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20 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Both George W. Bush and Donald Trump were extremely damaging presidents—to the world at large but also to the movements that surrounded them.
No one, not even Republicans, endorse foreign wars for “freedom” anymore, and Bush’s failed second term coincided with a crisis among White evangelicals and the expansion of atheism among the young.
The fact that evangelicals embraced Donald Trump with such unity and passion is an expression of their desperation.
Donald Trump destroyed the issues of immigration restriction and nationalist populism for a generation—they will forevermore be associated with his nonsense, bombast, and lies.
I’m not sure Trump or Bush *caused* the deaths of their respective movements; iow, I’m not sure they can be blamed, exactly. Both entered the scene at the peaks of national moods surrounding neoconservatism and nationalism—and peaks are always the beginnings of declines.

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21 Jan
One of the most mesmerizing things about Trumpism was the '80s nostalgia—the vapor-wave and meme magic that emerged online in 2016. The '80s was a simpler and more naive time ... when America was more self-confident, arrogant, and reckless, like Trump.
Biden evokes the utter boredom of the 1990s—a decade without a defined style. As a man, he embodies qualities of Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, and George W. Bush all rolled into one. His newfound popularity expresses a desire for a sheltered, flat "centrism" in a fragmenting age.
We seem destined for a decade—at least!—of Boomer presidents, each evoking nostalgia for half-remembered moments from our past—or periods we "remember" through television.
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The Western Right seems to still believe that "nationalist populist" is rising, and it will dismantle Globalism.

They are wrong.
"National populism" is not rising. What we are witnessing is extreme polarization brought on by demographic—and even genetic—change, as well as the slow decline of the American global order.
Western nationalists seem to believe that "globalism" will fall, and the nation-states will stay in tact, or even be stronger than ever.

They are mistaken.
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14 Jan
This is unambiguously a crime.

At the very least, Fuentes is disrupting government activity. And that’s a charitable reading. The whole event has been declared an insurrection by prosecutors. They will treat it as such.

Under the 1A., and in light of *Brandenburg*, you can boldly declare, “We’re going to march on Washington!” or “Trump should throw out all the illegals!” The problem is, Fuentes was referencing stopping the vote and directly urging on and celebrating those entering the Capitol.
If you’re a dissident, you need to learn a lesson: major Republican figures and conservative grifters wanted to stop the vote, or at least make a spectacular display. They needed some loons to do the dirty work and take the real risks.
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13 Jan
Everyone except Donald Trump, Darren Beattie, and the editorial staff of Revolver, and maybe Gateway Pundit, is an unbearable moron who couldn’t get into an Ivy or Ivy-peer school and has an IQ between 95 and 105, who can’t read Hegel...

You’ve lost touch with reality, Darren.
For MONTHS, you contributed to idea and information population with you obviously incorrect nonsense about a coming Color Revolution and a stolen landslide election.

Either you’re smart and immoral, and you consciously lied. Or you’re unhinged and dumb. Which one is it?
Due to your record, no serious person will ever take you seriously. So you’re left with the applause of Casandra Fairbanks, some job (which will be taken away from you) promoting Holocaust education in Europe, and constantly yammering about education credentials.
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The passion of Steve Turley: The world will prove my thesis correct! I will live in a paleocon fantasy land! Just you wait!

I actually like Steve Turley. I’ve gotten a lot from him, in fact. But he’s describing a phenomenon that has already played out. He won’t give up the ghost of 2016–and perceives everything in this frame of reference. He’s smart enough to change course. The pure grifters aren’t.
Turley became a grifters by accident. The grift fit his biases, but he clearly didn’t start out trying to be a grifter.
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For decades, the “Nationalist Right” has been a shit magnet—that is, an attraction for unhinged, mentally ill, and self-deductive people. I’m beginning to wonder if “nationalism” isn’t better understood as “magnetized to shit.”
Whenever there’s a shitty individual who does shitty things, moments later, without fail, “nationalists” fall over themselves to defend him, begging him to join their cause: *This is your home, shithead. Together, we will build a world of shit!*
It’s worth asking if these self-declared “nationalists” have any concept of a nation at all. An actual nation includes varieties, levels, and hierarchies. To paraphrase Jesus, we will always have the shitty among us. But building a shit movement wasn’t what he had in mind.
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