Tag: Conservative Populism

Looking Out Through the Overton Window

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Here I am at Friday.  Now all that remains of my holiday week is a measly weekend.  But I won’t grouse (much).  In the afterglow from way too much rich food and late nights watching old movies I muse on the current political situation and wonder what the future holds.

And I’m reminded of something that has been said a number of times about Trump.  It’s not so much what he finishes as what he normalizes.  Before Trump the Republicans were so cowed by eight years of George Bush and eight years of Obama that their idea of innovation was volunteering to capitulate on citizenship for illegal aliens.  Was it Jeb Bush who declared it not a crime but an act of love?  And then Trump comes along and says he’ll build a wall and now eight years later Latinos vote him into office on the strength of his promise to deport millions of Latinos!  So, what is the lesson?  Stop being afraid of what your enemies will call you and instead worry about what your friends need.

And imagine if Trump applies that same idea to all of the problems that beset his constituency.  And who is his constituency?  I would say it’s everybody that isn’t in the elite or working directly for the elite.  That gives him a lot of ground to choose from.  There is an enormous opportunity to punish corporations that hire illegal aliens and/or off-shore their manufacturing plants.  Forcing these corporations to hire Americans should be job two (directly after deporting the illegals).

And another big population that voted for Trump was men.  Men broke for Trump.  Even a lot of non-white men voted Trump.  Well, how about he has our back by striking down feminist affirmative action everywhere it is found.  Women have been advantaged by the law and the bureaucracy for long enough.  Stop whining about being held back and just stand on your own two feet for a change.  No more quotas and no more special dispensations around physical requirements for things like fire-fighting and the military.  If you’re too weak for the job find an easier job.

And finally, finishing off the race hustlers who scream racism when they discover that equal opportunities don’t result in equal results is probably the most important thing about which Trump can shift the Overton Window.  I don’t expect Trump to achieve all of his results.  He may only deport a fraction of the illegals and only punish a fraction of the companies employing illegals.  He may only drain half the swamp.  But what he will do is change the argument from how quickly the Republicans should capitulate to the Left, into how to primary the RINOs that don’t follow his lead.

All of the old guard pundits who mocked Trump for the last eight years and declared him a fluke who won’t get anything done have been proven wrong.  Even the stupidest and most dishonest admit this is the Age of Trump.  He has tapped into an angry populism that can fuel major change if it is channeled skillfully.  Trump has four years to fix things.  If he comes close to doing that, his successor can follow in his footsteps and continue the job.  Namely, give us back our future.

David Brooks Admits the Truth

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They know.  We know they know.  They know we know that they know.

The only question is when it all blows up.

What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?

“Daniel Markovits summarized years of research in his book “The Meritocracy Trap”: “Today, middle-class children lose out to the rich children at school, and middle-class adults lose out to elite graduates at work. Meritocracy blocks the middle class from opportunity. Then it blames those who lose a competition for income and status that, even when everyone plays by the rules, only the rich can win.””

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“But there’s a larger context here. As the sociologist E. Digby Baltzell wrote decades ago, “History is a graveyard of classes which have preferred caste privileges to leadership.” That is the destiny our class is now flirting with. We can condemn the Trumpian populists all day until the cows come home, but the real question is when will we stop behaving in ways that make Trumpism inevitable.”

An Open Letter to the Leaders on the Right

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To: Former President Donald J. Trump, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Tom Cotton, Governor Ron DeSantis, Governor Kristi Noem, Mr. Mike Pompeo, Mr. Donald Trump Jr., Mr. Tucker Carlson

 

I am writing this open letter to you powerful and hopefully conservative leaders in the hope that somehow it will find its way to you in the real world.  I am not sure that all of you really are on our side and I’m also sure that I’ve left out many conservative leaders that are out there.  But if this message gets through to any of you and you actually find my message important then you have more chance of spreading this information to the rest of the conservative leaders than I do.

And my message is that unless you all organize some kind of effective message to the conservative people of this country very soon it will be too late.  And that’s not hyperbole.  The Left is torturing us in every facet of our existence.

They torture us at work with their various trainings.  We get sensitivity training for racial identity, sexual identity, gender identity.  We get lectured on equity which is just another name for anti-white discrimination.  Now we even get safety training to rat out our friends who say the “wrong” things.

They torture us if we try to watch entertainment.  We have to have overpaid steroid users kneeling during the national anthem while the airheaded “sports analysts” tell us how brave they are to do it.  Every movie and every tv show and even every commercial trumpets the BLM mantra that America is an abomination saturated with systemic racism.  The stupidest people in the world, actors and actresses, line up to preach to us about how evil we are.  They’ve even invented a name for it, white privilege.

