* Walking into stores and wondering what country I live in. Seeing Muslims. Sending large sums of tax money to pay for a public school that is comprised almost entirely of non-English speakers. Not wanting to go to a mall or movie theater anymore because it feels like the third world. Having unpleasant interactions at almost every restaurant where the person behind the register barely speaks English. Understanding that Obama (a 1950′s third world style, anti-American) got elected because of a third world invasion. Realizing that we wouldn’t have a country anymore if the invasion wasn’t immediately halted. Realizing that bringing in any amount of Muslims was suicidal. I understood this one prior to 9/11 though. That took me in 2013/2014 to Jeff Sessions/Stephen Miller/Vdare/Steve Sailer. When Trump announced, I pretty much knew. He got better and better over time. I think he might just save America and Western Civilization. But it won’t be easy. Cheers to America possibly getting one more chance in 2017.
And Steve – what can I say, the Sailer Strategy was correct. You were right. Very rare is it that a blogger has such an impact. Obvious that Ann Coulter took a lot from you. Coulter gave to Trump. Trump gave to us all. Kudos to you, Steve.
* Steve Sailer: One development was the things that didn’t happen. Hillary ran on an implicit promise of Disarming Evil White Guys.
She seemed to be betting on more Dylann Roofs and Sandy Hooks happening to help her out, but they largely didn’t.
Instead she got Muslim and BLM terrorism.
Some of that was just bad luck for her, some of it was her lack of critical thinking skills at deconstructing The Narrative in the corporate press so she wasn’t good at noticing patterns and trends.
Some of it was that she (and her side) were encouraging dangerous trends like black rage and Muslim immigrant resentfulness.
* The obvious long term trend is the internet and sites like Unz. Fifteen years ago, the Megaphone Holders still pretty much had a lock on public discourse. The internet existed, of course, but the credible outlets were still mostly controlled by the same people as in the offline world: the Megaphone Holders. Gradually over the last decade, the dissenters from the enforced Narrative grew to knew they weren’t alone and indeed, there might be many out there. The online discussion here and even in mainstream comments sections (before they were banned) sharpened and elaborated the dissenters’ awareness and allowed them to break the Sapir-Whorf box and state their dissent in ways that didn’t sound automatically wrong. By 2016, the Narrative was looking pretty threadbare.
Trump deserves some personal credit. A breakthrough moment was when Macy’s threatened to boycott him over his immigration statements, and he didn’t cave! That had never happened before at that level. He was economically vulnerable and paid some financial price for sticking to his guns, but he did it, and that shattered a glass ceiling that had previously constrained discussion.
Finally, there was a significant element of what for lack of a better word we call “luck” or “fate” or the “Hand of God”. When the Megaphone disputed that immigration was a problem, there were high profile nativ-o-cides by immigrants. When the Megaphone disputed that Muslims were a problem, Muslims got all Sudden Jihad Syndrome across former Christendom. When the Megaphone disputed that law and order could be an issue, BLM rioters and terrorists went on murder sprees. When Hillary insisted her health was great, she was wracked by coughing fits. Of course, the Megaphone Holders have been lying for a long time, but this year Hubris met Nemesis in particularly rapid and poignant ways.
Of course, it also doesn’t hurt that the pillars of the Megaphone establishment–Hillary, Merkel, von Juncker–are all superannuated plonkers.
* Earlier today my husband happened to mention that he thought Hillary’s basket of deplorables comment was a turning point in the election. And then, Trump’s reaction to it – with the Les Miserables image and music was impressive and inspired.
* There is a global populist-nationalist trend, including in countries where immigration isn’t an issue. I think Modi is the most nationalist PM India has ever had. Abe seems like the most nationalist Japanese PM since WWII. Erdogan seems like the most populist-nationalist Turkish leader in living memory. Duterte in the Philippines is populism distilled. One way of looking at ISIS is as Sunni Arab nationalism. Religion is often tribalism by proxy, and Sunni Arabs are an ethnic group. The Koran is their flag, symbol, calling card and ancient tradition.
