The Republican Party is Dead

Cats, Les Miserables, The Mouse Trap, Phantom of the Opera, The Republican Party.

These five theatrical productions have many things in common. They rely on cloying sentimentality to draw their audiences; Their serial longevity is based on crass commercial calculation, rather than the cultural zeitgeist in which they were planted; There’s more than a shred of triteness to them. But one of them is still the odd one out. Unlike the others nobody likes the Republican Party. The time has finally come for us to acknowledge what we’ve know for a long time. The Republican Party is dead. Yawn.

Cue the protests of cadre ghouls, bow-tied “experts”, PR svengalis, K-Street annelids and every other political penangolan that oozes along the corridors of power. Yawn.

This isn’t just the diagnosis of some extremely-online, esoteric thinker1. This is on-the-ground political fact. Witness the latest demonstration of this hard truth and pay attention, because it illustrates the one sine qua non for a living, breathing political organization:

• Members of New York branch of the “Young Republicans” communicated in chats using all manner of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs. Yes, all the big bombs were dropped.

• In a staggering act of bad faith, some disaffected member of said group tag-teamed with Politico to blow it wide open.

• Leftist talking heads and online gooners exploded in a Nilotic deluge of crocodile tears. Fake conservatives took the bait, inducing a Tawaf against the one Kaaba they share with Democrats: the “ism”

• Then something happened the Establishment Right did not expect. In a breath-taking act of political virility, Chad-in-Chief J.D. Vance doused the social media monster (and its critics) with the rhetorical-equivalent of fire retardant: “boys will be boys, retard.”

It was one of the more entertaining episodes of online cat-and-mouse in recent memory, but it evinced the widening schism between groups on the Right.

As GOP politicians (especially senators) trampled each other like soccer hooligans to to denounce the wrong-thinkers, their penultimate leader grabbed hold of the temple pillars and gave them a premonitory shake. If the heir apparent to the GOP crown can boldly gainsay his most powerful magnates, in defense of the rank and file (without the usual retraction or mitigation), then you do not have a party. There is no such thing as “Republican”.

There. Take a breath, you can stop the charade. It’s not longer necessary to keep up the pretense.

Take But Degree Away…

The Republican Party was sprung from the vacuum left by the demise of President Jackson’s political experiment of the 1820s. His Democratic Party - having forsaken its populist beginnings for infinite Irish immigrants - hemorrhaged support nationwide as it clung to slavery2. The Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery party but not the way Lincoln “Project” hypocrites pretend. While the new party did attract the support of abolitionist radicals, most the party elite were quite conservative. Of course war conserves so little, just as it transmogrifies even the most risible reprobate into a gilded saint. Thus terrorists like John Brown were canonized while martyrs like Lincoln were deified in the new Republican order.

Buoyed by a generation of pension-dependent Civil War veterans the Republican Party welded itself to America’s (geographically concentrated) capital owners and held on to the presidency until WWI with only one exception. Then like all parties, they got too high on their own success and split, leaving Woodrow Wilson (the Solon of the Deep State) to canter up the middle to victory. Wilson set the stage for State interventionism and it’s been a back-footed game against the forces of appropriation and pandering ever since.

A few notables attempted to dismantle the Deep State and its permanent managerial caste. Nixon tried admirably but got busted for doing what all politicians have done since the beginning of time. Reagan bent the knee to Congressional Leftists in order to “defeat communism” abroad, leaving it hale at home - ironically entrenching a permanent parasite class of lobbyists. When top-spook Bush I was crowned in 1988 there was a sense of relief among the inattentive - Dukakis was a Big Government liberal after all. But by the time the recession of the early 90s struck conservatives realized they’d been duped. Perot offered an alternative but stumbled on his own rough edges allowing Clinton to lube his way to the Oval Office on a promise to “feel our pain”. Bush II was an even more enthusiastic Deep Stater than Woodrow Wilson could have dreamed. The State - and it’s infinite ability to finance its own bloat - was simply too much for any politician to resist, a chimeric carrot and stick forever corrupting the nature of mankind.

The only cure for this malaise is the most vitriolic tonic of the body politic - a solution that dissolves political parties into their constituent elements. It is the aqua fortis that ushered Jackson to power, the elixir that elites and intellectual-zealots constantly warn us about. It is populism. The old order will be pushed aside and a new one put in its place. Or so the theory goes.

