(Less Than) A Year of Fear
"And you're black pilling?"
Be American in thought and deed. Thus will you give immortality to that union, which was the constant object of my terrestrial labors: Thus will you preserve undisturbed to the latest posterity, the felicity of a people to me most dear.
Many were disappointed by Trump’s first term - and understandably so. Though Trump fulfilled some of his promises, he surrendered on others: he did not eschew the yoke of foreign funding fully — and therefore (in the view of some) he did not fully put America first — for example. Yet, one ought judge a man by his enemies; and the enemies of Trump are terrified at the possibility of another Trump presidency.
I will make clear from the outset, for my sake and yours: leftists are evil people, and seemingly intrinsic to their nature is a fundamental hatred of good-natured, well-meaning, well-to-do, and well-turned-out Americans On the other hand, I am not advocating hatred, bigotry, violence, or any illegal action. I am not taking a political stance.
As Gamergate 2 kicks off, now is as terrific a time as any to remember: leftists are terrible at moderation - especially self-moderation. They merely cannot help themselves: they must flaunt their power; their status; their control; their hatred for you. The stance of the system is clear, and liberals cannot but “rub your nose” in this fact. However, they are a very sickly and cowardly group - an embodiment of a sort of “hit-and-run” strategy. Leftists like to run up and slap you in the face with their domineering schoolmarmery, and then run away - like a child, who believes themselves too small and weak to encounter resistance. J6 was a sweet nothing, whispered in the ears of the radical Right so as to incite a semblance of hope, and fillip a recalcitrance; yet for all its fruitless posturing, it destroyed the minds of liberals. To this day they are wracked with paralyzing horror at the mere mention of its name: as though it were some sort of Lovecraftian, eldritch fiend lurking in the shadowy recesses of their (mostly empty) minds.
In fairness, howbeit, it was an exceptionally short procedure towards complete leftist mind-shattering after Trump’s presidency. Trump is said to have “broken people’s brains;” and this is absolutely true - on both blocs of the political axis, but most especially to the left. Very few people in America actually believe that Trump will violently suppress political dissent; or upheave demographics by way of deportations; or upend the political system. Some on the Right desire this; the left is stricken with unrighteous indignation at the thought; but very few people actually believe it will happen. Granted: many in niche spheres of the Right are hopeful, and “keep the faith,” so to say - but nobody on the left legitimately entertains the possibility that these things will happen. When liberals fearmonger and outrage-bait over these possibilities they are lying. This is their modus operandi: to lie - loudly, brazenly, and as often as they can.
I have tried to explain previously what precisely liberals are and do: both their incessant and pervasive lying; and yet, their fundamental and principled honesty. To understand leftists requires one’s understanding to perform a tightrope walk upon the infinitesimally fine line between these two factors. I argued severally, two points on the matter:
That many leftists do not possess the requisite psychosis to truly hold their beliefs with conviction. They are more typically just weak-willed and feeble-minded pushovers who have allowed themselves to be berated out of those impulses which stem from the obvious conclusions of reality.
And that,
all forms of leftism rely on one single (and explicitly honest) principle: the hatred of the well-turned-out, and the consequent approbation of any and all non-White groups. That is to say: the panegyrizing of all “minorities,” and the ravishing hatred of Whites (and males and straights).
Contradictory; dissonant; inconsistent; irreconcilable? No. Liberals are explicitly honest in freely divulging that they are lying to you.
The principles which underlie and underline all of leftist politicking are laid bare quite regularly; and no aspect is intelligible without understanding the simple fact that they hate Americans; a fact which they make very little effort — if any — to conceal.
Leftists want to fulfill Criterion 2 (as elaborated above) at any cost. To interfere with their agenda — no matter how remotely, and no matter how foundational or rudimentary the “pushback” — is an irredeemable evil in their eyes. And while Criterion 1 may or may not apply to any given individual, it is certainly no remedy of guilt; but instead a zombification.
That thing — whatever thing, any thing at all — which you dislike, is (according to liberals) not actually happening; but to support any of the civilizational pillars which would be injurious to its progression is (according to liberals) a vile, reprobate belief.
But once more: liberals make little to no attempt to hide from you the fact that they are lying. If you have ever spoken to a liberal in person, they will often feel too uncomfortable to lie to your face - often, but not always. Liberals are incredibly prone to being intimidated, and so will shy away from doing so; but if you can lure one into a sense of safety, they will happily begin lying, and lying, and lying some more. When confronted, they will sputter and whimper; they’ll present some kind of effete whinging; they’ll present some sort of neutered credentialism; and lastly, they will concede - until you check their social media feeds an hour later and they are haranguing on about the same points. But presented with the possibility of a “respectable” platform, they will outright refuse to engage; they will lie, because nobody from their own side will ever call them on it.
We all recall the “Kill the Boer” debacle; with all manner of imbeciles and leftists coming to defend the chant. One such leftist — writing for The Washington Post — said:
To someone unfamiliar with Malema’s demagoguery, the words were startling: “Shoot to kill,” he intoned. “Kill the Boer” — a term for White Afrikaners — “kill the farmer.”
