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Nick Taurus’ Not Viable

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Nick Taurus
Not Viable: An Autobiography of an American Nationalist
Fulton Books, 2024

Part 1 of 3

Hoping to replicate the success of other first-time candidates such as Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nick Taurus ran for the 40th California Congressional District in the 2022 midterm election. He ran on an America First platform with three main pillars: immigration, anti-white racism, and non-interventionism.

Taurus did not win, and he writes with great candor as seen by the blunt title of his campaign memoir, Not Viable. This is not meant to be a black pill, but an informative reality check. Not Viable is highly instructive for future insurgent candidates and the movement in general.

Before diving into the campaign, Taurus begins with his early days and how they flowed into the political activism which would be the springboard for his campaign. This serves as a useful case study for how millennials were becoming “red pilled.” The first step was the open racial animus and willful lack of fluency in English among Hispanic students at an upscale religious school in Los Angeles, which was quite a culture shock after moving there from a white state.

Religion and history are important to him, and these interests flourished after a trip to Italy and Greece as a tourist, and a latter trip to Hungary to teach English. However, most of the other Western teachers in the teaching program suspiciously seemed more interested in pushing their neoliberal ideology than in teaching English or appreciating Hungarian culture. This and the trip in general crystallized an important point for him. Too often Americans seem to want to cut themselves off from Europe, when we are an extension of Europe and should see ourselves as such. I fully agree with this and cannot foot stomp it enough.

His time abroad was influential in that it offered a welcome break from “the constant psychological operations that are part and parcel of living in modern America.” There were no resentful BIPOC or self-hating whites in the small town he was assigned to, but there were plenty of kind and normal people. I concur that experiencing the other side of the “rainbow curtain” can be quite radicalizing because it shows that we don’t have to live like this and that there are realistic alternatives.

It was also while visiting Hungary that Taurus had his first contact with the Jewish Question. He noticed that Jews have had and continue to have a leading role in subverting Hungarian national sovereignty, such as the vicious Bela Kun who ran the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic and the modern-day George Soros. He also began noticing that Jews had a leading role in both the USSR and USA.

He drifted to the Left in community college during the Obama era. But when he heard Pat Buchanan speak on TV, Taurus instantly recognized that this man was different from the other generic conservatives, and read his book Suicide of a Superpower. Due to backlash from classmates for reading “racist” literature, he put politics aside for a while, but having a feisty older conservative lady as a professor inspired him to have the courage to speak out, starting at a mandatory anti-white woke course about a year later.

This was followed by further radicalization through listening to YouTube videos while gaming, which was common for our generation according to the Counter-Currents internal poll of the movement. He then went from one original thinker to another, and realized that somewhere along the way he had gone from a “FOX News” Republican to a nationalist. This was then closely followed by the Trump era of questioning taboos. It was at this time that Taurus and his father began to organize campus rallies before he went on his aforementioned trip to Hungary.

Shortly after his return to the US, his involvement in politics began to increase due to current events in 2020, mainly COVID-19 tyranny and BLM. In Orange County, BLM targeted Huntington Beach and Yorba Linda because they are well-to-do, white Republican enclaves. To me, Huntington Beach is a great place, but it also feels like a racial and political fortress against the encroaching darkness of Los Angeles. And Yorba Linda was the birth place of President Nixon.

It was at Yorba Linda, in September of 2020 that a BLM activist, Tatiana Turner, attempted to murder Trump supporters by ramming her car into them. Turner faced a slew of charges from this incident, including attempted murder. Foreshadowing the institutional rot in OC which will be discussed in depth later, the Orange County District Attorney, Todd Spitzer, dropped the attempted murder charge. It should be noted that Spitzer is Jewish, and despite making a big fuss about “hate crimes” on his website, he also refused to press hate crime charges against Vanroy Evan Smith of Long Beach who was yelling “white privilege!” when he murdered Dr. Michael Mammone while he was cycling in Dana Point.

While Taurus would later encounter major problems with the OC GOP, in the meantime he confronted issues with the rank and file of the OC Patriot movement which he describes as “an amalgamation of grifters, charlatans, and ethnic rights activists parading around as MAGA patriots” who were more interested in being anti-racist than in conserving anything. The pernicious influence of QAnon was also prevalent. I can verify that this is an apt description of the local patriot movement back then. I was never at risk of dying from COVID by protesting, but I almost died of cringe a few times.

Unlike me, Taurus continued to show up, and I commend him for his patience and dedication. This speaks to a cycle which must be broken, which is that bad people scare off good people, which will further scare off more good people. Our movement seems to have recognized this fact, but the normies not so much.

“Stop the Steal” saw a rise in protest energy, but this died down after January 6, as was intended by the government crackdown. Taurus decided to attend the OC Board of Supervisors meetings to remain active. He was disgusted by the cowardice of the resident cuckservatives. When the communists who supported Tatiana Turner showed up, the cuckservatives told Taurus and others not to engage them because it might generate bad press—despite that fact that these communists hated them and wanted them dead, as evidenced by their support for Turner.

This was a turning point for Taurus, and coincided with people beginning to suggest that he run for office because, unlike so many others, he was willing to stand by his convictions. In a country and county under siege, Nick Taurus decided to step up to the plate and run for Congress. The details of that campaign will be the subject of the second part of this series. The third part will conclude with lessons learned.