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  • 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 […]

  • Politico: Pentagon Wades Into Political Minefield In Hunt For “Extremists”

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 11:21am EST

    This is exactly what the professional class has done. They’ve transformed the U.S. military into a petri dish for exotic social experiments in wokeness, transgenderism and rooting out “right-wing extremism” which as America’s geopolitical rivals well know is defined as anyone who resents and objects to this absurd ideology. Politico: “The Pentagon is launching an […]

  • Newsweek: McConnell Plays The Long Game With Trump

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 23rd 2021 6:54pm EST

    How delusional do you have to be to believe this? Newsweek: “McConnell has it right. He realizes that normalizing crazy theories and excusing Trump’s behavior are not in the best interests of the GOP in the long term. His “long game” involves constructing a party broad enough to compete for votes in states where Trump […]

  • Axios: Trump Will Assert Control Over The Republican Party At CPAC

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 22nd 2021 1:23pm EST

    Look at me, Mitch. I’m the establishment now. Axios: “In his first post-presidential appearance, Donald Trump plans to send the message next weekend that he is Republicans’ “presumptive 2024 nominee” with a vise grip on the party’s base, top Trump allies tell Axios. What to watch: A longtime adviser called Trump’s speech a “show of force,” […]

  • The GOP Is Becoming The Blue Collar Party

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2021 10:39pm EST

    Talk is cheap. We’re waiting to hear two things. NBC Narratives: “WASHINGTON — The exit of Donald Trump has brought back a more normal rhythm to politics in Washington, but outside the Beltway, deeper forces are reshaping the partisan landscape. Data from the NBC News poll shows that the composition of the two major parties […]

  • Poll: Trump Still Commands The Loyalty of GOP Voters

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2021 3:18pm EST

    I feel like one of those people flying above the coast in a helicopter to get a first look at the damage after Hurricane Joe made landfall. USA Today: “If there’s a civil war in the Republican Party, the voters who backed Donald Trump in November’s election are ready to choose sides. An exclusive Suffolk University/USA […]

  • Steve King Is Speaking At AFPAC II

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2021 2:12pm EST

    AFPAC Speaker: @SteveKingIA https://t.co/Jg9jKI8n8j pic.twitter.com/e1hxDZSryn— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) February 19, 2021 Does anyone else find this bizarre? Why was Steve King drummed out of the Republican Congress? 92% of Trump voters think the mainstream media is identical with the Democratic Party 90% of Trump voters think America is losing faith in the ideas that […]

  • Politico: Trump Gears Up For War With “His Own Party”

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 20th 2021 12:02pm EST

    The last four years were exhausting. In retrospect, it is obvious that a lot of mistakes were made. Hopefully, the 2020 election and the aftermath exposed most of those flaws and we can learn something from the experience and move forward again. It feels like we were stuck for four years and lost the momentum […]

  • The Bulwark: To Save Democracy, Principled Conservatives Must Ally with Democrats

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 19th 2021 9:36pm EST

    I totally endorse this move. We need all the virtue signaling, cosmopolitan, modernist, suburban neoliberals and neocons in one party. For the last 50 years, they have controlled both parties which has had the effect of degenerating our culture and redistributing wealth upward to themselves. The Bulwark: “Appalled by the GOP’s comprehensive degradation, a serious […]

  • Talent Returned to God: Rush Limbaugh

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 19th 2021 4:07pm EST

    The title of the late Jerome Tuccille’s book about libertarianism was called It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand. For conservatives, the same could be said of Rush Limbaugh. Neocon or paleo, white advocate or “movement conservative,” Christian or agnostic, capitalist or protectionist, it’s hard to find anyone on the Right who didn’t spend some time listening […]

  • Donald Trump Should Finish Off Conservatism, Inc.

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 19th 2021 12:31pm EST

    It is difficult to exaggerate how much a political liability that Donald Trump’s deference to Conservatism, Inc., the GOP establishment and their hidebound neoliberal agenda was after he defeated them in the 2016 election. This was one of the biggest mistakes he made as president. National Review: “Well, it’s on. Donald Trump ended his post-presidency […]