“In fact, Trump is the most anti-exceptionalist POUTS since 1945.”
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American Idealism, American Identity – Thread by @dhnexon, with Brief Comments
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, Operation American Greatness, The Exception Tagged with: Alt-Right, Jacksonianism, thymos
Jason Willick: The Danger of President Obama’s Farewell Address – The American Interest
Why does it matter that President Obama’s defense of open government was framed as an attack on the GOP and couched within a campaign-style celebration of the achievements of the Democratic Party? Because while normal political conflicts within our democratic system—conflicts…
Alex Ross: The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming – The New Yorker
At some point over the summer, it struck me that the greater part of the media wanted Trump to be elected, consciously or unconsciously. He would be more “interesting” than Hillary Clinton; he would “pop.” That suspicion was confirmed the other day, when…
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This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World – BuzzFeed News
Questioner: What do you think is the major threat today, to the Judeo-Christian Civilization? Secularism, or the Muslim world? In my humble opinion, they’re just trying to defend themselves from our cultural invasion. Thank you. [Question restated by Harnwell] Bannon:…
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Francis Fukuyama: US against the world? Trump’s America and the new global order – Financial Times
[T]he broader failure of the left was the same one made in the lead-up to 1914 and the Great war, when, in the apt phrase of the British-Czech philosopher, Ernest Gellner, a letter sent to a mailbox marked “class” was…
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Matthew Continetti: Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual – Free Beacon
The triumph of populism has left conservatism marooned, confused, uncertain, depressed, anxious, searching for a tradition, for a program, for viability. We might have to return to the beginning to understand where we have ended up. We might have to…
Max Boot: What the Hell Happened to My Republican Party? – Foreign Policy
As someone who has been laboring in my own small way to advance conservative principles since the 1980s (I have written for all of the major conservative publications and served as a foreign-policy advisor to the McCain, Romney, and Rubio…
Willock and Hitchcock: How the Golden State Became the Intellectual Capital of Trump’s GOP – The American Interest
In the northern half of the state, there’s Victor Davis Hanson, the celebrated Hoover Institution classicist who has favorably described Trump as a “D-11 bulldozer blade” against a bankrupt Acela establishment, and Ron Unz, an idiosyncratic Bay Area political activist and…
Jeff Goldstein: The Alt-Right Is The Mirror Image Of The New Left – The Federalist
Vox Day concludes his alt-right manifesto by declaring: “The great line of demarcation in modern politics is now a division between men and women who believe that they are ultimately defined by their momentary opinions and those who believe they…
Robert Zubrin: The Alt-Right Is Proof We’re In Late-Stage Socialism – The Federalist
Dugin’s endorsement of Trump is more significant than merely signaling the Kremlin’s appreciation of a useful idiot. Dugin is one of the principal philosophical theoreticians of the alt-right internationally, and his publications are regularly featured in such American identarian outlets…