“Then who do we shoot?” Like Muley Graves the
sharecropper, John Steinbeck’s evocative Okie everyman
in John Ford’s 1940 film, many Americans are bewildered by a tidal wave of
forces that seem beyond their control. The answer is not easy. But increasingly
it seems likely to involve geographical partition.
Facing
eviction from his dust-bowl farm, Muley confronts a man on a bulldozer who has
come to demolish the shack Muley and his family live in. The sharecropper
is determined not to give in and
threatens the bulldozer operator with a shotgun—only to discover he is a local
man, one of Muley’s own people. The bulldozer driver explains it’s not his
fault, it’s just a job that he was hired to do. If Muley shoots him, then
someone else will come to do the job and Muley will land in jail.
“Then
who do we shoot?” asks Muley. The banker? The
people back East who own the bank? Morally
disarmed and demoralized, Muley can only watch as the bulldozer man destroys
his home.
Patriotic
Americans understand Muley. Our people, our culture, our history, everything we
hold dear, is under relentless attack by the Main Stream Media, politicians, “activists,”
and kritarchs in
the courts, aided and abetted by enemies within, often our own kith and kin, who
have internalized the blood-libel Leftist
narrative of an irredeemably “racist”
America that must be razed to the
ground.
“If
you know your enemy,” wrote Sun Tzu, “and know yourself, you need
not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Our enemy, in this case is the
globalist Blob and its militant would-be Che Guevaras and LARPing Leninists,
the MSM, the bureaucracy, the courts, the big corporations, and the education
establishment.
Yet,
for the most part, until recently, the Blob has not confronted the Historic
American Nation head-on. The Blob has been patient, killing us by the death of
a thousand cuts, taking ground steadily through subversion, using propaganda
and misinformation, censorship via Tech
Totalitarians, and the slow encroachment of what the late Sam Francis called “anarcho-tyranny,” with
mass immigration (“the Great Replacement”)
as its weapon of mass destruction.
The
Blob is amorphous, a slippery, slimy thing that probes and gropes its way into
whatever social-economic-political cracks it can exploit, eventually engulfing
its prey like quicksand.
It
is also using “hybrid warfare” tactics that have been used before but have
gelled with the expansion of mass communications and can quickly conjure up
“flash mobs” and distribute “fake news.”[ Explainer: what is
‘hybrid warfare’ and what is meant by the ‘grey zone’?, The Conversation, June 17, 2019] The scare quote, creative editing,
and constant repetition of bald-faced lies, magnified
by social media, engulf us in a tidal wave of words and images. We live in a
bizarre Twilight Zone that lacks depth and context.
Give
credit where credit is due. Hybrid warfare has worked. The Blob infiltrated and
subverted American institutions by exploiting our American sense of Fair Play
and decency that made whites a relatively easy mark. As the Blob seeped into
our lives, we gradually adjusted to a “new normal” each and every day.
Then Donald Trump was elected
president. The Blob was shocked. Orange Man Bad seemed to
threaten its plans to finish off the Historic American Nation. And so, ever
since November 8, 2016, the MSM have kept the country in hysterics with one
manufactured crisis after another. Fake news via a social media, a hybrid
warfare tactic, kicked into high gear: Russiagate,
Ukrainegate, the Chinese Virus panic and ensuing lockdown and economic crash,
and now the
myth of St. George Floyd and blacks being “hunted” by whites that catalyzed the
mobs that have looted and burned American cities.
Using
the Chinese Virus and Floyd riots as cover, the Blob and its militant
wing—Antifa and Black Lives Matter—ratcheted up anarcho-tyranny to new heights.
In
some American cities, Muley’s question—who do we shoot—has an answer, at least
in an immediate sense.
So
what next? Where do we go from here?
America
faces three scenarios.
·
One: Trump is re-elected on a wave of anger over the looting and
anarchy unleashed by the “I-Can’t-Breathe” narrative. Trump sends Javanka
packing, dispatches the troops to restore order, extends the immigration
moratorium, finally builds the wall, and begins mass deportations as the White
House protects the dissident Right from deplatforming by
the Tech Totalitarians.
That
scenario is most likely a fantasy.
Even
if Trump is re-elected, his past record of bluster and little to no action
speaks for itself. The Blob and its executive arm, the Deep State, have boxed
him in. Trump and his “team,” if one can call it that, are as easily disarmed
by the antiracists as Conservative, Inc.’s operatives. Their immediate and
reflexive condemnation of the police after Floyd’s death, like the Beltway
Right’s compulsion to apologize for even existing, tells the tale.
