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Alt-Right
A Way Forward: Good Cop, Bad Cop
I no longer believe the Alt-Right in America is a viable movement. It has no path to victory at the moment. I’ll continue to partake in their analysis of HBD, JQ, family, and to a lesser extent politics. I won’t look into the activists or their activities anymore.
The Alt-Right fundamentally misunderstands their power. The mainstream right has totally disavowed them and any mentions of them that aren’t wholly dismissive reflect a morbid curiosity. The left has successfully been able to utilize them as a boogeyman that says what all Republicans and Libertarians really think. The success of the Alt-Right comes from trolling the left into lashing out against ordinary people. Echoes around journalists and flyers that contain absolutely positive messages are success stories. Getting the elites to say things like “basket of deplorables” is the only real effect they had that was positive. Ironically they are most successful when they get others falsely accused of being them on a massive scale. On the small scale of Bannon, PJW, and Cernovich who are wrongly called Alt-Right they are hurt, only when the target is too large and broadly innocent of political activism does it work.
The near future of the US at best will be Trumpist Civic Nationalism. At worst it will turn into Neoliberal Merkelism under the stewardship of Zuckerberg. Neither of these outcomes present any meaningful role for the Alt-Right. Censorship is already being tightened from merely draconian to fully Orwellian.
The unknown quantities are Generation Z and the Skeptic Community. Generation Z has theoretically been exposed to this material more than any Generation in 100 years. They have potential to remake the West from the wretched mess it has become. The Skeptic Community if it can overcome it’s current cult like attitude may provide that critical juncture that the mainstream right couldn’t, the good cop.
The mainstream right has a simple playbook, delayed acquiescence. They trick their supporters into thinking they will oppose leftist insanity, but they’re incoherent objections are usually drivel that can be summarized as “not yet”. Not yet means yes. As such the mainstream right, known commonly as Conservatism Inc or GOPe, isn’t a dime’s worth of difference from their sparring partner the left. As such they are quick to echo leftist condemnations of right wingers who stray too far from the mainstream. This gives the dreaded “hate list” the power it has. Persons on hate lists were never in danger of being associated with leftists, but now they are no longer allowed in Conservatism Inc. Ponder for a moment that there is no right wing SPLC of note.
The Skeptic Community might be able to form the good cop to the Alt-Right’s bad cop. The Alt-Light has either dissolved, been absorbed, or been bought out by Rebel and Infowars to stay unthreatening. Given the current situation Skeptics may seem like unlikely allies, but they have more accurately represented our views and given air time of our side to their audiences. They are naturally inclined against labeling people thought criminals so could be convinced to not disavow us. More than a few prominent Skeptics have already used the Alt-Right to formulate arguments and acquire memes while removing the harder edges to remain inside the Overton Window currently allowed. This should be encouraged. The Skeptic community should be given free reign to rehash our ideas into publicly acceptable ideas. This pushes things closer to our direction, and pushes their more astute viewers into our arms.
For this to work both sides need an NAP. Allowable are disagreements, but we eschew personal attacks. The don’t condemn us for being too edgy, we don’t criticize them if they utilize DR3. Focus on radical Islam and big business progressivism (Cultural Marxism) for intersecting interests. In exchange for allowing them to essentially plagiarize our analysis we need to extract from them mainstream exposure. Sargon and Dave Rubin should have interviews with Jared Taylor, Kevin MacDonald, etc. We need exposure and they need ideas. We are the bad cop, will they be our good cop?