$600 Stimulus Checks
Occidental Dissent - Dec 18th 2020 11:03am ESTWhat’s in: • Stimulus checks in the range of $600 to $700• Expanded unemployment benefits that include a weekly boost of $300 through March• $325 billion in small business relief, including $257 billion for PPPhttps://t.co/h9NO8WG628— POLITICO (@politico) December 17, 2020 It looks like Republicans aren’t going to be doing much introspection at all about why […]
Julius Krein: Why Did Trump Lose the 2020 Election
Occidental Dissent - Dec 17th 2020 1:44pm ESTInteresting podcast. I basically agree with Krein. It has been a frustrating four years.
80 Million Americans Didn’t Vote
Occidental Dissent - Dec 16th 2020 6:13pm ESTHuey Long announces his plans to run for President under a third party he was building, just a couple months before he was assassinated ? pic.twitter.com/jxanc17DKX— Dictator Sadie Long ??????? (@GoodGirlSadie) December 13, 2020 Me irl every day pic.twitter.com/HvqC1OAeDm— Dictator Sadie Long ??????? (@GoodGirlSadie) December 15, 2020 Me irl every day pic.twitter.com/tMTrpjDOtG— Dictator Sadie Long […]
Texas Monthly: Gladden Pappin Wants to Make Conservatism Great Again
Occidental Dissent - Dec 16th 2020 4:22pm ESTThanks to @dan_oppenheimer for writing this profile, published today @TexasMonthly!“The University of Dallas professor is urging Republicans to build a post-Trump, big-tent, big-spending party that’s economically populist and socially conservative” https://t.co/gBgk7Gjv1i— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) December 16, 2020 This is also a nice thought. The Oren Cass/Julius Krein/Michael Lind wing of the GOP which wants to […]
Prospect: Can Biden Govern As a Progressive Populist?
Occidental Dissent - Dec 16th 2020 2:00pm ESTI highly doubt it. It would certainly be nice though. I’m keeping an open mind. We will see how it goes. Prospect: “Trump and the Tea Partiers before him made gains with ordinary Americans because a corporatized Democratic Party stopped delivering for them. This was especially true in rural and small metro areas that were […]
Libtards Victorious
Occidental Dissent - Dec 15th 2020 7:34pm ESTWe’ve been ready to move on from it for three years. Listen to “Libtards Victorious” on Spreaker.
Jacobin: Republicans and Industrial Policy After Trump
Occidental Dissent - Dec 15th 2020 2:58pm ESTIt didn’t come as a surprise to White populists when Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. I predicted the outcome and gave the following reasons on this website well over a year ago: Donald Trump Loses The 2020 Election “If I had to bet on the outcome of the 2020 election, I would predict that […]
TAC: What Happened
Occidental Dissent - Dec 14th 2020 1:21pm ESTLISTEN HERE. Along with Eric Striker, I keep tabs on the TAC podcast, particularly when populist issues are discussed. In this episode, Arthur Bloom, Oren Cass, Rachel Bovard and Ross Douthat discuss what went wrong with the Trump presidency or basically how it lost its populist veneer. SPOILER: what went wrong is that populist voters […]
Nick Fuentes: Stop The Steal Is Largely Run By Grifters
Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2020 7:49pm ESTH/T Autismo I agree with Nick Fuentes. Is he referring to Ali Alexander? Back in 2016, Ali was trying to steal the delegates for Ted Cruz. Nick is lucky that he wasn’t allowed on stage with the rest of the cranks and grifters at the Jericho March. It struck me as less of a Trump […]
The Working Class Party Myth
Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2020 5:53pm ESTThere were a lot of surprises in 2020, but I’d put the vastly reduced salience of immigration in this election v. ’18 and ’20 on the list. Immigration wasn’t even mentioned in the first debate, and the exit poll didn’t bother to ask about it, either— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) December 13, 2020 George Hawley and […]
The Jericho March
Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2020 7:31pm ESTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Rod Dreher live tweeted the whole event. There’s some large guy onstage at the DC rally named “Shofar So Great” (https://t.co/rB4DIPCf1r) claiming to be an Orthodox Jew who says his rabbi in Israel gave him permission to break Shabbat to support Donald Trump and blow the shofar […]
Seven Years of College … Down The Drain
Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2020 1:59pm ESTNow listening. “Seven Years of College . . . Down The Drain”How to save Higher Ed, and reinstitute paternalism, with @jollyheretic https://t.co/9VLiTjHyBl— Richard?Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) December 11, 2020
Jacobin: The Siren Song of “Pro-Worker” Conservatism
Occidental Dissent - Dec 11th 2020 1:27pm ESTInteresting article. Basically, I agree that the ideal of a pro-White, pro-Western, pro-working class National Populist version of conservatism taking root in the Republican Party is a mirage. Jacobin: “There’s a new, increasingly assertive, tendency on the Right. These conservatives are not rabid free marketeers, hawkish neocons, or religious fundamentalists. They hate Beltway elitism and […]
Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders Demand Second Round of $1,200 Stimulus Checks
