The Alt-Lite's fatal flaw
The Z-man explains the
fundamental weakness of the Alt-Lite: their
firewall is to the Right:
The
defect with the Alt-Lite is the same problem the Buckley Conservatives had a
generation ago. They have no antibodies to resist entryism, because they lack a
timeless definition of what it means to be Alt-Lite. Western Civilization,
after all, includes Karl Marx and Hitler. Nazism is just as much a part of the
West as John Locke. In fact, Hitler currently casts a longer shadow than any of
the men of the Enlightenment. On what grounds can the Alt-Lite reject Hitler,
but embrace the slave owning Jefferson?
The same is true of anti-racism and egalitarianism. How can these be rejected when they are inventions of the West? Of course, the Alt-Lite makes no attempt to reject these as that would get them in trouble with the Left. That’s what opens the door to, and requires them to accept, the defining feature of the dominant orthodoxy. That feature is the blank slate. As McInness goes to pains to point out, if a hotep brotha is on the Trump Train, he has a place at the table of the Alt-Lite, a cherished place.
That’s the fatal flaw that was the undoing of the Buckley Right. The Alt-Lite has no affirmative argument. Instead, it is a list of things it is not and most of those things are to their Right. That firewall they are building to their Right, just as Buckley did with Kirk and with the paleocons, comes at the expense of any defensible line of demarcation between themselves and the Left. That leaves them open to entryism, corruption and subversion, which is why the leading opponents of Trump are all Buckley Conservatives.
That brings us back to the beginning. O’Sullivan was mostly correct, but he left out the most important part of the rule. That’s the definition of Right Wing. What is it that forever separates the Right from the Left? What is the thing about which there can be no meeting in the middle, between Left and Right? The great divide that can never be crossed, is biology.The Left embraces the blank slate and rejects biological reality. The Right accepts biology, human diversity and all the truths about the human animal that arise from it.
The same is true of anti-racism and egalitarianism. How can these be rejected when they are inventions of the West? Of course, the Alt-Lite makes no attempt to reject these as that would get them in trouble with the Left. That’s what opens the door to, and requires them to accept, the defining feature of the dominant orthodoxy. That feature is the blank slate. As McInness goes to pains to point out, if a hotep brotha is on the Trump Train, he has a place at the table of the Alt-Lite, a cherished place.
That’s the fatal flaw that was the undoing of the Buckley Right. The Alt-Lite has no affirmative argument. Instead, it is a list of things it is not and most of those things are to their Right. That firewall they are building to their Right, just as Buckley did with Kirk and with the paleocons, comes at the expense of any defensible line of demarcation between themselves and the Left. That leaves them open to entryism, corruption and subversion, which is why the leading opponents of Trump are all Buckley Conservatives.
That brings us back to the beginning. O’Sullivan was mostly correct, but he left out the most important part of the rule. That’s the definition of Right Wing. What is it that forever separates the Right from the Left? What is the thing about which there can be no meeting in the middle, between Left and Right? The great divide that can never be crossed, is biology.The Left embraces the blank slate and rejects biological reality. The Right accepts biology, human diversity and all the truths about the human animal that arise from it.
And biology is precisely where
the Alt-Lite flirts with the delusional approach to reality of the Left,
because it finds reality too painful and too dismissive of their egalitarianism
as well as their various utopian notions.
Spacebunny helpfully sums up the intrinsic incoherency of the Left:
Spacebunny helpfully sums up the intrinsic incoherency of the Left:
- Celebrate Diversity!
- We are all the same!
- Cultural appropriation is wrong!
It doesn't bode well for the
Alt-Lite that they attempt to cling to so many of the same equalitarian myths
that have rendered the Left an incoherent intellectual joke. I've yet to see
the civic nationalist who can even begin to defend himself against the growing
quantity of conclusive nationalist arguments, and yet, many of them cling to
their civic nationalism all the same. For now.
That being said, I wholly support the Alt-Lite. Because it is from them that the Alt-Right will grow, as experience and observation gradually clarifies their thinking.
That being said, I wholly support the Alt-Lite. Because it is from them that the Alt-Right will grow, as experience and observation gradually clarifies their thinking.
