The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

One of the roots of humor is the idea that “it’s funny because it’s true.” The evangelical left’s culture implicitly turns this maxim on its head and gives the impression that things are true because they’re funny

the great enemies of Western faith, culture, and civilization have come out of the West.”

Yet despite the establishment propaganda, every time the Republicans have run a right-winger in the last forty years they have won the White House—and every time they’ve run a moderate they have lost. George H. W. Bush was especial proof of this, winning as Reagan II in 1988 before hiking taxes and moving to the center in time for a 1992 defeat.

There are few things that progressives like more than presenting the appearance of being on the cutting edge of social thought.

Here we see an idea essential to the New Right: the concept that civilization is merely a thin veneer, that within man lives a savage barely disguised and liable to be exposed at any given moment. For the evangelical left, violence is a personal or social aberration that needs to be explained. For the New Right, what needs explaining is how violenc

This is how I feel when I interact with members of the Alt-Right. Some of them are irredeemable, horrible people. Yet, in my view, to be defined by one’s ideology is already “problematic.” To be unable to associate with those you disagree with (within limits), to think there is an absolute correlation between one’s politics and one’s character, is

It’s no surprise that a worldview grounded in racial analysis sees racism as the cause of what is happening.

“With the Democratic party so beholden to feminism that it cannot even oppose partial birth abortions, and the GOP in thrall to libertarian ideology and controlled by corporate interests, the call of the gods of the marketplace for more women workers prevails over the command of the God of Genesis: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth

For over a century, universities have been designed to promulgate a leftist takeover and control of American society—and it’s a story that has only been uncovered fully in recent years.

When I questioned Taylor about this he entertained my idea. “There may be some truth to that,” he admitted. “I know some Jews who would argue that American culture has benefited enormously from this frothy mix of Jewish intellectuals who think outside the box and don’t subscribe to traditional views. Yeah, but then the anti-Semites say that’s what