Category: conservatism, Page 60
Republicans Will Always Be The Stupid Party
Occidental Dissent - Oct 19th 2021 6:11pm EDTI’ve never met Brion McClanahan. My old friend Bill Cawthon always spoke very highly of him though. For all our differences, I have a lot more in common with McClanahan than Matt Heimbach or Richard Spencer. This rant about the new Bret Baier book and conservative liberalism is ground that I have covered a thousand […]
Guelzo’s Robert E. Lee
Occidental Dissent - Oct 14th 2021 12:27pm EDTBrion McClanahan makes a good point here. The Confederacy never had its own Declaration of Independence. There wasn’t any need for one for two reasons. First, the original version only acknowledged the fact that the American colonies were already effectively independent states. Virginia’s royal governor Lord Dunmore had fled the state on June 8, 1775 […]
Glenn Beck: Is It Time For a National Divorce?
Occidental Dissent - Oct 14th 2021 9:11am EDTI would love to see Glenn Beck update the chalkboard. How did a loon and performance artist like Beck come around on balkanization and secession? My guess is that it happened much like how he came around on Trump. These people are following the audience. The audience has continued to radicalize since Trump lost the […]
Trump Supporter: “I See Civil War Coming”
Occidental Dissent - Oct 12th 2021 11:02am EDTWhat she said:“I see civil war coming.” What she forgot:“And our side is currently dropping by the thousands daily from an easily beatable virus. So, yeah, we’re pumped.” pic.twitter.com/9AbDzjtEE0 — Evan Shapiro (@eshap) October 10, 2021 pic.twitter.com/fASLPcOB9U — Andrew Yang????? (@AndrewYang) October 10, 2021 We’ve all seen the polls. Over half of Trump supporters now […]
Trump Supporter: “I See Civil War Coming”
Occidental Dissent - Oct 12th 2021 10:46am EDTWhat she said:“I see civil war coming.” What she forgot:“And our side is currently dropping by the thousands daily from an easily beatable virus. So, yeah, we’re pumped.” pic.twitter.com/9AbDzjtEE0 — Evan Shapiro (@eshap) October 10, 2021 pic.twitter.com/fASLPcOB9U — Andrew Yang????? (@AndrewYang) October 10, 2021 We’ve all seen the polls. Over half of Trump supporters now […]
Trump Supporter: “I See Civil War Coming”
Occidental Dissent - Oct 11th 2021 7:13pm EDTWhat she said:“I see civil war coming.” What she forgot:“And our side is currently dropping by the thousands daily from an easily beatable virus. So, yeah, we’re pumped.” pic.twitter.com/9AbDzjtEE0 — Evan Shapiro (@eshap) October 10, 2021 We’ve all seen the polls. Over half of Trump supporters now support secession. Around a quarter of Trump supporters […]
TAC: Elite Evangelicalism’s Slide
Occidental Dissent - Oct 11th 2021 10:39am EDTRod Dreher has an excellent find today. This is an excerpt from a Mark Galli article on Substack. Galli used to run Christianity Today which is a top evangelical magazine that was founded by Billy Graham. Remember, this is my controversial take on the Christian Question: 1. Christianity is immersed in time and history like […]
Tucker Carlson: Exposing The Fascist Left
Occidental Dissent - Oct 9th 2021 1:56pm EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. I already know that some of you are rolling your eyes and getting triggered by Tucker using the phrase “the fascist left” and rightly so. It is a clumsy way of framing the problem. We shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees though. Even if “fascism” isn’t […]
Rich Lowry: A Surprising Share Of Americans Wants To Break Up The Country
Occidental Dissent - Oct 7th 2021 12:47pm EDTRich Lowry is also against a National Divorce. Politico: “Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation. The notion of a national breakup has long simmered as a fringe argument, but it is increasingly popular in certain precincts of the political right and has gained at least […]
Why Pick a Fight With The Jaffaites?
