Lessons Learned
Nick Taurus’ Not Viable

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here. Part 2 here.)

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments.
Thomas Carlyle

Young Kim won the 2022 primary election for the 40th District with ease and would go on to win the general election. Taurus lost the race with 1.2% of the vote which was almost 2,200 voters. Rather than gracelessly pouting as Hillary did when she lost to Trump, Taurus candidly analyzes why he lost so severely.

First, he had the OCGOP’s vast resources working against him as if he was a Democrat. He also split his attention between attacking the OCGOP and appealing to voters, which are two very separate things. He also did not have the credentials that Trump or other rogue elites have. He also did not check any of the diversity boxes of being colored, homosexual, a veteran, or an immigrant. Older voters continue to be mesmerized by vibrant BIPOC candidates, or at least tolerate them. His $9,694 war chest was also grossly outspent by the other candidates who had vast sums flow to them from outside sources.

Taurus named his book Not Viable based on a comment he received early on that his campaign was not viable. If so, then the national GOP and OCGOP are even less viable. Despite having vastly more resources, they squandered these resources. The promised red wave of the 2022 midterms was a red puddle, in large part because they pandered to minorities and ran token BIPOC candidates, despite 73% of the national voting base being white in that election.

Taurus traces the Republican obsession with minority pandering to their faulty diagnosis of the 2008 election of Obama, in which they thought that they needed to build their own coalition of the ascendant. That diagnosis overlooks the spectacular 2008 market crash, widespread disapproval of Bush’s criminal Iraq war, and the fact that race relations ultimately deteriorated under Obama rather than improved, thereby dashing the hopes of many good-natured whites. Despite being proven wrong again and again, the GOP continues to double down on their 2008 analysis. Their strategy never gains colored votes but it does demoralize white voters.

To me this seems less like stupidity and more like malice, or at best a careerist indifference. For all their complicity in these continuing defeats, the party apparatchiks of the GOP or OCGOP never face any type of accountability. What is clearly needed is a mass firing of losers who fail to deliver results, but such a thing would probably require a rogue elite like Musk or Trump to clean house. Perhaps they will.

While it was a tactical loss, there are ways in which the Taurus campaign was a strategic victory.

Taurus gained a committed network of activists who continued to do RINO Hunting. I have worked on several projects, organizations, and campaigns, and I can assure you that the surviving network is often more important than any particular endeavor. These networks can then bring their expertise to future projects, and as Biden would say “build back better.” After the election, the RINO Hunters became even more strident, thoroughly revealing to the general public just how detached the OCGOP is from the people they claim to represent. That’s a huge win. To this day, their events continue to be expensive and secret, thereby costing them precious legitimacy.

This leads into a broader discussion of movement strategy. Taurus compares whites in the US to Germans living under the Austro-Hungarian Empire who propped up a decaying, multicultural edifice in the vain hope it might serve them one day (to be fair, Archduke Ferdinand had plans to federalize the Empire but they died along with him at Sarajevo). This leads Taurus to analyze two strategies for living under an anti-white system: infiltration and confrontation.

He strongly favors confrontation over infiltration because we do not have time for a long march through the institutions and because those institutions have a robust immune system to counter infiltration. Taurus’s problems with the OCGOP were not unique and are part of a broader trend of “based” people being defenestrated for the slightest infraction, even if it was drudged up by an Antifa journalist from the past. In contrast, confrontation gains us credibility with the masses because it showcases our courage.

However, we should be mindful that the people we are trying to reach oftentimes identify with the enemy-controlled institutions, just as the Germans identified with the Hapsburgs and their Empire.

