What Is The Alt-Right?

Comment: It’s been my opinion that the alt-right basically started gaining traction as a thing as the progressive Social Justice Warriors began seeking to expand their influence into new areas, such as science fiction (see: the circumstances leading up to Sad/Rabid Puppies), video games (see: Gamergate), open-source software development (see: this post by Our Host), and even heavy-metal music (see: this description of “Metalgate”). Clearly, they’d like to see their brand of political correctness spread everywhere.

“Always leave your opponent a line of retreat–unless you want a fight to the death.” The SJWs don’t want to leave any lines of retreat. Consequently, it seems inevitable that a group of people, drawing from some of the same groups reacting to the above developments, would decide to band together and proclaim, “If it’s war they want, then war they shall have!”

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Men View Women As Sex Objects, So What?

Dennis Prager writes: 1. It is completely normal for heterosexual men to see women they are sexually attracted to as sex objects.
2. That such sexual objectification is normal and has nothing to do with misogyny is proved, among other things, by the fact that homosexual men see men to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects. If heterosexual men are misogynists, homosexual men are man haters.
3. One reason for this is the almost-unique power of a visual to sexually arouse men. Men are aroused just by glancing at a woman’s arm, ankle, calf, thigh or stomach, even without ever seeing her face. Those legs, calves, arms, etc. are sexual objects. That’s why there are innumerable websites featuring them.
4. Every normal heterosexual man who sees a woman as a sexual object can also completely respect her mind, her character and everything else nonsexual about her. Men do this all the time.
5. Most heterosexual women also see sexy women as sex objects, and they are hardly misogynists. Ask your wife or girlfriend which would turn her on more: watching a male strip show in front of a female audience, or a female strip show in front of a male audience.
6. Lucky is a couple if the man can sexually objectify his partner. The longer a husband can at least occasionally regard his wife as a sex object, the better their marriage. It is not always easy to see the woman you see every day, the mother of your children, as a sex object.
7. The whole purpose of lingerie and other sexual attire is to render the woman a sex object in her partner’s eyes. Are all the women who wear lingerie, bikinis, cheerleading outfits or whatever else turns their partner on — and hopefully them as well — haters of women?
8. If your husband denies these assertions, he is lying to you because he is afraid that you will react angrily or that he will hurt your feelings. He may also be lying to himself — after all, he, too, went to college and reads liberal opinion pieces on misogyny; and he wants to be an “enlightened” male.

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Forward: “Trump’s Reported Pick of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State Spooks Jewish Groups”

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Trump fills his cabinet with Goldman Sachs execs, and idiots still say he’ll be unfavorable to Jewish tribalist causes.

* “In general, people who have led oil companies are not that friendly to Israel,” Klein said. “That concerns me.”

In general Muslim immigrants are not friendly to Jews and Israel, but that hasn’t stopped most Jews from supporting massive Muslim immigration into North America and Europe.

* I’ve got a postage stamp here and a pencil and I’m going to make the definitive list of everything that does not spook jewish groups.

* News flash for Messrs. Halber, Klein, et al.:

The US Secretary of State serve the US, not Israel. Israel has its own government for that.

That’s what different governments are for.

* It’s almost as if Trump is selecting people who he thinks are competent and will do a good job. The benefits of running a tight campaign and not owing a thousand favors tends to scare those the most connected. What country is more connected politically in the U.S. than Isreal?

* One Jewish guy who isn’t spooked.

[David] Horowitz isn’t Alt Right (in no shape or form), but if anyone on the ‘right’ foreshadowed something like the Alt Right, it was Horowitz.

While Alt Right pays homage to Gottfried and Rothbard, neither was the kind of dogged fighter that Horowitz was.

Neocons sought respectability and establishment position. Horowitz, though allied with Neocons on the Israel issue, was far more committed to combating the ‘left’. And he always regarded the ‘left’ as the bigger enemy of the Jews. He knew about the ‘left’ because he’d been part of the 60s Left that made the ‘long march through the institutions’ and became the GLOB. In a way, the GLOB was more dangerous. While 60s radicals had crazy ideas and were delusional, they were driven by some real ideals. But over time, they became cynical, and it was all about the Power. Hillary and those around her were prime examples of this.

Neocons were just happy to gain control of GOP, push Zionist agenda, and even work with Libs and the ‘left’ to suppress White-conscious Conservatism.

Though Horowitz, as Zionist, cannot be a fan of white-centric Alt Right, he is a firm believer that the biggest enemy of the West is the Left and Glob. In this, he was more principled than the Neocons and Cucks who were mainly for position and status.