They torture our children in every school from nursery school all the way through graduate school.  And if they don’t toe the line, they won’t get to use their hyper-expensive degrees.  They turn them against their parents and ancestors and make them hate the very civilization that created the world that provides all the advantages that everybody takes for granted.

They torture us on-line where they harass and de-platform normal people who want to communicate with the rest of the world.  They will not only de-platform you but they will pressure banks and payment processors to boycott your business.  They’ll even contact your employer and get you fired from your job.  And Silicon Valley acts as a giant echo chamber that gaslights us and even worse, silences us in their search engines and advertising algorithms.

They torture us by making and selectively enforcing laws against us.  They’ll celebrate the rioting and murder committed by BLM and Antifa but they’ll prosecute to absurd levels anything that is done by the Right.  Now they are ramping up their surveillance and prosecution campaign using the bogeyman of “white supremacist terror.”  They punish free speech and they are attempting to invalidate the second amendment by criminalizing guns.

They torture us by encouraging illegal immigration and by exporting all our jobs.  And now Silicon Valley has finished the job by killing the retail businesses with Amazon.  I won’t even bother to discuss COVID and the horrors they’ve inflicted on us for that.

They’ve made our lives hell but other than President Trump’s term in office you’ve all done nothing.  In the last four years there was a glimmer of hope.  That’s been extinguished.  And most real conservatives living in blue states are close to giving up permanently.  I have many friends who were outspoken champions of the Right but after the 2020 election and its aftermath have told me they don’t think there is anyone on the Right that has any fight in them at all.  If you tell them that we must form a resistance they say, “Leave me alone, don’t waste my time, let me go and enjoy my life as well as I can.”  So, if you hope to do something about taking back this country from the Left you all better sit down together in one room and put together an action plan that includes more than talk.

You want to be the leaders of the Right, so lead!   You had better put together a party or corporation to rally the conservatives.  It can’t be the Republican party because they are useless.  Their “big tent” includes squishes like McConnell and Cheney and countless others who wouldn’t know a conservative principle if it walked up to them and punched them in the nose.  And I’m not asking all the Republicans to leave the party.  It’s irrelevant.  We need an organization that’s just for social conservatives, people who believe in the Bill of Rights, who believe in God and country.  A good test is anyone who thinks that the BLM riots were justified doesn’t belong in this group.

Put together an organization and come up with some goals.  Speak to us tell us what you plan to do.  Give us hope.  Give us something to buy into and support that isn’t just us funding your stupid re-election funds!  Build something that we can benefit from.  Find some billionaires on our side and have them build some platforms for us.  Have our own Facebook, our own PayPal and while you’re at it have them open our own bank.  You could get 75,000,000 customers and who knows one day you might have your own Google, YouTube and Amazon also.  Buy a bunch of expensive lawyers and start suing our enemies in every court in the land.  Sue Google, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal and all the banks and other corporations that have been de-platforming and firing people for absolutely no legal reason at all.

And I’m no business genius.  I am aware that it takes business savvy and experience to do this.  But if there is no one on our side smart enough to figure out how to monetize 75,000,000 angry consumers then we deserve to lose.  Give these people a way to channel their anger and they will be glad to pay a little bit to have an organization of their own.

But you had better do it soon.  People can’t hold out forever.  They need hope and they want something to believe in.  Come up with a plan and put it in front of the Right and they will follow you.  Dawdle around and there won’t be anything left.  If you are leaders then lead.  If you’re not then just put out a statement that there is no hope and you’re outmatched.  Then we can decide how to make the best of our lives somewhere else.

25JAN2020 – American Greatness Post of the Day – Espresso Populism by Niccolo Soldo

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Soldo has a second installment on Italy’s revolt against globalism.  https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/24/espresso-populism/  In the article he states that tomorrow, 26JAN2020 the reliably left wing Italian province of Emilia-Romagna is voting and currently the polls are deadlocked with a good chance that the right wing populist Lega party led by Matteo Salvini will win.  Soldo compares that to the Republicans capturing the California legislature, governorship, and both their senators and house representatives all at once.  Since that is a known impossibility I hope Soldo has higher hopes for the Italian election in question.

But tomorrow is not a long time to wait so if you’re interested in this story as the next domino after Trump and Boris Johnson, then stay tuned and test his theory tomorrow.

This Article Nicely Defines How Conservatives Can Win

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This guy gets it.   Trump and Johnson win because they’re not worrying about the theoretical basis of conservative government. They’re trying to give the people a government that helps solve their problems and doesn’t despise them.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/16/boris-johnson-donald-trumps-secret-to-success-take-best-from-right-left/