got Mr. Ready blacklisted in the state GOP.
Anyway, the point is, I think there are good opportunites to divide-and-conquer using Recall and lawfare and infiltrating the mainstream political parties, etc. But this has to be done very cautiously. Like with the ascerbic campaign against Russell Pearce and SB 1070, the corporate media will not be helping our guys.
🙂
Great detailed comment, but I take issue with this:
SB 1070 was enormously popular and kicked off the modern anti-immigration sentiment in the country.
It was an initiative that I spent a great deal of activist time working on – CA Prop 187 – that “kicked off modern anti-immigration sentiment”. That was in 1994, when many of us knew we were losing America but believed we still had a chance to save it (and I think we did then; it was the (((neocons))), along with RINOs like the Bushes and LDSers like Flake and Romney, that derailed the rising restrictionist movement that was coming to a head in the 90s). I believe this was all way before AZ’s heroic SB1070.
I reiterate what I keep saying: whites as a race are truly “beautiful losers” destined for evolutionary oblivion. Our only chance to prevent ultimate extinction is prowhite territorial ingathering into one or a few sovereign nations which we can electorally conquer; apply Greg Johnson’s “slow cleanse” to; and then transform into teleological racial states specifically set up with white preservation and white power buildup as the transcendent policy guides. After a century or more of prowhite numerical increase and growth in economic and military power, we can consider relaxing our guard to allow a bit more personal liberty. The post-60s era of easy living and rock ‘n roll is coming to an end.
The white man’s future, if he’s to have one, will look a lot like the ethnostate of Israel today. Constant warfare and defensive actions against the perpetual threat of nonwhite pillaging and terrorism. As Revilo Oliver put it many decades ago, “How insane was the white man to retreat from the world that was his!”
Judd Blevins is a courageous advocate for the truth. Jews don’t like that. Jews censor the truth. Merrick Garland might send the FBI to raid Blevins house in the middle of the night, to arrest him for his political opinions.
Comments are closed.
If you have Paywall access,
simply login first to see your comment auto-approved.
Note on comments privacy & moderation
Your email is never published nor shared.
Comments are moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. If approved, it will appear here soon. Do not post your comment a second time.
Paywall Access
Lost your password?Edit your comment