Tag Archives: polarization

Phil Eiger Newmann, The Arena, 2020.

1,431 words

Any belief, no matter how desperately well-intentioned, in the efficacy and wisdom of democracy depends on the fundamentally flawed notion that the average voter is anything loftier than an easily frightened and brainwashed lab rat. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Craigslist, democracy, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Jim Goad, Left vs. Right, memes, North American New Right, originals, rhetoric, the political | 23 Responses

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Yes, We are Headed for Violent Civil War

Jef Costello

Franciso Goya, The Disasters of War, Plate 39: Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (A heroic feat! With dead men!).

3,057 words

On October 1st, with little fanfare, Politico published an extraordinary opinion piece that may be the most important thing I’ve read all year. Titled “Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins,” the essay was penned by three “senior fellows” at the Hoover Institution, New America, and the Hudson Institute, Read more …

Published: October 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 US Presidential Election, articles, Civil War, Jef Costello, originals, violence | 69 Responses

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The Conceded Election

Robert Hampton

1,447 words

Richard Nixon made a fateful decision on the afternoon of November 9, 1960. He telegrammed John F. Kennedy to formally concede the presidential race. This concession ensured that there was no nasty legal battle or potential constitutional crisis over the election. Read more …

Published: September 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, civic nationalism, Donald Trump, elections, John F. Kennedy, North American New Right, originals, Richard Nixon, Robert Hampton, voter fraud | 19 Responses

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Civil War Movies:
Good vs. Bad

Morris V. de Camp

1,841 words

There was a time that the American mainstream was really interested in the US Civil War of 1860-1865. That time was before Obama’s gloomy second term empowered the insane asylum of weeping non-whites, deviants, mattoids, and Marxists that rejected all American history Read more …

Published: September 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bruce Catton, historical films, history, Ken Burns, Morris V. de Camp, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the Civil War | 12 Responses

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Mainstream Panic Over Weimerica

Robert Hampton

1,213 words

Weimar comparisons are in the air again. Violent street clashes between Antifa and Trump supporters in Portland inspired a new round of historical allusions to interwar Germany. Long a theme within the Dissident Right, “Weimar America” is now making its way into mainstream discourse. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, 2020 presidential election, articles, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, the Weimar Republic | 16 Responses

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Trump Should Wargame Secession, Too

Spencer J. Quinn

2,474 words

Earlier this month, the New York Times revealed that top-level Democrats have been wargaming possible outcomes of the November 2020 election and are considering secession if things don’t go their way. This should come as a surprise to no one. Since the epoch-changing George Floyd riots — which began in May and are still ongoing Read more …

Published: August 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, Calexit, Civil War, coup, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals, partition, secession, Spencer J. Quinn, strategy, the Democratic party, wargames, West Coast | 29 Responses

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Awakening the Saxon

Giles Corey

1,046 words

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon
Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, accelerationism, articles, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, Giles Corey, hate, Juneteenth, negrophilia, North American New Right, originals, Rudyard Kipling, the Republican party | 23 Responses

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“McBoomers”

John Wilkinson

991 words

I am a creature of habit. One of my daily morning rituals, after snoozing my alarm at least twice, is to check my phone for the morning headlines and to have a look at trending topics on Twitter. The viral meme du jour this Monday morning was that of “Ken and Karen McBoomer,” Read more …

Published: July 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, doxing, John Wilkinson, mainstream media, North American New Right, originals, political violence | 20 Responses

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Strange & Bitter Fruit

Winston E. Bakewell

1,215 words

Six black people have been found dead, hanging from trees, during the month of June so far. They were all ruled as suicides by local police. Black people refuse to believe that’s true, of course. The circumstances of these deaths too closely resemble the lynchings of yesteryear, right down to the surrounding social turmoil and the highly public spectacle of the corpses. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, civility, cynicism, death, debate, honesty, lynching, mainstream media, North American New Right, originals, rhetoric, suicide, truth, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

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The Politics of Meat:
Dietary Anti-Marxism

Jef Costello

2,543 words

If veganism is dietary Marxism, is the Carnivore movement dietary anti-Marxism? I think that the answer is yes. Indeed, the whole Carnivore subculture smells deliciously Right-wing — like a perfectly grilled ribeye steak. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, carnism, carnivore diet, diet, health, Jef Costello, masculinity, North American New Right, originals, Struggle, veganism, vegetarianism | 19 Responses

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The Politics of Meat:
Dietary Marxism

Jef Costello

Shawn Baker, M. D.

2,480 words

Since going on the carnivore diet, I’ve also been delving deeply into Carnivore subculture. It has been an eye-opening experience. As we are constantly being reminded, Americans are now divided along political lines like never before. What kind of car you drive, where you shop for groceries, whether or not you smoke, what kind of regional accent you have, whether or not you live in a city, whether you hunt or own a gun, Read more …

Published: June 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, carnism, carnivore diet, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, social justice warriors, veganism, vegetarianism | 32 Responses

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America Is Not a Real Country

Winston E. Bakewell

2,220 words

The term “failed state” conjures images in the mind’s eye of collapsed banana republics, exploding Islamic theocracies, and Somalia in general. It’s a condition that would be unthinkable in the West; the countries and nation-states that constituted a vast majority of the world’s white people have remained mostly in place for centuries Read more …

Published: June 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, American empire, articles, culture war, incompetence, international relations, North American New Right, originals, racial polarization, the United States, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

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They Do This Because They Can

Spencer J. Quinn

2,239 words

On January 18th, 2016, a white police officer named Philip Brailsford shot and killed an unarmed man named Daniel Shaver in Mesa, Arizona. Shaver had been in a hotel room where he innocently pointed a pellet gun towards his window. A witness called the police, who arrived and found Read more …

Published: June 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, antifa, antifascists, articles, Black Lives Matter, Civil War, George Floyd, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, racial polarization, riots, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 42 Responses

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The Coronavirus Didn’t End Globalism, it Ended the American Era

John Alexander

USS Saratoga, 1843

1,869 words

If there is one crisis that shows national populism and race realism were needed, this should have been it.