Of
course vote for Trump in November. But don’t expect too much. Trump has been,
at best, a speedbump, not a roadblock, in the Blob’s path.
America
has survived unrest before, but that was a different country. It had a white,
Christian super-majority and a shared history. It had at least a theoretical
chance of working out a modus vivendi with its black minority. The language was English and, most
of the time, we played by a set of rules to which everyone—liberal
conservative, Democrat or Republican—agreed. Elections were not winner-take-all
apocalyptic events. Nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court did
not occasion brutal, partisan,
ideological war. No longer.
If
we bank solely on electoral politics, we will lose, especially as the
demographic ring closes. The winners will show no quarter.
Political
life as we knew it in America is over. Again, the America we grew up in and
loved is dead. Elections are a holding action at best. It seems highly unlikely
that Trump (or anyone else, for that matter) can, for instance, deport and encourage to self-deport tens
of millions of illegal aliens,
even assuming a desire to do so.
What’s
more, a substantial portion of the dwindling white majority has disavowed its
identity—the “flight from white,”
as Steve Sailer calls
it. Meanwhile, the Blob controls the Deep
State and its bureaucracy not only on the federal level but
also in too many swing states and major metropolitan areas.
·
Two: Trump loses, and the Blob and its allies triumph. But because
this is a country now and not a nation, with no shared sense of common identity
and agreed-upon history, culture, beliefs, or language, only a full-blown
police state can hold it together.
Even
that might not ensure order in a chaotic post-America, and the diminishing
number of whites will surely not enjoy the protection of the state. At some
point, white Americans might well be living like white South Africans,
ever in fear for their lives.
If
order breaks down, vigilante groups, even criminal gangs, will step into the
void, as vigilantes have
done in Mexico and Hispanic gangs have done to
protect their neighborhoods during the Floyd riots.
The
good news: white men have followed suit when mobs threatened their homes and
history. The boys in Fishtown in
metropolitan Philadelphia who protected a police station, the heroes who
surrounded and protected a statue of Christopher
Columbus, and a group of armed Texans who gathered
to protect the Alamo,are just three examples.
Meanwhile,
following the “higher number than usual” of Atlanta police officers calling in
sick when one of their own was charged with felony
murder in the shootingof Rayshard Brooks, Seth
Cohen at Forbes wondered whether the “Blue flu”
would be “America’s next pandemic.” [As Atlanta Police Protest,
Is “Blue Flu” The Next Pandemic? , June 18, 2020]. As calls to
“defund the police” mount, that’s a good question.
And
it raises another: what happens if America’s truckers decide not
to deliver to cities with no police protection?
So
far, resistance to the Blob is scattered and uncoordinated, but that could
change as the American systemic crisis deepens.
·
Three: The country breaks apart, and the Historic American people
establish enclaves for
themselves and others who love and fondly remember the
old America.
The
breakup, indeed, is underway. Blue states and Leftist kritarchs nullify laws they
don’t like. Sanctuary cities and
even sanctuary states defy immigration laws. Meanwhile, American patriots have
answered with Second Amendment sanctuarycounties
and even states. Americans in inland California talk of
seceding from the “Left coast.” The Left has floated secession talk as well:
anarchists have seized and established their own “autonomous zone” in
Seattle. West Virginia’s governor, Jim Justice, invited conservative counties
in Virginia to secede and join the Mountain State. [West Virginia Republicans encourage conservative Virginia
counties to ‘Vexit’ by Kelly Mena, CNN, Sun February 9, 2020] .
States,
counties, and cities that sided with or
surrendered to the mob, and the Blob’s intensification of anarcho-tyranny
during the recent coronavirus lock down, seem to have sparked a sharp reaction from
the American remnant that could provide the bare bones of a Middle American defense
movement.
Someday,
“blue” and “red” enclaves, even whole states, might evolve into new polities.
American
patriots are developing their own hybrid warfare with media of their own,
effectively following the Left’s example of nullification and internal
secession, as well as organizing an alternative cultural network
that publishes its own books, educates its children, and tries to carry on despite
the threat of Deep State suppression.
My
guess for the future: combination of scenarios two and three. The managerial
state tightens its grip, the result on November 3 regardless, but devolution
continues.
The
Blob won’t let up. The riots we recently witnessed will continue even if Trump
sends in the troops now.
When that happens, we
won’t need to ask Muley’s question.
Wayne Allensworth is a Corresponding Editor of Chronicles magazine. He is the author
of The Russian Question:
Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia,and a novel Field of Blood. He will soon be writing at
American Remnant (www.american-remnant.com).
The website is currently under construction.