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CS lewis predicted the dangers of mass democracy in his “screwtape proposes a toast” letter portraying a demon influencing human governments and the problem with forced communist egalitarianism 1/ on conformity and NPC culture

“cut them all down to a level. all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. all equals. thus tyrants could practice ‘democracy.’ but now ‘democracy’ can do the same work without any other tyranny than her own.”

conservatism has long had too many gatekeepers and not enough gates.

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there’s nothing the left will selectively self-cancel themselves for. no position is too extreme to draw repudiation from fellow liberals and leftists. on the contrary, the left doesn’t just quietly silence the extreme and move on. they elevate and mainstream them.

the GOP wants to “move on” from trump.

meanwhile, the system persecutes his supporters and tries to arrest him to prevent a 2024 run. if the regime won’t move on, why should republican voters?

my latest for @theammind: americanmind.org/salvo/why-wont… what conservatives are ignoring, given our bleak electoral landscape (mass mail-in voting, millions of illegals replacing americans, a federal bureaucracy and media colluding against us) is that trump’s era was the last time flyover country will ever get representation in DC.

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the “culture war” is obviously worth fighting, but conservatives have long been outgunned and outmanned in the battle. simply reacting to the left’s latest insanity is not enough. we need to be creating culture of our own and presenting a better forward-thinking way of life. the issue here is conservatives are notoriously awful at culture. most of them are nerds and dorks grifting off-shoot products for other nerds and dorks or holding lame philosophical debates. aesthetics matter. we have to be cooler and more appealing than the left.

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expanding on this.

trump achieved the impossible in 2016. DC felt threatened. they immediately spread a hoax through the FBI/DNC to hamper trump’s whole presidency and have targeted him relentlessly since. coincidentally, our elections changed after 2016. why is that?

https://twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1628235243843887106

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“trump loses elections!”

this argument from the right reveals weakness, blindness, and deception. who decides who wins? is it “the people” as we’re meant to believe or an elite “shadow campaign” across every sector (including the government) conspiring against the president?

tucker in iowa talking about aesthetics and architecture: "i don't think i've ever heard a politician mention beauty. noble ideologies produce beautiful results. poisonous ideologies produce ugliness." tucker: "the republican party has somehow found itself in this position where they feel like they have to defend the aesthetics and the economics of the dollar store. that's free enterprise? no it's not. it's an atrocity that diminishes people. that destroys god's creation."

okay guys...hear me out.

2020 democratic presidential candidates as disney characters: bernie sanders