A Normie's Guide to the Dissident Right - Part 7 - 2023 & 2024: X v ADL, Trump Or Death, TikTok, Migrants take Manhattan, The End of White America, The End of The End
A Normie’s Guide to the Dissident Right
& the Culture War Era
The Next Generation: Andrew Tate, The Redpill Community and Keith Woods
While the last few years of the Dissident Right have been dominated by Nick Fuentes and America First, in 2022 and 2023, a “new generation of dissent” began to emerge as the Censorship Era began to recede.
According to the Dissident Right, their greatest strength is that they have “the truth” on their side. The contradictions of the liberal thesis have become unsustainable. Even ordinary people can now tell that there are inherent differences between the races, that the media and academia push an agenda, that feminism has ruined the relationship between men and women, and that you cannot change your gender. The only way to combat the rise of the illiberal antithesis is to totally shut down people’s access to information, and have complete censorship to a level that is not even possible by a totalitarian state such as China. Even then, you cannot shut down the real world. You cannot shut down reality. And as long people are allowed to share their real experiences with one another, the redpilling will continue. After all, the failure to fully censor an obscure anime imageboard full of degenerate hentai-watching weebs is what led to the Alt Right.
In 2022, misogynist and politically incorrect Internet personality Andrew Tate exploded in popularity, especially on the social media app TikTok.
Tate received attention for his tweets describing his view of what qualifies as sexual harassment amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases and for tweeting several statements about his view that sexual assault victims share responsibility for their assaults. In 2017, he was criticised for tweeting that depression "isn't real".
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He became widely known in mid-2022 and was searched on Google more times than both Donald Trump and COVID-19 that July. In an interview, he described himself:
“You can't slander me because I will state right now that I am absolutely sexist and I'm absolutely a misogynist, and I have fuck you money and you can't take that away.”
He has stated that women "belong in the home", that they "can't drive", and that they are "given to the man and belong to the man", as well as claiming that men prefer dating 18- and 19-year-olds because they are "likely to have had sex with fewer men", and that women who do not stay at home are "hoes".
-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate)
A number of similar channels also became popular, such as Sneako, the livestream Fresh & Fit and anti-feminist content creator Pearl Davis. This community, known as “the redpill community” promulgated politically incorrect and anti-feminist views, especially towards matters related to dating and the social roles of men and women.
While primarily anti-feminist, they would also touch on other politically incorrect subjects such as race. Both Fresh & Fit and Pearl would invite Nick Fuentes on as a guest in 2023. Sneako had become a friend of Fuentes in 2022, shortly before the YE24 campaign.
Sneako was cancelled from YouTube after associating with Fuentes, moving to Rumble. In the case of Fresh & Fit, their channel became demonetized after featuring Fuentes, and even before airing the episode they were warned directly by YouTube that he was not allowed to be featured in the thumbnail or video title. In the case of Pearl, hosting Fuentes resulted in her having to go on an apology tour and a mutiny by some of her black staff due to comments by Fuentes that were considered anti-black (although this was not until after the staff themselves received negative backlash from the “black community.” During the episode, they displayed a friendly attitude towards Fuentes and agreed with some of his points).
Another new personality on the scene in 2023 was Keith Woods. Keith Woods was an Irish content creator. I am not sure when he began creating content, but his first YouTube video is from September 2019. At first, he took a neutral stance in the “Optics Wars,” siding with neither the Groypers or wignats but instead being friendly towards both groups. However, he began to be resented by the wignats, in part due to his failure to denounce Fuentes, and started to drift away from TRS and other wignat groups. He was eventually invited to stream on Cozy.tv. Later he would criticize wignats for being too blackpilled, writing “I think Mike and the rest of TRS got burned from hanging onto Trumpism too long and now they project this onto everything.”
Keith Woods was a philosophy major in college, where he became redpilled. After graduating, he decided to become a content creator rather than pursue academia, reasoning that very few people actually read academic articles, and that he could gain a larger audience on the Internet. His specialty is “effort posting.” “Effort posting” refers to making longform, well-researched content delivered in a professional, academic manner, as opposed to the irreverent trolling of the Alt Right. In addition to videos about politics, he also reviews books, and creates videos on philosophy. He hosts a podcast called “Understanding Platonism.” He is an Irish nationalist who is deeply critical of mass immigration into Ireland and supports the Irish National Party, becoming involved with their activist efforts. He is also notable for taking a “third position” on economic issues, often criticizing capitalism as well as Leftist social issues.
His philosophical works create a deep and rich ideological foundation for Dissident Right ideas, reviving earlier, less liberal philosophical traditions in attempt to deal with the great philosophical problem of our age: nihilism. He recognizes, like Father Seraphim Rose and other thinkers (such as Nietzsche) that it is ultimately this nihilism that is upstream from all of our political and cultural problems. Due to his carefully worded and meticulous style, he is still on most major platforms, including YouTube. He sometimes edits the more controversial parts out of the YouTube versions of his videos and posts the full version on Rumble.
On April 1 2023, Keith Woods would regain his Twitter account, leading to several viral tweets that were promoted by major mainstream figures, including Elon Musk.
The first of Keith Wood’s campaigns to go viral was a tweet drawing attention to a proposed Irish hate speech law which would criminalize possession of “hateful” material with prison time, and even made it a crime to refuse to hand over passwords or encryption keys with one year of prison time (https://gript.ie/up-to-a-year-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-passwords-under-new-hate-speech-bill/).
Ireland is about to pass one of the most radical hate speech bills yet. Merely possessing "hateful" material on your devices is enough to face prison time.
Not only that, but the burden of proof is shifted to the accused, who is expected to prove they didn't intend to use the material to "spread hate".
This clause is so radical that even the Trotskyist People Before Profit opposed it as a flagrant violation of civil liberties. Dark times.
