Defining the Space Between NeverTrump and the Alt-Right<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0 that appeared on the American Greatness website.\u00a0 At the time I declared that I was a red-pilled normie.\u00a0 Of course, I was quickly corrected by someone surely far to my right with the news that there are many red pills and I had a ways to go.<\/p>\nHere we are another eighteen months later (more or less) and my learning curve has flattened out a little and I have a better understanding of the nuances and distinctions on the non-left half of the socio-political spectrum.\u00a0 And the world has changed a great deal too.<\/p>\n
Back in 2017 the NeverTrumpers were still in the ascendancy in Washington.\u00a0 Paul Ryan was still the Speaker of the House and the National Review and the Weekly Standard were still considered conservative magazines by some Republicans.\u00a0 Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham were still more likely to side with Chuck Schumer than President Trump on any particular issue of the day.\u00a0 And every fresh rumor from the leakers on the Mueller investigation was trumpeted on the front page of the Times and Post as if impeachment and conviction were only hours away.\u00a0 How the mighty have fallen.<\/p>\n
The point to all this is that the categories of the Non-Left have not changed much over time but the sizes of these constituencies have shifted radically.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start with the left most extreme edge of the Non-Left.\u00a0 Here are the liberal civic nationalists or \u201cCentrists.\u201d\u00a0 These are the swing voters that can vote Democrat or Republican depending on circumstances and really don\u2019t have much claim to be grouped with conservatives.\u00a0 They are socially liberal and fiscally pretty liberal too.\u00a0 But to the extent that they can vote Republican they are Non-Left.\u00a0 This is a fairly large group of people in the Mid-West and probably a large number of them would be capable of voting for Joe Biden or President Trump in 2020 depending on circumstances.\u00a0 But considering the changes in the economy and the news (like the conclusion to the Mueller investigation) it seems likely that President Trump\u2019s rising popularity probably stems from the changes in opinion of this group.\u00a0 So, to the extent that they are shifting rightwards let\u2019s say that this constituency is growing.<\/p>\n
Next to the Centrists moving rightwards are the so-called \u201cEstablishment Republicans.\u201d\u00a0 Here are the business people who expect the Republican party to stand for capitalism, low taxes and fiscal restraint.\u00a0 This is the JEB! crowd.\u00a0 They trooped over to the NeverTrump movement en masse as soon as they found out that Trump didn\u2019t think globalization was the greatest thing since sliced bread.\u00a0 This group doesn\u2019t shrink or grow.\u00a0 It\u2019s a population that inhabits the same stratum with the elite Left.\u00a0 In fact, they\u2019re the same people.\u00a0 They\u2019re just a little less strident in their social opinions.\u00a0 But they have moved away from their virulent anti-Trump positions as of late and at this point, they\u2019re more neutral in their attitudes about the President.\u00a0 Personally, they still despise him but on a practical basis they concede that they may have to deal with him for another term and they are trying to figure out how best to take advantage of that.\u00a0 An exception to this trend is the Neo-Cons.\u00a0 These War-Hawks are now synonymous with the NeverTrumpers.\u00a0 Bill Kristol and Max Boot are the most virulent of the bunch but as a group they have drifted so far from even the remaining Establishment Republicans that they are now essentially Leftists.<\/p>\n
The next big class of people are the Conservative Civic Nationalists.\u00a0 This is the bulk of the Non-Left.\u00a0 These are the normal people who have always believed in God and Country and that America was the land of freedom, opportunity and fairness.\u00a0 They believed that all Americans were lucky to be living in the greatest country on God\u2019s green earth.\u00a0 They believed that the rule of law under the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights is what made this the closest thing to heaven on earth and anyone living here should be supremely grateful to the Founding Fathers for inventing it and his own ancestors for coming here.\u00a0 This is the group that has had the biggest change occur in the last couple of years.\u00a0 But to define the change let\u2019s break this group into two sub-divisions.\u00a0 Let\u2019s call them Sleepwalkers and the Red-Pilled.\u00a0 Back in the early 2000s all the Civic Nationalists (including myself) were Sleepwalkers.\u00a0 We believed that the Bush family was conservative.\u00a0 W told us he was a religious conservative.\u00a0 We thought he meant that he believed in the social conservative beliefs.\u00a0 We thought he would defend and protect the traditional values that formed the basis of the support that allowed him to send millions of young men half way around the world to primitive lands where they would put their bodies in harms way to fight his wars.<\/p>\n
