By Anthony Bernabei, Vanguard Sentinel I once had a conversation with a young woman who said: ” The Constitution and it’s rights only apply to Americans”. This disregardful claim not only damages the perceived integrity of natural rights, which all men are born with, but displays a misunderstanding […]
Joseph Cotto and I discuss the fragmentation of the United States. Increasingly, the USA is going to be fragmented into an ever-growing number of neo-tribes that lack a common cultural framework with many of these regarding many of the others as inherently illegitimate. An electoral win by “the […]
California is a deep blue state, which is under the de facto one-party rule of the Democrats. It is a majority-minority state and one of the most culturally liberal states in the US. And yet Proposition 16 was defeated in the year of “Black Lives Matter” becoming an […]
James Lindsay is one of the best critics of totalitarian humanism there is, but I don’t agree with the political angle he’s taking in this interview. While Lindsay is a liberal, he’s taking the standard “conservative” position that Biden is simply a frontman that is serving as a […]
The First Amendment survives by one vote. What part of “shall make no law” do the other four not understand? Having a Republican-dominated SCOTUS is probably a good idea as the wider culture (and therefore the elected branches of government) move further toward the cultural faux “left” with […]
A reader writes: You should be a culture warrior because that’s the real front of conflict at the moment. Peterson I feel has run out of steam of late sure (tbf he has health issues so I empathize) but at the same time, capturing the system back from […]
The only hope for the Republicans to continue to be a competitive national party will be to increase their ability to attract minority voters. It doesn’t look for them even if Trump managed to improve his performance among minorities in 2020 over 2016. My guess is that the […]
This article is a reminder of why I am not a “culture warrior.” I generally find Jordan Peterson to be a boring, substanceless “thinker” with a shallow center-right outlook whose “conservatism” amounts to a tenth-rate version of what Burke or Nietzsche said centuries ago. Nor do I care […]
It’s interesting that the king’s knights are telling Prince Andrew the Other to fuck off. Even the pigs can practice pan-secessionism. By Rich Calder, Wall Street Journal New York City law-enforcement officers won’t be knocking on doors on Thanksgiving Day to see whether New Yorkers are following Gov. […]
Class-based politics is going to make a big comeback in the future given the trends that class relations and economic life generally are following. This doesn’t mean class politics will supersede political, cultural, or ethnic conflict. It will just be another ingredient in the mix. Regrettably, the rising […]
The degree to which people support their government’s COVID-19 policies depends on whether they support the current ruling party. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss polling by Pew that reveals how people worldwide feel about the response to the Coronavirus.
The split between the managerial class and the “post-bourgeois proletariat” identified by Sam Francis 25 years ago. By Aaron Zitner, Wall Street Journal The job and wage growth that President Trump hoped would propel him to a second term was particularly strong in metropolitan America. Yet the Americans […]
I don’t really see an end in sight to “polarization” or “incivility.” If anything, all of these things are going to continue to expand as class divisions widen, and as society becomes more diverse and fractious. The Atlantic Washington, D.C. isn’t exactly known for its civility. But today, […]
I don’t agree with this author’s crude stereotyping of blacks or his opposition to criminal justice reform, but he makes an interesting point. The “liberal-left” scored major victories involving referendums in the election, with everything from minimum wage increases to drug legalization to criminal justice reform passing in […]
This a pretty good critique of “anti-racism” theorists like Robin D’Angelo and Ibram X. Kendi from what could be called a non-racist, conservative-libertarian, classical liberal perspective. By Peter Minowitz, Independent Institute When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the GSA’s official recognition of the Biden presidency as well as President Trump’s half-hearted acknowledgment of defeat.
I’ve generally found that some of the coolest reporting on extremists comes from their opponents. “Anarchist mobs rioting in Seattle!” You say that like it’s a bad thing. “Gun toting yokels march on Virginia’s capital!” And the problem is? Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists in Seattle have […]
One thing that is interesting about culture war partisans is the way they always think the government, police, corporations, or whoever favors their rivals and that the other side’s extremists are really in cahoots with law enforcement or the intelligence services. By Aymann Ismail, Slate Photographer Zach D […]
Instead, everyone should simply believe in the unending benevolence of the ruling class. By Aja Romano, Vox Eleanor’s dad loved science — or so she thought. Eleanor grew up listening to stories of the Apollo missions and audio clips from space expeditions. Every weekend, the two of them […]
A podcast from It’s Going Down. Some of the analysis is interesting. I wouldn’t consider a Trumpist third party to be “fascist” any more than I would consider the proposed Peoples Party being floated by some left-over Sandernistas to be “communist.” A Trumpist party would be to the […]
To ask the question is to answer it. He was the plutocrats’ handpicked frontman to purge the Orange Man. Hedges is way too much of a conventional liberal ideologue for my tastes, and this interview contains a fair amount of obvious hyperbole, but he’s interesting is that he […]
So Republicans and Democrats share a similar future. Fair enough. The encouraging thing that has happened on the mainstream right-wing lately has been the signs of a split between FOX and the Trumpists and talk of a Trump TV network. Being a persistent thorn in the side to […]
This is a pretty good critique of the “flag and a pie and a mom and a Bible” crowd. Although it’s obvious weakness is that it fails to take totalitarian humanism and its relationship to the digital capitalist revolution seriously. “Christian nationalists” are a minority political faction in […]
The appropriate advice would be “Get a life!” By Elizabeth Bernstein, Wall Street Journal Want to throttle someone you know over politics? You’re not alone. Two weeks from an election that has fueled more bitter divisions than America has seen in decades, it feels harder than ever to […]
This is some pretty good commentary FWIW but Van Jones was still the dude that was crying tears of joy when his team won the Super Bowl…err…election…so he’s still playing with a handicap.
