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  • Politico: What Ulysses Grant Can Teach Joe Biden About Putting Down Violent Insurrections

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 31st 2021 11:31am EST

    I believe that a large part of Joe Biden’s appeal, especially to older voters, was the perception that he was a moderate who would lower the temperature of the country and that voting for him was a vote to “return to normalcy.” They were tired of the endless hysteria and polarization of the Trump presidency […]

  • Huey Long and Charles Coughlin Speak In 1935

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 30th 2021 4:52pm EST

    Billionaires named Cohen getting bullied so hard they delete their twitter is so delicious pic.twitter.com/wnh05TD2xO— Queenfish Sadie Long (@MrsHueyLong) January 30, 2021 Do progressives have any good ideas which weren’t originally our ideas which they have since mixed up with toxic garbage like open borders and political correctness?

  • The Share Our Wealth Amendment

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 29th 2021 6:35pm EST

    Apple’s Tim Cook tells Biden permanent fix for “Dreamers” a “crucial part” of immigration reform https://t.co/yLfyPY9oup pic.twitter.com/w3T8npZD6i— The Hill (@thehill) January 29, 2021 Huey Long best clips 5/13 pic.twitter.com/HLAgPba5ca— Queenfish Sadie Long (@MrsHueyLong) January 19, 2021 No one shall be too rich. No one shall be too poor. No one shall be too powerful. No […]

  • Slate: The Deplatforming of Father Coughlin

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 28th 2021 1:47pm EST

    #WallStreet pic.twitter.com/25kUxBA5co— MAGIC BEHEMOTH (@BulgakovsPilate) January 28, 2021 Wall St billionaires when they’re manipulating the market to drive a business under and destroy the livelihoods of thousands of workers vs Wall St billionaires when a handful of internet nerds beat them at their own game #EatTheRich pic.twitter.com/JJHLuE14bH— Queenfish Sadie Long (@MrsHueyLong) January 28, 2021 Their […]

  • The Chicago School

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 18th 2021 5:20pm EST

    Now watching.

  • How Populism Got Such a Bad Name w/ Thomas Frank

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 14th 2021 1:24pm EST

    The answer is modernism. BTW, the Grift Right is doing an excellent job living up to the anti-populist stereotype of violent, reactionary, paranoid, anti-intellectual cranks and conspiratards. This is why I have criticized them for years and despise them with the burning hatred of a thousand suns. What has four years of Q prophecies and […]

  • Caleb Maupin on Huey Long

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 14th 2021 12:16pm EST

    If we could find a candidate who could fill the Huey Long lane in American politics (a true populist who is a moderate wealth redistributionist who is palatable to social conservatives and doesn’t take polarizing stands on culture war issues), he would win in a landslide in 2024.

  • America’s Forgotten Populist History

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 3rd 2021 12:37pm EST

    This is what authentic populism sounds like, unlike conservatism masquerading as populism pic.twitter.com/sUPDliUbWJ— Hunter Wallace (@MisterBlackPill) January 3, 2021 Economic fairness has been the core of American populism since the 1890s. It was precisely this element of Trump’s MAGA agenda that conservatives like Mitch McConnell refused to tolerate. They were happy to give him wins […]

  • Huey Long (Ken Burns Documentary)

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 2nd 2021 10:30am EST

    In 2016:75% felt “America needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful.”72% agreed “the American economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful.”76% believed “the mainstream media is more interested in making money than telling the truth.”— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 2, 2021 Now watching. Huey Long (PBS […]

  • Transgenderism’s Romantic Roots

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 2nd 2020 6:40pm EST

    I’m genuinely interested in this stuff. The finding “my authentic self” bit is pure Modernism. New York Times: “Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated star of “Juno,” announced on Tuesday that he is transgender. “Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot,” Page, who as Ellen […]

  • Michael Lind: The Revenge of the Yankees

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 22nd 2020 1:41am EST

    I’ve swung away from history over the past few weeks because of the election. I’m planning to pick up where I left off though with my series of articles about Modernism. Tablet Mag: “Is America disintegrating into anarchy and civil war among races, religions, and regions? Is the country more divided than ever before? The […]

  • American History Series: Review: The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 2nd 2020 11:56am EST

    Roderick Nash, The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930 Roderick Nash has no time for the Lost Generation-Roaring Twenties stereotype that continues to dominate the American memory of the 1920s. In The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930, he sets out to debunk the myth of the Jazz Age, alienated and nihilistic intellectuals revolting against Victorian norms, […]