* There was a National Review gathering in the early 90s when a bunch of respectable luminaries gave nice-sounding speeches. Horowitz then appeared on stage and warned them that they don’t have what it takes to take on the Enemy that is far more dogged, cynical, driven, radical, and ruthless. And given what happened in coming yrs, Horowitz was right.
Where he was wrong was the failure to see that this danger came not only from the ‘left’ but from Neocons who got overly power-hungry and corrupt. Horowitz’s Zionism made him overlook the excesses of the Neocons and Bush II. Still, his attack on NeverTrump Neocons in 2016 indicates his disenchantment with them. Horowitz saw them as careerists than good soldiers.

Now, Horowitz’s reason for supporting Trump is very different from that of Alt Right, but both sides seems to understand that a new vanguard is necessary to move away from old staid and defunct paradigms of power. These are radical times.

Also, Neocons grew out of Trotskyism prior to the 60s. Its heyday was when leftist radicalism was still adult and ‘conservative’ and mature in style. The ideas were radical but the personal style was still respectable, restrained, and even ‘bourgeois’. After all, even Trotsky himself didn’t have a tattoo on his ass or indulge in homomania.

So, former Trotskyites didn’t really get what the 60s were about. They just took flight from the crazy left of the 60s and found a new home in the GOP as the Democrats seemed to cave too much to black demands. (As immigration and globalism made the Democrats increasing the Diversity party and Free Trade party and LESS the black party and white ‘dumb Polack’ labor party, some neocons began to move back. But then, BLM & BDS prolly triggered a good number of Jews even if they mostly stuck with Hillary. If Hillary’s loss leads to Democratic Party being taken over by blacks and anti-Zionist POC, it could spell exodus of Jews.)
In contrast, Horowitz was in the very thick of 60s radicalism that was far more nihilistic, narcissistic, and decadent that ‘leftism’ of an earlier time. Those elements of excesses of 60s culture meant that future politics could be more no-holds-barred, reckless, and insane.
If Neocons didn’t get 60s radicalism and just ran from it, Horowitz was at its center and saw everything. So, he knows the mind-set of the Left. Now, he must know that the hardcore 60s leftist types didn’t gain the most power. After all, it was the middle-of-roaders like Clintons and Obamas and Kerrys that gained power, not the Bill Ayers and Abbie Hoffman’s. But Horowitz is convinced that the entire Left spectrum since the 60s is infected with the same nihilistic spirit. Given the rise of homomania and reckless globalist open borders rhetoric, he may be right. GLOB went capitalist, but its spirit is totally nihilistic and destructive of order, the organic, and the meaningful. What the Right failed to understand is that this destructive spirit could also animate the capitalists. If there is anything that unites Wall Street goons like Jordan Belfort and commies like Bill Ayers, it’s their utter nihilism. Anything goes for the struggle, power, and wealth. No holds barred.

And we’ve seen that with the rise of Progs trained and brainwashed by boomer radical globs. And in a way, Trump is also part of this excessive politics of boomer era. Fewer inhibitions, wilder, more aggressive, shameless, blustering, and etc. But Trump victory suggests that some are waking to the fact that in the new order, fire must be met with fire.

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Does Politico Publish Fake News?

In my memory, Politico and the Washington Post ran about nine negative dismissing stories about Trump to every positive one.

Chris Roberts writes:

It certainly got Donald Trump completely wrong.

It is hard to believe, but it has been more than a month since Donald Trump won the presidential election. Since then, the media have developed an obsession with “fake news.” Fake news, they tell us, may have swung the election in favor of Mr. Trump—the implication being that no one who knew what was actually going on could possibly have voted for him.

The latest version of the “fake news” theory is that the Russian government was behind it. The Russians were apparently so keen on a Trump presidency, they set up a network of news outlets to spin things in their—and therefore Trump’s—favor. Anonymous groups of “experts” have complied a list of Kremlin stooges, and mainstream outlets are reporting this as gospel. American Renaissance and Vdare.com have now been unmaksed as outlets for Russian propaganda. Even Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have now spoken out against the scourge of “fake news.”

The purpose of these smears is obvious. The mainstream is losing its hold on its audience, which is turning to alternative news sources, including American Renaissance. The legacy media seem to think that if they say we are “fake” or “propaganda,” the masses will come back to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

The irony is that it was mainstream outlets that have had their predictions proven chronically wrong for the last 18 months—not us or Breitbart—and no site has been more guilty than Politico. The preferred source of political news for Beltway operatives, for this entire cycle, Politico was not only wrong about most everything, it also did everything possible to denigrate Donald Trump, who they constantly assured us, could never win anyway.