There is a third strategy which I prefer, which is courting rogue elites who have already marched through the institutions and acquired credentials and resources. This is easier said than done, especially since they are invested in the system to some extent, but we only need a few to cause a lot of damage, and we don’t have to agree on everything. That Trump had his own vast fortune and name recognition to draw on helped him immensely, and the regime has been gravely injured, perhaps lethally, by what it had to expend in resources and legitimacy to counter the Orange Man. And I suspect courting rogue elites will become easier as it becomes clearer that the things they want are difficult if not impossible in a woke, multiracial society. This even includes the tepid Chamber of Commerce agenda of fiscal responsibility given the average fiscal impact different races have.

Another strategy is building alternate institutions of our own, such as The Homeland Institute. While we do not have the resources of the mainstream institutions, we have learned to use the few resources we do have efficiently out of necessity. We can use these institutions to pressure policy makers and to change the underlying culture.

Returning from general movement strategy to concrete lessons, based on Taurus’s observations and my own I would recommend the following for future insurgent candidates:

Money, money, money.

Secure financial backing far in advance. If you know you don’t have the funding for a quasi-traditional campaign, don’t waste precious time trying to play nice.

Like funding, secure endorsements early on. Find out whom you need to court.

Grow a volunteer base early on.

If you doubt you can obtain enough of the trifecta of funding, endorsements, or volunteers from mainstream or quasi-mainstream sources, turn to the movement. However, be advised that the movement has a sketchy history at best of supporting candidates, perhaps because of a general antipathy to the concept of electoral politics. Be prepared to make your case to a cynical and oftentimes black pilled movement about how electoral politics will advance metapolitical goals.

If the trifecta of funding, endorsements, and volunteers is especially bad, consider ditching an electoral campaign entirely for a pressure campaign. Groyper War 1 and Taurus’s RINO Hunters demonstrate that pressure campaigns work. They can also be done with much fewer resources. To this day, the OCGOP is traumatized by a handful of white guys in orange shirts daring to question their authority. The RINO Hunters made secret event locations and expensive tickets the new normal, permanently damaging the legitimacy of the uniparty farce.

Decide early on whether your primary goal is to damage the uniparty or to appeal to voters.

Aside from prioritizing resources, trying to do both equally can easily lead to an inconsistent tone, which is bad because voters like consistency.

Consider volunteering on a “normie” political campaign first.

This will allow you to gain experience, grow your personal network, and learn about the local political landscape. Participating in TPUSA, Young Republicans etc. is also advisable even if those organizations do not fully align with our goals.

Be aware that most of the GOP is now “woke.”

The party apparatchiks and even many voters fawn over people who are colored, immigrants, homosexuals, or veterans. If you are America First you might be a veteran, but even that is becoming less common now that we realize that the military is anti-white and beholden to Israel. Expect the magic-box-checking to be more of a problem the older the white electorate is in your district.

Instead of trying to steal colored Democrat votes, try to steal white Democrat votes.

In addition to running on immigration and non-interventionism as Taurus did, run on health and environmentalism. These things are considered SWPL (stuff white people like) for good reason. RFK’s synergy with Trump proves that this is electorally effective.

Taurus has a very positive view of Trump, but I would caution that the Biden era revealed MAGA to be more of a cult of personality than an objective policy agenda. Even if you are true to Trump’s 2016 agenda, you are not Trump. Your mileage may vary when invoking MAGA and America First, although things will likely be better if Trump is re-elected in a few days.

Billboards may be promising for both electoral and metapolitical campaigns. For example, Nick Fuentes rented several billboards for Groyper War 2. When we demonstrate in real life, we risk being placed in a self-defense situation which can be twisted for lawfare or negative press. Freeway banners are usually taken down within a day. Taurus also noticed that his campaign signs would go missing or be vandalized more often than other signs. In contrast, billboards come with no anarcho-tyranny risk and are harder to vandalize. The costs vary, mostly based on location and traffic.

Taurus may not have won at the polls but he has won the honor of having resisted evil when very few people did. Like the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel (who would become Prime Minister after the fall of the Iron Curtain) he would rather “live in the truth” than be a normie. Taurus and his activists prove that living in the truth is always viable.