At Affirmative Right, I find confirmation for my own view that the past few months have NOT been a defeat, but the only possible victory the right could have had in the circumstances: the awakening of the mass of right-leaning and many centrist voters to the truth about politics in the USA:
It is unfixable by more politics.
“So let’s move onto a brighter side of the blackpill: its tendency to turn, once properly digested, into a whitepill. Or, at least, into something more colourful than a blackpill.
The whitepill is that the Alt-Right has won a victory against the regime. It has done so at a heavy cost – some of its number are imprisoned, some persecuted, some bankrupted, some humbled, some discredited – and at the price of its own dissolution as a coherent movement. But all the same, it has won its victory – not the victory that it wanted, but the victory that it needed.
To understand this, you must be blackpilled enough to know that those in power have won nothing that they did not already possess. No, they did not just stage a revolution and overthrow the American Constitution. I know the brains of democrats pass through the waters of Lethe every election cycle, but surely we can cast our minds back a mere four years. Surely we can recall how Trump was elected to the executive in a landslide, how his party initially controlled the legislature too, how he eventually managed to appoint one-third of the top-level judiciary – and how he still got nothing done.
The permanent government that gelded Trump, and now represses his supporters, has never once left power since it was established in the early 20th century. To all intents and purposes, it is a totalitarian state overlaid by a ceremonial elected government. It permits no legal path to its own overthrow (like, duh), and has defeated or co-opted every popular challenge to its power, from McCarthyism to Reaganism to Trumpism. It has also reproduced its basic form throughout all its foreign satrapies – so everyone in the West lives under the same system, or else is having it forced upon them right now.
So what is the Alt-Right’s victory? To have exposed this permanent government to public view. It did so unknowingly, in a fit of inchoate defiance, like Truman veering off-script on the set of his show – not so much exposing the power structure, as prompting it to react to unpredictable moves and expose itself in the process.
But now that it has done so, millions of people can now see – or at least suspect – that the media is lying, elections are rigged, conservatism is a toy-opposition party, progressivism is a pro-government astroturf movement, and that freedom, progress, tolerance, etc. are Orwellian paradoxes. That is why the regime must seek its security in the tools of hard power. Contrary to appearances, its position behind its stormtroopers is much weaker than it was when it could hide in plain sight – and leave its subjects to consume the fake news, blow off steam at the ballot box, and rationalise every facet of its misrule through democratic religious casuistry.
But to repeat: this is the victory that the Alt-Right needed, not the victory that it wanted. And as a movement half in hock to democratic lies, it is at once the victor and the victim. All its own fantasies of victory – capturing the conservative party, winning a landslide election, smashing the Left off the streets, exposing a cabal of shadowy evildoers, storming the temple of government – have been played out as farce, and revealed to be tragically futile.”
What is next? It seems like something big is going to happen, but nothing happens.
Hello Rajesh,
Well events have answered your question. The Covid narrative has gone and now we are onto the new, new thing, Ukraine resistance! As if any of these idiots could find ukraine on a map without help.