
I was going to go to bed, but I’m too angry right now. I don’t even know why I’m so angry. I’m not a conservative. I don’t really like the conservative movement. To paraphrase Curtis Yarvin, I believe that “Not all muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are muslims. Likewise, not all conservatives are cretins, but…”
The conservative movement in America is dying. It’s bleeding like a stuck pig and the average conservative is in total blissful denial of what’s happening. And I keep trying to explain it over and over and over again until I’m blue in the goddamn face but no one wants to listen to me. Maybe it’s because I’m not a conservative. But the point is that I left conservatism. I left because the movement had nothing for me. And that’s why other people are leaving too. It’s a useless, impotent movement that accomplishes nothing.
Osama Bin Laden said that “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” I’m big on the guns issue. Conservatism is the weak horse. The NRA is the weak horse. Defense Distributed is the strong horse. The FPC is the strong horse. Ivan the Troll is a strong horse.
Donald Trump is a strong horse. Conservatism is a weak horse. America loves a winner. America hates losers.
So let’s try to break today down in order, okay? Let’s start with the David Hines piece at the Federalist.
I really like David Hines. I’ve liked him ever since I read his Days of Rage analysis when it was a twitter thread. It’s since been compiled as a long-form blog post here. It got published as a blog post on January 20th, 2017, inauguration day, the day of the J20 protests and the resurgence of black bloc, the day Richard Spencer got punched in the face and political violence officially made its comeback. I feel like that was some sort of cosmic sign that Hines is a smart guy and he knows what he’s talking about.
Unfortunately, no one really listens to him. He’s like the conservative Cassandra. He’s Dr. Loomis trying to tell the Haddonfield Sherriff who broke out of the mental hospital and what he’s intent on. He’s Crazy Ralph telling people exactly what’ll happen if they spend the night at Camp Crystal Lake. He’s Andy Barclay begging, pleading for people to just get rid of that fucking doll.
Anyway, he wrote a piece about the structural decay inherent in the conservative movement based on its reliance on public speakers. It’s a really good piece. You should read it here. Don’t be afraid to give it a click, I want to reward the Federalist for publishing a smart person. I liked the piece and I was curious to see how people reacted to it. So I went into the comments section.
That was a huge mistake.
Cassandra got ignored again. Hines’s eloquent, well-made case for the power of organization and infrastructure to keep conservatism alive fell on dead ears. Brain-dead Ayn Rand sycophants and quasi-illiterate boomers kept droning on about how he was proposing “collectivism” and “abandoning the campus fight”. I tried to shake some sense into them, to yell at them about how the left is systematically stealing America out from under your goddamn noses because they are using well-tested methods that have been refined for decades through the scientific fucking method and they’re even writing fucking how-to guides for political organizing and the path to political success is so easy and attainable but you stupid motherfuckers think Ben Shapiro’s college speaking tours are gonna save your asses.
Ben Shapiro can’t even save himself.
Let’s talk about the second thing that happened today. Conservative podcaster/columnist/general talking head/shitty Glenn Beck toadie Matt Walsh gave a talk at UCLA. In his talk he mentioned how the left uses labels like “sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic,” to shut down debate. This got a big applause.
During the Q&A session, a bunch of guys from the alt-right were there. They asked him how as a Christian he could work for someone who denies Christ’s divinity. They asked him what his response is to the demographic transformation of America via immigration. Most importantly, they asked him why he wouldn’t debate alt-right youtuber Nick J Fuentes. Demonstrating that he has the self-awareness of a baked potato, Matt stepped right on a rake and lambasted Fuentes for being racist, antisemitic and homophobic and said Fuentes wasn’t entitled to debate him.
If you wanna know why I don’t have a link to this it’s because there was a youtube stream of the event, but when the people running it realized that the Q&A session was being dominated by the alt-right and the stream chat was dominated by the alt-right, they very quickly cut the feed and pulled the stream altogether.
Oops!
This has been going on for a few days now. Alt-right guys encouraged by Nick Fuentes along with groups like American Identity Movement are basically showing up to conservative speaking events and asking tough questions that expose the conservative movement as the weak horse. “Why won’t conservatives debate the importance of Israel?” “Why are conservatives so slow to act on immigration?” “Why don’t you guys still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman?” “Why are you refusing to debate alt-right figures despite talking about the importance of debate?” and so on and so forth. And it’s absolutely fucking humiliating for these conservatives on so many fucking levels.
First off, there’s the fact that for the first time since the Charlottesville fiasco, the alt-right is freely showing up live and in person with no masks or disguises or anything. These people aren’t only comfortable showing up to conservative events, they’re comfortable going on camera at conservative events. They feel perfectly safe to show up with their real names and faces to call out conservatives. That’s how fucking weak conservatism is as a movement, that some of the most hated and reviled people in the US at the moment can just freely waltz on into your show, give you a hard time, and walk out knowing that they’re going to be just fine. Like come on guys, aren’t you embarrassed? This wouldn’t happen at any sort of lefty event. The groypers are not gonna come out from behind their keyboards to to bug people from Salon or whatever. They know that there’s an actual risk to doing so, that these people could retaliate against them meaningfully. But conservatism is weak. It’s frail. It’s dying. That means it’s vulnerable.