-- Keith Woods (t.me/keith_woods/3934)
Elon Musk responded, “This is a massive attack against freedom of speech” (https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1652441004312788993?s=20). Donald Trump Jr. and Jordan Peterson retweeted the tweet (https://t.me/keith_woods/3942), reaching 11 million people and causing the hashtag #NoHateSpeechLaws to trend. As a result of this media attention, Irish politicians spoke out against the law. Keith would also be featured on Stew Peters and InfoWars to speak out against the law. Elon later said he would “file legal action” against the Irish hate speech bill.
Exactly.
[Twitter] will be filing legal action to stop this. Can’t wait for discovery to start!
-- Elon Musk, August 23 2023(https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1694439520517624064)
On July 2 2023, Keith Woods created a thread on Twitter concerning slavery.
It has become popular to blame White people for slavery, to the point that many actually believe slavery was invented by or exclusively practiced by Europeans.
But the history of slavery outside the West is far more brutal.
-- Keith Woods (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1675566139382849536.html))
The thread would point out that the Arab slave trade was far more brutal, that Africans had a hand in the slave trade, “[conducting] raids on rival groups to provide slaves for sale,” that whites were also sold into slavery by the Arabs, that the Native Americans and Chinese practiced a brutal form of slavery, and that it was whites that ultimately ended the slave trade on humanitarian grounds. This thread was also liked by Elon Musk. (https://t.me/keith_woods/4124).
In June 2023, Twitter would rebrand, taking on the name “X.” A formal break with the past, and a symbol of its new life under Elon Musk.
The next month, conservative commentator Benny Johnson would bring attention to a video in which the third largest political party in South African party chanted “Kill the Boer, kill the white farmer.” Elon (himself a white immigrant from South Africa) replied:
They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa, why do you say nothing?
-- Elon Musk (https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1686037774510497792)
On August 4 2023, after The New York Times defended the song, Musk wrote:
The New York Times actually has the nerve to support calls for genocide! If ever there was a time to cancel that publication, it is now.
You can read their articles for free anyway using
http://removepaywall.com
--Elon Musk (https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1687520435825745920?lang=en)
Keith Woods also drew attention to the song and reposted both of these Elon Musk tweets on his telegram.
However, the greatest and most infamous collaboration between Elon Musk and Keith Woods would come in late August 2023. X would finally have a showdown against the greatest anti-speech organization of them all, The ADL.
X versus the ADL
Hey stop defaming me!
--Elon Musk replying to the ADL on Twitter, Nov 19 2022 (https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594197468970946560?lang=en)
Almost as soon as Elon Musk bought Twitter, the ADL went on the attack, and began making threats:
Whatever happens to @Twitter, new social platforms need to center trust and safety from the outset, or risk being subject to the same fate. In the meantime, @elonmusk has put Twitter on deathwatch. It didn’t have to be this way.
-- ADL (https://Twitter.com/ADL/status/1593714829516324869)
As well as demands:
In addition to Trump, other high-profile and dangerous individuals may be allowed to return to Twitter:
White supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke
White nationalist Nick Fuentes
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
Former Trump adviser and Steve Bannon
Misogynist Andrew Tate
Providing these individuals again with the vast megaphone of Twitter to spread hate and misinformation would lead to dire consequences.
-- ADL (https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/5-things-adl-watching-following-elon-musk-buying-Twitter)
They then attempted to get Musk to bend the knee by organizing an advertiser boycott, just as they had done to Zuckerberg in 2020.
Major civil rights organizations including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League are calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter. In a statement released Friday afternoon, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson wrote that “until [actions] are taken to make Twitter a safe space, corporations cannot in good conscience put their money behind Twitter.” Johnson affirmed that “Twitter must earn its advertisers by creating a platform that safeguards our democracy and rids itself of any account that spews hate and misinformation.”
-- Rolling Stone, Nov 4 2022 (NAACP, ADL, Other Orgs Call for Advertisers to Boycott Twitter)
Today, we are joining dozens of other groups to ask advertisers to pause Twitter spending because we are profoundly concerned about antisemitism and hate on the platform. Here's why we're asking advertisers to #StopHateForProfit and #StopToxicTwitter
-- ADL, Nov 4 2022 (https://Twitter.com/ADL/status/1588587735711121408)
As a result, Elon Musk met with The ADL, possibly to smooth things over. However, later that year, Elon Musk decided to defy the ADL by unbanning Trump, calling his banning “divisive.” The ADL responded with disapproval:
For @elonmusk to allow Donald Trump back on Twitter, ostensibly after a brief poll, shows he is not remotely serious about safeguarding the platform from hate, harassment and misinformation.
-- Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the ADL, Nov 19 2022 (https://Twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1594161763859431424)
When @ADL and other #StopHateforProfit leaders met with Elon Musk on 11/1, he committed to not replatform anyone, regardless of stature, until he installed a transparent, clear process that took into consideration the views of civil society.
-- Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the ADL, Nov 19 2022 (https://Twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1594161767432658945)
As a result, Twitter/X took a financial hit. According to Elon himself, ad revenue declined so much that it was still down 60% one year later, in August 2023. Whatever the percentage, most major media sources report at least some loss of revenue.
Twitter has struggled to maintain advertising revenue following Musk’s takeover of the company in October. Several major corporations appear to have heeded the calls from the ADL and others to stop spending money on the platform. Media Matters for America, a progressive advocacy group, determined that 50 of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers had either announced or appeared to stop advertising on Twitter last November, around the time that the ADL announced their call for a boycott.
Stop Toxic Twitter found that Audi, Balenciaga, Best Buy, Capital One, Chipotle, Coca-Cola, Ford, Verizon and a number of other large companies had suspended advertising on Twitter.
-- Forward, Aug 1 2023 (https://forward.com/news/556095/adl-Twitter-advertising-boycott/)
In 2023, Twitter/X amended its terms of service and said it would ban users who posed a financial risk to the company. Keith Woods suggested that they ban the ADL, since it was using the platform to directly organize advertiser boycotts, thus violating the new ToS. To this effect, he created the hashtag #BanTheADL.