But the more we defended W, the more he embraced the programs and policies that exposed his constituency to impoverishment through globalist financial policies and replacement by illegal migration.\u00a0 By the time the Bushes had come to publicly embrace the Clintons and the Obamas it was becoming plain to a small part of the Civic Nationalists that we were being played.\u00a0 This group decamped and became the Dissident Right (some called themselves the Alt-Right).\u00a0 Others were just confused and demoralized that all the loyalty and sacrifice that went into the Afghan and Iraq Wars was completely lost on the Neo-Cons and the Republican Establishment.\u00a0 But during the run up to the 2016 election the information that the Dissident Right had decoded started becoming disseminated and a small group of the Civic Nationalists became \u201cred-pilled.\u201d\u00a0 They realized that if Jeb Bush was the Republican candidate there was no hope of turning around the Anti-American program that Obama had started.\u00a0 In fact, none of the candidates, even ones who believed in the conservative agenda could stand up to the combination of Left-Wing journalism and their own fears of being called racists if they dared campaign against globalism and replacement migration.\u00a0 No one except Trump.\u00a0 And as these red-pilled normies saw the lengths to which the Establishment Republicans and the Left would go in order to defeat Trump they became convinced that the only way to save the country was to destroy the old order.\u00a0 Business as usual would mean the end of our republic as we knew it.<\/p>\n
And here is the other big change that has been happening for the last year and a half.\u00a0 The ratio of the Red-Pilled to the Sleepwalkers has been growing.\u00a0 My information is based on the acquaintances I have who have shifted over that time.\u00a0 It is a steady trend and it only goes in one direction.\u00a0 This shift isn\u2019t too important short term because even the Sleepwalkers have accepted Trump and will support him in 2020 but the importance of the Red-Pilled contingent lies in the post-Trump era.\u00a0 The Red-Pilled are far less likely than their Sleepwalking brethren of being fooled again, no more Bushes for them.<\/p>\n
To the right of the Red-Pilled Normies lies the Dissident Right.\u00a0 These are the people that are so disillusioned with America that they feel that the only way for them to live free is for the United States to be divided between the Left and the Right.\u00a0 To a large extent these folks feel that racial differences and resentment will prevent the various ethnic populations from living in harmony.\u00a0 They believe that the Left\u2019s use of identity politics will spread to the white population and will splinter the unity of the American nation into racial components that will want to separate to provide each group freedom from oppression by the other groups.<\/p>\n
The Dissident Right is a disturbing group to follow.\u00a0 Their theory paints a bleak picture of human nature and the future they predict doesn\u2019t hold much hope for a happy place where America is now.\u00a0 But one thing that cannot be denied is that they understand the Left and how it has been dominating the world for about a century.\u00a0 They understand the psychological and sociological tactics and strategies that the Left has been successfully using to destroy almost every facet of life that we held dear.\u00a0 They\u2019ve destroyed the laws, education, corporations, social institutions, churches, the family, sex roles and now they are even redefining what it means biologically to be a man or a woman.\u00a0 They can predict what the Left will say and do and they can define tactics that will work against these people.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty hard to argue with.<\/p>\n
For myself, I tend to agree with what they say is wrong with our society.\u00a0 But I presume that if the practices are changed then the result will change too.\u00a0 For instance, I think that the anti-male, anti-normal and anti-white rhetoric and governmental policies that the Left has enshrined and which breed animosity between people can be eliminated.\u00a0 Once these things are removed the reasons for resentments will be eliminated too.\u00a0 But I also will admit that I can\u2019t be 100% sure that they are wrong.\u00a0 After all they have seen things when others didn\u2019t.\u00a0 For me the jury is out on their predictions.\u00a0 But I hold onto my civic nationalist beliefs.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s what I see to the right of the Left.\u00a0 The biggest chunk is still the Civic Nationalists and, in that chunk, the Red-Pilled Normies are growing and the Sleepwalkers are slowly waking up.\u00a0 The Centrist are on our side at the moment but as always, they blow with the wind.\u00a0 The Establishment Republicans are useless and in it for themselves but they\u2019ll go along if a strong man drags them by their purse strings.\u00a0 The Neo-cons have returned to the Left where they belonged.\u00a0 And finally, the Dissident Right is the Angry Cynic who sees the Con-Man on the Left shaking down the Idealists and warns the rest of us to prepare for a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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