{"id":8178,"date":"2019-08-25T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=8178"},"modified":"2019-08-25T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T01:02:08","slug":"how-will-the-deplorables-get-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/25\/how-will-the-deplorables-get-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will the Deplorables Get Organized?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post I talked about the Great Awakening<\/a> on the Right.\u00a0 And every day makes that claim more obvious.\u00a0 The old way of framing the agenda on the Right and those that championed that mindset are becoming less and less relevant.\u00a0 Fewer people even care to argue with these yesterday men anymore and are abandoning their sites and publications for more relevant sites.<\/p>\n

All of that is clear.\u00a0 What isn\u2019t clear is what comes next.\u00a0 The New Right is anything but monolithic, in point of fact it\u2019s like a boiling pot.<\/p>\n

I struggled to come up with a witty analogy for what the current situation could be described as.\u00a0 Here is an idea.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say that Cold War Conservatism was like a tool that was cast from various metals to form an alloy.\u00a0 Anti-Communists, Social Conservatives and Fiscal Conservatives would be examples of some of those components.\u00a0 During the Cold War it more or less held together and to some extent it served its purpose.\u00a0 But because of the preferences of the metallurgist who formulated the alloy it included some materials that didn\u2019t actually alloy very well but ended up as unassimilated lumps which made them weak spots in the structure.\u00a0 These weak spots would be the Neo-Cons and the Limousine Republicans.\u00a0 And he also left out some materials that would have made the alloy stronger or more useful but he didn\u2019t care for their source.\u00a0 This would equate to when the Paleo-Cons like Buchanan were ejected twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

When this tool began to crumble it no longer served its purpose so the owner has gone to another metallurgist and asked him to recast the tool.\u00a0 Well, waste not want not.\u00a0 So, the metallurgist took the scrap left from the old tool and broke it up and discarded the lumps that hadn\u2019t alloyed previously and threw the rest in the crucible and melted it down and then added some of those previously excluded materials to the melt.\u00a0 This molten metal is currently mostly just potential.\u00a0 It has no known properties yet.\u00a0 Soon it has to be cast and cooled and tested to find out if it\u2019s any better than the alloy before.<\/p>\n

Okay, enough poetry.\u00a0 My point, right now we\u2019ve decided that Conservative Inc. is broken.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken a sledge hammer to it and now we\u2019re taking the good-looking chunks and throwing them into the melting pot and chucking clinkers like JEB! and Mitt and Bill Kristol and George Will into the slag heap.\u00a0 We\u2019re also adding in some nationalism and some pro-normal-American identity politics into the mix.\u00a0 And right now, we have a molten mass that has no known properties, just potential.\u00a0 But soon it will coalesce into something.\u00a0 Now someone has to build the mold to cast it into a usable tool.<\/p>\n

So, four hundred words into this word goulash I\u2019m getting to my point.\u00a0 What\u2019s next?\u00a0 What will this new thing look like?<\/p>\n

First of all, I don\u2019t think it will become a new political party to challenge the Republicans at the polls.\u00a0 Splitting the non-progressive vote is suicide.\u00a0 I think we continue to take over the Republican party.\u00a0 Most (but not all) of the truly hard core RINOs have done us the favor of retiring or switching sides.\u00a0 Without a doubt there are plenty of grifters still in Congress and the government in general just looking for the paycheck and the perks.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not something that will ever change.\u00a0 But when the wind shifts our way these vampires will at least rubber stamp what the majority of the party endorses in order to keep their meal ticket punched.<\/p>\n

But there has to be some organization to allow for the debate and consensus building that goes along with a movement.\u00a0 The old right had the GOP Establishment and the think tanks and the media entities like the National Review and the Weekly Standard to debate and communicate policy.\u00a0 We have none of that.\u00a0 We have blogs and a few mainstream media voices (Rush or Tucker) and then nothing.\u00a0 Some of these sources will expand.\u00a0 Some of the mainstream media (maybe Fox, maybe not) will jump on the bandwagon.\u00a0 But is a political organization necessary?\u00a0 Everyone remembers the fiasco of the Tea Party.\u00a0 The last thing people want is a raft of grifters sucking up funds and side-railing actual results.\u00a0 But how does any organizing get done?\u00a0 How do decisions and policy get decided?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t seem that everything can be done informally.<\/p>\n

My guess is an umbrella organization could provide a way for local groups and single-issue groups to coalesce around a common platform. A consensus could be reached that allows politicians and activists to know what the deplorables are thinking.\u00a0 But how to get something like that going?\u00a0 A few ways occur to me:<\/p>\n