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Molti Nemici, Molto Onore

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Molti nemici, molto onore.

Many enemies, much honor.
Benito Mussolini

The 2024 Presidential election and its aftermath set me to thinking about this apothegm of Il Duce, captured in a mosaic somewhere in Rome, and what could be made of it for Counter-Currents’ regular readers. I think it should serve as a maxim to bolster our sense of pride and purpose. You see, we on the dissident right have long been officially postulated by the Jacobins throughout the ruling class who set and enforce the rules of participation in “our democracy,” as the “enemy.” Thus, being accorded (awarded?) enemy-status by the many guardians of virtue and commissars of rectitude in high places, should always be a reminder of our special status and brings us, as dissidents, much honor. Maintaining this honored enemy-status comes with a cost. What follows is a plea to help us with the cost of many enemies.

Donald Trump’s dumpster-dive into the 2016 Presidential election campaign produced no less than a tectonic shift in American politics. It exposed liberalism’s chest-thumping compassion-equality-inclusion ideology as nothing more than a cynical cover for an all-consuming power-lust fueled by a deep animus toward the heritage and culture of Western European people. The corruption of the ruling class, its condescension and hostility to the people who put it in power suddenly were popular topics of conversation thanks to the chutzpa of this former impresario from WrestleMania. Who was this rude interloper who disdained the constraints of the Overton Window, who failed to cower, collapse and apologize whenever the commissars of virtue-control called him a “racist”?

Early in 2016 when the dark clouds of hysterical verbosity were billowing out of the propaganda mills of America’s political class, Donald Trump’s improbable rise and the reaction to it by the elites had the effect of making the thought of National Socialism’s leading jurist, Carl Schmitt, for us singularly, clarifyingly relevant: “The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”[1]

It’s unlikely that any of the panjandrums from the ruling class had any acquaintance with Carl Schmitt, but once Trump, like Don Rickles on a tear in Vegas, dispatched his Republican rivals in the 2016 primaries and was no longer dismissed as a joke, he became … what is it now? “An existential threat to democracy.” He became, in a word, the “enemy.”

As noted above, those of us on the dissident right have long been accustomed to being the “enemy,” but it took this outsider in 2016 to get the duopoly to “fess-up,” to reveal its true machinations, its betrayal of white, middle-class and blue-collar Americans. The anti-Trump, establishment, think-tank Republicans threw in with the Clinton-rotted-out Democrat party, a mafioso families-style collusion to knee-cap the Orange Man. Trump’s crashing of the invitation only “Who gets to run” election-party had exposed the ruling class corruption and subterfuge. Hillary, ensconced in her little bubble of self-entitled arrogance, stupidly let herself get egged on by a motley LGBTQ crowd in New York City and stepped into a self-manufactured pile of manure that stuck to her for the rest of the campaign. She had unwittingly channeled Carl Schmitt. Here is the full transcript:

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

Hillary’s peroration was nothing less than a declaration of soft civil war. Trump’s “basket of deplorables” supporters were “not part of America,” not legitimate participants in conventional, competitive party politics with legitimate interests, but rather with Trump, “irredeemable,” the enemy.

The soft civil war has gone “brass knuckles” over the last four years with Biden importing and subsidizing third-world criminals, unleashing his entire legal apparatus to run roughshod over Trump’s supporters, the enemy, and trying mightily to put the Orange Man behind bars. The prospects for the 2024 Presidential election, given the shenanigans of 2020 looked ominous.

However, once again, as in 2016, the outcome of the 2024 election stunned the Democrat party professionals, the legacy media “progressives,” the professoriate, the liberal cat ladies, the Hollywood idiots, etc. Only this time, it was a blow out.

