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The Mainstream Blues
Has the Dissident Right Already Won?
Travis LeBlanc
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Winston Churchill once said that when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, he knew that Britain would not lose the war, and that when Germany declared war on the United States, the Allies would win. Well, when it comes to the whole “saving the white race” thing, I have arrived at a point where I am confident that we will not lose. By that I mean that I am now confident that we will be able to red-pill enough people in time to stave off complete racial annihilation.
Now, will we win? Will we able to take back our countries and banish the non-white hordes from our midst? Eh . . . Honestly, I don’t know. But if Elon Musk can hold the line and maintain the level of free speech that we currently have, even if only for a few more years, then I am fairly certain that the white race will be able to avert the worst-case scenario.
Cynics like to say, “Twitter/X is not real life,” and in a sense, this is true. There are large swaths of the country that are not even on Twitter/X. In fact, the number of users is fairly small compared to other platforms: 550 million compared to Facebook’s three billion, YouTube’s 2.5 billion, TikTok’s 1.2 billion, or even Telegram’s 800 million. What makes Twitter/X the jewel of the social media crown is not that everyone is on it, but rather that everyone who matters is on it. Every journalist, politician, writer, podcaster, YouTuber, and comedian is on it.
There are also other aspects of the site which makes it better for spreading propaganda. If you had to pick just one social media platform to restore free speech on, Twitter/X would be the one you want. The Jews can have the rest of them. I think we can get the job done with Twitter/X alone.
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There is still much to be done. While it has now become fashionable to be anti-Zionist and everyone is naming the Jew, White Nationalism is still a relatively fringe ideology. Race realism is not yet a mainstream talking point. A lot of people are addressing the Great Replacement without saying the 14 words.
This does not concern me, however. One of the reasons I don’t spend much time complaining about figures such as Curtis Yarvin, Bronze Age Pervert, or Alex Jones is that I believe in the rabbit-hole theory of red-pilling. If you can red-pill someone on just one thing and get them thinking, “They lied to me about one thing; I wonder what else I was lied to about!”, that person enters the rabbit hole. Now, there are many tunnels once one is inside, and some of them lead to dead ends — flat earth theory, libertarianism — but at the bottom, there is White Nationalism. The hard part is getting someone to enter the rabbit hole in the first place. Once inside, the best ones will eventually find their way to the bottom. Some may take longer than others, but those who get stuck in a dead end and can’t find their way out are probably people we wouldn’t want, anyway.
It seems that the entire online Right is now in the rabbit hole. Even the Con, Inc. loyalists who are not yet convinced by dissident-Right arguments have at least been exposed to them, and in some cases have been forced to address them. The Daily Wire, who seem to have replaced National Review as Con, Inc.’s intellectual vanguard, have found themselves flailing in the face of rising Right-wing anti-Zionism. They tried to use their Holocaust card, but it came back with insufficient funds. It would seem that widespread white racial consciousness is now a fait accompli. We just need to let the process play out.
So have we won? If you consider the dissident Right’s primary purpose as being to push fringe ideas into the mainstream, then you could say we have won. or at least that forces are in motion that will inevitably lead to that end. Perhaps I should be popping champagne corks.
Yet, that’s not my mood.
On one hand, I am happy to know that all the people who had their lives destroyed for trying to get dissident Right ideas out into the public sphere did not have their lives ruined in vain. Ultimately, the establishment failed to quarantine our ideas on the fringes. Then again, it is annoying that many of the people who laid the groundwork for the great red-pilling that is underway on Twitter/X are not able to benefit from it. Many important figures such as Jared Taylor and Kevin MacDonald remain banned, as does Counter-Currents. Fortunately, Elon is fairly relaxed about ban evasion accounts, but even then, you have to start all over again from the bottom.
In a way, the great Twitter/X red-pilling is like watching my favorite indie band cross over into the mainstream. I’m happy for the guys, and yet it loses something. They don’t belong to you anymore. They are no longer your own little private club. I’m certainly happy to see dissident Right ideas gain wide traction, although being the roguish outsider living on the edge was fun, and there is a sense of melancholy in the likelihood that I will never know that feeling again.
