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  • The Week: Will The GOP’s Culture War Blow Up In Its Face?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 2:19pm EST

    The short answer is no. Let me repeat: the answer is NO. The Week: “With new stories about “cancel culture” and “woke” outrage breaking every few days, it sometimes seems as if the culture war has swallowed up everything in American politics. Yet it’s also the case that over the past seven weeks, the Democrats have […]

  • Poll: Americans Agree Their Own Party Is Too Extreme

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 8:10am EST

    There is some good news hidden in the latest Pew poll Pew Research Center: Pew has Joe at 54% approval which is further proof that the honeymoon period is fading and that nothing much has really changed. We can also see that support for Joe among Whites is strongly related to education with post-grads and […]

  • Poll: Americans Agree The Two Parties Are Too Extreme

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 8:10am EST

    There is some good news hidden in the latest Pew poll Pew Research Center: Pew has Joe at 54% approval which is further proof that the honeymoon period is fading and that nothing much has really changed. We can also see that support for Joe among Whites is strongly related to education with post-grads and […]

  • Neoliberal Joe’s Slow Start

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 10:34pm EST

    I like the FDR comparison. FDR collaborated with white supremacy. FDR was elected president four times while Joe had to be carried through the Democratic primaries by Jim Clyburn. FDR had the support of the Solid South. Joe has a 50/50 Senate ruled by Joe Manchin. FDR realigned the electorate in a way that strengthened […]

  • House Holds Hearing On Media Disinformation

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 7:33pm EST

    Why shouldn’t social media be censored? Why shouldn’t a political litmus test be imposed on the military? Why shouldn’t the federal government launch a domestic “War on Terror”? Why shouldn’t FOX News, OANN and Newsmax be deplatformed by cable companies? Note: BTW, Blumpf was the “fascist.”

  • Democrat Big Tent Threatens Neoliberal Joe’s Agenda

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2021 11:03am EST

    You’re laughing. Joe’s coalition is already disintegrating and you’re laughing. New York Times: “As he ran for president last year, Joseph R. Biden Jr. contorted his campaign to appease both wings of the Democratic Party, trying to excite progressives with an ambitious policy platform while assuring moderates he opposed structural changes to the political process. […]

  • Karl Rove: Trump Smears Don’t Diminish McConnell

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

    Donald Trump shouldn’t listen to Karl Rove. Wall Street Journal: “Donald Trump presumably liked it when Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell voted to acquit him because the senator believes impeachment of a former president is unconstitutional. But Mr. Trump had a very different reaction to Mr. McConnell’s floor speech Saturday, when he rightly said the […]

  • GOP Exodus

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 5:32pm EST

    The good news keeps rolling in. New York Times: “In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations. In California, more than 33,000 registered […]

  • GOP Eyes Working Class Future

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 5:02pm EST

    I used to laugh at the idea of a multiracial, working class, populist Republican Party. I thought there is no way that something like that could work. I’m not so sure now though. Axios: “Republicans, long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on working class white, Hispanic and Black […]

  • Axios: GOP Eyes Working Class Future

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 5:02pm EST

    I used to laugh at the idea of a multiracial, working class, populist Republican Party. I thought there is no way that something like that could work. I’m not so sure now though. Axios: “Republicans, long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on working class white, Hispanic and Black […]

  • Chris Hayes: The Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 11:45am EST

    Tried to order my thoughts on where things stand politically right now. My basic takeaway: the entire ideological basis of post Reagan conservatism has crumbled. It’s left the GOP with no real coherent program other than retaining power at all costs. https://t.co/INIHV8X87t— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 8, 2021 I enjoyed this article. It helped me […]

  • Smash Big Tech

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 1:16am EST

    If you are still under the delusion that you can bargain with Big Tech or that the free market will fix this problem, I don’t know what to say to you. Your autistic ideology has been discredited. TAC: “I want to put an end to cancel culture like every other freedom-loving American, but I certainly […]

  • White Populism Is The Future Of The GOP

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 4:07pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. .@Liz_Cheney: Donald Trump “does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward…We should not be embracing the former president.” pic.twitter.com/c0M7iFkfO4— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 7, 2021 Well, this one went off the rails a bit — okay, a lot — but in a […]