* Seeing the DNC bring Michael Brown’s mother on stage and portrayed as some sort of heroine at their nominating convention should’ve be a real eye opener to a lot of people, but even the majority of staunch conservatives didn’t seem to notice or care.
* Dear Mr. Sailer:
Your achievements are widely noted. You are “Internet-famous.”
Your exact genetic composition has been a matter for speculation. Some believe that you are one-quarter Jew, but no one (to my knowledge) has published physical proof that your genes are one-quarter Jewish.
Let me be plain, Mr. Sailer.
The Jews are the cause of our misfortunes.
We are not allowed to say it.
That merely reinforces our awareness of it.
If you seek the trends, Mr. Sailer, seek the ways in which the Jews have immiserated the population.
White people are stupid enough to be immiserated for a long, long time.
But even white people eventually wake up and say: “Who caused this misfortune?”
Likewise, white people eventually say: “Is it good for the whites?”
* The voters in Dave Brat’s district sent an unmistakable early message; a virtual political earthquake. But the Republican Establishment continued as though nothing at all had happened.
* Donald Trump flying around relentlessly from one well attended rally to another, was the new trend of the year. Towards the end he was hitting four-five rallies per day and mostly in the battleground states. This was the DJT version of retail politicking and won the election for him. Hillary was static while The Donald was kinetic.
Can’t blame Hill too much, due to her ill health she was unable to campaign half as vigorously as The Donald. The Dems bet on the horse headed to the glue factory. The Donald is the strong horse and reluctant Republicans will join forces with him in 2017 and beyond. Why? Because everybody loves a winner.
* A significant number of Jews (especially Israeli Jews) thinking that philosemitic civic nationalism might actually be preferable to the unlimited Merkel-style third-world invasion, especially when the invasion leads to tens of thousands of Germans marching through the streets in protest.
* Nationalism is the major multi-century historical trend still going on. Why? Hard to say. There are just certain implacable zeitgeists in certain periods. Nationalism has been in the current zeitgeist since at least the French revolution, though I think you can trace it back further in Anglo history (and hence in its American offshoot). It is by definition democratic, hostile to elite excess, communitarian and language-dependent. When anything stands in the way of those trends, conflict will follow. It started in and was strongest in the West, but continues to spread over the world.
* Multinational/multicultural empires get into conflict all the time. Indeed, for many of them, constant conflict is a way of life, not only externally but internally: you have to keep all those jostling nations/cultures in their place somehow.
A properly nationalist nation can’t really expand faster than its own birth rate. You can’t have a bigger nation than there are nationals to populate it. But with a multi-ethnic empire, the sky is the limit. If any population can be part of your empire, there is nothing to stop your expansion but military defeat.
Good borders make good neighbors. And with nationalism, a good border is available: where one ethnicity ends and the next one begins, where one language ends and the next one begins. With multi-ethnic empires, no border is ever really good because the ending of one ethnicity or language and the beginning of the next is not relevant to a multi-ethnic empire. Since there is no obvious reason for anyone to be either in or out of such an empire, violent expansion and/or violent repression of internal dissent is baked in.
All of the biggest, most violent (both externally and internally) states have been multi-ethnic: the Soviet Union, the Mongol Hordes, the Ottoman Empire, even the anti-nationalist’s trump card–Nazi Germany–was really a multi-ethnic empire: the Third Reich. When it embarked on its brutal and megalomaniac Eastern conquests and associated mass civilian murders, the Nazi war machine was not only ethnic German but also had formations of Scandinavians, Dutch, Ukrainians, Russian, Vichy French, allies of Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, Finns, auxiliaries of Balts, Slavs, Croats, Slovenes and Arabs, and I’m probably forgetting some. So the favorite nationalist boogie man is really just another cautionary tale about excessive multicultural, multi-ethnic overreach.
* Obama was made possible by Tiger Woods.
Trump was made possible by Don Draper, Roger Sterling, Tywin Lannister, Tony Soprano.
The arts began foreshadowing a sharp turn to the reactionary 10-20 years ago. Shockingly so … and consistently so. Most surprisingly, all the lefties were into it.
