Counter-Currents
The Case for Trump 2024
The Left is Still the Enemy
Hunter Wallace
The enemy is motivated by hatred.
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I started writing this article last Thursday.
I scrapped the draft though after the events of the last week with Kamala Harris picking Tim Walz as her VP and with the riots and crackdown on British patriots in the UK.
In this series, I have generally focused on the relationship between activists, normies and politicians, and the thrust of my argument is that we need to develop a greater degree of self-awareness. As activists, we need to accept the fact that normies do not give a shit about our principles. Politicians are also not activists and have to navigate the sensibilities of their coalition and the general electorate.
I have already covered some of the pitfalls of being an activist based on my own experience: activist brain, the “worse is better” strategy, the tendency of activists treat their vote like a sacrament, navigating political winds and the misguided belief that losing is better than winning. I’m not chastising anyone. At various times, I have subscribed to this way of thinking as an activist. In election seasons, I have always oscillated between being positive and pragmatic and being negative and doctrinaire.
Losing sight of the fact that the Left is the enemy is another pitfall for activists. The definition of the enemy is someone who wants to seriously harm you. The enemy is not someone who is misguided or naive or retarded or incompetent or cringe or corrupt. The enemy is motivated by malice. The enemy is not someone in this scene who you have a major beef with. Those are private enemies and the sort of people who Christ was referring to when we are called to love our enemies and forgive them.
The enemy does things like this:
The enemy is motivated by hatred.
Looking back on the Trump era, I think activists got frustrated and angry with Trump and conservatives whose politics are more moderate. By 2020, the mood had shifted to alienation and various attempts to appeal to the Left whether it was my “Alt-Center” phase where I could imagine a Populist Right / Populist Left alliance or the Third Positionism or “One Struggle” route that other activists traveled. Overall, there was a tendency among activists to write off the Right and strike out in some other direction.
In my case, I started reversing course very early in the Biden era. There was the fallout from January 6 which showed the damage that an empowered Left was capable of doing to civil liberties. There was Joe Biden blowing up the border in his first week in office. The single most important reason why I stopped and reversed course though was the mounting evidence in the polls that the events of 2020 – COVID, the Summer of Floyd, Trump losing the 2020 election – was having a radicalizing effect among conservatives. The evidence that the Right was on the move again continued to mount in 2022 and 2023. The gap between activists and conservatives has shrunk again over the last four years.
As for Trump, the ordeal he has been through with censorship, lawfare and physical violence with the assassination attempt has been clarifying. It has been WORSE than what happened to activists after Charlottesville. Trump was indicted on over 90 felony charges. The same people who tried to take us out in 2017/2018 have used the same methods to take Trump out. Donald Trump is an incompetent, corrupt narcissist, but he is not the enemy. In fact, he has at times taken arrows for activists like when he refused to condemn Nick Fuentes after the Mar-a-Lago dinner or after Charlottesville when Trump tried to “both sides” what had happened at Unite the Right. In contrast, “Dark Brandon” has unequivocally condemned activists as a domestic enemy since he announced his presidential campaign.
The main players in Charlottesville – Gov. Terry McAuliffe, hostile local officials, Antifa, the Kaplan and Dunn legal team with ties to Hillary Clinton – were ALL on the Left. The people who rioted and tore down our monuments during the Summer of Floyd were ALL on the Left. The people who incarcerated thousands of activists over January 6 were ALL on the Left. Finally, while the Right was in power for 14 years and ushered in a tidal wave of brown and black immigrants in the UK and deserved its defeat by Labour, the Left is now in the saddle and throwing thousands of activists in prison without even show trials.
Here in the United States, we have the First Amendment and Second Amendment. Virtually everyone else in the Western world would happily trade places with Americans. It is worth remembering that we still have these freedoms because Donald Trump won a fluke election in 2016. It was a near miss. It was as close as the bullet which tore through Trump’s ear. Where would we be today if Hillary Clinton had replaced Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court with anti-White DEI appointments like Ketanji Brown Jackson? Would we be like Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand?
The events of the last week in the UK has brightly underlined the fact that normies often have better political instincts than college-educated activists. Normies revere the Constitution and will say things like they are motivated to vote for Trump to protect their freedoms which is actually a damn good reason to participate. The activist, however, will take for granted the freedoms he enjoys, disparage normies for not reading 100 history books and embracing every aspect of his ideology and downplay the threat posed by his enemies. The activist can be a danger both to himself and to everyone he misleads.
I don’t have to like Trump or believe Trump is the “God Emperor” or that he is going to Make America Great Again to recognize the fact that my interests are best served, especially as a political commentator, by keeping malicious shitlibs who want to crush free speech away from the courts.