There is a temptation for those of us of the Old Guard to say, “Our work is done.” Alt Right veteran Walt Bismarck has said things to this effect on his blog. But I think there is still a need for the OGs to stick around in order to mentor the new generation of dissidents who have sprung up quite recently. One thing I’ve noticed about a lot of the new figures is that while many of them know the talking points, they lack the intellectual depth of the old Alt Right. It’s like they’ve read the CliffsNotes and watched the movie, but have never read the book. It’s not that they are wrong, but they have only a surface-level understanding of the issues.
It might be tempting to say, after we spent all these years fighting for these ideas, that now that Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are talking about them, we’ve won and we can all go home now. But there is still a need for an intellectual elite who have been studying these issues for years to contribute academic substance to the conversation.
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18 comments
Catching them in lies is definitely the key to red pilling someone. That’s what set me off on my journey. In no time you realize everything you’ve been told is BS.
Perhaps because I’m not on Twitter right now (and I think some of us shouldn’t be) and I’m only exposed to those embedded tweets that end up in some of our people’s articles I don’t know what the author is seeing exactly. And you can’t seem to just dip in and browse Twitter anymore, it demands you create an account.
The hard measure of success will always be changes in legislation, changes in policy, or changes in the implementation of policy. I don’t really see that currently in the US or Europe. I see the machine going ahead in the usual ways.
Certainly white nationalist talking points have got more into the mainstream and that is a win, but it’s not really having an effect on policy because what steers that is much more of an insulated bubble and more resistant, although not impervious to grassroots pressures.
We also have to be very careful about the path of least resistance.
As soon as something else appears: vaxx, QAnon, Pizzagate, Federal Reserve, ‘mass formation’, Obama’s birth certificate, return to traditional values and so on, a certain amount of normies will take this pill instead (and they will be encouraged to).
It gives them some sense of resistance against oppression, but with far lower costs. And this is a concern with Trump.
Also we have to be very wary of George Floyd events and account for them ahead of time. It’s hard to measure, but there’s no doubt in the short term they set everything back, create enormous pressure on platforms and will pull some normies in. In the long term they can be framed for the trash they are, but when they are happening they are damaging and the full force of the corporate world will get behind them.
Repetition is everything. That’s why our enemies just repeat their memes again and again. They have to.
And we have to too.
All the Dissident Right can hope to do is influence the conversation. If we change the conversation and policies do not follow, I don’t see that as a failure on our part.
We are here to create a demand for pro-white politicians and policy. We are not here to supply them as I think being a politician requires a completely different skill set to being an activist (see NJP). If we create enough demand for pro-white organizations, politician, and policies, something will emerge organically to fulfill the demand.
En route to total victory (our own Ethnostate in perpetuity & head to the stars in our unquenchable thirst for knowledge) we have to build our own 100% communities, villages, towns, cities, states – now. Orania facsimiles is a good model, fore, they even have their own currency – Ora.
“Well, when it comes to the whole “saving the white race” thing, I have arrived at a point where I am confident that we will not lose. By that I mean that I am now confident that we will be able to red-pill enough people in time to stave off complete racial annihilation.”
Good. It’s important to affirm such positive and hopeful thoughts. Black pilling is poisonous and it does not help anything.
Winston Churchill once said that when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, he knew that Britain would not lose the war, and that when Germany declared war on the United States, the Allies would win.
Yes, Britain as always won the war as a war by proxy. Stupid Russian Vanka died in trenches, and stupid American Joe paid and worked for this, but the winner is Britain. Absolutely like it was during the Napoleonic Wars, during the Great War, and during the war of now, when instead stupid Russian Vanka, stupid Ukrainian Taras is dying.
Russia gained huge swaths of territory. The US gained enormous economic advantages, largely because it had not been bombed, and enormous political influence. Britain lost its empire and became a third-rate power. I would say that the British were one of the biggest losers of the war. If you factor in the territories and resources of India alone, Britain lost more than Germany.
Russia gained huge swaths of territory.