  • Tucker Carlson: Democrats Mobilize U.S. Military To Suppress Domestic Opinions

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 1st 2021 10:05pm EST

    Isn’t anyone in DC embarrassed that they still have scary looking *barbed wire* surrounding the Capitol after nothing’s happened for almost a month? Apparently not pic.twitter.com/NL2OkUhIRz— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 2, 2021 pic.twitter.com/CS4CGioiEE— Robbie Ree (@gimmedatshipunk) February 2, 2021 It seems like there is a disconnect between the hysteria on television, the non-stop panic about […]

  • Make The Game Stop

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 1st 2021 11:07am EST

    What I don’t understand is why Dems AREN’T pushing for $2000 checks. Yes you can argue that a new payment added to an old payment makes a sum total of 2k and thus “counts” but since we all agree direct payments have been inadequate why not just demand 2k instead?— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) February […]

  • Why McConnell Dumped Trump

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 24th 2021 10:05am EST

    I’m of two minds on impeaching Trump a second time. The New Yorker: “For four years, McConnell and others in the establishment wing of the Republican Party embraced the conceit that they could temper Trump’s behavior, exploit his popularity, and ignore the racist, violent, and corrupt forces he unleashed. Ornstein observed that McConnell, in a […]

  • Neoliberal Joe Pledges To Defeat “Hate Groups”

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 23rd 2021 12:08pm EST

    I’m surprised the Democrats are talking about this. What is the point of impeaching Donald Trump a second time now that he is no longer the president? Why are they stepping all over Joe’s first 100 days like this and call for unity by inflaming polarization? Now that the Trump Show is over, why would […]

  • The Biden Restoration

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 22nd 2021 4:43pm EST

    Richard Spencer and Hunter Wallace discuss the fallout from the Capitol Siege, the implosion of QAnon and the now obvious flaws of rightwing populism and the future of White Populism. Listen to “The Biden Restoration” on Spreaker.

  • Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 20th 2021 12:49pm EST

    I was willing to give Joe Biden a chance. After four years of the Trump Show, I was determined to keep an open mind and hear the man out, but my expectations were always low. Joe Biden has always been a corporate neoliberal Democrat. There was a small chance that he would govern as a […]

  • Poll: 7 in 10 Americans Say Stimulus Checks Are Most Important Part of COVID Relief

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 19th 2020 3:57pm EST

    If three-quarters of Americans are for #StimulusChecks what is the hold up?— Andrew Yang??? (@AndrewYang) December 19, 2020 David Perdue opposes $1200 relief checks for Georgians. Let’s make sure every Georgia voter hears the Senator’s message loud and clear.— Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) December 19, 2020 I read the responses of Georgians describing how stimulus relief […]

  • The 2020 Electorate

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 4th 2020 5:23pm EST

    Do you remember this map? Voter Study Group: Liberal (44.6 percent): Lower left, liberal on both economic and identity issues Populist (28.9 percent): Upper left, liberal on economic issues, conservative on identity issues Conservative (22.7 percent): Upper right, conservative on both economic and identity issues Libertarian (3.8 percent): Lower right, conservative on economics, liberal on […]

  • Placing Priority

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 3rd 2020 2:40pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. In this article, we are going to compare and contrast Market Skeptic Republicans with the two other Democratic-leaning groups in the Center of the electorate, the Devout and Diverse and Disaffected Democrats.

  • Explaining Groyperism

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 24th 2020 2:54pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. As I explained on The Stark Truth, Nick Fuentes and the Groyper movement or “Dissident Right” or America First movement identify as paleoconservatives. They see themselves as bitterly at odds with Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro, Conservatism, Inc. and wignats. Who are these people? The Right is […]

  • Design Mom: Trump Supporters Make Me Sick To My Stomach

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2020 11:18pm EDT

    Design Mom is an excellent illustration of the sort of totalitarian mindset that you get when you fuse progressive liberalism with modernism. TAC: “The other day I saw a tweet where a person described that when they find out someone they know personally supports Trump, they lose all respect for them instantly. I liked the […]

  • Barr Hearing Turns Into Total Fiasco

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 28th 2020 7:17pm EDT

    Among other reasons why I think this country is doomed and spiraling toward some type of inevitable cataclysm like the Blundering Generation: BARR ON PORTLAND: “What unfolds nightly around the courthouse cannot reasonably be called protest. It is, by any objective measure, an assault on the government of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/7EoT79JlX4— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July […]