It's time for @elonmusk to ban the ADL from X. Since Musk's takeover, the ADL has been using this platform to damage his reputation and promote advertiser boycotts, which have cost the company billions.
The ADL claim that no one's legally protected right to political speech extends to private platforms like X, so why should it tolerate users working to make its business model untenable?
-- Keith Woods (https://Twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1688338597177409536)
Over the next few weeks, the campaign rose to #1 trending on Twitter with 250 thousand tweets in 4 days. Almost everyone on the Right Wing, both mainstream and dissident, shared the hashtag. Among them: Dinesh D’Souza, MMA fighter Jake Shields, Iraq War veteran Lucas Gage, LibsofTikTok, Sam Hyde, Laura Loomer, Tristan Tate (brother and collaborator of Andrew Tate), Andrew Torba, Charlie Kirk, and Matt Walsh. Charlie Kirk tweeted that the ADL was “A mass purveyor of anti-white hate” before deleting the tweet and retweeting one with more mild language, “The ADL itself is America's number-one purveyor of hate speech (and the SPLC is #2).” Kirk’s former nemesis Nick Fuentes, who was banned from X, ordered his legion of Groypers to promote the hashtag.
Elon Musk responded to Keith several times over the course campaign, saying that “ADL has tried very hard to strangle X/Twitter” (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1697655308946944257). However, instead of banning them, he threatened to sue them for defamation.
Since the acquisition, The @ADL has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic
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To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!
-- Elon Musk, Sep 4 2023(https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1698828606598734225)(https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1698754179148214495)
Many Jews, such as Larua Loomer, Chaya Raichik (the person behind the account LibsofTikTok), Ben Shapiro, Stephen Miller, and lawyer and first amendment advocate Ron Coleman also expressed criticism of the ADL or Jonathan Greenblatt. Loomer and Raichik supported the campaign on freedom of speech grounds, while Coleman arguied that the ADL had become an organization more dedicated to promoting Leftist causes than stopping anti-Semitism.
In a move that should surprise no one, the ADL issued a response, calling the campaign anti-Semitic:
“It is profoundly disturbing that Elon Musk spent the weekend engaging with a highly toxic, antisemitic campaign on his platform -- a campaign started by an unrepentant bigot that then was heavily promoted by individuals such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes, Christian nationalist Andrew Torba, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others.
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But to be clear, the real issue is neither ADL nor the threat of a frivolous lawsuit. This urgent matter is the safety of the Jewish people in the face of increasing, intensifying antisemitism. Musk is engaging with and elevating these antisemites at a time when ADL is tracking a surge of bomb threats and swatting attacks of synagogues and Jewish institutions, dramatic levels of antisemitic propaganda being littered throughout Jewish and non-Jewish residential communities, and extremists marching openly through the streets in Nazi gear.
-- ADL (https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-statement-xtwitter). In fact, Alex Jones did not promote the hashtag, but actually condemned it.
The hashtag was also condemned by Israeli publication The Times of Israel, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
Elon Musk is engaging with white nationalists and antisemites who want to ban the Anti-Defamation League from Twitter, the influential social media platform he now calls “X.”
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Woods’ tweet came after a day after Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, spoke with Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, about users trafficking in hate on the platform. The ADL has tracked massive spikes in racist, antisemitic and homophobic content and harassment since Musk bought the platform last year and restored extremist accounts banned under the previous management.
--The Times of Israel, Sep 4 2023, “Elon Musk amplifies call by antisemites to ban the ADL from X”(https://www.timesofisrael.com/elon-musk-amplifies-call-by-antisemites-to-ban-the-adl-from-x/)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Elon Musk to strike a balance between protecting free expression and fighting hate speech at a meeting on Monday after weeks of controversy over antisemitic content on Musk's social media platform X.
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"I hope you find within the confines of the First Amendment, the ability to not only stop antisemitism ... but any collective hatred of a people," Netanyahu said during the meeting that was broadcast live on X from Tesla's factory in Fremont, California.
"I know you're committed to that ... but I encourage and urge you to find a balance," Netanyahu said.
-- Reuters, Sep 18 2023, “Israel's Netanyahu urges Musk to balance free speech, fighting hate on X” (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-urges-musk-balance-free-speech-fighting-hate-x-2023-09-18/)
Netanyahu also arranged a meeting with Musk in response to the hashtag on September 18:
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in California today meeting with tech leaders before heading to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. Among those tech leaders is Elon Musk, whose social media platform, X, or Twitter, has been flooded with antisemitic hate in recent weeks, some of it amplified by Musk in his own tweets.
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MARTÍNEZ (NPR): Now, we should stipulate that the Anti-Defamation League has been critical of Netanyahu and his government policies. What do you think, though, Jonathan, are the chances that Netanyahu would use his leverage in this meeting today?
GREENBLATT: Well, I would hope that Prime Minister Netanyahu would use his leverage. Look; Israel's the homeland of the Jewish people, regardless of how they vote or what they value or even where they live. And so it's imperative for the prime minister to recognize that what Elon Musk has done - and his platform, even before Elon bought it - is to normalize the kind of ugly antisemitism that we used to associate with Cossacks and Nazis and white supremacists. Now you can see it 24/7 with just a click on X.
-- NPR, Sep 18 2023, “Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to meet Elon Musk amid antisemitism controversy’”https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200076853/israels-benjamin-netanyahu-to-meet-elon-musk-amid-antisemitism-controversy)
After the dust from the campaign settled, Keith had this to say in an article for Jewish conservative Ron Unz’s Unz Review:
As much as I would like to take credit for the #BanTheADL campaign, this showdown was inevitable. Elon Musk’s plan is to deliver a free and fair platform for not only political speech but entertainment, culture, and groupware-style communication and planning. His vision is fundamentally incompatible with ADL’s mission to define, direct, and dictate the nature, tone, and boundaries of the political conversation in a specific direction.
