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

Few (if any) subjects are inherently funny, in the same way that many ingredients aren’t inherently a meal in and of themselves. Asking if rape is funny is more akin to asking if flour is food.

This led to the November 2016 phenomenon of anguish signaling. It allowed those who genuinely felt unsafe, who no longer felt themselves surrounded by the unanimous consensus that they viewed as their social backdrop, to regain some sense of stability. By having the displays be as intense and public as possible, it let the true believers recognize

The universally lauded Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate is a full-frontal assault on the implicit idea that biology plays virtually no role in social issues and norms. Nicholas Wade, at the time a New York Times science writer, wrote A Troublesome Inheritance about “Genes, Race and Human History.”

Civilization is under unprecedented existential threat. • The only way to stop this threat from being realized is via a complete reordering of society, which is admittedly impossible. • Since our political systems won’t allow us to undertake the massive changes that are necessary, we can at least effect incremental changes in the right direction. •

The Ferguson riots of 2014 immediately preceded the midterm elections, where the Republicans picked up a mindboggling sixty-three seats in the House

the government and even Apple itself would be unable to access the phone’s data without the owner’s permission. “No back door is a must,” insisted Apple CEO Tim Cook. Though cloaked in buzzwords about privacy and security, this was a sea change in the relationship between corporations and the state. Though Cook is no anarchist, the Apple approach i

Along came the Mussolini model, which was seen as the middle ground between the two extremes of capitalism and communism.

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.

It is because leftism is so grounded in

When the corporate press engages in idle speculation, it’s “having a discussion.” When someone with a large following on social media engages in brainstorming, it’s “dangerous” and “irresponsible.