With the rise of Trump, it is tough to ignore the massive intellectual movement that supports him:
A specter is haunting the dinner parties, fundraisers and think-tanks of the Establishment: the specter of the “alternative right.” Young, creative and eager to commit secular heresies, they have become public enemy number one to beltway conservatives — more hated, even, than Democrats or loopy progressives.
The alternative right, more commonly known as the alt-right, is an amorphous movement. Some — mostly Establishment types — insist it’s little more than a vehicle for the worst dregs of human society: anti-Semites, white supremacists, and other members of the Stormfront set. They’re wrong.
Previously an obscure subculture, the alt-right burst onto the national political scene in 2015. Although initially small in number, the alt-right has a youthful energy and jarring, taboo-defying rhetoric that have boosted its membership and made it impossible to ignore.
It has already triggered a string of fearful op-eds and hit pieces from both Left and Right: Lefties dismiss it as racist, while the conservative press, always desperate to avoid charges of bigotry from the Left, has thrown these young readers and voters to the wolves as well.
National Review attacked them as bitter members of the white working-class who worship “father-Führer” Donald Trump. Betsy Woodruff of The Daily Beast attacked Rush Limbaugh for sympathising with the “white supremacist alt-right.” BuzzFeed begrudgingly acknowledged that the movement has a “great feel for how the internet works,” while simultaneously accusing them of targeting “blacks, Jews, women, Latinos and Muslims.”
The amount of column inches generated by the alt-right is a testament to their cultural punch. But so far, no one has really been able to explain the movement’s appeal and reach without desperate caveats and virtue-signalling to readers.
Somehow they left out Vox Day, Heartiste, and pretty much everyone I follow, but I suppose if you threw the uninitiated in that deeply right off the bat, there would be a risk of spontaneous catatonia as the truth blew out their brains. Better to ease them into Haidt, and then go from there.
If Trump wins, I’d expect the alt-right to be the next big thing among the talking heads, which should be good for everyone’s site traffic, though I’d expect the media machine to try and massage how that traffic flows. It makes me wonder if we should be doing more to pimp the brand at Trump rallies, to draw in the throngs disillusioned with all of the ridiculousness and eager for a bastion of unadulterated truth.
Obviously r/K Theory’s exclusion from the article, especially when they discuss Haidt, is vexing. It means we have much work to do.
[…] Breitbart Begins To Introduce The Alt-Right […]
http://www.dailystormer.com/breitbarts-alt-right-analysis-is-the-product-of-a-degenerate-homosexual-and-an-ethnic-mongrel/
Yes, the authors (who surely won’t survive the coming Nationalist revolution) left out a huge chunk of the Alt-Right.
“threw the uninitiated in that deeply right off the bat”
I don’t know, it felt like home to me.
No one in their right hand will take grifters like Vox Day and Roissy seriously until they give up that Greek alphabet soup nonsense, which they never will. And a half-white half-wit like Roosh? Never happen.
The beta-boys don’t like being called out.
Given Milo, Cernovich and Vox Day are already an established grouping, I suspect that any lack of illumination was intentional.
But yes, more attention is incoming. Ride the Tiger, boys.
The closest thing to a list of alt-right sites I have would be the blog roll from you AC or maybe the one from Vox Popoli. Would it be accurate to say the alt-right is leading the charge in such SJW-laden events as Gamergate? Why is Rush Limbaugh not attacking it?
Also would Gavin McInnes be considered alt-right? In this audio he interviews a SJW which I also find to be a somewhat amorphous term:
https://soundcloud.com/free-speech/heather-marie-scholl
Some of the best-produced, and most easily digestible of that alt-right mixture of entertainment and doctrine: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLziPZRfH3CZEozrVBo7BKw
eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Copi862sYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFz1Gg2GnZQ
The characterization of Marc Bahn / DS is correct yet anecdotal. I’d rather see that article as some sort of “that (the alt-right) is a dangerous phenomenon, let’s destroy/subvert it” signal of an r-selected “degenerate/mongrel/YKW” to it’s rhizome to put as many of it’s node in attack mode.
@Bob Wallace: Roosh is NO or ZERO parts white. He’s turkish/Iranian, and I understand that he’s orthodox Christian.
BTW, AC, I disagree with what you write about YKW in your book.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of the Uncle. I have acquired a finely honed detector for the disconnect in the brain which occurs when someone detaches from reality to avoid amygdala stimulation. His videos have always given me the twinge of a narcissist – something conformed to me by the fact he gave his dog to his doctor, to be used as a guinea pig to see if the cyanide capsules the SS gave him were real. So I think he was a rabbit claiming to be a K-strategist, to ride the currents of the time to power.
However I am not discriminatory. I hate to say it, but 99% of all war is that same story, including our own wars.
When you look through history, most wars are led by rabbits whose concern for the troops is minimal. My feeling as a wolf is, either it is worth acquiescing completely, or it is worth nuking the other nation and wiping everyone off the map. Seeing your own soldiers, loyal to your nation die, so you don’t have to drop the hammer completely on everyone in the enemy nation should be just unacceptable from a loyalty perspective. Had I been Hitler, once I secured my own people, I would not have attacked outsiders unless they were a threat. It wouldn’t be worth seeing soldier’s families having to attend funerals. Rabbits don’t see it that way.
I still smolder over us “bringing democracy” to Iraq and Afghanistan. We should have either wiped them off the face of the earth from a distance by any means necessary, and depopulated every area with a population over 50, and destroyed every traversable road, maybe with a little infantry mop up designed to raze whatever was left, or we should have stayed out. Getting even one Marine killed, to save some raghead civilians who probably hate us anyway is unacceptable. If it isn’t worth deploying bioweapons, it surely isn’t worth getting a single military man killed.
As I go through life I find most leaders are just shitty rabbits. Even the ones you think are great one day seem to eventually let you down.
Never forget, as a K, every complex power structure in every part of the world, seems to spontaneously evolve a powerful mechanism designed to keep people like you from ever holding the reins. If you see some inkling that somebody who had those reins once was just like you, it is more likely than not that what you are reading is bullshit designed to manipulate you, and put there by the very power which would keep you from ever having any say.
Regardless, the risk that section of the book was designed to highlight is real, whether it is right in that specific case or not. We are manipulatable by rabbits, and that can create really bad times if we let it happen. Unfortunately, I’m not sure even knowing it helps. I am reaching the point that if Trump is cheated, and the next guy is just a wild hair across our national ass, and even totally full of shit, but there is a better than even chance that he will get the cuck blood flowing ankle deep in the streets, I’ll be ready to say fuck it and vote him in. And I’ll even do it knowing the risks involved. Revenge is a potent motivator, and probably uncontainable. The downside is, it can make anything happen, even shit you don’t want to happen.