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But don’t take my word for it. Borat explains why the unelected and unaccountable ADL should dictate who’s allowed to speak rather than the owners of the corporations. Sacha Baron Cohen made his fame and fortune by peddling hateful and vulgar stereotypes of impoverished ethnic groups, implying that they’re illiterate, incestuous, and sex-crazed rubes. But he would like you to know that his ethnic group will not tolerate equal treatment.
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Predictably, the ADL is now defaming me as (you guessed it) a “raging antisemite”. They dredged up an ancient tweet where I joked that Ben Shapiro had made me a “raging antisemite” to mock liberal claims that Ben (an Orthodox Jew) is promoting fascism. The joke was obvious in context, but the ADL isn’t big on either jokes or context.
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Now, Jonathan Greenblatt’s hitting the media circuit to insist that Elon’s resistance to the ADL’s hostile takeover through tortious interference with its advertising budget is fueled by antisemitism. This would be comical if the ADL wasn’t well-funded and well-connected enough to suck all of the comedy out of the room (and deplatform your favourite comedians).
Greenblatt began to sound like his old self on his damage control tour, insisting the ADL is not an enemy of free speech, and his only job as its leader of a “small non-profit” is to protect Jews from violence. Unfortunately, none of the interviewers asked him what promoting LGBT to children has to do with protecting Jews, or how his demand that President Trump’s social media bans be permanent is not in conflict with his apparent love of free speech and opposition to cancel culture.
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Musk is a naturalized immigrant to America who has bought in, without reservation, to the American promises of free enterprise and free speech. And literally nobody’s making more money and speaking more freely than Elon. If anything, it’s the ADL’s attempts to shut it down in the name of the Jews that’s fuelling antisemitism.
Of course, you guessed it, suggesting that the ADL is contributing to antisemitic sentiment by silencing conservatives in the name of the Jews and accusing everybody of antisemitism is also antisemitic. Asking yourself if they might be obsessively fixated on antisemitism? Antisemitic.
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The rollout of free social media was the most revolutionary development in information dissemination since the printing press. When the regime realised just how revolutionary it was, they got to work spending years fighting for control through lobbying and financial manipulation. While much of this pressure was informal, through networks and backchannels, the ADL is the institutional, public face of this political racketeering network. In 5 years, they had all but destroyed the revolutionary potential afforded by these platforms.
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If the Internet was the most revolutionary development of our age, the fight to protect it from near total control by insidious actors like the ADL may turn out to be one of the most important fights of the century. I have no idea how this will play out, it’s still possible nothing will come of it, though Elon now seems committed to taking on this fight.
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Regardless of what Musk delivers from here, millions have been shown the man behind the curtain, and they’re not happy. People who believe in a free public square have actually been united and motivated to launch a pushback against these unelected tyrants like Greenblatt, a private citizen who has appointed himself the sole arbiter of what may and may not be discussed in the public square.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time there has been meaningful pushback against the censors. Instead of being on the defensive, looking to disavow the person immediately to their right, conservatives and believers in free speech of all stripes are now on the offensive, working to expose the ADL to their millions of followers.
If we lose this fight to wrestle our ability to speak from the ADL, we’ll lose every other fight. The #BanTheADL campaign is diverse, bipartisan, and inclusive of everybody who believes in the power of open discussion and debate. Whether it all ends with the ADL getting banned for platform manipulation, getting bankrupted for tortious interference in several companies, catching another defamation lawsuit, or backing down in response to the popular outcry, anything is better than a future where the ADL dictates what you can and can’t say. Godspeed Elon.
-- Keith Woods, Sep 9 2023, “#BanTheADL: Taking the Public Square Back from the Censors” (https://www.unz.com/article/bantheadl-taking-the-public-square-back-from-the-censors/)
#BanTheADL proves why speaking of Jewish influence in society is a substantial debate to have, and not mere Jew hate. Accusations of anti-Semitism from groups such as the ADL make it impossible for the promises of the 1st amendment and freedom of speech to be realized. As discussed in an earlier chapter, they also adhere to a double standard by which Jews are free to criticize non-Jews as much as they wish, but non-Jews may never criticize Jews. By promoting a double standard that favors Jews at the expense of Gentiles, and threatening the free speech rights of Gentiles, they are only inviting anti-Semitism by antagonizing non-Jews.
Any Jew that truly values free speech, and harmony and peace between Jews and Gentiles, should combat the efforts of Jewish groups to censor Americans. Jews such as Laura Loomer and Ron Coleman are some of the greatest fighters for freedom of speech in America. This is proven by their defense of freedom of speech even for those many would consider anti-Semites, such as Nick Fuentes (publicly defended by Loomer) and The Proud Boys (defended by Coleman in court).
I would like to see a world where Jews and Gentiles can peacefully co-exist. Where Gentiles protect the civil rights of Jews against any violation of their human dignity, while Jews also respect the civil rights, including freedom of speech, of Gentiles.
Perhaps my Jewish family, or Jews in general, will look poorly upon me due to playing devils advocate towards alleged anti-Semites in this text. I can see why they would feel this way. But, at the end of the day, I have to follow what I believe is true and just. Otherwise, I feel I am betraying God, for God is the Truth and God is Justice. My goal in writing this is to try my best to portray the arguments of the various personalities I have covered charitably, in order that people may understand their perspective.
Trump Or Death
After a disappointing announcement speech, and challenges by Republicans such as DeSantis, Trump’s situation looked desperate. That all changed after the system started prosecuting him.
Former President Donald Trump surrendered on Thursday for a fourth time this year, with this case focusing on his efforts to overturn his 2020 general election defeat in Georgia.
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Here’s a look at some of the other top probes against Trump as he campaigns for the 2024 Republican nomination:
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Classified documents case
In all, Trump faces 40 felonies in the classified documents case. The most serious charge carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
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Election Interference
Smith’s second case against Trump was unveiled in August when the former president was indicted on felony charges for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
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Hush Money Scheme
Trump became the first former U.S. president in history to face criminal charges when he was indicted in New York in March on state charges stemming from hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
He pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Each count is punishable by up to four years in prison, though it’s not clear if a judge would impose any prison time if Trump were convicted.