The coronavirus emerged from strange, disgusting foreign folkways. (Even Bill Maher is with me on wet markets.) Economic globalization allowed the virus’s spread. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America first, American empire, American nationalism, articles, COVID-19, Donald Trump, globalism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, the common good | 6 Responses

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Sága alternativní pravice o čtyřech dějstvích. Část třetí.

Greg Johnson

Staré dobré časy… před třemi lety.

1,903 slov

English original here

Část první, druhá, a závěrečná čtvrtá.

Centralizace, čistky a kolaps

Richardu Spencerovi bylo přirozeně líto, že opustil značku, jíž se zaštítila tak energická politická síla a která se stala mezinárodní mediální senzací. Proto se pokusil ji znovu dostat do svého vlastnictví. Byl tu ale problém: nové hnutí z let 2014 a 2015 mělo se Spencerem společného jen pramálo, s výjimkou jména. Spencer to potvrdil v rozhovoru s politologem Georgem Hawleyem z 12. října 2016, v němž akademik shromažďoval podklady pro svou knihu Understanding the Alt-Right. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alternativní pravice, Altright Corporation, articles, Bělošský nacionalismus, Daniel Friberg, Greg Johnson, Identitární strategie, in Czech, leadership, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, the alt right, the Alternative Right, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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What is the Alternative Right? Part 3

Greg Johnson

2,134 words

Czech version here

Part 3 of 4, Part 1 here, Part 2 here

Author’s Note:

This is the third installment of the opening essay of a forthcoming anthology called The Alternative Right.

Centralization, Purges, & Breakdown

White Nationalism, the Alt Right, & the Alt Light

Greg Johnson

1,550 words

There is a lot of confusion about the relationship of White Nationalism, the Alt Right, and the so-called Alt Light.

The “Alt Right” is a vague category that encompasses different tendencies of thought united by their rejection of mainstream conservatism. White Nationalism is one such tendency, and the Alt Light is another.

The Alt Light is defined by civic nationalism as opposed to racial nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civic nationalism, Greg Johnson, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, the Alt Light, the Alternative Right, vanguardism, white community organizing, white nationalism | 19 Responses

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Do We Need Enemies?
Introducing the Amoeba Model of Political Change

Spencer J. Quinn

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pollice Verso (detail), 1872

2,019 words

Early on in Samuel Huntington’s classic political analysis, The Clash of Civilizations, he makes the following point: “For peoples seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity, enemies are essential, and the potentially most dangerous enmities occur across the fault lines between the world’s major civilizations.”

Well, that’s us, of course. If anything, the Alt Right is “seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity” for white people wherever they are. This is our driving force, and I don’t need to explain it further here. But is it true that we need enemies to do this? Read more …

Published: October 6, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, enmity, North American New Right, originals, Samuel Huntington, Spencer Quinn, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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You Say You Want A Revolution

Ted Sallis

1,495 words

Argument: A while back Greg Johnson made an interesting comment — that he wants to make maintenance of Israel as difficult and costly for Jews as possible, since the more effort and resources they expend on that, the less they will have to attack White interests. Read more …

Published: March 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Trump, North American New Right, reprints, Ted Sallis, white activism | 12 Responses

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Chicago: The Veil is Being Lifted

Donald Thoresen

1,150 words

At the root of all politics is a threat of violence. Whether enacted from above or below, the ability to assert one’s political interests requires, at the very least, the threat of force.

Conectores vs. Polarizadores

Greg Johnson

1,379 words

English original here

En su libro The Tipping Point (reseñado aquí), Malcolm Gladwell habla sobre la importancia de las personas que él llama Conectores, Expertos, y Vendedores en la propagación viral de las ideas. Los Conectores son personas que tienen el don de hacer amigos y conocidos. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, connectors, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Malcolm Gladwell, North American New Right, originals, The Tipping Point, virulence, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Connectors vs. Polarizers

Greg Johnson

1,291 words

Spanish translation here

In his book The Tipping Point (reviewed here), Malcolm Gladwell talks about the importance of people he calls Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen in the viral propagation of ideas. Connectors are people who have a gift for making friends and acquaintances. Gladwell attributes this knack to “some combination of curiosity, self-confidence, sociability, and energy” (p. 49). Read more …

Published: September 8, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, connectors, conversion, Greg Johnson, Malcolm Gladwell, North American New Right, originals, The Tipping Point, virulence, white nationalism | 10 Responses

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Attack the System with Keith Preston

Counter-Currents Radio

52:36 minutes / 135 words

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In today’s edition of Attack the System, Keith Preston offers his views on emerging radicalism in American society. Read more …