In the United States, news of the event set right-wing social media aflame. Benny Johnson, a far-right provocateur with a large following, tweeted a video of Malema singing and suggested that the proceedings were “all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness … plaguing America today” — seemingly oblivious to the possibility that the chant could be the product of a country with a vastly different political history than that of the United States.1
Prefacing Jonathan Greenblatt’s statement on the topic, the ADL said:
ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued a statement in response to the recent debate over the song, "Kill the Boer" and baseless claims of "white genocide" that have been made by right wing extremists, and particularly white supremacists, in the United States for years.2
We know that liberals are lying to us; and liberals know that we know that they’re lying to us; and so forth - but this doesn’t stop them because they do not care. I’m not meting out to you some profound or esoteric sentiment; I’m reiterating the transparently exoteric because it is impossible to overstate the linchpin nature of this fact. Liberals will happily lie about those things which one can observe to be false.
Liberals have claimed for years that immigration — collectively, and without distinction — is beneficial to the economy; they’ve also frequently claimed that there are no or effectively no negative consequences in areas of consideration elsewhere. But we know that they know that this isn’t the case. When American citizens like Laken Riley or Christopher Gadd are killed by illegal immigrants, liberals will simply look the other way and pretend they don’t see it; but when they are forced to address such cases, one begins to see the game being played in all its grotesque vitriol.
When Biden (who can barely enunciate a sentence or maintain an isolated point) was asked — in the midst of stumbling over his words — to say Laken Riley’s name, he called her “Lincoln Riley.” And yet: despite the earlier claim by Biden that he was attempting to institute the “toughest set of border security reforms we’ve ever seen,” the barely-intelligible remark in which Biden refers to the man who murdered Laken Riley in cold blood as an “illegal” was the remark which drew the most liberal ire.
A liberal should care — were they to follow an internally consistent policy logic — far more about the actual restriction of immigration than about “dehumanization” “rhetoric,” especially that “rhetoric” which bookends an old, senile man’s gaff-filled speech. But they don’t, and the impetus is obvious: nobody believes that a regime which (in the span of one year) allowed 320,000 illegal immigrants to travel into 43 cities across the US,3 will suddenly contrive a genuine will to enforce border policy. In the aftermath of Biden’s poorly-received State of the Union address, the Democrat-led Senate voted down an amendment to deport illegal immigrants who assault law enforcement officers, and another amendment to restrict the calculation of congressional seats and electoral votes to only legal citizen counts.4 Even so, Biden (seemingly) expects the nation to genuinely believe that he is pushing for previously-unseen border security.
Except: he doesn’t actually expect anyone to believe this; Right Wingers won’t, and leftists don’t need to; because they’ll lie to your face anyways, and claim that they believe it - as they did in the wake of the “Kill the Boer” outrage. Liberals know that none of their ideological compatriots will impeach such lies; and they can play a cutesy game of innocence to (or attempt to socially browbeat) opposition. Liberals are content to don a thin veneer of “critical thought,” and feign outrage regarding purity-spirals about the inclusiveness of rhetoric, because they have no further — or more pressing — complaints with their compatriots. They’re content with their oppressive and crushing grip on society’s institutions, and they have very few reasons to complain. So: they’ve no cause for fear. Right?
The hour is growing late - much later than you think; and it is time to return to the topic at hand: paralyzing, piercing, heart-wrenching fear. You’d be forgiven for not understanding the cause of this fear, if you’d not paid close enough attention - or if you had spoken to the fearmongers. Many Right Wing posters are despondent, woebegone, downhearted sad-sacks; convinced that Trump is a signal not of change, but of more of the same. Yet leftists aren’t scared because you tell them that they have less than a year left; they are scared of Trump. In fact, they are terror-stricken to their very core at the mere idea of another Trump presidency. Perhaps this is due to the looming realization that, as a second-term incumbent, Trump has no need — nor, seemingly, any desire — to “play nice.” While American politics becomes more radically polar than ever before, Trump has vowed to enact “the largest domestic deportation in American history,” going so far as to reference Eisenhower’s deportation program - the name of which contains an anti-mexican slur which I cannot include, for TOS reasons.
But let one not forget that Biden campaigned on a promise of free, open, and inclusive immigration standards. Yet: Trump’s control of his fiercely loyal base of support has ensured that such policies remain untenable. The American populace has been made painfully aware of the growing Right Wing sentiment among their ranks; and it seems that, unlike Pandora, leftists did not close their gifted box quickly enough - hope slipped away. Leftists continually complain about Biden’s lack of action in reversing Trump’s border restrictions, like so:5
To fully and openly return to pre-Trump era Democrat border policy would amount to political suicide: the squandering of all bipartisan goodwill, and a show of utter disrespect to the huge swathes of the American populace who found themselves ennobled by Trump so as to voice their growing discontent with such policies. Trump has, for the foreseeable future, altered the very fabric of American political life.
