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  • Thwarting Jewish Conquest: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together Part 6 of 6

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2021 6:15am EDT

    3,162 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here Much of the tremendous value of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together rests in how it was written completely without rancor. Only a highly cynical or unreasonable person could call it anti-Semitic — that is, a work that professes animosity or […]

  • National Review: Working-Class Reds

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 1:02am EDT

    Who are the Trumpists? National Review: “In the course of a few weeks early in the Biden administration, Republicans have been making a rapid shift in their agenda, message, and perhaps philosophy. Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) proposed an ambitious plan to send checks from the federal government to parents. With Senator Tom Cotton (R., […]

  • Why Conservatism, Inc. Failed

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 5:00pm EDT

    I now understand why Conservatism, Inc. failed. It failed because it selected far too many people like “political strategist” Tim Miller here. Conservatism, Inc. is drawn from people who are disproportionately White college-educated, upper middle class urbanites and suburbanites from Blue States who are professionals with modernist and cosmopolitan values. These people are also too […]

  • Nick Fuentes Is a Zoomer Paleocon

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 3:14pm EDT

    The Trump Revolution was not exclusively or even primarily about “economic populism,” it was about native American revanchism. Many who now claim the mantle of the Trump legacy focus solely on economics and ignore or condemn the identity/culture aspect entirely. — Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) March 18, 2021 Remember that Donald Trump only grew more […]

  • The COVID Class War Heats Up

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 12:51pm EDT

    Michael Lind is always a delight to read. He is from Texas. He is an economic progressive. He also reflexively writes from a historical perspective like I do. This is a great take on what is going on with contemporary progressivism, the lockdowns which devastated the economy and the realignment of the two parties. Tablet […]

  • Look out honey, ’cause I’m using technology! Eumaios, Evola, & Neville on Race

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2021 11:45am EDT

    Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895. 6,316 words Gen. Turgidson: Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. “Is ‘Short Time Preference’ Really Such […]

  • Look out honey, ’cause I’m using technology! Eumaios, Evola, & Neville on Race

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895. 6,316 words Gen. Turgidson: Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. “Is ‘Short Time Preference’ Really Such […]

  • Karl Rove: People Don’t Even WANT $1,400 Checks!

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 7:52pm EDT

    LMAO. Who supports $1,400 checks? We know exactly who the Republicans are who support the $1,400 checks. It is the “Right Populists.” The people who are opposed to it the strongest are the Never Trump True Cons or Free Marketeers and to a somewhat lesser degree what used to be the old Republican base before […]

  • FOX News Is Trying To Win Back The Red Dogs

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 9:55am EDT

    This appears to be the strategy. I don’t think it is a bad strategy in light of what Joe is doing. FOX News is trying to appeal to Trumpists with political correctness/wokeness and immigration and Red Dogs with fiscal conservatism. There is enough there for both of these factions to be pissed off with the […]

  • The Rad Con Future

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 15th 2021 7:52pm EDT

    Here are my thoughts: In 2021, the Republican Party is two parties. It is the Trump Party and the Republican Party. Republican voters are split about 50/50 between people who identify more as traditional Republicans and Trump supporters. The strongest Republican voters are now the newcomers. Approximately half of the Republican Party is what I […]

  • The True Con Era Is Over

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 10:50am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Now that the True Cons era is over, we can look back on the Reagan era Republican Party and conservative movement and see what was wrong with it. These people ruled the roost for half a century. The Free Marketeers were the governing wing of the Republican […]

  • Poll: The True Con

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 9:08am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. The new Fabrizio Lee polls tells us a lot about the composition of the post-Trump Republican Party and confirms what we have seen in other recent polls. Republican establishment voters are now the disaffected wing of the party and have declined to 15% of Republican voters. Fabrizio […]

  • Poll: QAnon Is Exaggerated

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 13th 2021 9:59pm EST

    I will dive more into this poll tomorrow. In the meantime, this is an interesting finding. Fabrizio Lee:

  • Marco Rubio Is With Amazon Workers In Spirit Now

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 1:37pm EST

    I’m not going to complain. It is another baby step away from True Cons orthodoxy, right? USA Today: “For the past several years, Amazon has waged a war against working-class values. The Silicon Valley titan uses anticompetitive strategies to crush small businesses, bans conservative books and blocks traditional charities from participating in its AmazonSmile program. […]