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New York Civil Cases
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Trump and the Trump Organization, alleging they misled banks and tax authorities about the value of assets including golf courses and skyscrapers to get loans and tax benefits.
That lawsuit could lead to civil penalties against the company if James, a Democrat, prevails. She is seeking a $250 million fine and a ban on Trump doing business in New York. Manhattan prosecutors investigated the same alleged conduct but did not pursue criminal charges.
-- AP News, August 24 2023, “Trump has surrendered for a fourth time this year. Here’s where all the cases against him stand” (https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-investigations-other-charges-b8b064a00caad4306fb54d2f6a320468)
While these indictments all involve varying issues, the cases dealing with the 2020 election are what have truly turned Trump into a martyr, especially since most Republicans still believe the election was stolen, and view the J6 defendants as political prisoners. The Trump mugshot, as a result of the case in Georgia, may have been meant to humiliate Trump, but it has given him a symbol as an “outlaw” fighting on behalf of the people against the establishment. This fits perfectly with Trump’s own representation of himself since he first ran in 2016.
“I am your voice. I am with you, I will fight for you and I will win for you.”
Those words are the core message of the Trump campaign, the promises of an unlikely populist leader, a very rich man who claims to have a real affinity for carpenters, bricklayers, coal miners and the struggling common people of all races in this country who believe the system is rigged against them.
-- Los Angeles Times, July 22 2016, “With law and order his priority, Trump declares, ‘I am your voice’”(https://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-trump-voice-20160722-snap-story.html)
Trump’s lead is so far ahead of all of the other candidates, that he did not even bother to show up at the Republican primary debates. Less people seemed to be interested in news of the debate than they were of the Trump mugshot. As of September 2023, the Republicans seem ready to fight and die for Trump. Not even having to run from a jail cell would dissuade them. Recently, Trump flags bearing the slogan “Trump or Death” have begun to be sighted, including during major sporting events. It seems that the 2024 election may become the final showdown between the establishment and Trump, no matter who wins the election.
If Trump does not win, will his supporters accept it, or will they assume that massive voter fraud is to blame? After all, the voting laws have not really changed since 2020. Even if the vote is not rigged, the political persecution through the justice system itself amounts to election interference and an attempt for Biden to jail his political rivals. Not to mention the rigging in the mass media, such as the 2020 suppression of The New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story.
On the other hand, if Trump wins, will the other side accept it? Or will they riot, as they did in 2017 and 2020? Won’t the establishment fight it, knowing that when Trump gets in this time, he actually may “lock them up” for real?
If you insist upon placing the choice of “Trump or death” before the rest of the country, and will accept no other terms, recognize that there are high odds that the rest of country will refuse to be intimidated into electing someone they detest. The answer may well be, “Let’s go with death, then.”
-- National Review, “Who Embraces the Slogan, ‘Trump or Death’?“July 6 2023 (https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/who-embraces-the-slogan-trump-or-death/)
Migrants Take Manhattan
The election also comes at a time when the fabric of society seems to continue to be unwinding around us, a process that truly accelerated in 2020. Supply chain issues, rampant inflation, beyond unaffordable housing, record crime, homeless encampments burying every major city, and a wide open border are putting an extreme strain on American society with the establishment seemingly unwilling or unable to solve these problems.
Even liberal cities like Chicago and New York City are beginning to cry uncle from the pain that the ever-increasing hordes of migrants have inflicted on them.
On Wednesday, Desmon Yancy, the alderman representing the Hyde Park district, called a meeting to discuss the plans to turn the Chicago Lake Shore Hotel into a shelter, and told the agitated crowd he had only just learnt of the plan.
'I was absolutely livid, and you guys are so hypocritical,' one woman told the gathered aldermen, according to CBS News.
Another woman complained at the meeting that the local homeless people - the overwhelming majority of whom are black - were not being given help.
'You've got 73 percent of the people homeless in this city are black people,' she said. 'What have you done for them?'
-- Daily Mail, August 31 2023, “Chicago residents slam 'hypocrite' lawmakers over plans to house 300 new migrants in hotels while city's majority-black homeless population is left to suffer on streets” (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12468299/chicago-migrants-hotel-anger-protests.html)
Unable to find anywhere else to put them, migrants are now living at O’Hare Airport:
Hundreds of asylum seekers are seemingly sleeping on the floor of O’Hare International Airport with little information being offered by the city on what’s next for any of these people.
The area where asylum seekers being kept is under the guise of black curtains, by the bus shuttle center, out of sight for most of the people coming through the airport. Those stationed said O’Hare has been their home for several days.
-- WGNTV (local Chicago news channel), Sep 5, 2023, “”Hundreds of asylum seekers temporarily living at O’Hare International Airport”(https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/hundreds-of-migrants-temporarily-living-at-ohare-international-airport/)
Even New York City is perhaps regretting not building the wall:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams made some of his strongest comments yet on his concerns about the unending flow of migrants coming to the city, warning it will upend neighborhoods and continue to strain resources.
“Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this,” Adams said Wednesday night.
Adams, a Democrat, was speaking at a town hall organized by his office on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. His opening remarks lamented the financial impact of the city’s efforts to house and serve more than 100,000 migrants over the last year.
“This issue will destroy New York City. … All of us are going to be impacted by this. I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now at 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” he continued.
-- Politico, September 15 2023, “Adams: Cost of migrants ‘will destroy New York City’”(https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/07/eric-adams-migrants-new-york-city-00114437)
In New York City, the city has to make cuts to its own citizens and basic public services such as police and sanitation to take care of these migrants.
Mayor Adams’ revised $110B budget cuts sanitation, library, education and migrant services, puts NYC on track to have less than 30K cops.