Untune that String…

Despite Trump’s improbable rise - worthy of an Aristophean drama - this is only the end of the beginning. Woke has not been “put away.” The Uniparty stands before us emaciated and bereft of every virtue, but they still stand. Push it in the right spot and surely it will topple?

But who should do the pushing? The Republican Party knows they are too unpopular among both rank and file and the general public to apply that nudge, and unpopularity notwithstanding, they are too cowardly to even try.

They’ve tried desperately to adapt, as any Borg entity would. Charlie Kirk’s body wasn’t even cold before they conceived, gestated and vivisected a homunculus “destined” to replace him (complete with private jet Instagram reels to reel in the brotards). Brilyn (yes, that’s his given name ) Hollyhand (yes, sigh, that is his surname) was wheeled out within hours of Kirk’s assassination, including suitably gushing blurbs advertising him as the man-child to lead the Right into the future. Others abound as well. These incarnations of the artificial Right have glommed on to Charlie’s memory, trotting it around in a politicized Weekend At Bernie’s.

It took the online Right only a second to strip these avatars down to their infernal cores. Take Brilyn, for example. In addition to his demonic summoning, he’s being bankrolled by daddy - a multi-millionaire grifter who struck it rich as a Section 8 slumlord.

They’ll try anything. And why would they? For the Establishment Right it’s about the money, not the political power, which they fumbled years ago.

The most important takeaway of the post-Reagan GOP is that it never was a political party. An agglomeration of special interest groups, lobbyists, defense contractors, Wall Street CEOs… yes. Just not a party. A party needs a grassroots. It needs people who feel convicted enough that they’ll brush off their kid’s little league game to canvass the neighborhood for votes. The GOP hasn’t had anything like this for years.

Sure, the Christian Conservatives were manhandled into fulfilling this function for a while. And for a while it worked. Recalling the evangelical origins of abolitionism, they were told that abortion equals slavery and thus ending it was a moral imperative. Abortion eventually morphed into Pro Life Inc. as anti-abortion stances became political losers, which only accelerated the bleed of grassroots support. By the time Trump came along there were effectively no more grassroots Republicans. What did the party even stand for anymore? Better Forever Wars? Lower taxes for your employer’s relocation to Guangzhou? Binders full of women?

The first cry leveled by the Establishment Right at this new movement was that it’s populist - a criticism that only showed their true colors. No one cares if it’s populist - how is that even a criticism? We certainly don’t mind. In any event the time for populism has come as only a populist uprising can thwart the Deep State and its various appendages.

The subtext behind their J’accuse is that populism is both undemocratic and inconsistent with a constitutional republic. Whether this is true or not is a question for philosophers and historians - and since the professional academic class has abandoned these questions to obsess over systemic racism/transphobia, the New Right has filled the gap and provided a far more rigorous analysis. Their answer: since we have neither of those forms of government, what does it even matter?

The New Right’s willingness to reconsider “settled” questions of politics and philosophy; to engage in vigorous debate, instead of nodding consent in lecture halls; to re-reify sacred, immemorial values of masculinity, conservation and faith… this is what defines the New Right. It is both populist foot-slogger and elitist intellectual, and it doesn’t care if your feelings get hurt. No wonder the Establishment is freaking out.

And Hark, What Discord Follows

The result has been near constant infighting among the Right. Not only has the RINO/National Review crowd taken to bashing “radicals”, conflict has exploded between the New Right’s most ardent members. October 7th unleashed a fury of fissures, and while not all takes were made in good faith, there was room for disagreement across the spectrum. The whole Pagan/Christian divide is another sensitive area of discourse. Even uncontroversial takes have been ratioed - their original poster shredded by keyboard warriors they once considered compatriots.

Some have lamented this breakdown of unity, suggesting it’s a sign of weakness that the Left will use to supplex us into submission. Others note it was only natural we’d start tearing ourselves apart once the Lefties left for their own echo-chamber. Both are likely correct, yet the New Right thinkers that I know view it more as a sign of good health. We allow debate. We encourage it. Do some egos get bruised? Surely. But it’s sticks and stones. New Righters will stick to their guns, and then move on to the next debate. Compare this to fake conservatives who resort to “denounce, deny and apologize” any time controversy strikes. They have the same victimhood complex as the Left. They proclaim the same moral self-righteousness as the Left. They have the same deference to the donor class as the Left. Anyone seeing a pattern here?

Alternately they’ll whine that if we don’t follow their lead the Left will win and ruin everything - not realizing what time it is. Of course they refuse to follow us because… ‘principles’, the same losing principles that exile us further and further from actual power. It’s almost like they don’t know what actual power looks like, or don’t care. And why would they?