As usual, the point of this article is to explain my own thinking because otherwise you would not understand the shifts in my position. I am not telling you to vote for Donald Trump. You are capable of making your own decisions. This is my attempt to flesh out my own inner monologue.
1. The Right finally moves on from Trump in 2028
2. The Alt-Right has terrible political instincts
3. Joe Biden has been a sedative as president
4. Activist brain blinds us and creates prejudice against conservative normies
5. Trump is the leader because he is the best of the Republicans
6. “Worse is better” is a cope and was tried in 2020 and maintains the status quo
7. Voting is not a sacrament. Few know this
8. Voting is not going to change anything about Zionism in the next four years
9. Activists have the chance to ride the Trump wave without making the same mistakes
10. Activists are running out of material because the Overton Window has shifted so much
11. Donald Trump is a hunted dog who has been backed into a corner
12. Donald Trump is a divider, not a uniter and his legacy will ultimately be useful for us
13. Winning is still better than losing at baseline
14. The Left is still the enemy and wants to take away our freedoms.
This article originally appeared on Occidental Dissident.
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There are likely to be fewer illegal immigrants under Trump than under Harris. The simple argument is a powerful argument.
How much lower? Millions? Tens of millions? You can’t say because it’s an utterly meaningless claim. Trump has already said he was for ‘stapling a green card’ the diploma of every foreigner who graduates from a US university. Out of one side of it’s mouth, MAGA claims to be concerned about ‘Chinese influence’ and out of the other side of its mouth it wants to give a green card to every Chinese student to graduates in the USA. The same with ‘Palestinians’.
MAGA – like all ‘conservative’ continental politics – exists to make The White Vote safe for jews and non-Whites (and now immigrants).
The green card idea seems to have polled poorly and has been dropped.
‘Dropped’ from what? Rhetoric used on the campaign trail? Would that be anything like ‘Build the wall’ or ‘Lock her up’?
The fact that the candidate may or may not have ceased talking about ‘stapling green cards to college diplomas’, means nothing in regard to what actual policy Trump (or Kushner) would implement once in office. He’ll do what his donors want, not what he did or didn’t tell MAGA.
Silicon Valley wants cheap H1B Visa Indians by the tens of millions. What do you think prayers to Whareguru at the RNC were telegraphing? Who do think JD Vance means when he says he wants to fire “every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people“?
Here’s a hint: he doesn’t mean White people.
I agree.
The devil is in the details.
An old Moody Blues song goes “Thinking is the best way to travel”.
I think that it is important that honor above all else should be regained in the white political world, for futures sake.
It polled poorly 4 years ago when Charlie Kirk was stumping for that idea. Trump is pro-immigration. The jews that fund and run his campaign know that MAGA is unable to remember what happened yesterday, let alone a few years ago. I remember he said he wanted ‘more immigration than ever before’.
The truth is that ‘stapling a green card to immigrant diplomas’ isn’t a ‘gaffe’, it’s how Trump thinks.
He’s anti-White and anti-worker.
Given the fact that both the DNC and the GOP are anti-White parties, if one wants to have the ‘lesser evil’ debate, there’s a real question as to whether Harris/Walz aren’t a better choice because the GOP will be obligated to oppose some anti-White actions just to maintain appearances.
Pro-Whites have to reach the grim conclusion (which I have) that neither party will benefit Whites and that continental politics is largely a waste of our time.
However, we can advance the conditions of possibility for the emergence of sustainable, defended pro-White communities by advancing support for nullification at the state and local level based upon the understanding that ‘liberalism’ depends upon ‘the free movement of goods, information, people and money’ and that anything that slows down this ‘free movement’ is good for White Nationalism.
At one point in his career, Sam Francis objected to White Nationalism because it was a ‘separatist’ movement and he thought that Whites could, in due course, win back everything they had lost and so shouldn’t give up on aspiring to regain control of the federal government and, by extension, the USA part of North America.
But, later in his career, he seemed to indicate that he did not see a path to ‘run the table’ and started to think more favorably of ‘separatism’.
Pro-Whites who vote for Trump thinking that they’ll get something better than Harris are fooling themselves.
The only way pro-Whites can secure their existence and future for White children is by breaking the federal authorities ability to reach us.
And to do that we need as much political and economic autonomy as possible.
My argument for Trump is simple: United States Attorney General Letitia James.
My argument against Trump is ‘Attorney General Shlomo Ziojew’.
My argument against Trump is not simple but it boils down to this: Trump is not on our side either and the GOP must die so that White America might live. Mr. Wallace still thinks that this is struggle between ‘the left’ and ‘the right’. It isn’t. It’s between pro-Whites and anti-Whites. Trump has already repudiated every aspect of Project 2025 that would have begun to address anti-Whiteness.