Occidental Dissent - Dec 10th 2020 8:49pm ESTSen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo) takes the Senate floor with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) to introduce amendment demanding $1,200 stimulus checks, slams colleagues for prioritizing the demands of business instead of working families. pic.twitter.com/EkhIkBdDTz— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 10, 2020 Hawley and Sanders demand an up or down vote on the $1,200 stimulus checks, both hitting […]
Grift Right Monetizes Trump’s Defeat
Occidental Dissent - Dec 10th 2020 3:41am ESTBREAKING: All 50 states have now certified their election results; President-elect Joe Biden will receive 306 electoral votes & President Donald Trump will receive 232— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 9, 2020 In the latest dismissal of a “kraken” lawsuit, it is revealed that Sidney Powell fabricated a quote from one of the Seventh Circuit cases she […]
Conservatives Debate The Post-Trump Future
Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2020 7:00pm ESTCharles C.W. Cooke, the editor of National Review, speaks for the Free Marketeers and defends Zombie Conservatism. Newsweek: “For a “dead” consensus, traditional conservative fusionism sure looks healthy, doesn’t it? I can only hope that, when my time comes, I look as fresh in the grave. Insofar as it represents anything more than a post hoc rationalization […]
Why Conservative Populism Failed
Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2020 1:01pm ESTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Strange.Why isn’t there an essay on social identity issues? After all, this is the axis that unites GOP voters and which is the common ground between populists and conservatives. My guess is that being so cucked on race is a sensitive subject with conservatives https://t.co/ohQ3SH4gUu— Hunter Wallace […]
Trump’s Populist Record
Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2020 11:10am ESTEven this is painting an overly rosy picture of Trump’s populist record. TAC: “Although Joe Biden advertised himself as a “transitional candidate” during the 2020 campaign, Donald Trump will probably be remembered as the transitional president. The issues his 2016 campaign raised, such as deindustrialization and competition with China, will continue to shape policy for […]
Anti-MIGA Radical Raphael Warnock Launches Blistering Anti-Semitic Attack On Israel
Occidental Dissent - Dec 7th 2020 2:53pm ESTStaring in total absorption at Kelly Loeffler’s house pic.twitter.com/2EYMVzZqZT— Charles Finch (@CharlesFinch) December 7, 2020 Sen. Kelly Loeffler: “We cannot send an anti-Israel radical like Raphael Warnock to the Senate.” pic.twitter.com/XxkX9pZ4vL— The Hill (@thehill) November 21, 2020 This is a tough choice. Do you vote for anti-MIGA radical Rev. Raphael Warnock? Do you vote for […]
Warnock-Loeffler Debate
Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2020 10:11pm EST.@Kloeffler dumped $3 million of stock to protect her own wealth while voting against ensuring a measly $600 to everyday people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. #GASenDebate— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) December 7, 2020 Warnock’s first question to Loeffler grills her about her alleged insider trading pic.twitter.com/ye0Yn2bVJ6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 7, […]
Grift Right Rallies In Harrisburg
Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2020 5:23pm ESTKOL moment w/ @ScottMGreer pic.twitter.com/K5h1rooeYG— Donald Hellscream (@MAGAOrc) December 5, 2020 JAKE LLOYD IN HARRISBURG (Thread) pic.twitter.com/ehvQGHYxdd— cool christmas guy???????? (@cool_cheese_guy) December 5, 2020 these are our streets pic.twitter.com/oWrkhPPmXV— ?Panther Den ? (@PatriotDen_) December 5, 2020 No one can stop what is coming pic.twitter.com/pv8lTY22jq— american nationalist (@NationalistTV) December 6, 2020 america first schmooding in harrisburg […]
Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Fight For Us
Occidental Dissent - Dec 5th 2020 3:51pm ESTJonathon von Maren seems to have left out a few important things. TAC: “As the chaos and conspiracy theories swirling around the train-wreck presidential election continue apace, many MAGA diehards seem positive that without Donald Trump, the GOP is useless. It is hard to tell who speaks for the president and who doesn’t these days, […]
The National Populist Illusion
Occidental Dissent - Dec 5th 2020 1:10am ESTLMAO. I strongly disagree with this study. CSPI Center: “During the Trump presidency, some of the most interesting and innovative thinking on the center right has come from writers and politicians sometimes called “national populists.” This group challenges Republican orthodoxy on questions of economics and suggests that a new policy agenda, focused more on working-class […]
The Crackpot Vote
Occidental Dissent - Dec 4th 2020 10:02pm ESTIf Andrew Anglin wasn’t already an incel truther and conspiracy theorist with a fetish for teenage Third World prostitutes, he ought to be sterilized for being this retarded. The Daily Crackpot: “Trust the Plan I have said that Nick has been sent to us – to me, to you, America, and to the white race […]
The 2020 Electorate
Occidental Dissent - Dec 4th 2020 5:23pm ESTDo 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 […]