Tag: the dissident Right

The hosts of Chapo Trap House in November 2017. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

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The year was 2016. Donald Trump had just stunned the world by getting elected despite the entire media establishment being against him. The only support Trump had during his campaign was on the Internet, particularly the Alt Right, which was spreading across social media like a virus and pied-pipering the youth into White Nationalism. (more…)

Normies can hear the same sort of talking points from Con Inc. figures such as Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk that they could once only hear from the Alt Right. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

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What would become known as the Alt Right began to crystalize by the mid-2010s. The Alt Right introduced a style of White Nationalism that was so radically different than what came before that it was necessary to invent some terms to differentiate the two. Pre-Alt Right White Nationalism came to be referred to as White Nationalism 1.0 (WN 1.0). This encompassed groups such as the Klan, skinheads, the militia movement, and the efforts of individuals such as George Lincoln Rockwell, David Duke, William Pierce, and Tom Metzger. (more…)

Source: Wikipedia.

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I used to edit Steve Sailer’s articles at Taki’s Mag from around 2010 to 2014. His points were always impeccably argued and perfectly sourced. I can’t ever recall running across a typo or even a wisp of illogic.

This was back in the “essayist” days of what now calls itself the “dissident Right,” when anti-Leftist and anti-egalitarian ideas were so utterly banished from public discourse that anyone who wanted to step up to the plate and take a swing at Everything the Left Was Getting Wrong took great pains to present their case with the rigor of a defense attorney trying to exonerate a client who’d wrongly been accused of murder. (more…)

Paul Delvaux, Waiting for the Liberation (1944)

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

The simple answer to the question of how quixotism can be avoided is that we shouldn’t allow romantic idealism to dissuade us from practicality. This is easier said than done, however, as it’s often difficult to recognize quixotism in oneself. (more…)

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

The past decade or two have seen the rise and fall of an alternative to mainstream conservatism in libertarianism. If we were to use the political compass as a model, conservatism would sit in the center between the upper and lower right quadrants, while libertarianism would be found in the lower right quadrant. (more…)

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I fought in the Optics War for six years. Then, last December I declared that the Optics War was over for several reasons. The Right Stuff closing down the National Justice Party project took the question of real-world activism off the table. Andrew Anglin and Nick Fuentes falling out over the Richard Spencer Question was a sign that old Optics War rules were no longer being adhered to by its most prominent figure. (more…)

Bolshevism Without a Mask, National Socialist propaganda poster (1937)

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Travis LeBlanc dropped a lot of wisdom and perspective on us regarding the Second World War and the Jewish Holocaust in two recent essays for Counter-Currents. Judging from the comments in response to them, it seems the Counter-Currents readership is well aware of this and appreciates his efforts. I certainly do. Although he expressed a fair number of historical opinions regarding the world wars, his main thrust was to discourage what he calls “spergery,” or how the excessive, specialized interest in the Second World War among dissidents can quickly drive a political movement into the weeds. Or even cause it to crack up altogether through absurd purity spiraling: (more…)

Morgan Ariel, jedna z mnoha internetových komentátorů, kteří v poslední době naskočili na antisemitskou vlnu. (Foto z jejího Instagramu)

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Ještě v dobách největší slávy „alt-right“ (přibližně první polovina minulé dekády, pozn. DP) jsem si nejednou postesknul nad tím, že hnutí až nevyvratitelně spravedlivé je do takové míry obýváno lidmi morálně nepříliš vábnými. Nebyla to jistě celá a dokonce ani většina alternativní pravice, ale stěží jste mohli ujít více než pár pomyslných kroků, aniž byste narazili na nějakého narcistního sociopata, narkomana, zhýralce nebo zástupce jiného z nepřeberného množství protispolečenských osobnostních typů. (more…)

Joseph Nash, The Autumn Manoeuvres, Officers Playing at Kriegs Spiel, or the “Game of War” (1872) (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

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In my last essay, and against my better judgement, I quoted from memory something that Winston Churchill might or might not have said. I could be wrong; people attribute all sorts of things to Churchill that he never said. This, of course, launched a discussion about the Second World War in the comments. (more…)

Image courtesy of runofthemill on DeviantArt.

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Winston Churchill once said that when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, he knew that Britain would not lose the war, and that when Germany declared war on the United States, the Allies would win. Well, when it comes to the whole “saving the white race” thing, I have arrived at a point where I am confident that we will not lose. By that I mean that I am now confident that we will be able to red-pill enough people in time to stave off complete racial annihilation.

Now, will we win? Will we able to take back our countries and banish the non-white hordes from our midst? Eh . . . Honestly, I don’t know. (more…)

Jason Lee Van Dyke

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Texas attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke (Twitter) was Greg Johnson and David Zsutty‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the challenges of representing the dissident Right in the legal process and answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

For how long will these people be our allies? (Photo courtesy of Flickr)

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There’s been a lot of talk lately about the “2016 energy” returning to Twitter/X. That was a magical time when all the factions of the non-establishment Right came together for a single purpose. The Alt Right, the Alt Lite, Right-wing libertarians, and millions of normie MAGA conservatives formed a unified front to get Trump elected. (more…)

Nathan Cofnas (from his Twitter/X feed)

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Nathan Cofnas first came to my attention in 2018 when he became the first mainstream academic to challenge Kevin MacDonald regarding his classic work of counter-Semitism, The Culture of Critique. He engaged with Prof. MacDonald point for point over the course of several weeks regarding the work’s merits and demerits, producing academic theater that was both tedious and fascinating; perhaps a little more of the latter. (more…)