Trump, for all his shortcomings, will go down as one of the most extraordinary political figures of our time, a phoenix rising from the ashes of his 2020 defeat. His uncanny instinct for finding soft, underbelly of the opposition and tearing it open with mockery and derision is unique and highly unorthodox. Can anyone imagine Obama, Hillary, Newsom – any of the scripted, poll-tested mainstream politicians – donning a garbage workers vest, proudly ridding around in a garbage truck, arm slung out an open cab window like a regular guy? Only Trump could turn an insult into an opportunity to stage an unpredictable, theatrical counter strike combing hilarity and irony, connecting himself viscerally with his followers, mocking the opposition, sputtering in helpless rage. Trump’s opponent blew through a billion dollars only to come off as a clucking hen, a loser: Trump –lied about, shot at, prosecuted, relentlessly smeared by the MSM – came off the as the resounding winner.

So, here we are and whatever you think of Trump, and however pessimistic you might be about what a second Trump presidency will bring, his crushing defeat of the affirmative action babbling stooge, an embarrassing, ignominious vacuity whose loathsome name I have already banished from use in future conversations, should be celebrated as a victory for us.

Which brings me to the task at hand. Trump’s victory signals a significant shift in meta-politics and with it, a greater opportunity for Counter-Currents to advance compelling arguments that support the interest and well-being of white Americans. Other recent developments enhance this opportunity as well. The optics of the massive ethnic cleansing operation by the Jews in the Levant has rendered “the Holocaust” and “Auschwitz” useless as guilt-levers for the kind of moral extortion that has long made the goyim easy to manipulate. “Auschwitz,” really? What have you been up to lately in Gaza and Lebanon? Being labeled an “anti-Semite” comes off now as an act of desperation. “Trump as Hitler” fell flat with the electorate while the issue of the open-borders debacle resonated. Haitians dinning on cats in Springfield, Ohio got more traction than cat ladies fulminating on abortion.

I am asking you, our Counter-Currents readers to help us make the most of this opportunity and contribute whatever you can to help us expand our reach, deliver our message and influence more of those inclined to join our ranks. Counter-Currents is a dissident voice, unique in its dissemination of wide-ranging counter current perspectives across the cultural landscape that seriously challenge establishment orthodoxy. Social/political commentary, exploring the thought of major philosophers, book and movie reviews and revisionist history – all of these together form a large intellectual corpus that readers can draw from to counter the relentless propaganda coming from the regime.

Last year I wrote: “The compounding of lies has reached a critical mass. The ruling class’s detachment from reality is nearing completion.” The good news is that the results of the November election optimistically signal growing resistance to the lies and the deranged policies, and, as I mentioned above, an opportunity to fuel the resistance.

The bad news is that the ruling class’s detachment from reality appears to be invincible, and so with the election results turning decisively against them they will double down.

From the New York Post:

Fuming Joe Scarborough [with the scurrilous Al Sharpton nodding on in agreement] blames racism, misogyny from black and Hispanic voters for Harris’ loss.

Then there is Perry Bacon at the Philadelphia Tribute (also run in the Washington Post): “The second resistance to Trump must start right now.”

Donald Trump will probably be even more extreme, radical and cruel to his ideological and political enemies in his second term than he was in his first. We need another resistance to take him on — starting right now.

Oh yes, and on the same front page of the opinion piece is a link to this article: TULSA RACE MASSACRE SURVIVOR TURNS 110.

Lessie Randle is one of the last two remaining people who survived when a white mob attacked a thriving district known as Black Wall Street.

You get the idea. We are facing an onslaught of resistance encouraged and supported by the oligarchs running the Deep State, aiming to complete the Great Replacement and institutionalize DEI to whatever attempts Trump makes to depose them.

This means that the anti-white assaults will become more egregious, the lies more outrageous, the propaganda more extreme. Doxing, debanking, deplatforming and lawfare are all powerful weapons used against dissidents who challenge the thought-control legions. Thriving dissident voices like Counter-Currents will become even more critical for our voices to be heard and will be subject to more efforts to silence them.

This also means that your financial support is absolutely essential for keeping us in the frontline battle against the narratives that preach our iniquities and call for our erasure. The coming year will be unprecedented in ferocity of anti-white propaganda coming from MSM, the universities, the NGOs, corporations, and churches.

Please. Write a check today. Thank you.

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Notes

[1] Carl Schmitt, Concept of the Political, translation, introduction and notes by George Schwab, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, p. 26.