Yes, but these territories were populated by non-Russian and hostile to Russians peoples, who fought against Russian occupation for the next 10 till 15 years. And after they lost their violent struggle, they went over to the non-violent one, which eventually resulted in the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1989-91. These territories with their populations were time bombs, planted to destroy the Soviet Union. Of course, as always, the western expansion of Russia and SU was and still is wrong and someway suicidal. Russia should expand to the East as an Asian Empire.
The US gained enormous economic advantages, largely because it had not been bombed, and enormous political influence.
Again, yes, and again, but. This enormous influence only harmed the American people, because this was not their influence, but the influence of the elitist globalists, mostly Jewish, who strenghted their power in America after the war, and misused and abused this influence so, that since 1950’s and till now the world hate America. Before the WW2 the world liked and admired all things American, after it it hates and despises all things American.
that the British were one of the biggest losers of the war.
Can be. Then they have miscalculated and “slaughtered the wrong pig.” Anyway THEY instigated that war, like they instigated the wars against the French and Germans before, and after, the ongoing war in Ukraine too.
The biggest winners of the WW2 were the world globalist elites, and Israel, which has got its own land in Palestine.
I doubt that the ordinary British did any instigation for WWII, and even less were they keen to die yet again. But it is not that hard to trace the instigation with the not so British who saved Churchill from bankruptcy and made him wealthy again.
I doubt that the ordinary British did any instigation for WWII
Of course, not. But when we say that Russians invaded Finland in 1939-1940, or Americans invaded Iraq in 2002-2003, we also say it only generally. Of course, an Ivan in a far village in Siberia, or a redneck somewhere in the Midwest did not make those aggressive decisions. This is simply a generalisation.
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Why would Britain declare war on Germany? Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of British people who died fighting Germany who did not & repeatedly told Britain that it did not want war.
Why did Churchill do this? Maybe for money of Jewish bankers, who saved him of the bankruptcy. But… Why Britain declared war on Germany in 1914? Was the war of 1939-45 not just a continuation of the Great War?
K.B.
“Yes, Britain as always won the war [WWII]…. but the winner is Britain.”
By 1945 Britain lost her British Empire & was broke (completed paying her war debt in 2006). Today many British people are saying – this is not the Britain we fought for. Today the English are a minority in London, Leicester, Luton, Slough Birmingham, Manchester. Mayor of London is not English. PM of England not English. How is this a win? Why would Britain declare war on Germany? Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of British people who died fighting Germany who did not & repeatedly told Britain that it did not want war. If the internet existed in 1939 people like Tucker Carlson would be asking Lord Halifax, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, & many more – why are you wanting a war with Germany when Hitler has repeatedly made it clear he desires no war with the West & why have you rejected every peace offer from Hitler?
Spain, Italy, Germany represented Nationalism.
Pro-White advocates will not have “won” anything, until all of those red-pilled Whites summon up the courage and energy to take meaningful action. By “meaningful action,” I do not mean illegal violence, but rather something beyond anonymous online posting and a “lesser of two evils” voting strategy.
Travis’s conclusion: It might be tempting to say, after we spent all these years fighting for these ideas, that now that Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are talking about them, we’ve won and we can all go home now. But there is still a need for an intellectual elite who have been studying these issues for years to contribute academic substance to the conversation.
You must be joking, right? After all these years, anti-White multi-millionaire MSM star Carlson and Negress Owens say something halfway agreeable, so now all that’s needed is an intellectual White elite to give us some academic substance? Ha! Academia is brimming with intellectually dishonest White elites who cannot hit their backsides with both hands when it come to them answering, without stammering and looking over their shoulders to make sure no one is listening, the simple question, “Yes, or no, is the White race worth preserving?”
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Martin Kerr: By “meaningful action,” I do not mean illegal violence, but rather something beyond anonymous online posting and a “lesser of two evils” voting strategy…
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Mr. Kerr, After all these years, I remember back to our first meeting 38 years ago. I was green; you were already an experienced NS activist, mentoring my mentor at the time, Gary Gallo. You have been in the trenches of our struggle ever since. Your 8-part series, “The History of American Nationalism” gives newcomers to the cause of White preservation what’s needed for background, besides anonymous online posting — not claptrap from the likes of Carlson, Owens or any intellectualism coming out of Academia these days. The History of American National Socialism – Part 8: The National Alliance and Smaller Organizations (1970-1985) | National Vanguard.