Mr. Wallace’s argument boils down to ‘No matter how bad Trump is, Harris is worse’. Which is the old ‘lesser of two evils’ pseudo-strategy that has failed to deliver results for 70 years.
Whites who actually care about Whites should vote and make sure to select the local representation that most represents their local interests and not vote for the President.
Continuing to pretend that continental-wide elections are relevant to the White/Anti-White struggles has been the strategic mistake made by ‘conservatives’ other ‘dissident’ elements since 2017 when it became clear that Trump was not ‘our guy’.
Mr. Wallace is like a commander in WWI telling his troops to run once more into machine-gun fire in No Man’s Land for ‘King and Country’ when neither the ‘King’ gives a damn about them and their ‘Country’ has long since rejected them.
The struggle is real and Trump’s losing would hurt the GOP badly.
What they choose to do with that injury is not up to us, nor is relevant to us.
What’s relevant to pro-Whites is who is the sheriff or chief of police or mayor or our city counselor.
Forcing the feds to do their own dirty-work (nullification) has worked for pro-immigration and marijuana normalization activists. It’s also seems to be (quietly) working for Second Amendment ‘sanctuary’ locales.
A ‘strategy’ is about the long run, not the short term.
Trump’s losing in 2020 because White voters did not show up for him, is the reason why this election Harris has supported ‘White Dudes for Harris’ and openly courted her White voters as Whites.
Obviously, the ethno-masochism and self-hatred of ‘Whites for Harris’ is disgusting, but it’s also a direct appeal to Whites as Whites.
Why can’t Trump do this?
I think it’s the fact that the jews aligned with the DNC agree with their main constituents of non-Whites and self-hating Whites.
But the jews aligned with the GOP do not align with the GOPs main constituents of Whites, especially White men and non-Evangelical Christians.
Ultimately, strategy is about assessing your resources and vulnerablities, your enemies resources and vulnerabilities and crafting a way forward that makes the best use of one resources and most exploits the enemy’s vulnerabilities.
Who can say with a straight face that the GOP is the best way forward for Whites in lower North America?
I sure can’t.
As confusing as it may seem, the problem really boils down to a simple science, big money rules policy no matter what spews out of the mouths of congressional’s and presidential candidates in this WWF entertainment arena. Big oil and gas vehicles versus Musk and 40 million monthly and his Electric vehicles, which now must also support Tesla China plant versus bring back jobs to America, allows teamster president to speak at RNC versus promise leaked to scale down union power if elected, big evangelical support of Israel to promote Armageddon so Christ can (happily) return, cut taxes but surely not for me, I’m the only white guy whose not worth a million in annual income, and what the hell, take the medicare, medicaid, pensions, social security……..
Hypocrisy boileth over.
I agree with you but with the caution that ‘big money’ is contextual. What counts as ‘big money’ in state and local politics isn’t always that ‘big’. And, frankly, it isn’t always the determining factor. My view is that pro-Whites have a better chance of getting where we want to go by focusing on state and local politics and networking our way to victory over the federal authorities.
Our goal should be to put into place the infrastructure necessary for separatism in general so that we can, later on, implement pro-White separatism.
The appeal of nullification and ‘Don’t tread on me’ is much broader than that of ‘pro-White’ but nullification serves our interests by creating the conditions for possibility of the nullification of unconstitutional ‘civil rights’ laws, like affirmative action and forced race-mixing.
Pro-White should be burrowed into local politics like ticks on a coon-hound.
Understood, and your thoughts are well received.
But one must also know which battles they chose. For example, Gender rights, Feminism and affirmative action – defined as equal rights under the law, in the work place etc., are ultimately incontestable in the melting pot which is the reality in which we live. Gender rights and affirmative action defined as “I have superior rights and privilege because of my plumbing and color regardless my faults or qualifications” is not only an injustice,, but dangerous. This can and should be contested openly and directly without any need for stealth, or deceptive tactics, or support of seedy characters. The only reason it is a growing problem is because it generates money and votes. What sells – is what’s in fashion, and in the land of legal bribery it is now openly flaunted and practiced without any limits, fear of immorality, or any real penalty (unless your at the bottom of the food chain).
Gender rights … defined as equal rights under the law, in the work place etc., are ultimately incontestable in the melting pot which is the reality in which we live.
Respectfully, I disagree.
There is quite a lot of support by Whites for ending the ‘civil rights’ regime to which Whites have subjected for almost 60 years.
I will also note that as long as the Federal Authority has to pay to implement its ‘decisions’, it rarely has the ability to do so.