My favorite reactionary is … Lena Dunham. “Girls” is “Sex and the City” 20 years later and completely gone to hell. She got it. She helped make Trump possible.
* I view the elections as a series of tests administered to Trump and his followers. Trump had the most tests, and he passed them all. He didn’t apologize for offending Mexicans in that first speech, or John McCain, or Curiel, or the Khans.. He didn’t give in to the GOP elites in an effort to win their approval. He didn’t spend money on meaningless ads and polls. He came back after the Access Hollywood tape and debated Hillary to a draw. He never backed down.
His followers had to show up and vote for him despite being told by everyone–and I mean, everyone–he’d lose.
It was that simple. Everything else was glorious theater.
* It was pretty much the launching of World War Trans that made me realize that the world had gone pretty insane. I wouldn’t have otherwise cared much, I wanted to be left alone.
* The deleterious effects of unrestricted free trade and mass third-world immigration in the post Cold War period — neither of which were politically correct topics for honest public discussion — reached the breaking point (which was bound to happen sooner or later). The politics of distraction finally broke down.
* 9/11.
Hillary’s collapse on 9/11, that is. Followed by her people saying it was the heat, when everyone knew it was a very mild day. Then she comes out of Chelsea’s apartment and says she feels, “Great!”
A cascade of lies from a candidate already truth-challenged.
We didn’t find out about her collapse from the press, and might not have ever if not for the cameras everyone carries around now.
The biggest story IMO is the collapse of establishment media credibility. They used to intimidate the public with their cleverness, but the newsrooms are full of SJW dingbats & low-paid Asians willing to write anything for a Prestige Job at the Times.
* …the media and Obama administration reactions to the Trayvon Martin case did the most to show White millennial men that they are hated and lied to by the elites that rule them. When asked about their first red pill, many, many millennials say it was a Skittle.
* A young woman known to me since birth, raised in a Whitopia county, schooled in a SJW factory where the greatest crime of all is to hate blacks, learns all Left-approved attitudes, beliefs, talking points … Now grown up very pretty, very fair, Nordic-looking, sought after by every male within eyeshot, goes to NYC to make her actress/model career, lives in Harlem(!), gets harassed by black guys every day, usually with sexual overtones (which I could have told her would happen) … Comes home and declares she hates blacks and doesn’t care if she is racist, plainly and unapologetically breaking the highest Commandment of her SJW Goodwhite milieu. Who is going to contradict her? No male. No less pretty female = no female. Many converts that day.
* The Missouri Rule of Heterosexual Public Political Discourse is that the right-hand constraint of publicly espoused politics for the majority of males is the right-most position they have heard a desirable woman espouse. In other words, most men don’t want to appear further to the right than at least one woman they would want to be with.
* Here’s a somewhat different list – the things that I wish were turning points, because they are extremely important markers of the state of the country and the world, but weren’t, because most people are not paying close enough attention:
– Rolling Stone UVA hoax
– College SJW brat incidents, e.g.students surrounding and yelling at the Yale woman’s husband, throwing tantrums at lectures, etc.
– Mansplaining, white-splaining, ‘check your privilege’, etc.
– The left-wing’s poster boy for the supposed scourge of unfair anti-Muslim discrimination turns out to join ISIS (to me this is probably the single most under-reported story of the past few years)
– The video of ISIS roasting that Jordanian pilot alive in a cage
– The video of a Syrian Civil War participant on some side slicing open the chest of his captive from another side and taking a raw bite of the heart
– Realization of the African population bomb
* Steve says something like ‘conservatism is the act of noticing.’ I think that over the past few years, many more people have been noticing the opinions of others who are not going along with the narrative. Because the lying and partisanship coming from mainstream media had gotten so obvious, many turned to online forums to voice their displeasure with the latest outrages. I don’t know how many readers reflexively view comments after reading an article online, but I know I do. There used to be a lot of places to comment–not so much anymore. Many lefty media outlets banned comments or linked them to a Facebook identity in order to control trolling and opinions they did not like. But the comment sections of the (not specifically conservative) places that remained– Yahoo News, Youtube, even Rolling Stone– have been lopsidedly packed with Red Pill commenters. Righty realtalkers vastly outnumber the lefty SJWs on these sites. Middle of the road people notice things like that. While the comment sections of the NYT and WashPost are still heavily Blue Pill, that;s probably because Red Pill people have largely given up reading those media (although obviously Steve still does).
