I agree. My current issue is I'm not sure that the actual conservatives have a way out. I'm not a fan of the silicon valley right wing progressives as that seems to be just trading one type of managerial elite for another. NS Lyons recently spoke at the National Convention in Brussels and advocated for a bottom up conservative movement through parallel institutions. I like this idea, but unfortunately, conservatives are really really bad at it. I'm not sure we can get organised into anything and its more likely that the far left will be the ones creating the parallel institutions. You can't wait until everything is destroyed to start building. You need to start now so you are ready when things start falling apart. Do you think project 2025 will fill this hole?
Project 2025 is vital. We need a team of Trump, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Doug MacGregor, John McEntee, and anyone else with the will to affect change to get in and start ripping people apart.
Something, a very large creature, died lately in DC, and the overpowering stench rising from the banks of the Potomac is very noticeable from sea to shining sea !!!
At a certain point, voters have to be held responsible too. A lot of this has been common knowledge for years, and STILL people vote for the GOP brand for God knows what reasons.
We have seen the enemy of democracy, and it is us.
1) The history of GOP Speakers over the last 30 years is really a stunning chain of broken men who were never going to be leaders. Diagnosing the actual reasons for this is something I haven't seen anyone attempt. How does the GOP made up of business owners, working whites, Christians, end up with no-morals Gingrich, pedo Hastert, drunk Boehner, transparently insincere Ryan, sellout McCarthy, and now shifty Johnson. Clearly the people picking leadership want low t villains vis-a-vis the actual base of the party. Meaning that, all of our Congressmen are part of this network of corruption. That's a hard problem to fix. The party keeps firing its leader, but perhaps we need to consider firing the management team. That's a huge lift though.
2) The comments reflect a lot of grandiosity, it's fun to larp about power. But if we're honest about the situation, the right is dispossessed everywhere, even in places we ostensibly 'control.' There is no right wing revolution happening in rural Oklahoma or in Utah or in Idaho. So the idea we can top-down major reform, when we can't muster the power to control school boards, are illusory goals. Our talent pool comes from organizations, campaigns, local governments. Our policies right now aren't even coming out of those few places. We need to figure out how to build power from the ground up before we can consider revolutionizing the nation. That might feel more pedestrian than Napoleonic, but it's the only path forward. The challenge is to build actual power and effectively wield it to achieve meaningful results.
I doubt that he cares about Israel either, other than that supporting them is expedient and profitable. The rationalizations seem post-hoc to me, in response to incentives rewarded by the existing patronage networks
We're sending money to Israel to fight the Gazans, and we're sending money to Gaza to defend against Israel. We're sending money to Ukraine to attack Russia, so shouldn't we also send money to Russia to fight Ukraine? I mean, it's only logical.
I don't see any way through this except by burning everything to the ground and starting again. I really wish I didn't think that was the case, but I do. They all need to go. All the politicians, all the bureaucrats, all the bankers, all the managers, and pretty much everyone in the military above the rank of colonel. Defund the ENTIRE government and start again. Repudiate all the debt these criminal liars incurred and (thereby) destroy the fiat dollar and its disintegrating hegemony before it sucks all of us into a vortex of destruction.
The UK Conservatives are on course for an historic demolition in the upcoming election largely for similar reasons - sky-high immigration, bellicose foreign policy, and half the elected party with no interest in pursuing anything like conservative politics domestically.
That would’ve happened to the GOP already if Trump hadn’t appeared out of thin air in 2016. But he may have only delayed the inevitable. Johnson’s brand of Reaganism isn’t electorally viable anymore. Whether it takes a total collapse of the party to prove it - I guess we’ll see.
I agree that there is something seriously wrong in Washington, however, as a historical footnote, when Truman supported Jewish independence in 1948, America did not have a border problem. Israel was not a recipient of large amounts of US aid until after the 6 Day war (it relied heavily on France). At that time, and in 1973, the US did not have a border problem.
True, the same people who refuse to close the border are now also the same ones who are squandering billions, not just on foreign aid either. How many billions were squandered in COVID giveaways and economic incentives of various sorts? But keeping the border open, giving some support to Israel, and squandering billions both domestically and abroad are not all joined at the hip (mixed metaphor, I know).
That's why you quoted St. Mark, i.e. Marcion of Sinope the Evangelist, narrator of the History of Paul of Tarsus, enemy of Cephas i.e. Peter the Three Time Traitor.