This is why the practice of nullification has been so intensely suppressed in all its forms (including jury nullification) by the ruling trash.
Our political strategy has to built on the resources we have now and will likely have in the near future. Nullification is a resource we have right now. All we have to do find ways to build the infrastructure of nullification into our areas.
We can negate federal control of ‘civil rights’. But we can only do so to the extent that we have the local authority (local mandate) to make those changes. We’re going to have to boil the frog slowly. Chip away at people’s fear of the Federal Authority, bit by bit, especially the fear of business people.
I encourage you to spend some time at the Tenth Amendment Center’s website. There’s so much good information that as to what is being done at the state level (in particular) to create spaces for genuine democratic control of the people’s resources, including the resource that is called ‘rights’.
The true struggle is between pro-Whites and antiwhites. This is the truth and it is very important.
Regardless of other differences this is why we are on the same team: we are pro-Whites and we oppose antiwhitism.
I’d prefer to keep me and my family out of the gulags for as long as possible. Even if it’s only for four more years. I dislike Trump more than I like him, but the piece was well written and articulate. Thanks for the good work.
Ask Solzhenitsyn how that worked out for him and his. Trump’s FBI was just as anti-White as Biden’s.
Either the national GOP is the vehicle to help Whites to secure their existence and a future for White children or it’s not.
In my view, it’s not.
Therefore, I don’t support the national GOP.
Locally, I support candidates with a more ‘Don’t tread on me’ attitude, who will support autarky, sustainable local economies and nullification of the federal authorities, including the federal courts.
A great idea for Counter Currents Radio would be to have Greg Johnson, Matt Parrott and Hunter Wallace on together.
If only we spent half as much energy talking about political choices and actions that could have vastly greater impact as we do talking about Trump and the presidential election. Ticking a box for president once every four years is ultimately meaningless for the majority of us on the dissident right who live outside a swing state, and is almost nothing compared to what could be accomplished by getting on your local school board or city council, or even trying to influence your local district branches of the mega-parties.
One guy I know worked together with some friends to take over local GOP districts in his state to the point where he and his group now have significant influence in state and local politics. These things take work, but they also provide opportunity. Voting for president you get to do only once every four years, but you can work local politics every day if you’ve got the energy.
I have come to the realization, as I think Hunter Wallace has, that there’s nothing to be gained by caring about the overly analytical sensibilities of fellow travelers in the “dissident right”. We may agree with your assessments, but we disagree wholeheartedly about the tactics. I’m not speaking for him, but I get the vibe from his writing the last year that we have gained nothing, absolutely nothing, from segregating ourselves from our next door neighbors who vote for Trump or support “MAGA” type conservatives.
You are correct, voting doesn’t change anything. That is true whether or not we abstain or participate. Our protest non-votes go unnoticed, and our abstinence sways nobody. When we abstain, we empower the powerful. It’s the biggest load of nonsense I’ve ever seen when someone intellectualizes the concept of “delegitimizing” the system by not participating. Lmfao.
It is correct that the system is broken. It is correct that we have little to no influence. But what is also correct is that easily 85% of people do not think this deeply about anything, and never will, and we unfortunately live in a quasidemocracy where 85% is enough to maintain the momentum indefinitely.
However, what we can do, and should do, is side with the lesser of two evils. Maintain a reasonably cozy relationship with the MAGA conservatives, and continue to use symbols, such as Trump, to nudge them. Voting for Trump should not be done with any sense of hope for change on its surface. It should be seen as an agitation to the system that only nudges.
seriously, think of a flock of sheep and a sheep dog. Sheep dogs do not run straight at the flock to guide them. That would cause chaos. Sheep dogs gently nudge the herd, sending signals, minding the fringes and maintaining a movement that is generally in the right direction. We are never going to lead the herd, we are always going to exist to gently guide it.
Charlottesville was a disaster for the very reason that dissidents attempted to grasp power and lead. We are never going to succeed at that, not without a paradigm shift due to disastrous events. We do absolutely nothing by sitting it out and waiting for that day to come.
I think voting in the national election is good, but it should be the least important thing we do. To steal a quote: “Voting once every few years is worse than useless if it makes you complacent. Politics is not a once-every-few-years thing. Politics must be an everyday thing. Voting is the lowest and laziest form of politics. It is based on equality – one man, one vote – whereas politics outside the ballot box is based on inequality. If you make it your mission to be politically active every single day, you will be worth so much more to our cause than the apolitical multitude around you who do nothing but mark a piece of paper every few years.”
I just wish we spilled at least half as much ink on other, more effective things we could be doing, as we spill talking about Trump vs. not-Trump.
Agreed
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