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Most of New York City’s public libraries won’t stay open on Sundays anymore. The city’s universal pre-K program is getting curtailed. There will be fewer sidewalk trash bins and less street cleaning across the five boroughs. Various services for newly arrived migrants will be phased out, and the NYPD is on track to have less than 30,000 cops for the first time in decades.
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In a written statement, Adams — who did not hold a briefing to take reporters’ questions on the budget update — said the steep belt-tightening is necessary to offset the more than $12 billion his administration projects the city will spend by mid-2025 on sheltering and providing services for the tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived since last year.
– New York Daily News, Nov 16 2023 (https://www.nydailynews.com/)
This is a great example of why Trump was elected in 2016. The establishment, like the Chinese government during the century of humiliation, simply refuses to alter its failing liberal ideology for any reason, even after it inflicts avoidable problems onto society time and time again. So long as it resists reformers like Trump and fights the inevitable illiberal antithesis, these problems will only continue to grow in severity.
The problems are most pronounced in Democrat-controlled cities, which have become increasingly unlivable. Many have moved to the edges of America, to states that are more rural and red. However, the problems will eventually follow even to the most remote parts of America. Even in deep red states such as Idaho and Montana, the mayors are often liberal, more migrants arrive each day, and trans flags hang from the rafters. In rural America, the cities look more Mexican than white, and the whites that are there are poor farmers, not a parallel society of red elites.
The End of White America and the Future of Western Civilization
Whatever happens, and even despite any rightward swing as a result of the dialectic, white America is over forever. According to the 2020 census, Gen Z (perhaps fittingly named) was the last American generation in which white people accounted for a majority.
The following are my predictions for the West as it shall develop in the coming decades and centuries, if current trends continue.
Of course, there are always unpredictable events which can occur in the interim, such as Donald Trump winning the 2016 election, or the Covid pandemic. These unpredictable events can potentially rewrite the course of history and change or reverse its current trajectory. These aside, here are my predictions.
Gradually, native Westerners — that is, white-Europeans — will continue to decline in relative and absolute population in both Europe and its colonies, and the population will be replaced with those of non-white-European ancestry (non-whites). The immediate consequences of this will be as follows:
Whites will become a minority in both their ancestral homelands and in their colonies.
As whites become a minority, they will follow the same trajectory as other populations that have met the same historical fate. Whites will face discrimination and persecution by non-whites, just as all minority populations have throughout history.
Minorities that feel a historical grievance against whites, such as Native Americans and blacks, will use their increased political and cultural influence to take vengeance against whites in the form of reparations, treating whites as second-class citizens, destroying and repressing white cultures, and perhaps also through violent acts such as pogroms.
The whites that remain, and continue to identify as whites in spite of persecution, will become more radically ethnocentric. Logically, this must happen, because they will have to value their white identity to a level that makes them motivated to retain their white identity even when it is disadvantageous and it is harder to find other whites to start a family with. Probably in aesthetic and ideology they will resemble “neo-Nazis” of the present day, embracing symbols such as the Black Sun or perhaps even the Swastika. However, this will not result in any sort of Nazi takeover of the government, lacking the political capital to carry out any sort of repression of other races. It will not be considered seriously, but more along the lines of a lost cause. It will be similar to Native Americans of today speaking in extremely inflammatory language about kicking out the White Man and taking their land back, but lacking any ability to do so (thus such threats are not taken seriously either by whites or by the Native Americans themselves)
This period is in its earliest stages, and will accelerate throughout the coming 50 or so years.
At the same time, the historically majority-white nations will lose their remaining white European character and a new civilization will emerge in its place. Whether the character of this new civilization is an improvement or step backward from traditional Western Civilization is entirely up to one’s personal opinion. However, it is certain that it will be different, because it will be created and perpetuated by people who culturally and genetically differ from white-Europeans. Because of this, something will be lost to the world which once existed, just as something was lost in the world when the culture of the indigenous people of the Americas was lost. And what comes after will not truly be Western Civilization at all, but something as different from the West as the Roman Empire is to modern Italy.
Therefore, long after this initial period of vengeance has run its course, and the West has entirely become transformed and lost nearly all traces of its white-European character to such an extent that it is popularly recognized to be an entirely distinct entity, a new phase will occur. During this period, the new civilization that supplants it will become nostalgic towards the old, white-European civilization that preceded it, and a highly idealized myth of “the good old days” of white-European civilization will emerge, just as we now have an idealized mythological idea (“the Noble Savage”) of what pre-European indigenous civilization was once like.
By this time, figures such as Hitler and Martin Luther King will still be treated as mythological figures to some extent, but people will no longer have strong personal feelings about them or enforce strong taboos regarding them. The historical events of their lives will finally be far enough in the past for historians to study objectively, assuming objectivity is still valued by historians of the successor culture. (Although many cultures favored mythological over objective depictions of history, objectivity remained intact from the Greeks to their various successor civilizations, and in turn has been passed on to most modern industrialized societies, so it will most likely survive. But this cannot be guaranteed).
The various achievements and contributions of white-Europeans will be recognized and appreciated at this point in time, and their historical grievances, while they may continue to be acknowledged to some degree, will be buried deep in the past, where they will lie inert. Hopefully all whites will not have been genocided by this time. However, given the wide area in which whites have settled across the globe, it is more likely than not that they will survive in some form in some part of the world, even if the backlash against them is particularly extreme, which it may not be. This second period will occur in the next few generations after the first period, roughly 100-150 years from now.
There is nothing particular about those of white-European descent that will in any way exempt them from the same historical fate of all other peoples who have been in an analogous position, so it is reasonable to expect that something similar to this course of events will occur.
There may be a revanchist white period at some point in history. After all, the Reconquista took place after hundreds of years of Muslim rule. But such a thing as that is impossible to predict.
The End of The End: History Reboots
Aside from this, non-demographic reasons are leading to the demise of the West. These factors are wholly political, and a direct result of a foreign policy in which America tried to control the entire world. To add insult to injury, in areas under Western control, the West has also began pressuring the world to adopt its now totally degenerated Clown World culture, including promoting feminism, transgenderism and BLM racial grievance politics.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has been making curious pronouncements from the White House podium lately.
