The Wentworth Report
Why the alt-right isn't wrong The Trump-supporting vigilantes of conservatism dismiss the mainstream as spineless cuckolds
Why the alt-right isn't wrong. The Trump-supporting vigilantes of conservatism dismiss the mainstream as spineless cuckolds. James Delingpole recognizes the political re-alignment.
I got told off this week by a presenter on BBC radio for using a four-letter word live on air. In my defence, I was merely quoting a tweet from a black Hollywood comedy star called Leslie Jones which said: 'Lord have mercy… white people shit' [as an example of]: one rule for progressives and accepted victim groups; quite another for everyone else.
This is why I took very strong exception to a piece written by Brendan O'Neill on Coffee House condemning Milo and his Twitter followers as 'alt-right angries, convinced the world is one big lefty, feminist plot to ruin your average white dude's life' and 'as anti-PC, bedroom-bound fans of Trump and strangers to sexual intercourse'. It seems to me that if you're going to campaign for fairness and free speech — as Brendan frequently and heroically does — then you need correctly to identify the true enemy.
A new kid on the political block, still vaguely defined, is the Alt-Right.
For years, from America to Europe to Australia, on a whole range of social issues from the environment to gay marriage to multiculturalism, diversity and gender, mainstream conservatism has far too eagerly conceded territory to the progressive opposition in order to demonstrate its caring, fluffy side. Even when conservative administrations have been in office they have failed to arrest the leftwards drift of the culture.
Clearly something had to give and just recently it has. Possibly it had some influence on the Brexit vote; definitely it helps explain the rise and rise of Donald Trump.
For most voters it's just a feeling — the sense that they don't recognise their own country anymore; that they're being bullied and constrained just for being who they are — but for a certain kind of red-meat conservative intellectual it has coalesced into a movement (albeit loosely defined and fissiparous, mostly existing only in internet chat rooms and on social media pages) known as the alt-right.
This is not that old anti-Semitic and racist nonsense. Maybe another label was needed? Maybe just anti-PC?
Part of me feels uncomfortable defending the alt-right because it has been associated with anti-Semitism and racism. Yes, most of this stuff is confected and insincere — just mischievous internet kids experimenting with irony, knowing that if there's one way absolutely guaranteed to rile the grown-ups it's a hideously tasteless Holocaust joke. But undeniably for some of the alt-right's more extreme exponents, it's a sincere expression of their philosophical core.
Ultimately … it's about the idea that white culture (which they identify interchangeably with western civilisation) is under threat and must be preserved for the future of the race.
Hence the alt-right's violent objection to immigration; hence the nationalistic 'America first' theme of Trump's campaigning: it all appeals to that increasingly popular impulse, from northern England to middle America to Angela Merkel's immigrant-friendly Germany, that this represents ordinary white folks' last chance to preserve their culture and traditions before they're overwhelmed by the dusky hordes.
Mainstream conservatism, of the kind that has existed for the last 40 years, is not good enough anymore. It has been roundly defeated by political correctness, acquiescing and eventually kowtowing to every PC whim.
Should more mainstream conservatives be worried by this? Well yes, of course, but they have largely themselves to blame. It's why the alt-right refers to them disparagingly as 'cuckservatives' — that is, cuckolds whose spinelessness, compromise and me-too virtue signalling has enabled the social justice warriors of the progressive left to take so much territory.
hat-tip Stephen Neil
Posted on 30 July 2016 30 July 2016 by David Evans
Did Bill Clinton Fall Asleep During Hillary's Speech?
IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece
Klaus Schwab's "Young Global Leaders" school rules the world?
The kit that rid Uttar Pradesh of covid
Official UK data suggests the triple vaccinated are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome at an alarming rate
El Salvador distributes medical packages that include ivermectin to COVID patients and their families
Dutch MP Gideon van Meijeren confronts PM Rutte on his connections w/ Klaus Schwab
FOIA docs reveal Pfizer shot caused avalanche of miscarriages, stillborn babies
Was WA ex-Premier Colin Barnett Yet Another Remorseless Globalist?
Rising Republican Party Influencers Got Their Start At Talent Agency Run By Israeli Pornographer
Jordan Peterson resigns in protest