  • Fitzgerald, Hemingway and American Existentialism

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 1st 2020 6:32pm EST

    In the 1920s, the old Victorian values broke down and Modern values emerged in art, music, film and literature even as American mainstream politics under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover reverted to the conservatism of a bygone age. The alienation of young Losters from the mainstream of American culture and politics led them to begin to […]

  • Moral Collapse In The 1920s

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 31st 2020 1:30pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. A few years ago, I decided that I wanted to write a book about the collapse of morality. I wanted to dig into the subject and trace the intellectual roots of the moral catastrophe that occurred at some point in the 20th century. How did morality become […]

  • The Real Babbitt

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 30th 2020 11:19am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. In studying the Victorian-to-Modern transition, I have come across this remark about the Victorian “custodians of culture” several times. The following excerpt comes from Roderick Nash’s book The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930: “As self-appointed custodians of ideals and fundamental moral principles, pre-1910 American intellectuals believed it […]

  • The Myth of the 1920s

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 28th 2020 12:54pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. This can be highly confusing. It makes perfect sense to me though. The memory that we have of the 1920s is the memory of the American elite. In nearly everything that I have written about the subject, the South has been invisible. The “Roaring Twenties” never existed […]

  • Christianity and Youth Rebellion In The 1920s

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 27th 2020 12:11pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. We’re continuing to explore the Victorian-to-Modern transition in America which as we have seen began in the 1910s and accelerated in the 1920s. In previous articles, I have explained at length how at the end of Victorian era there was a consensus in America on national identity, […]

  • The Damned and the Beautiful

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 26th 2020 2:04pm EDT

    As I have argued for several months now, Modernism arrived in the United States in the 1910s and went mainstream after World War I in the 1920s when young Losters rebelled against the Victorian values of their parents. The Losters were the first Modern generation. The following excerpt comes from the chapter “The Children of […]

  • American Crucible

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 24th 2020 1:51pm EDT

    This is going to be an interesting book. It is a history of the clash between racial nationalism and civic nationalism in 20th century America. I’ve really enjoyed tuning out of current events and politics to focus on history and culture. I don’t think that I missed out on anything by not paying as much […]

  • The Adversary Culture

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 23rd 2020 8:16pm EDT

    How are you spending your evening? I’m grilling and chilling … and sharing some highlights of my research. The following excerpt comes from Eric P. Kaufmann’s book Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities: “Enlightenment individualism, which consisted largely of the rational, cognitive individualism of Descartes and Locke, gave way in the nineteenth […]

  • Cultural Reunification

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 23rd 2020 4:56pm EDT

    In the Victorian era, America had been in the cultural orbit of Britain. In the Modern era, America became much more influenced by continental Europe and vice versa. From the United States, jazz, rock, rap, eugenics, the American bathroom, Hollywood movies, Fordism and Nordicism were exported to Western Europe. From Western Europe, anarchism, communism, socialism […]

  • Explaining America’s Cultural Degeneration

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 23rd 2020 12:26pm EDT

    America was an idea. We’ve never lived up to it but we’ve never walked away from it before.https://t.co/VRCnKI0rfQ pic.twitter.com/xLuhhGyJVp— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 22, 2020 Q: How did America become cosmopolitan? A: By cosmopolitanism, I mean the process by which America lost its White Anglo-Saxon Protestant identity and developed a hyper alienated, modernist liberal ruling […]

  • Margaret Sanger, Free Love and the Birth Control Movement

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 21st 2020 12:10pm EDT

    As we have already seen, the cultural revolution of the 1910s and 1920s which was the end of Victorian America and the beginning of Modern America transformed almost every aspect of American life. Nothing was left untouched by it. I could write a book alone on how “antiracism” triumphed over “racism” or how cosmopolitanism triumphed […]

  • Review: Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 21st 2020 12:01am EDT

    Editor’s Note: I also wrote this review back in 2015, but I am taking a second look at the book in light of the Victorian-to-Modern transition that I have been been researching. In hindsight, we can attribute the fall of marriage and the family to the two waves of Modernism that swept through America in […]

  • Review: A History of The Wife

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 20th 2020 1:21pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: I originally read and reviewed this book in 2015, but it is worth looking at in light of the Victorian-to-Modern transition. The pace of change in marriage and family life was glacial until the second wave of Modernism hit in the counter-culture of the 1960s. Also, it was watching Andrew Anglin ranting and […]