“LGBTQ+ rights are … a core part of our foreign policy,” Kirby said last week.
What does that mean, exactly? Cross-sex hormones and gender surgery for your kids or you get no foreign aid? That will win hearts and minds across the globe.
A couple of days later, Kirby warned that the US will “have to take a look” at imposing economic sanctions on predominantly Christian Uganda if an anti-LGBTQ identity law is enacted that was just passed by its parliament. This would be “really unfortunate,” Kirby admitted, since most US aid to Uganda is for health care, especially for AIDS.
Meanwhile, Samantha Power is creeping around socially conservative Hungary, stirring up trouble with intersex activists over a law banning gender studies and the portrayal of LGBTQ content to minors.
It’s one thing to fly the rainbow flag outside our embassies in Kabul and the Holy See. It’s quite another to impose American social mores on traditionally Christian or Islamic countries. You know this kind of woke imperialism in our names won’t end well for anyone.
-- New York Post, March 26 2023, “White House’s push for woke foreign policy will backfire with our socially conservative allies”(https://nypost.com/2023/03/26/white-houses-push-for-woke-foreign-policy-will-backfire-with-our-conservative-allies/)
This has resulted in the decline of American hegemony in the world, as a new, non-Western alliance, BRICS arises in its place. The cornerstone of this failure of foreign policy was the Ukraine War. As a result of this war, Russia was hit with economic sanctions, the West intending to topple the Russian economy and degrade its ability to fight. This strategy seems to have been unsuccessful. Instead, it forced Russia into the arms of China.
Russia was also removed from many aspects of the global financial system, including SWIFT. This attempt by the United States to take advantage of the financial system to attack another country for political reasons alarmed other countries. As a result, they are trying to move away from a system that relies on the United States to one that is more independent, including by moving away from the US dollar.
As of 2023, BRICS now has a larger GDP than the G7, and their military and economic power is only increasing by the day. In 2023, BRICS began to add more countries to the growing block: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates. These countries are also expanding in both influence and economic power.
In deciding in favour of an expansion - the bloc's first in 13 years - BRICS leaders left the door open to future enlargement as dozens more countries voiced interest in joining a grouping they hope can level the global playing field.
The expansion adds economic heft to BRICS, whose current members are China, the world's second largest economy, as well as Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa. It could also amplify its declared ambition to become a champion of the Global South.
But long-standing tensions could linger between members who want to forge the grouping into a counterweight to the West - notably China, Russia and now Iran - and those that continue to nurture close ties to the United States and Europe.
"This membership expansion is historic," Chinese President Xi Jinping, the bloc's most stalwart proponent of enlargement, said. "It shows the determination of BRICS countries for unity and cooperation with the broader developing countries."
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The entry of oil powers Saudi Arabia and UAE highlights their drift away from the United States' orbit and ambition to become global heavyweights in their own right.
Russia and Iran have found common cause in their shared struggle against U.S.-led sanctions and diplomatic isolation, with their economic ties deepening in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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"But it's also obvious that this process of the emerging of a new world order still has fierce opponents."
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi celebrated his country's BRICS invitation with a swipe at Washington, saying on Iranian television network Al Alam that the expansion "shows that the unilateral approach is on the way to decay".
-- Reuters, August 24 2023, “BRICS welcomes new members in push to reshuffle world order” (https://www.reuters.com/world/brics-poised-invite-new-members-join-bloc-sources-2023-08-24/)
If BRICS manages to decisively surpass the G7, it will represent the first time in roughly 500 years that the West has not dominated the rest of the world. It is no coincidence that this is occurring at the same time that whites, the people of the West, are becoming a global minority as well as minorities within their own historical nations. We may be returning to a time like that of the ancient past, where the Islamic Empire, China, and India were the leaders of the world, while Europe was a backwater.
While the illiberal antithesis is rising in the West, this is an internal change. On a global scale, it will probably be dwarfed by this change in power from West to East. The global ideology will thus be determined by the cultural landscape of the East, in whatever form that will take (although this form will probably be less liberal than the extreme liberal society of the West today). However, the loss of status in the world will hopefully also further reinforce the failure of the liberal ideology in the West, and accelerate the process. If the illiberal antithesis can properly be synthesized and reinvigorate the West, then perhaps in time it can rise from the ashes.
Final Thoughts about the Internet
Although the Censorship Era seems to be over, it left a permanent mark on Internet culture. While Alt Tech has allowed for some circumvention of the censorship regime, we have hardly returned to the days where you could watch Mr. Bond on YouTube.
Even X, the one major platform trying to fight censorship, is in an ongoing war with groups like the ADL who are trying to prevent Elon’s dream of a free speech platform. His plans of finding an alternative revenue source to ads do not sound very promising. He has suggested a few things that may actually make censorship worse: eliminating anonymity, and changing X to a subscription service. Eliminating anonymity will not only make the risk of expressing a heterodox opinion extremely high, it will actually be even higher than expressing it offline, since it will be available for everyone to see and copy verbatim, and for many years. We all have heard of people getting cancelled for tweets they made 15 years ago as a teenager. Changing to a subscription service, meanwhile, will make X less of a “public square” and more of a private forum, severely limiting people’s reach and ghettoizing their opinions. Again, this is almost no better than the situation was before the Internet was even invented.
Additionally, we seem be drifting further and further away from the unique “transmitter” -> ”transmitter” of the Internet, and closer and closer to a “transmitter” -> “receiver” model due to the rise of apps like TikTok, which still contains user-generated content but which is curated and delivered to the user via algorithms, reintroducing a chokepoint at the infrastructure level. When someone scrolls TikTok, it is much like the behavior of a person passively flipping through cable channels. The only difference is that it is even worse, because the nature of short-form content is that the information must be presented in an extremely brief, shallow way, and it is gone and replaced by a new video almost as quickly as it appeared. The only possible advantage it retains over mass media is its user-generated nature, but this is almost entirely cancelled out by the ability to hide undesirable user-generated content through the algorithm.
