At a gut level, the Cathedral feels the Trump presidency to be illegal, unconstitutional, and improper. They simply know it is illegal, unconstitutional and improper, but cannot come up with any intelligible or coherent explanation of why – or rather any explanation that they can say out loud. All the standard rules that you or I should apply in a conflict with Social Justice Warriors apply in a conflict between …
When the rot set in
Eighteenth century view was that women were sex crazy and needed to be kept under tight control or else in their feverish sexual lust they would destroy the family, and because state, society, and the church rested on the family, if you let women loose, everything would fall apart. Nineteenth century view was that women were wonderful, and the marital contract only needed to be enforced against men, never against …
Moldbug model of communism
The Moldbug account of communism, simplified, is that the that the Soviets were Democrat agents, a proxy force for the blue empire of the consulates against the red empire of the bases, and they were collapsed when they started to break free of the Democrats. Simplified even further: “America is a communist countryâ€. Of course any useful truth is necessarily a simplification. Reality is always more complex than even the …
Trumpcare passes the house
Still has to pass the Senate, but already the Democrats are terrified. The essential and important feature of Trumpcare is that it “denies insurance to millions of Americans”. In other words, when you seek medical care, when those who pay for and operate our system of medical care seek medical care, they will not find one hundred drug addicts looking for free drugs and one hundred bums looking for free …
Trump probably on track
When Trump says one thing to us, and another thing to his enemies, we should not necessarily assume he is lying to us and telling the truth to his enemies. One very promising sign is that he invited Duterte, who is on the State Department death list, to the White House, which would imply that he can control who gets murdered in the United States and who does not. I …
The Trump Aesthetic
Ideas are more powerful than guns, and fashion is more powerful than ideas. Ever since Beau Brummel successfully snubbed the Regent, the Puritan aesthetic has been politically dominant. It has been the high status aesthetic, beloved by our rulers, most notoriously loved by city planners and university regents. Trump has been challenging that aesthetic. What is the Trump aesthetic? The Regency aesthetic became, at the end, too much detail, too …
On fighting in the streets
The left does not win by fighting in the streets. Believing that is left wing propaganda and Whig history. The left faction of the permanent government uses this myth to seize power from the traditional and legitimate government. They put rioters in the streets, forbid the army and the police from dealing with them, and then cry out, while the Czar is away at the front, “Oh we have been …
Violence, repression, and freedom
When the left stopped attempting to communicate with its enemies, stopped listening, stopped talking, and instead dehumanized, demonized and no platformed us, I knew that this would necessarily lead to violence against us, and eventually war. The violence has started. War comes. Today, if you support freedom of speech and the right to peaceably assemble, you are a nazi. So, what the hell, you had better ally and organize with …
Not the Jews
The key fundamental point uniting the alt right is that all men are not created equal, nor women equal to men. There are important differences between individuals, groups, categories, and races. And among those differences are differences which cause Jews in exile to be irritating and a problem. No one in the alt-right, including the many Jewish members of the alt-right, can or should deny this. But Jews are not …
Punching unowned women in the face
The rule on hitting girls should be, “don’t hit someone else’s girl”. If a girl is misbehaving, you should call for the man who is in charge of her, ask him to take care of the problem, and if he does not, you should punch him out, not his girl. Moldilocks went to the free speech rally in Berkeley declaring she was going to collect one hundred fascist scalps. She …