Comments to Paul Gottfried:
* Radio talker Mark Levin, no friend of Donald Trump, says that Trumpism is “Populist Nationalist,” implying that Levin-approved conservatism is non-nationalist.
My question is, was there ever a variety of American conservatism that was not nationalistic?
Levin has also labelled Trumpism “Populist Nationalist Agrarian,” which seems even loopier.
* It can be reasonably argued that due to its populist and militaristic nature, that fascism is a heresy for the right. In that regard, I would not consider Franco a fascist.
Anti-Semitism is as natural to Western civilization as anti-Christianity is to Jewish civilization, Islamic civilization and Japanese civilization. To put it briefly, since the destruction of the Second Temple, Jewish religion has changed from the authority of the Torah to the authority of the Talmud. The latter text is explicitly targeted against the claims of Christianity, just as the Koran is. While you could argue that most Jews aren’t rabbinical scholars, and that reform Judaism is friendlier to Jesus at least as a prophet, I consider that over two thousand years of resentment doesn’t go away easily.
I’m not arguing that we should bring back Jewish quotas, confiscate their wealth, burn the Talmud or order mass deportations. What I am calling for is an understanding that we believe the claims of Christianity and seek to practice them, as well as continuing our ethnic line and geographic providence. In short, an anti-liberal society which will make those not identifying with it uncomfortable as a non-Mormon would be in Provo, Utah.
Racism is a Marxist term, it’s a slur, nothing else. Whether we are calling it racial realism or Human biodiversity, it should be an essential component of the right. We are not Young Earth Liberals.
* The most effective approach is to laugh at the accuser. No one really cares about David Duke, he’s a shibboleth. The whole point of cultural Marxist attacks is to force apology and abasement. The main thing is refusing to be cowed.
Acting like you want perpetuates cultural Marxist mind control over conservatives (& liberals). People love Donald Trump because he (mostly) refuses to kow-tow. He made a big mistake backtracking on the ‘jail women who abort’ thing, though – far better to be unreasonable & stick to it, than moderate and apologetic.
* No one among the Nationalist/populist movement really gives a rats ass when some smelly, dried out liberal puke calls them a racist or try to associate David Duke with them – which was tried and failed very badly.
Thing is, economic and social pain inflicted by decades of globalism and immigration has made a lot of folks very pissed off. This is why all the authoritarian-thought stopping PC/MC labels of “racist”, “xenophobe”, “islamaphobe”, etc don’t work.
Pain and fear tend to do that. Twenty years ago those tactics worked, but it was a different country back then. The damage from globalization, illegal immigration and trade were just beginning to be felt. Now it’s front and center for anyone whose not upper middle class and people are very worried and many are economically and socially hurt by the policies promoted by the political class, Neo-Cons and Wall Street.
* Socialist regimes caused immense damage, suffering and death in the past century and David Duke has caused none. Where is your call for the left to separate themselves from the absurd socialist Sanders?
No, you want rightists to separate themselves from Duke like old ladies who tremble at the sight of a mouse and flee to the nearest chair. Someone out there engages in crimethink so there must be a Def Con IV plan for separation.
* For a brief moment David Duke was an extremely popular politician in Louisiana, that happened to make an ill timed decision to run for Senate, and then Governor, than to the House district that later sent Bobby Jindal and David Vitter to Congress. Subsequently, he’s been a demon trotted out by the left and conservatism inc.
But it should be remembered that he was running at the same time as Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot. The latter two and their supporters were tarred with the same brush. That is the point Gottfried is making.
David Duke tapped into a real dissent from the governing elite orthodoxy, and showed how desperate the establishment was willing to go. For that one brief moment in 1991 he had the left scared.
Look at the left, do they disavow Farrakhan? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson? How about Luis Gutierrez? Fabian Nunez? Abe Foxman? Chuck Schumer?
I don’t favor the worldview of David Duke, but I don’t believe in unilateral disarmament.
* David Duke sometimes goes too far, and he tends to overly blame Jews for too much, but he’s been one of the most courageous critics of Jewish power in a long time.
And some of the things he warned are proving to be true.
You gotta admit, How Zionists Divide and Conquer has a lot of truth in it.
* The term “Leftist-neoconservative” is close but zionist or Jewish “conservative” would be much more precise.
Irving Kristol (1973)
“Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel… Jews don’t like big military budgets. But it is now in the interests of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States… American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don’t want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.”
“Large nations, whose identity is ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesteryear and the United States of today, inevitably have ideological interests in addition to more material concerns…. That is why we feel it necessary to defend Israel today, when its survival is threatened. No complicated geopolitical calculations of national interest are necessary.”
Norman Podhoretz (1979)
“There was, to be sure, one thing that many of even the most passionately committed American Zionists were reluctant to do, and that was to face up to the fact that continued American support for Israel depended upon continued American involvement in international affairs – from which it followed that an American withdrawal into the kind of isolationist mood that prevailed most recently between the two world wars, and that now looked as though it might soon prevail again, represented a direct threat to the security of Israel.”
* Like it or not, the Jewish community carries a lot of moral weight in Western society since 1945. Their record with this moral authority is deeply troubling, as my opinion is that far too many of them want Western society to be blurred out as revenge for the Holocaust. To me, any moral debt owed by the West was paid in full during the Yom Kippur War. In return for having supported Israel against virulent Muslim opposition, I do feel it is worthwhile to ask the diaspora Jews to either agree to defend Western civilization or move to Israel.
We can’t win anything by worrying about what the left is portraying us as. We should instead focus on portraying them as traitors, and even crypto-Muslims. I think that part of the way that our ideas will become increasingly mainstream is that part of the left could be convinced that the SJW-wing is going too far. This includes the nominally anti-white socon blacks, Asians worried about BLM crime, and liberal Jews concerned about BDS* and Le Grand Remplacement. Also Midwestern blue collar workers and (gasp) government employees.
*One of the strangest things to me is that the alt-right wants nothing to do with the movement that Israeli Jews appear to fear the most. A viable right-leaning BDS movement would be a worthwhile negotiating gambit.
