Get With The Program

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People know in the abstract that the Boomers are passing on and that the Zoomers are coming of voting age. But they do not seem to really understand or internalize what this means politically and are thus living in a past that is already gone. In 2016, Trump came to power because he was able to consciously or accidentally seize the moment. But eight years is an aeon in politics. Trump and his successor JD Vance are now at risk of being as blindsided as Hillary because they do not understand the reality they live in.

Since FDR, US politicians have been accustomed to getting away with saying and doing what objectively should have been intolerable. This was not due to any strength on their part, but wholly because the general public was weak, stupid, and ahistorical. This was a temporary situation which only seemed like an eternal end of history because the time horizon of most people, even the elites, is very small. It was also predicated on TV programming and comfort. TV has gone the way of the Pony Express while a comfortable middle-class lifestyle has become a fantasy for many Zoomers.

It doesn’t help that the big words and vaunted values with which politicians and pundits could charm voters have become irreparably tarnished in the eyes of the Zoomers. Freedom to lock kids down for two years doesn’t mean freedom from electoral consequences. What others sometimes lament as nihilism or cynicism in the Zoomers should be lauded as a refreshing return to realism.

Of all the dumb ideas of yesteryear, Zionism, dispensationalism, and Protestants LARPing as Jews was probably the dumbest. It’s even more stupid than racial equality because while it’s silly to claim that the human races differ in only superficial qualities, its quite another to elevate a foreign people as magical beings above your own.

The Zoomer mind cannot even begin to comprehend Boomer Zionism because (at least on the Right) they don’t entertain nonsense. This is good, because correct arguments tend to be clear and straightforward with few moving parts. To be blunt, the JUDEO-Christianity of Boomer America was the most brazen and longest running psyop to ever exist. No serious people would have indulged it.

For example, an April 2025 poll by the Pew Research Center found that the majority of Americans now have an unfavorable view of Israel.[1] ^[2] And while Republicans tended to have a positive view of Israel, “young Republicans,” defined as Republicans under fifty years of age (which isn’t really young at all), are more likely to have an unfavorable view of Israel. The times they are a changin’ indeed.

Not all Boomers are like that. Some are remarkably based and red pilled, such as Patrick Buchanan whose legacy is being rediscovered as an alternative to MAGA “slopulism.” Interestingly, Trump attacked Buchanan as a “Hitler lover” in 199, then later went on to borrow most of Buchanan’s platform.

Aside from being sharp themselves, the Zoomers are also educating others in political realism. Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Catturd, Erik Prince, and countless others, many of whom are quite surprising to see, have opposed war with Iran in part because of Alt Right memes and Zoomer pressure. Even most of the conservative influencers who are remaining steadfastly loyal to Trump are doing so while claiming that an attack on Iran is unlikely and that we should trust Trump to make the right decision.

There will likely be a split in the GOP if Trump attacks Iran, especially if there are American casualties and/or if it is perceived as taking priority over mass deportations. Hoping that Iran wouldn’t retaliate is cowardly optimism, and many suspect that Iran has been holding back to deter US intervention. The only way intervention could be perceived as not taking precedence over deportations is if Trump manages to conduct deportations on an almost unimaginable scale.

A few weeks ago, we had normie conservatives calling for a moratorium on “third world” (aka non-white) immigration and for live ammo to be used against the migrant insurrection. All that energy has been redirected towards Iran versus Israel. It’s hard to argue that foreign interventionism has not already hindered our immigration agenda.

Very few, especially among the Zoomers, are going to tolerate such a bait and switch.

I don’t know if a split in the GOP will put the Democrats in power, give rise to a third party, or give rise to a much more principled populist and nationalist running as a Republican. But I suspect that a split with Trump would actually help us beat the Democrats. After all, Trump won the last time around by attracting anti-war Democrats and independents. By opposing war and immigration we would attract vast swathes of the electorate who have been systematically neglected.

Either way, Trump and his legacy will be disavowed. Vance will also be tarnished. Kamala wasn’t able to avoid guilt by association with Biden. With Vance it will be even harder, because he is a more active Vice President.

Part of Trump’s problem is that his “Art of the Deal” negotiation tactics do not translate well into politics. His friends are unsure if he will keep his promises, and his enemies are unsure if he will follow through with his threats. Either way, it makes him look weak. Besides, it is insulting to serious people to have to constantly haggle like at a Mexican swap meet. Contrast that with Viktor Orbán who is consistently no war, no gender, and no migration. Even Orban’s critics admit he is consistent, which is part of why Hungary, unlike America in 2020, has not suffered a color revolution. “Try that in a small town” should be “Try that in a small country.”

The Zoomers desperately want an authority to provide meaning, but there is no authority that is respectable and won’t betray them. The Catholic Church is globalist and dislikes Traditional Latin Mass. Trump is becoming Bush. The first person or institution to provide the Zoomers stability and meaning will pick up a crown that has been cast into the gutter.

MAGA has gone far in spite of Trump’s narcissism, flip flopping, and aliteracy. America First is pursuing what is in our national self-interest, not a cult of personality or adherence to nebulous values or crackpot notions like dispensationalism. The Zoomers know this, and they will be as loyal to Trump as he is to them—which might be not at all.

Trump wouldn’t be the first man to be devoured by a revolution he sparked. If he doesn’t ride the wave of populism, he’s going to wipe out in the turbulence.

Notes

[1] ^[3] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-americans-hold-unfavourable-view-israel-pew-poll-finds ^[4] see also https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/08/how-americans-view-israel-and-the-israel-hamas-war-at-the-start-of-trumps-second-term/ ^[5]