When conservative or even centrist minded people know they are not alone and their way of thinking is butressed by others of the same ilk, it creates a strength and a willingness to punch back and be vocal about their opinions. This can have a snowball effect. I don’t know if there is some outfit that sorts comments on news/opinion stories, but it would probably make a good business selling such info to companies if someone could figure out a way to automate it.
* My list:
-Violence, too much violence – whether it was BLM riots/shootings (Dallas and Charlotte stand out for me, maybe because I watched a lot of Periscopes of those events), riots/blocked freeways/property destruction outside of Trump’s rallies (Chicago/Phoenix/Orange County), or massacres at the hands of muslims in Paris and San Bernardino, and the left’s insistence that, at the root, it’s all white people’s fault.
– The open anti-white hate in the media, that just grew and grew under Obama, that I was just supposed to tolerate as the new normal.
– Clinton Emails and wikileaks – Comey letting Clinton skate, Bill’s meeting with Loretta on the tarmac just thrust home the point that there is one set of rules for the elite and another for the little people.
– trannies in locker rooms and school bathrooms. I still don’t understand why Obama is so obsessed with trannies. It represented to me that the left felt free to shove their weirdness down our throats without debate and we were all supposed to put up with it. As a woman, the tranny rulings really pissed me off.
– massive homelessness all over, rising crime all over – symptoms that the US is going in the wrong direction
– my area (Orange County) becoming more and more muslim, particularly in the last 3 or so years.
– I agree with Boomstick and others that Gamergate played a big role behind the scenes – it was the training for the election fight. The chans, via Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube, helped make Trump/the right cool to younger people, who get their information from the internet. The Trump campaign was definitely aware of their influence.
– the fact that Trump doesn’t do PC and just seemed to have common sense positions about everything. It was so refreshing.
* I would suggest that part of this year’s story is that the gatekeepers lost a ton of power that they had twenty years ago … and that this year it mattered for the outcome of the US presidential election. Could Trump have won without blogs/twitter/Breitbart/etc? I don’t know, but I suspect not.
* The concept of a ‘cuckservative’ is pretty simple. It is an analogy to cuckoldry applied to conservative politics.
Implicit in a marriage is a pact that spouses remain faithful to each other. To take the anthropological perspective, the husband is expected to provide for the wife and their children through his labor, and the wife is expected to provide children and care for them and the household. If the wife cuckolds the husband, the husband ends up spending a portion of his labor providing for children who are not his own.
‘Cuckservative’ is an analogy to this. Implicit in conservatism is the pact that conservative politicians/pundits/stakeholders will protect their constituents’ interest in exchange for votes, donations, and other forms of support. When conservative politicians/pundits/stakeholders support policies that divert their constituents’ assets to non-constituents, this is akin to an unfaithful wife using her husband’s income to raise a bastard child.
For example, policies that cuckservatives have supported that arguably betray their constituents include: amnesty for illegal immigrants, wage-depressing legal immigration, affirmatively-furthering fair housing, unnecessary refugee resettlement, pro-democracy foreign adventurism, anti-police activism, ending the war on drugs, affirmative action (especially expansions to new categories), whole swathes of anti-discrimination laws, etc.
What these all have in common is that they purportedly draw votes and support from people who don’t traditionally align with conservative causes, while simultaneously annoying (at best) the conservative base.
The reason the cuckservative meme has become popular is because in recent years these cuckservative shenanigans have not resulted in increased support for conservative politics, and the base has lost its patience.
I don’t think the meme itself changed many minds, but it does encapsulate conservatives’ frustration with their supposed representatives.