The ‘principles’ they’re referring to are ostensibly Christian ones - just not the ones the nation was founded on. The spur of moral supremacy that drives them is the same that drove the Puritans to kill their Quaker neighbors; the abolitionists to destroy the South; the Northeastern Liberals to corrupt the Constitution under LBJ; and the GOP to stick to litmus tests on abortion. It’s also the very same impulse that drives Progressives in their quest remake America as a State-controlled favela. The United States was founded on a plethora of Christian values, but the only ones that seem to have survived 20th century materialism and cynicism are the very worst, Puritanical instincts.

Those wailing that we must all band together, no matter the cost, don’t just have weaker arguments. They fail to understand both the animus of the New Right and the nature of the errors of the past century. Appeasement did not work - it got us to where we are. There can be no middle ground on certain fundamental issues. What’s different today is that the New Right now clearly sees those issues and how they’re delineated. The Fake Right thinks it’s 1996, and the litmus tests are still abortion, school prayer and swearing in cartoons.

Fake conservatives worry about these new delineations because they will be on the outside. They fear they will be exiled… just as they have exiled real conservatives since Pat Buchanan. Thus these types paint themselves as moderates and vow to never unite with ‘radicals’ as a matter of principle when it’s really just sour grapes. That’s fine, let them flap in the wind. Let them enjoy the wilderness or start writing for The Bulwark - they can pretend it was always their dream.

Witness Ben Shapiro’s latest act of duplicity:

Since every single word above is verifiably false we can safely stow Ben with the other Neocon stuffed-animals… in garage with the other nursery toys. The Right has grown up, palaver of this sort will no longer be tolerated and in many ways the delineation is just a bullshit detector. We’re not going back.

Back-pedaling now would not only be cowardly, it would be suicidal. The Republican Party is merely a shell company for its benefactors. It is the apogee of cynical instrumentalism - which is why some of the bigger social media accounts have been swindled into doing its bidding with secret cash payments. The Left understood this form of influence years ago as their government-funded donor class embraced its extremist wing. This is why the Establishment Right and their podcast lackeys gainsay us at every move, still believing they have the power to correct our thoughts. This is why they’ve pulled out the “big guns” - labelling the New Right as “radicals”, “extremists” and (wait for it) “Nazis”. This is also why they won’t win. It’s an old playbook. We don’t care about their boomer labels, and no, failure to apologize won’t lose us elections.

Them winning and us winning are two different things, so what would be the point of “unifying” at all costs? Unifying means capitulating on all our definitional issues while they will pay lip-service on a few points. In exchange we’ll get a pat on the head and “membership” to the donor club. This is, of course, a bluff. They have it backwards. Money follows power, not the other way around.

Moreover, when we’re talking about issues that test the pith and marrow of political belief then “tearing ourselves apart” isn’t pointless ostracizing it’s essential discrimination3. Immigration is one these fault lines that separate the wheat from the chaff and this kind of political threshing ends up being more illuminating than disuniting.

James Lindsay stands out as a cautionary tale here, though others come to mind. On the surface he might appear to an outsider as part of the New Right, what with his breathless suffixing of “anti-communist” in his bio. He even wrote a book about how Marxists took over the West’s education system! Since then he’s taken so many opportunities to out himself as a tone-deaf midwit that he can no longer be taken seriously. See below for only a recent example:

These are same the ass-clowns saying we should bow out and let them carry the standard. Typical of such histrionic dilletantes, they get so wrapped up in the emotionalism of their own appeal they contradict themselves in the same breath. As with Lindsay, they sometimes have large platforms - something that can only be accounted for by support from the Establishment Right’s donors. Again, what they fail to understand about the New Right is that while they’re playing for the spoils of the Party-Donor Complex we’re playing to save and restore the nation and civilization.

It would be one thing for multi-millionaire podcast impresarios like Dillon to stick to their self-righteous spiel. At least I could respect him as a hustler - a sort of less-entertaining Jim Baker. But when they lecture us on the morality of our positions while they cling to the same impotent marching orders that reek of the Left’s containment strategy, you know he’s not just a phony but a false prophet.

Turn Back, Dull Earth, And Find Thy Centre Out

Like all dissimulation, calls for “moderation” have a kernel apparent truth. Commonly discussed New Right talking points, like Churchill’s antagonism towards peace with Hitler or repealing the Civil Rights Act, inspire existential panic among the Establishment Right. They’re so accustomed to having issues framed by the Left that seeing them in another context causes their notochords to involute. They will forever be their handmaidens.