A lot of their stories came from “insiders”—which underlined Politico’s status as privileged reporters, constantly rubbing shoulders with important “insiders.” A typical headline would be, “Insiders: Trump Administration Will Be a Disaster.” Somehow, the insiders were almost always anonymous.

Here are some of Politico’s greatest hits.

2015:

June 7th: The man to beat in Iowa: Scott Walker

June 16th: The 10 best lines from Donald Trump’s announcement speech

The opening two sentences were typically dismissive:

“Donald Trump launched his quixotic presidential bid Tuesday in a speech at his Trump Tower office building in Manhattan.

The discursive, pugnacious announcement was one of the more bizarre spectacles of the 2016 political season thus far — and one of the most entertaining.”

July 10th: Insiders say Scott Walker is dominant in Iowa

July 14th: The power players behind Scott Walker’s campaign

July 24th: Insiders: Trump has peaked

August 7th: GOP insiders: Trump is biggest loser

This was about one of the Republican candidate debates, which Mr. Trump regularly dominated.

August 14th: Insiders: Trump can’t win early states

August 14th: The 199 Most Donald Trump Things Donald Trump Has Ever Said

October 2nd: 5 reasons to bet $5 on Marco Rubio

December 4th: Democratic insiders: Trump is easy prey for Clinton

December 7th: The 7 craziest things Trump has said

This was on how nuts it would be to ban Muslims.

2016:

February 6th: ‘Trump Is Falling Fast’: An Election Gambler Predicts New Hampshire

Mr. Trump won the state by almost 20 points.

February 12th: Insiders: Hard road ahead for Trump

February 14th: Insiders: Trump flopped in debate

In this debate, Mr. Trump flayed Jeb Bush. The next primary was in South Carolina, which Mr. Trump won decisively. Mr. Bush then dropped out.

February 24th: Rubio looking ahead to wins on March 15

Mr. Rubio dropped out of the race on March 15.

April 6th: Wisconsin meltdown puts Trump on track for convention fight

April 27th: Trump declares race won, but it’s not

April 29th: Insiders: Clinton would crush Trump in November

May 13th: Insiders: Trump stumbled in general election pivot

The subtitle: “Democrats aren’t worried by Hillary Clinton’s recent defeats.”

June 17th: Insiders: Trump’s Orlando response was terrible

This was after the Jihadist massacre at the Pulse nightclub. Mr. Trump Florida in the general election.

June 17th: GOP insiders: Trump should pick Newt for vice president

Mr. Gingrich, who attacked Mitt Romney for being too anti-immigrant in 2012, refused to criticize affirmative action while he was speaker in 1990s, and won Wilmot Robertson’s title of “Majority Renegade of the Year” as far back as 1986. He was obviously a terrible choice.

July 1st: Insiders: Clinton dominates Trump on the ground

August 4th: Trump vs. the Constitution: A Guide

August 12th: GOP insiders: Trump can’t win

August 19th: GOP insiders: Trump’s overhaul won’t succeed

This was about Mr. Trump hiring Steve Bannon.

September 27th: Insiders: Hillary won

This was about the first debate.

October 5th: Insiders: Pence outclassed Trump

The vice-presidential debate, which even Politico admitted was uninteresting to most Americans, had fewer viewers than any vice-presidential debate since 2000.

October 12th: How Long Can Evangelical Women Stay Behind Donald Trump?

October 14th: GOP insiders: Trump’s chances fading

November 4th: Democratic insiders: Clinton’s ground game will sink Trump

November 8th: Trump hopes for a miracle

Well, Politico, better luck in 2024. Until then, your readers will be better informed if they read American Renaissance.

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Trump Is A Putin Stooge?

Comments: One of the more depressing things about the current “Trump is a Russian Stooge” craze, and the other lunacies shrieking in the media is their opportunity cost, pushing out all observation of anything true and interesting about our nearly revolutionary times.

What might be the actual economic costs and gains of pulling back from current trade arrangements, and reducing free movement of jobs from our country? Who wins and who loses? Is there any way this can be made to work well for current American workers?

What kind of management style might we expect from someone like Trump, given his unique background as someone who became President without ever being in government in any capacity, but who was successful in his own private business? What might be the upside and downside to such a background?

What does it mean to be looking out strictly for American interests in the current world, from a diplomatic and military point of view? What should be the limits to our obligations to other countries, and to people in other countries?

You see, we can’t have those discussions in the current media environment. In that setting, the only permitted “analyses” are those that show we are heading off to doom, that Trump is the first phase of Hitler, that the Russians are Coming, and that men in white hoods rampage through our lands in bloodthirsty search of the Dark Other.

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