One needn’t recall Trump’s wins: such as constructing 458 miles of border-wall; and lucky opportunities, like forcing through 3 Supreme Court nominations - but rather, to simply consider what effect J6 had on leftist psychology. J6 was materially ineffective; and, in fact, likely materially deleterious to Trump’s cause - but psychically, not so. Leftists have been always been “scared” of the Right, but never in such a visceral way. Fears of “conservative” (e.g. “Right Wing”) war hawk policy ran rank after Vietnam, and continue to this day - despite Trump organizing the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Obama’s extensive intervention-based foreign policy.
But these were, seemingly, fears of the past - naïve superstitions; eschewed in favor of a moralmongering doom-telling naysaying. The “Right Wing” of old — the “conservatives,” the “liberals of 20 years ago,” the “neocons” — presented little, if any, significant threat to the social fabric. Conservatives wanted to “conserve” the ever-changing status quo, while leftists heaved the rug of social fabric out from under them: further, and further, and further to the left. But Trump and his movement are a different beast entirely: and one which liberals cannot be sure how exactly to categorize (because categorization is the only tool for rebuttal which a leftist possesses). They have settled on the term “fascism.” Trump is a populist, and his ideas are extreme; but whether Trump is a “fascist” or not has little to do with the fear he inspires in liberals.
Liberals aren’t scared of Trump because of their “morals” and moralizing - this is simply the only tool with which they find themselves sufficiently competent to present an intellectual protest. And this is what scares them: that none of their tactics work, because they know that we know that they are lying. They’ve only affected preachy whining left, and this has quickly run its course to obsolescence as well. Trump is an eldritch abomination, tearing at the seams of leftists’ very reality. Leftists are scared of Trump, because the voters love him. The mere fact that Trump was elected has shattered the kneecaps of liberal sociology, because they were wrong that they could lie to and abuse the public endlessly. The whipped pup bit back - the attempt to instill a learned helplessness failed. Whether or no the bite was befitting is for you to decide.
But whatever you decide, understand this: a system is what it does. And currently, the system allows illegal immigrants to roam the streets freely — seemingly making no matter of their criminal record — until they kill people like Laken Riley and Christopher Gadd. The current system sets free violent criminals over, and over, until their offense is too heinous to overlook. And the current system seems — in the eyes of many — to hate White Americans. When illegal immigrants are set free and their criminal records overlooked: that is the purpose of the system. When illegal immigrants commit violent crime or kill people: that is the purpose of the system. It makes no sense to attribute to any system a purpose which it constantly and measurably fails to procure; instead, one ought recognize that a system is what it does. And the American system consciously allows violent criminals — even legal citizens, who are simply paroled ad infinitum — to pose a threat to welldoing Americans.
Many Right Wingers support radical policies, and fear that Trump will not enact them. They argue that Trump will not actually deport the dozen-or-so million illegal immigrants; or send corrupt politicians to prison; or cut off American foreign funding and prioritize citizens at home. But even if one assumes that he will not do these things, Trump poses an even greater threat to liberal democracy and to leftists: that he might alter the system. With Trump in charge, the system will not hate White Americans and straight people; or further social agendas which lead to children being taken away from Christian parents; or fly in a 1/3 million of illegal immigrants; or allow fabricated, politically-motivated judicial decisions, like the one which pushed Musk out of Delaware and destroyed local jobs. A system is what it does - and if Trump changes what the system does, he has upended decades of policy-building, agenda-crafting, and balance-tinkering. Trump doesn’t even have to be a Great Man of History to upset the political balance and flip the scales; he just has to be Trump.
Trump was an “idiot;” and then he was a “clown;” and then he was “lucky;” and then he was President.
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen
It's good to see an article point out that liberals do not "ahkshully believe" anything. So many of the big twitter brand accounts spent a lot of time and energy insisting that there was some kind of consistent ideology behind their actions.
For the ones at the top, it's the sadism of a tribe of megalomaniacal neurotics who have to terrorize the occupied population constantly to convince themselves there's no potential for a revolt. For the ones at the bottom, it's cravenness, coupled with the vicarious feeling of power they get from being the regime's pet tattletales, and snitching on a grandma for walking around in the Capitol. There's no higher-order thought process at play, they're just animals.
I enjoyed the essay but I have to say I’m very skeptical Trump, even with the best intentions (which he likely has) and strong political discipline (which he clearly lacks), could materially alter the system. The state’s bureaucracy is implacably hostile to him and he is, by nature, more a talker than a doer.
I agree though that liberals are discomfited (‘terrified’ maybe too strong a word) more by what he represents than what he is. Namely, the rejection of multi-culti, rainbow nation, Right Side of History progressivism. The material welfare of their system depends almost wholly on straight white men behaving as they’ve always done: loyal, patriotic, honest. If those people as a group come to believe that the system does not represent their interests and is largely illegitimate, the post-war consensus is shattered and all manner of things move into the realm of possibility. Will they so come to believe? We’ll find out together, I guess!