Category: conservatism, Page 56
Thomas Edsall: The Gender Gap Is Taking Us To Unexpected Places
Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2022 1:16pm ESTAs we approach Civil War 2 on the East Coast, this would appear to be relevant. The Democrats are the party of the White minority and specifically the college-educated, professional class White woman whose daughters in the Acela Corridor will doubtlessly half to be drafted and sent into the warzone against the most heavily armed […]
Fareed Zakaria: The Narrow Path To Liberal Democracy
Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2022 12:34pm ESTI actually agree with something Fareed Zakaria says here. Twitter is a glorified chat room. No one watches cable television. It is political junkies who dominate both and who live in bubbles. The rise of Dump makes sense in this carnival landscape. Mainstream politics is fake and mostly performance art. The policies are sold to […]
Tucker Carlson: “Defending Our Democracy”
Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2022 11:35am ESTGood monologue. If you oppose giving the ruling class in Washington total control over state and local elections and allowing Democrats to permanently use the same bag of tricks that they used in 2020 on the basis of COVID being a national emergency, well, you are an enemy of democracy and basically a domestic terrorist […]
Spiked: The Hysterical Fantasy of an Impending Civil War
Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2022 9:11am ESTIt is Civil War 2 in the Acela Corridor. Zaid Jilani makes some excellent points here: Tablet Mag: “The Democratic Party’s message ahead of the 2022 midterms appears to be simple: Vote for us or democracy gets it. “I’m worried that if Republicans win in the midterm elections, that voting as we know it in […]
Dementia Joe Rambles About George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis
Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2022 2:48am ESTJoe Biden said during this speech that people who disagree with his bill to federalize elections are “domestic enemies” and are on the side of George Wallace, Bull Connor, and Jefferson Davis. What you see here is truly the soul of nation being restored. pic.twitter.com/P2gZi5K0nS — Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 11, 2022 I got a […]
The Bulwark: Is America At Risk of a 21st Century Civil War?
Occidental Dissent - Jan 11th 2022 7:31pm ESTIf there is a “civil war,” it will be lopsided.
The Washington Post: Can Democrats Be The Party of PMCs and Blue Collar Workers?
Occidental Dissent - Jan 11th 2022 3:18pm ESTThe Democratic Party is shaped like an hourglass. It is an unstable top-bottom coalition of White college educated PMCs and multiracial working class voters. I have been saying for over a year now that we ought to focus on fire on the PMCs. Washington Post: “Professionals and managers are trending left. Blue-collar workers are not. […]
Brion McClanahan: Common Good Originalism?
Occidental Dissent - Jan 11th 2022 12:55pm ESTNow watching.
Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Compares Trump Voters To Terrorists
Occidental Dissent - Jan 11th 2022 12:42pm ESTIt is their democracy. No one else who lives here are citizens with constitutional rights. They are dangerous “domestic extremists” whose existence poses an existential national security threat.
Tucker Carlson: This Is Collective Punishment
Occidental Dissent - Jan 10th 2022 9:58pm ESTI’m on Team Tucker. I happen to think this is great for us. I’m old enough to remember when “journalists” and the “watchdog organizations” like the ADL and SPLC could get people purged from mainstream conservatism for talking about these issues. As the recent interview with Ted Cruz showed, Tucker is now too big and […]
Kevin McCarthy Lays Out GOP’s “Commitment To America” Agenda
Occidental Dissent - Jan 10th 2022 1:53pm ESTWATCH HERE I don’t expect much to happen. The main benefit of Republicans retaking the House would be to kill off the Democrat legislative agenda which isn’t nothing as long as Joe Biden is president. The Democrats have focused on 1/6 political theater and passing show bills for their base that are killed by the […]
David French: A Nation of Christians Is Not Necessarily a Christian Nation
Occidental Dissent - Jan 9th 2022 7:44pm ESTHere’s a challenging reality: America has become more just (and thus closer to the ideals one expects of a Christian nation) as white Protestant power has waned. Thoughts on America as a “Christian nation” and misplaced longing for a misremembered past. https://t.co/YIY6ERNYxK — David French (@DavidAFrench) January 9, 2022 Virtually everyone sees it now. I […]
Jake Tapper Calls Out Eric Adams
Occidental Dissent - Jan 9th 2022 4:15pm ESTNo matter how you slice it or try to explain it, the fact of the matter is having non citizens voting in U.S. elections doesn’t make one bit of sense. Even CNN’s Jake Tapper couldn’t get the NYC Mayor to make sense of this dangerous legislation. pic.twitter.com/YslRhVYNtT — PARIS (@PARISDENNARD) January 9, 2022 I LOL’d. […]
Ezra Klein: Steve Bannon Is Onto Something
Occidental Dissent - Jan 9th 2022 2:50pm ESTEzra Klein thinks Sloppy Steve has the right strategy. For once, I agree that Steve Bannon is pointing us in the right direction. The libs are going to get owned in the 2022 midterms in what is sure to be a wave of pure kneejerk backlash politics. The polls also show that the taboos have […]
Tucker Carlson: What Happened To NPR?