I feel in a way that we are reaching the beginning of the end of the Internet’s lifecycle. I believe society is in the first stages of absorbing this medium totally, and its days of being a disruptive force are starting to wind down. It is perhaps appropriate that its decline coincides with the end of the Trump Era. The two will most likely be considered part of the same phenomenon in future history.
As far as legacy media goes, it seems that, while their viewership continues to decline and their paper editions are totally irrelevant, they have retained their prestige status. Elon Musk has also taken notice of this. In a reply to a Rolling Stone article in which X was referred to as “zombie Twitter,” Musk replied:
This is hilarious coming from a magazine that doesn’t even exist anymore. When is the last time anyone saw a copy?
Their main purpose, and that of many other de facto defunct publications, is to manipulate public opinion by serving as a “mainstream media” source for Wikipedia, to provide probable cause for bogus government investigations and to cancel people who ignore the woke mind virus.
-- Elon Musk, Sep 20 2023 (https://Twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1704717018845397008)
This is the correct take. The mainstream media has been totally replaced by now with the Internet. It no longer serves its supposed primary purpose of informing the people at all anymore. Now, it solely serves as a naked propaganda instrument to manufacture public opinion.
Final Thoughts about Politics
This text has mostly focused on the Right Wing of the Internet, which dominated during the Trump years, especially from 2014-2021. The Left, while certainly present on the Internet, was not as historically significant or as connected to the 4chan-dominated subculture of this time, and was in some ways simply a continuation of pre-Internet forms. However, in researching for this book I have discovered some newer and more recent events on the Left, including the apparent New York-based alliance between the Thiel Right and the socialist Dirtbag Left. This is an interesting development that warrants further investigation. It seems to have only gotten started since the early 2020s. Perhaps in another text, I could cover the Left Wing on the Internet, including its activities during Occupy Wall Street, the emergence of liberal or Leftist Independent journalists such as Tim Pool, The Young Turks, Buzzfeed, etc. as well as this new New York-based phenomenon.
During the Trump years, college students and struggling young professionals across the country looked to Brooklyn for the podcasts, publications and organising models of a new democratic socialism. This cultural energy soon took broad-based political form with electoral victories in major primaries for figures such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Then came the pandemic. The Brooklyn-based cultural scene took the pandemic seriously, and in-person parties and events largely ground to a halt. Not so across the East River in Manhattan. Filling this sudden void in the city’s culture was a nascent, mostly younger, twenty-something crowd centred on a gentrifying area of Chinatown sometimes known as “Dimes Square” (a portmanteau of Times Square and the name of one of the scene’s preferred restaurants). The defining ethos was scorn for the hyper-cautiousness that reigned in Brooklyn – and more generally for the sanctimony of the “woke” left.
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Some critique the habits of the “professional-managerial class”, while others toy with converting to Catholicism. There is tech money sloshing around in the Manhattan scene, too. Some use the cash from foundations attached to conservative venture-capitalist Peter Thiel to put on festivals of “transgressive” film. Supporters hail the resurgence of art that refuses to trade in its power to shock in exchange for adherence to political dogma. Critics see a scene that practices transgression for its own sake – or for mercenary ends – and warn of the consequences of flirtation with reactionary concepts such as the abandonment of ideals of social progress, Catholicism, and an admiration for the aristocratic past.
-- The New Statesmen, May 22, 2022 “New York’s Hipster Wars(https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstatesman.com%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fnorth-america%2Fus%2F2022%2F05%2Fnew-yorks-hipster-wars)
This seems to indicate a movement on the Left away from political correctness and cancel culture and a return to an earlier form of the Left: liberalism. It also shows that the synthesis of the Dissident Right has progressed so far that even its antagonists on the Left are beginning to absorb it, just as the Right eventually began to listen to rock and roll and synthesize parts of the 1960s Leftist counter-culture. This is further proof of my prediction that the dialectic-driven shift to the Right is an inevitable force that cannot be stopped. I still do not see any evidence that the Left will contribute any new political or cultural ideas anytime soon. This shift away from “wokeism” to liberalism will simply absorb the previous cultural changes, such as transgenderism, without offering any alternative to challenge them.
The Trump Era marks one last Hail Mary by the American people to fight back the forces of liberalism with an illiberal ideology. If it is defeated, then the ultimate zenith of liberalism will be 2024, and any remaining resistance against the liberal thesis will be permanently crushed, leading to a “century of humiliation”-style outcome as outlined before. Or, perhaps the country will simply balkanize and fall apart, allowing a power vacuum in which an entirely different nation will arise. If it succeeds, then the zenith of liberalism will have been somewhere around 2015 or 2020, having failed to eliminate all challenges to its power before receding. In the latter case, hopefully we will see America live on, and take the first steps towards finally addressing its many systematic problems that have been piling up since at least the end of the Cold War and perhaps earlier. It may be something similar to the rebirth of the Roman Republic as the Roman Empire.
This Hail Mary was made possible by the final great American-led technological revolution, the Internet, at the very end of the 20th century. Itself the ultimate manifestation of the American principle of “freedom of speech,” which had never before been realized to the degree that it was during the Wild West Era of the Internet, reaching its peak in 2016.
There may be only one year left in the Trump Era. Or, it may live on longer still. The political climate is similar to that of the early 2010s, in the days of Occupy Wall Street and the proto-Alt Right. On the surface, things seem more peaceful than in the chaos of the Covid years, but there is much tension bubbling beneath the surface, ready to erupt at any moment. In the 2024 election, 10 years after GamerGate and the beginning of the Trump Era, it seems destined to erupt in one way or another.
You are doing God's work.
I am somewhat more optimistic on the outcome (at least for Europe), but this has been tremendously useful.