Of course their fears are prima facie valid. Look at the state of public education and historical knowledge. Take the history of John Brown as an example. It’s not just radical Leftists who view him as a hero, center-right brotards do too. The same male crowd that laughs at the pronoun brigade also gets their history from Spielberg movies or Wikipedia, so why are we surprised? Witness this latest manifestation:

Von was the same trucker hat-wearing space cadet that helped Trump win. The same cohort that watches Von idolizes StoolSample Sports™ for its pedestrian humor and rizz-reels, and gets their information about science and politics from Joe Rogan. These weekend warrior Rightists may be smart or dumb, but their votes in future elections will be instrumental in not only preventing Democrats from flexing the iron grip of the Deep State but also in cleansing the Republican Party of neo-Puritans like Dillon and Berry.

The Establishment Right fears that the New Right will alienate voters, driving them into the arms of Leftist “populists” like AOC or Bernie Sanders. From their perspective political maneuvering and advertising must ape whatever Democrats do. They have no concept that the landscape has been irrevocably changed. They worry about how they’ll cover when a newspaper headline distorts New Right positions, not realizing the medium has no reach beyond an ossified arm of the electorate that thinks Kamala ran a perfect campaign.

They fail to realize that the vast majority of voters do NOT pay attention to politics until a few weeks before a major election. Normies are too busy working, paying taxes, taking their kids to school and just getting by to notice. Moreover, the marquée issues of civil rights, freedom of speech, racism, etc, have no noticeable impact on their lives.4 They view this as “a question for the philosophers” and tune out whenever debates get too heavy. It’s the same reason writers like Yarvin don’t gain much purchase with a broader audience, but others like Raw Egg Nationalist do. This fact might ruffle some egos among the New Right, but it shouldn’t. Everyone has their part to play - something I’ll follow up on at the end.

Even if emolliating our stances actually did win over such voters (there have been no cases in recent history suggesting it does)5 the current Republican Party has absolutely zero chance of capturing them. In an age of AI-everything there’s only one currency of political value: authenticity. The old Republican Party hasn’t had any for two generations. Say what you want about the group chat people but they have authenticity. Whether you take what they said seriously or not, you know what they really think - something no one in the Republican Party has done since Eisenhower.

In fact I would’ve gone a step further than Vance. Whether these chats were puerile fancy or not these were private chats among like-minded individuals. There is no moral basis for criticizing private expressions of private people. And yes, if Jay Jones was a private individual - not running for public office - I wouldn’t care who he wants to kill. To throw one back at the libtards: why are you SO interested in what people are saying in private? Of course we know the answer. Progressives want to live in a world where thoughts are criminal and where even a whim of a political enemy is subject to State scrutiny.

This is why it’s fair to call these fakers, as Will Tanner does, the Catamite Right. The acme of their aspiration is a job with a donor corporation as a perpetual sock-puppet. For these people there IS no America worth saving, only a culture-neutral social-ladder that must be climbed. Even catamites have the moral high-ground here.

Forget the Deficit Gap, it’s the Authenticity Gap

Fakeness was rarely a concern for our ancestors. Aside from a few prescient industrial revolution-era jeremiads most thinking on this topic didn’t arise until after the invention of mass media and mass advertisement. The Hippie Movement exuded buzz-words about “the Man” and his “big corporations” but as these black-soled degenerates morphed into the boomer elite their moral authority evaporated.

The revolt against inauthenticity gathered steam in 80s and reached an apogee with the Grunge Movement and the birth of the Internet but declined thereafter. With the restoration of the House of Bush we were told in a folksy drawl that mindless consumerism was the best defense against terrorism. Once the Supreme Court said money was speech a few years later it formalized the corruption of authenticity that we’d already known to be true.

The descent into fakeness could fill multiple monographs, so I won’t dwell on too many of the causes - such complex cultural phenomena are usually emergent anyway. It’s a relevant issue because it explains so much of Trump’s rise, the fall of major parties and the decline of trust of societal institutions. It’s also an important barometer for predicting what pitch will succeed with the voters going forward and which ones - no matter how much money is plowed into advertising - will flop. Unlike the Boomer generation that gobbled up mainstream slop, today’s hyper-online keyboard warriors are ruthlessly efficient at filtering out even the most blithely inauthentic media.