  • NY Mag: What Can Republicans Do to Make ‘Conservative Populism’ More Popular?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 12:03pm EST

    “Conservative populism” is a transition phase. Bourbonism went extinct in the first decade of the 20th century. It reemerged in the mid-20th century in reaction to the New Deal. We’re headed back toward a Populist vs. Progressive alignment. In 2012, the Republican Party was a conservative coalition in the waning years of the Reagan era. […]

  • The Conservative Case for Being Actually Conservative

    Amerika.org - Mar 12th 2021 8:02am EST

    Conservatives find themselves in an interesting place. The stolen election and refusal to investigate proved to us that our civilization has reached terminal decline, and that people are looking for something different. At the same time, conservatives have for years defended the status quo with the notion that we can patch it up and keep […]

  • Senate Republicans Rally Behind Repealing The Estate Tax

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 3:59pm EST

    What is the top priority of Senate Republicans? What is their plan to take back the majority in Congress in 2022? If you guessed “creating a new tax break for Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates” while engaging in empty performance art over the cancellation of Dr. Seuss, you won the prize. They’re not […]

  • Poll: Joe Biden Isn’t As Popular As Some Polls Are Suggesting

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 2:23pm EST

    PBS/Marist Poll has Joe at a 49% approval rating. PBS: “About half of Americans — 49 percent — said they approve of how Biden has served as president so far, less than two months into his presidency, according to the latest poll. But as was the case with his predecessor, whose last year in office […]

  • Gov. Greg Abbott: Gab Has No Place In Texas

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 11:29pm EST

    Anti-Semitic platforms do not represent Texas values. Proud to support @PhilKingTX & @GoldmanCraig’s bill to fight anti-Semitism in our communities. #txlege pic.twitter.com/ZVri3z0Wis — Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) March 11, 2021 I would love to see what Texas voters think. Do they care as much about anti-Semitism as Greg Abbott? I’m guessing they don’t because I […]

  • Sen. Tim Scott: Woke Supremacy Is As Bad As White Supremacy

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 9:10pm EST

    I’ve been using the term for a while now. Yahoo News: “The South Carolina Senator is falling in line with his Republican counterparts by taking aim at “cancel culture.” Republican Senator Tim Scott told Fox News host Trey Gowdy that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. We need to take that seriously.” Scott was replying to comments […]

  • House Passes The PRO Act

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 2:48pm EST

    What do you think? This isn’t going anywhere because the “party of the working class” will unanimously oppose it like the $15 minimum wage or the $1,400 stimulus checks in the Senate. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes the bill and elected Republicans out of instinct or habit or both seem to defer to the […]

  • Poll: No One Likes Mitch McConnell

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 9th 2021 11:45pm EST

    There isn’t much difference between Democrats and Republicans on Mitch McConnell. He is viewed favorably by 28% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats. Yahoo: “The 79-year-old Senate Republican leader, long known as the “Grim Reaper” for killing off numerous Democratic initiatives, ranked dead last among fellow Republicans in an Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters. All […]

  • What We Have Gained By Losing

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 25th 2021 8:10am EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. I’m struck by these trends. I’ve had to reevaluate my opinions in light of movement that I am seeing in the polls which is wholly positive and indicates a “rise in far-right domestic extremism.” Specifically, I am talking about the resorting of the electorate and the changing […]

  • Poll: Voter Priorities

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 5:03pm EST

    Thread on the new @EchelonInsights polling about voter priorities and what Republicans in particular are looking for. Unlike traditional “top issue” questions, here we asked people to rate EACH issue on how much it concerns them. We tested these issues with everyone… pic.twitter.com/sNRIx0J7sz— Kristen Soltis Anderson (@KSoltisAnderson) February 24, 2021 Of the issues we presented […]

  • Liz Cheney: We’re Not The Party Of White Supremacy

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 4:13pm EST

    Liz Cheney apparently thinks Trump voters are white supremacists. CBS News: “Liz Cheney, the third ranking House Republican, on Tuesday called on the Republican party to “make clear we aren’t the party of white supremacy.” Cheney’s remarks came during an event hosted by the Reagan Institute.  “It’s very important for us to ignore the temptation […]