Occidental Dissent - Jan 7th 2022 10:04pm ESTI approve of this. This is exactly who I said we should be focusing on. As they say on MSNBC, this is “who we are.” They are the woke professional class. They are coastal libtards with graduate degrees who live in the Acela Corridor. They are the PMCs or the Brahmin Left. That’s who is […]
Rachel Maddow: The Caning of Charles Sumner
Occidental Dissent - Jan 7th 2022 9:09am ESTEditor’s Note: It seems to be Civil War 2 week in the liberal media. Excellent monologue from Rachel Maddow! Here is what Preston Brooks said to Charles Sumner before walloping that insufferable, sanctimonious Yankee bastard on the floor of Congress in 1856: “Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully. It is a […]
Always Check the Wooden Horse for Termites
Counter Currents - Jan 7th 2022 8:22am EST
Jake Tapper’s Plea To Republicans
Occidental Dissent - Jan 6th 2022 12:47pm ESTWe’re begging you. The Constitution is an antiquated relic of “white supremacy.” Please bail us out. The survival of “our democracy” depends on packing the courts and getting rid of the filibuster, the Senate, the Electoral College and the Bill of Rights!
The New Yorker: Is a Civil War Ahead?
Occidental Dissent - Jan 5th 2022 5:32pm ESTBE VERY AFRAID! The New Yorker and Council on Foreign Relations are getting in on the 1/6 hysteria with dire warnings of hitherto inept accelerationists starting an impending Civil War 2. In reality, it has been significantly quieter than usual on that front since Joe Biden was sworn in as president. Council on Foreign Relations: […]
Politico: Republicans Are Moving Rapidly To Cement Minority Rule. Blame The Constitution
Occidental Dissent - Jan 5th 2022 11:38am ESTThis is a beautiful illustration of what I said earlier this morning. If you tried, could you have written a more sanctimonious, hypocritical or hysterical headline than this one in Politico magazine? It turns out that redistricting is looking like a wash for both parties. Democrats have gerrymandered as aggressively as Republicans in states like […]
Michael Anton: Blue America’s Messaging Problem
Occidental Dissent - Jan 5th 2022 9:16am ESTMichael Anton has a good new article this morning. As a close observer, I have come up with a short list of qualities that I associate with the coastal shitlibs or PMCs who run the Democratic Party who I read, watch and study on a daily basis: Sanctimony Hypocrisy Self-righteousness Self-absorption Ruthlessness Hysteria Read Dana […]
Brion McClanahan: John C. Calhoun’s Legacy
Occidental Dissent - Jan 4th 2022 8:34pm ESTJohn C. Calhoun is also on my mind. I feel like he has been resurrected and is here with us in spirit in 2022. New York Times: “The structural advantages that conservatives enjoy in our electoral system are well known. Twice already this young century, the Republican Party has won the Electoral College and thus […]
The Guardian: The Next U.S. Civil War Is Already Here – We Just Refuse To See It
Occidental Dissent - Jan 4th 2022 10:04am ESTThere is a major contradiction in this argument: The United States is already in Civil War 2 “Extremism” has gone mainstream The Right is poised to use violence and secession to get its way The U.S. Constitution is strangling “our democracy” Wokeism is marginalizing the Left The United States is on the verge of a […]
MSNBC: Trump Endorses Rightwing Autocrat In Hungary
Occidental Dissent - Jan 3rd 2022 8:34pm ESTThis is how “our democracy” could die in the darkness. The woke professional class might become too culturally toxic to remain competitive in national elections. This would enable the Right to continue to stack the judiciary, gerrymander and change election laws in favorable ways in battleground states. Zack Beauchamp of Vox lays out this dire […]
2022: In a Mirror, Darkly
Occidental Dissent - Jan 3rd 2022 4:31pm ESTIt is hard to say who has written the most hysterical hot take today. There are so many good ones to choose from. The mood among establishment liberals is grim. Here is Jonathan Chait on “Conservatism and Fascism Are Not The Same Thing”: New York Magazine: Vox: Washington Post: Washington Post:
