I just read an article in, of all places, Vanity Fair. The writer went to the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando back in October and interviewed Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and Blake Masters. He was trying to find out what the New Right is all about. The journalist sounds like a progressive, which would be no surprise. But it is apparent he has figured out the nuance that differentiates the New Right from what passed for conservatives back before 2016. And so, the very long article (about 9,600 words!) provides an interesting account of the New Right through the eyes of a member of the leftist media elite.
The writer was surprised at how many of the attendees were in their twenties. I found it amusing to hear how shocking it was for him to see all these young and hip people “falling under the spell” of evil Nazis. Of course, a lot of this shock may be for the benefit of his leftist readers at Vanity Fair. If he didn’t feign surprise that young people could find fault with the world that the Left has created, he might be drummed out of Vanity Fair and have to get a real job.
But beside the entertainment value of this mirror on the New Right, I was excited to know that the Left has become extremely worried about the increasing popularity of what they think of as extreme right-wing politics. Or maybe they’ve been aware all along and they hoped if they ignored it, then it would go away.
One thing I notice is that the part of the New Right that this reporter covered is the least threatening branch. Specifically, Peter Thiel and his proteges are the most respectable, least controversial group that could still be labelled as part of the New Right. Even Curtis Yarvin, for all the screeching that the Left has done about his “racist” statements in the past, is more of an intellectual figure than a revolutionary.
By keeping the rest of the New Right out of the mainstream media’s view maybe they’re trying to preselect who is acceptable and thereby limit the damage from the upcoming elections. But either way, the Left knows that anger and disgust over what they’ve done in the last two years is pervasive and is creating a groundswell of support for the new ideas coming out of the New Right.
But as much as I’m interested in the success of New Right candidates in the November election, I’m much more focused on the concrete steps that red state leaders are making to push back against unconstitutional federal laws and actions. Inevitably there will be a showdown between Washington and these rebellious local leaders. I think this is where we’ll see the first true test of cultural resistance to the globalist, anti-freedom regime. And the state leader who gets the feds to blink is going to be man to watch in the future. Maybe it’ll be DeSantis, maybe someone else.
Until then it’s interesting to see these first indications of the Left’s panic. The network pundits now openly admit Biden’s poll numbers are abysmal. And they list all the same factors that we’ve been talking about for more than a year. Inflation, crime, foreign policy incompetence, supply chain failures, COVID tyranny and woke lunacy. So, this act that they’ve kept up, that all of this is just a COVID hangover, has collapsed and at this point they’re praying for the Stupid Party to implode. Usually, I’d think this likely. But somehow, I think we’ve finally reached critical mass and things are going to change in a meaningful way. All I have to do is hold out until November and things will come into clearer focus. Fingers crossed.