Occidental Dissent - Oct 7th 2021 11:17am EDTI’m obviously part of the “radical right.” I’m just a Southern populist and nationalist though. I don’t have these views because I have read Nietzsche, Spengler, Yockey or Evola. I’ve read John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh. Brion McClanahan is correct about Michael Anton, Harry Jaffa, the West Coast Straussians and Northern conservatism. Once you […]
National Review: No, We’re Not More Divided Than We Were During the Civil War
Occidental Dissent - Oct 7th 2021 9:10am EDTThis is a strange position. Obviously, Americans in 2021 are bitterly divided over far more things than the Union and the Confederacy was in 1861. There is far less common ground than there was then. National Review: “I have been an admirer of the Claremont Institute. The California-based think tank, founded in 1979, has in […]
TAC: Arendt, Racism, & The Death Of The West
Occidental Dissent - Oct 6th 2021 12:20pm EDTRod Dreher is clinging to his foolish delusions about the dear Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement this morning. TAC: “What Arendt is saying is that if we start to think of each other primarily in terms of race, not our common humanity, we doom ourselves. This is why, in my […]
David French: A Whiff of Civil War in the Air
Occidental Dissent - Oct 5th 2021 10:13pm EDTDavid French is against a “National Divorce.” The Dispatch: “On Thursday the University of Virginia released polling results that should shock exactly no one who closely follows American politics and culture. A majority of Trump voters (52 percent) and a strong minority of Biden voters (41 percent) strongly or somewhat agree that it’s “time to split the country.” Why […]
How To Solve America’s Anger Problem
Occidental Dissent - Oct 4th 2021 7:23pm EDTIt is not a new idea. We’ve been talking about dismantling the American Empire and dissolving the Union for over a decade on this website. At some point, we stopped talking about it as much because so many people were going through their MAGA phase and Trump had absorbed all of their attention. Even before […]
Remembering Louis de Bonald:October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840
Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2021 9:20am EDT
Border Stampede
Occidental Dissent - Oct 1st 2021 5:14pm EDT“As many as 400,000 migrants” are heading to the U.S. border, NBC News reports. “An unprecedented number…nearly doubling the stunning numbers we’ve seen the last two months, which were a 21-year high.” pic.twitter.com/6kPDR1rE1H — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 1, 2021 AP: New Biden rules would limit arrest, deportation of migrants — Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) September […]
Glenn Youngkin Unveils His Plan To Fight Anti-Semitism In Virginia
Occidental Dissent - Oct 1st 2021 12:18pm EDTVirginia and America must always stand with our Jewish friends and Israel allies against the tide of hate and discrimination. https://t.co/LldJseK0OW — Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) September 30, 2021 As I said in June, when I’m governor, there will be no place for anti-Semitism in Virginia. We must lead the nation in living up to our […]
Poll: Secession Has Widespread Bipartisan Support
Occidental Dissent - Oct 1st 2021 10:34am EDT
Who Wants Open Borders?
Amerika.org - Sep 30th 2021 4:54pm EDT
The Bulwark: Harry Jaffa Was a Subversive Jew
Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2021 2:21pm EDTDuly noted. For those who are unaware, Harry Jaffa was a highly influential figure in the conservative movement. He was like the guru of the Claremont Institute which is one of its leading institutions. There were people like Michael Anton who served in the Trump administration who were highly impressed with him who don’t see […]
TAC: Learning From The Radical Right
Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2021 1:11pm EDTIt turns out that Matthew Rose of First Things has expanded his series of essays into an entire book about the anti-Christian “far right” called After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right. TAC: “I have been meaning for a while to write about one of the best books I’ve read this year: Matthew Rose’s A […]
Mike Pompeo: Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Exit
Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2021 12:10pm EDTThis is painful to watch. You have to watch it though. Hannity’s show represents where Republican politicians are at these days. The people who make the policies like Mike Pompeo – a piece of garbage who Trump moved from the CIA and put in charge of the State Department – are always on Hannity. You […]
Breaking Points: Top Generals Lie With Impunity On Afghanistan
Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2021 10:35am EDTThe big takeaway is that the generals knew all along that their Afghan puppet government was fake and would collapse without an indefinite American military occupation and air support. They’ve spent the last 20 years lying about all the “progress” that they were making in Afghanistan and lying to presidents about how staying there only […]
Tucker Carlson: Lowly Marine Punished For Speaking Out Against Military Brass
Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2021 9:58am EDTThis is another blood boiling story. No one has been punished or held accountable for the 20 year grift and debacle in Afghanistan EXCEPT for some lowly Marine colonel who demanded that some of the failed generals who have gone on to sit on various boards of defense contractors be held accountable for it. Powered […]
Donald Trump’s CIA Plotted To Kill Julian Assange
Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2021 9:14am EDTI’ve been scarce around here lately. It is because I have worked myself into a rage about the Pentagon and the “intelligence community.” It is because of stories like this one. I had to step away to think about my anger. Rolling Stone: “The CIA reportedly plotted to kidnap Julian Assange, and some senior officials in the agency […]