Only a Republican could somehow manage to make Alexandria look like a genius in comparison. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on the Twitter spat between AOC and Nikki Haley over paying Americans to stay home. They also discuss spending trends that reveal people are spending more […]
FOX is throwing Trump under the bus now that he’s no longer useful. A split between FOX and the Trumpists would be great. A four-way ruling class splintering between Trumpists, neocons, neoliberals,and progressives is exactly what we need, hopefully with more splintering coming after that.
This is a pretty good discussion of the relationship between race and class. Krystal Ball weighs in on California voter’s rejection of affirmative action.
Now it’s the Repugnicans turn to spend four years whining about a moderate Republican is really a dictator is on the horizon. The same way the Democraps did for the past four years.
Excellent. Now, if only something comparable could happen on the progressive side. Fragment, fragment, fragment…
Based on everything that has happened in 2020, I’d say the ATS position has largely been vindicated. On an international level, unipolarity seems to be moving toward retreat. Domestically, the lumpenproletariat has clearly demonstrated itself to be the vanguard class of the anarchist revolution. Pan-secessionism seems to be […]
Center for Immigration Studies The sanctuary jurisdictions are listed below. These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable […]
Marianne Williamson reminds me of Carol Burnett’s “Nora Desmond” character.
Jon Voight is apparently drifting off into Jim Jones-level insanity.
By Bill Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing, the outcome of the Presidential election is uncertain although it appears Biden will “win”, thanks to questionable vote totals from urban areas. The Senate looks as if it will remain Republican, and the Democrats have held onto the House […]
I always thought Kim is too intelligent and independently minded to be a party-line leftist.
Dave Rubin’s program has interesting interviews at times, but he’s just become a neocon puppet at this point. He’s being used by the neocons to create the “next conservatism.” Kim’s critique of the Left is spot on although, fortunately, we don’t need the Left. We just need the […]
When Obama was the prez, I knew FOX News cultists who would recommend this book saying, “It’s happening here,” apparently on the grounds that both Obama and Austrian Charlie Chaplin favored public healthcare or something or other. Nowadays, I’m seeing left-cultists circulate this book, apparently on the grounds […]
I doubt Biden is much concerned about this. In the last five decades, I’ve spent time in or around the religious right, left-wing anarchism, the far-left, right-wing libertarianism, the militia movement/preppers, the far-right, and the alt-right. My general conclusion is that all of these milieus are mostly just […]
By Jonathan Kay, Quillette “While art has long maintained a symbiotic relationship with bourgeois state power, there’s still something deeply unsettling about our supposedly ‘radical’ artists manufacturing consent on behalf of one of our two entrenched capitalist parties,” wrote artist and self-described “culturally agnostic Marxist” Adam Lehrer in […]
It will interesting to see if a Bidenist regime imposes a national lockdown and/or mask mandate and what kind of protests that will provoke. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss newly imposed restrictions nationwide aimed at combating the spread of the Coronavirus.
The gist of this article is that Trumpism actually has nothing to do with fascism but could possibly, kinda sorta, be a stepping stone to fascism, maybe. Sometimes I think these “anti-fascist” people actually want fascism to happen so they can have something to feel heroic and/or self-righteous […]
Jacobin contributing editor, Matt Karp, discusses what shifts in the Democratic coalition mean for the future of the party.
This a good takedown of the Democrats. Krystal Ball explains why candidates shouldn’t be judged by the diversity box they check, but by their records, views, and commitments to voters.
Actually, “driving partisanship” was the best thing Koch ever did. Thanks, Charlie. Team Rising discusses Charles Koch’s new book and his statements about partisanship.
The universal victory of anti-police state referendums was the most important thing to come out of the election, much more so than the presidential contest. But the big question is what will the state attack as it loses the drug war as a tool? Executive Director of the […]
Trump TV would be hilarious, particularly if it created a major split between FAUX and the Trumpists. Divide, divide, divide… Team Rising gives their take on reported plans by Trump allies to buyout Newsmax TV as a Fox News Alternative.
A split between the neocons and Trumpists at FAUX News. Hopefully, some serious bloodletting takes place.
I’ve also seen plenty of commentaries describing how yoga, hiking clubs, stamp collectors clubs, and even the Southern Baptist Convention are being infiltrated by SJWs. Apparently, everything is becoming politicized, even stuff that shouldn’t rationally be considered political. And “both sides” are increasingly coming to view an electoral […]
When Trump was elected, there were liberals and leftists call for a reversal of the election by the Electoral College as well. By Tom Porter, Business Insider President Donald Trump has asked aides about a plan to remain in office by subverting the Electoral College, The New York […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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