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Travis: [L]arge swaths of the country… are not even on Twitter/X… compared to other platforms: 550 million compared to Facebook’s three billion, YouTube’s 2.5 billion, TikTok’s 1.2 billion, or even Telegram’s 800 million. What makes Twitter/X the jewel of the social media crown is not that everyone is on it, but rather that everyone who matters is on it. Every journalist, politician, writer, podcaster, YouTuber, and comedian is on it… If you had to pick just one social media platform to restore free speech on, Twitter/X would be the one you want. The Jews can have the rest of them. I think we can get the job done with Twitter/X alone.
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We? Good luck with that strategy, Travis. I’ve never been on Twitter/X, nor on those other much larger platforms that you leave to the Jew, and I never will be. Leading the 50-year-old real-world National Alliance, founded by Dr. William Pierce, is as close as I need to be to our “intellectual elite.”
I consider the man in the very front rank of today’s intellectual elite, the unaffected Dr. Thomas Dalton. That’s why our Alliance sells 29 of his titles. Thomas Dalton – Cosmotheism (cosmotheistchurch.org)
I’ve probably been spending too much of my time here at to-some-degree pro-White C-C lately, but that I’m allowed to introduce and stand up for NA and its ideology and program without being banned makes it seem worthwhile. I don’t recognize half the new terms and acronyms used here, but enough to stay in touch with the ideas expressed.
There is a lot to be positive about. Only a couple of years ago I wouldn’t have known Counter Currents existed, now I can’t imagine my knowledge base without it. Things are changing and the awareness is not just growing, it’s blossoming and emboldening people. Two things. One slightly more down beat than the other. The down beat part first.
The other CC article about white ethnocentric groups like the Amish flourishing demographically is an uplifting history, but I think for that to be a long term goal we would have to be in possession of some land mass like Orania or be part of the soil that the Amish have been for centuries rather than a thousand little enclaves that add up to a million or so community but is still stymied and fragmented by government and lawfare. I would still endorse it, but I see it as a gigantic struggle. For the most part I just see racial enclaves and and agitation and even worse from time to time as we see demographic change imposed upon us. The progressive policies (that don’t look like disappearing anytime soon) could further kill our culture and demoralise us to the extent that the most important part of the article for me was alluding to, what we do now will also have a bearing on our birth rates for the future. Who would bring kids into the world if the parents thought they would have no hope as a group or their future prospects were so bad they avoided children to ensure no offspring would be treated badly in society resulting in anything from being overlooked for a job/uni place to being brutally murdered (because that’s what happens now in some cases).
Back to this article – given that several of our high profile content makers and contributors are banned from Twitter and starting over is a huge task, has anyone on this platform or any other suggested a Twitter/X account being set up as a dissident right consensus group with a name not associated with anything or anyone who has been banned? This account could be used to post the thoughts of people banned should they wish to contribute their thoughts to the account holder. These are then posted on X. The messages from the names listed above gets an audience and as long as the new account stays within X’s Overton window (which seems to have gotten slight wider) we can start to have an overarching dissident right X account that can be updated and manged by someone with the time and inclination to promote the ideas of more than one person, should the others recently banned agree that they would be happy to send out thoughts, links and sound bites to perpetuate what the author of this piece is advocating.
In the last few years, I’ve noticed the Overton Window shifting our way just a smidge – the first time in ages that it’s gone in the right direction. Part of that is from our efforts paving the way. Another part was a reaction to the enemy overplaying their hand since 2020. They bared their fangs, but things didn’t go exactly as expected.
The way I see it, what remains to be done in the short term is waking up the public to the point that 1) white liberals stop actively participating in their own destruction, and 2) conservatives stop passively allowing it to happen without uttering a peep. For a bonus round, 3) nobody can get a fat paycheck through anti-white grifting. Once all that’s done, a LOT more becomes possible.
It’s an exposure campaign
As in flushing out as many as possible of those who are strong-willed enough to resist the agenda, so that they can be targeted when the time comes?
The jew will not replace .. wait !? What wow “ ~
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