But beyond that, the actual Q&A thing is humiliating for conservatives on a whole new level. Barring the whole Israel fixation, the alt-right’s questions all revolve around one shockingly poignant question: “What’s the difference between modern conservatives and the Democrats of ten to twenty years ago?”
Conservatives can’t answer that one central question, at least not in any satisfactory way. They can’t admit that yeah, even since the New Deal conservatives have slowly and steadily acquiesced to the demands of the left. If you’re appalled by stuff like drag queen story hour, why would you bother looking to conservatives for help when you know that in a few decades they’ll be saying that Drag Queen Story Hour is perfectly normal and that the drag queens who pioneered it were actually secret conservatives the whole time? Why the fuck would any right-leaning person want to be a conservative? Why buy a ticket to the Titanic when you already know it’s going to sink?
Why would anyone pick the weak horse?
I mean, it used to be a class thing. Conservativism could always rely on the fact that it defends the material interests of the upper-middle class and above. Conservatives might not be able to stop the left from doing pretty much anything they want socially, but at least they can deliver on tax cuts and free-trade low-cost consumer goods.
(They used to be pretty good on pushing back against gun control too but the past few years haven’t been great on that: We saw conservatives push for a bump stock ban and red flag laws and all the 3D printed gun advocates seem to just be on their own at this point. Great going NRA! Hope all those checks to Dan Oingo-Boingo and that chick who looked like Danica Patrick were worth it!)
But yeah, conservatives used to be able to rely on the genteel white WASPy bourgeoisie to come through for them. What happened?
Well, that’s where we get to the final event of the day. I live in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It’s in the news right now because even though it’s been run by Republicans for eons, the county has finally fallen to Democrat control. Insufferable resistance tweeters from the beltway and California and every other deep blue state are cheering their asses off because they think the great blue wave is gaining momentum, and the American people have finally had enough of Trump and the GOP. After all, it was anger at Trump that flipped Chesco, right?
Wrong.
No one tonight in Chesco who’s been paying attention is taken aback by what happened. I know Chesco GOP organizers, and the local GOP has been distancing themselves from Trump as far back as 2016, they’ve tried to wait out Trumpamania and hope that the orthodox, respectable conservatism that’s dominated Chester County for ages would prevail, even though it very obviously didn’t and it’s never coming back. The Chester County GOP is a structure without a meaningful base.
Chesco hasn’t changed all that much over the years. The new people in power are largely just as bourgeoisie and genteel as the Republicans who are leaving office. Local Democrats are not excited for Bernie Sanders. They like Biden (but won’t admit it because holy shit the man’s brain is leaking out of his ears on live television), they like Pete Bootyman, the sauciest they’re willing to get is for Elizabeth Warren (which tells you how edgy she is lmfao). Also not for nothing but there’s a lot of ladies around Chesco who look like Amy Klobuchar but without the bell’s palsy.
What I’m saying is that the Democratic party has changed. The working class isn’t invested in Democrats anymore. My dad is a high-ranking influential member of the steelworker’s union. The working men of Chester County, as per his general experience, are all Trump guys now. Trump’s “locker room talk” should probably be called “metal shop talk”. Trump in 2016 talked the way I did when I worked in a metal shop in late 2013. Sure Trump is rich as balls and they’re not, but fuck it, wouldn’t you be like Trump if you were as rich as him? Trump speaks their language, he walks with their gait, and most importantly, he actually delivers on the shit they care about. Wal-Mart is crying a fucking river over the trade war with China but the steel industry is doing cartwheels. The industry is growing, business is booming, and as a result unions have even more leverage come contract negotiation.
So the sitting Republican president is pro-working class. Chester County is predominately upper-middle class. The Democratic party basically did a reverse southern strategy- pick up all the upper-class voters who the Republicans lost thanks to Trump’s class traitor antics. That’s all that really happened here. That’s not a blue wave, it’s a political realignment.
Make no mistake, Chester County is going to stay very conservative. Don’t get me wrong, I would LOVE a drastic expansion of public transportation, a huge surge into infrastructure spending, and full-on local-level marijuana legalization/decriminalization. But Chesco doesn’t want that. They didn’t vote for a progressive agenda, they voted to retain the status quo. Next year they’re going to be fighting Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard tooth and nail.
The people of Chester County didn’t have some sort of great moral awakening. They just picked the strong horse. They’re going to be defending their upper-class interests because conservatism can no longer do that. Conservatism doesn’t have a party anymore. Trump basically up and stole the GOP away from them.
Conservatism is dying. It’s a weak horse and more and more people are seeing that. If you’re a social conservative or reactionary, what the hell does conservatism have to offer you aside from gay black guys up on stage talking about Cardi B? If you’re not one of those types, what the hell does conservatism have to offer you aside from a space where the alt-right can just waltz right on in through the door without a problem? If you’re bougie what the hell does conservativism have to offer you that the democratic establishment can’t do better?
Conservatism is a dying movement. And what pisses me off about it the most is that the dwindling number of conservatives don’t fucking get it. They’re too fucking stupid to see the writing on the wall. They look at Ben Shapiro making a hormonal undergrad student look silly on youtube and ignore the fact that said hormonal undergrad is being trained to canvass for her local DSA.
It’s 4:30 in the morning. I don’t have a conclusion to this. Conservatives need to realize what’s going on and either adapt or perish.