I agree. My current issue is I'm not sure that the actual conservatives have a way out. I'm not a fan of the silicon valley right wing progressives as that seems to be just trading one type of managerial elite for another. NS Lyons recently spoke at the National Convention in Brussels and advocated for a bottom up conservative movement through parallel institutions. I like this idea, but unfortunately, conservatives are really really bad at it. I'm not sure we can get organised into anything and its more likely that the far left will be the ones creating the parallel institutions. You can't wait until everything is destroyed to start building. You need to start now so you are ready when things start falling apart. Do you think project 2025 will fill this hole?
Project 2025 is vital. We need a team of Trump, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Doug MacGregor, John McEntee, and anyone else with the will to affect change to get in and start ripping people apart.
Something, a very large creature, died lately in DC, and the overpowering stench rising from the banks of the Potomac is very noticeable from sea to shining sea !!!
At a certain point, voters have to be held responsible too. A lot of this has been common knowledge for years, and STILL people vote for the GOP brand for God knows what reasons.
We have seen the enemy of democracy, and it is us.
Great article, as always. Two points:
1) The history of GOP Speakers over the last 30 years is really a stunning chain of broken men who were never going to be leaders. Diagnosing the actual reasons for this is something I haven't seen anyone attempt. How does the GOP made up of business owners, working whites, Christians, end up with no-morals Gingrich, pedo Hastert, drunk Boehner, transparently insincere Ryan, sellout McCarthy, and now shifty Johnson. Clearly the people picking leadership want low t villains vis-a-vis the actual base of the party. Meaning that, all of our Congressmen are part of this network of corruption. That's a hard problem to fix. The party keeps firing its leader, but perhaps we need to consider firing the management team. That's a huge lift though.
2) The comments reflect a lot of grandiosity, it's fun to larp about power. But if we're honest about the situation, the right is dispossessed everywhere, even in places we ostensibly 'control.' There is no right wing revolution happening in rural Oklahoma or in Utah or in Idaho. So the idea we can top-down major reform, when we can't muster the power to control school boards, are illusory goals. Our talent pool comes from organizations, campaigns, local governments. Our policies right now aren't even coming out of those few places. We need to figure out how to build power from the ground up before we can consider revolutionizing the nation. That might feel more pedestrian than Napoleonic, but it's the only path forward. The challenge is to build actual power and effectively wield it to achieve meaningful results.
I doubt that he cares about Israel either, other than that supporting them is expedient and profitable. The rationalizations seem post-hoc to me, in response to incentives rewarded by the existing patronage networks
His base is Raytheon and Boeing. He's not betraying anyone.
Correct. All points.
And he does appear smug and proud. Ugh!
We're sending money to Israel to fight the Gazans, and we're sending money to Gaza to defend against Israel. We're sending money to Ukraine to attack Russia, so shouldn't we also send money to Russia to fight Ukraine? I mean, it's only logical.
I don't see any way through this except by burning everything to the ground and starting again. I really wish I didn't think that was the case, but I do. They all need to go. All the politicians, all the bureaucrats, all the bankers, all the managers, and pretty much everyone in the military above the rank of colonel. Defund the ENTIRE government and start again. Repudiate all the debt these criminal liars incurred and (thereby) destroy the fiat dollar and its disintegrating hegemony before it sucks all of us into a vortex of destruction.
Remember when this wasn’t what the GOP constantly did?
Yeah, me neither…
He adopted a black thug as a son and thinks the earth is 6,000 years old. How could things go wrong?
The UK Conservatives are on course for an historic demolition in the upcoming election largely for similar reasons - sky-high immigration, bellicose foreign policy, and half the elected party with no interest in pursuing anything like conservative politics domestically.
That would’ve happened to the GOP already if Trump hadn’t appeared out of thin air in 2016. But he may have only delayed the inevitable. Johnson’s brand of Reaganism isn’t electorally viable anymore. Whether it takes a total collapse of the party to prove it - I guess we’ll see.
I agree that there is something seriously wrong in Washington, however, as a historical footnote, when Truman supported Jewish independence in 1948, America did not have a border problem. Israel was not a recipient of large amounts of US aid until after the 6 Day war (it relied heavily on France). At that time, and in 1973, the US did not have a border problem.
True, the same people who refuse to close the border are now also the same ones who are squandering billions, not just on foreign aid either. How many billions were squandered in COVID giveaways and economic incentives of various sorts? But keeping the border open, giving some support to Israel, and squandering billions both domestically and abroad are not all joined at the hip (mixed metaphor, I know).
Johnson is not a Christian, is a theophobos.
That's why you quoted St. Mark, i.e. Marcion of Sinope the Evangelist, narrator of the History of Paul of Tarsus, enemy of Cephas i.e. Peter the Three Time Traitor.