Thus no discussion of authenticity (or its paucity) is complete without mentioning the Feminization of institutions. Helen Andrews has written and spoken on this topic recently, as has John Carter. Feminized discourse thrives on inauthenticity. It is pro forma speech at its finest where each word is contrived to produce as little offense or controversy among the largest set of (powerful) people. It is the epitome of ceremonial politics where decisions are a foregone conclusion, decided by the powerful behind closed doors with a nod. Discussion is ritualized for the sake of optics. In Feminized discourse nothing is a surprise and all outcomes are fore-ordained.

This kabuki theatre is repeated from the smallest scales (work meetings, corporate townhalls) to the largest (the national political process) and it has permeated all of society. Have a conversation with a mainstream zoomer and you’ll feel like you just met with HR. We’ve seen it invade and then consume the Republican Party too - witness the perfunctory groveling over the group chat “offenses”.

Fake Rightists like Dillon and other neo-televangelists embody the Great Feminization. Their perpetual calls for turning the other cheek is either a low-IQ pastiche of Christianity (like Instawhores with “Romans 11:18” in their bio) or a cynical attempt at containment. Either way their emasculative hand-sitting (with enemies at the gate, and all) is a pretty lame strategy. To try and bully allies into conformity smacks of Feminization. All they had to do was say nothing.

It’s even worse for the Democrats though. Whether from those ensconced in Congress (Schumer, Pelosi, etc) or those still outside (Mamdami), there is no speech that is not entirely prevaricated, no statement that isn’t exempt from cant, no utterance or gesture that isn’t completely calculated for meretricious effect. They will denounce Trump for the most oblique and trifling sins in the same hour that they commit even greater sins themselves.

In fact, the fake group chat scandal (and the refusal by the New Right to take the bait) was brought into greater relief by an actually egregious scandal involving the Virginia Democrats’ candidate for Attorney-General, wherein he called for the murder of his opponents’ children. Note that he (and Deep State priestess Abigail Spanberger) are very likely to win. Jay Jones’ fake apology was precisely the penance required for this particular sin, thus an indulgence was offered and absolution granted. He’s performed the necessary ablutions so he’s no longer guilty in their eyes (if he ever was).

Such formal self-flagellation might have worked once but no one thinks that way anymore. This was the old media way of thinking, which was passive and operated in a vacuum as Auðmundr points out in his inaugural Substack essay. While there are still too many normies inhabiting this ecosystem to ignore, sufficient numbers have exited and broken the trance. Pro forma apologies are viewed not only as disingenuous, they are counter-signals to veracity and authenticity - a social media Mark of the Beast, if you will.

Humorously, that’s where the comparisons of the Left to the Late Medieval Church end. The latter at least had an epistemic worldview informed by reason - even if it was only used to count the number of angels on a pinhead. The Left, as we know, is informed by nothing.

Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit

At a certain point (reached long ago) the Left reached the bottom of the authenticity barrel where every statement must be discounted 100%. The Bismarckian adage about believing only those things that have been denied becomes uniformly true. This is because those on the Left (Democrats, Marxists, Progressives, Activists, Antifa) believe in nothing. Bennett’s Phylactery actually deals with this in their latest Substack post (here) Their consciences have been relentlessly cohobated by political alchemists into a state of perfect pliability, able to hold any position with the slightest propaganda effort. Contradictions are simply irrelevant to them, they are right because it feels right (at that time) to say whatever it is they said. It’s the apotheosis of subjectivity and the death of reason - the victory of wishful, ephemeral thinking over everything else. To quote John Carter, they are no longer sapient.

Take the myth of color blindness. Other than the true kool-aid-gulpers no one believes in it - certainly not Normies. Progressives might sound like they believe it. They might put on a good show to look and act like they believe it. But these are just dancing shadows of the mind - taking whatever contorted shape their Regime masters tell them. Ditto for sex differences. In fact the true conformists in this case are almost exclusively liberal women who hold to this fantasy precisely because repeating the ceremonial mantra is point. Any reason offered in “support” of an argument is a sufficient one. This is true a fortiori when the Left is defending something unjustifiable or illogical by definition like tolerance for child rape by foreigners or Gays for Palestine.

So here we are, at the end of the modern Party System, where the GOP is a warmed-over cadaver and the Democrats are just an organism whose purpose has been coopted by a foreign host - like those zombie ants. This is also the reason why gerrymandering has reappeared as an issue for both parties as they scramble to redraw the maps and mortgage whatever credibility they have left for a few more votes.

For the Left the credibility gap is irrelevant though. Just as their voters have no compunctions about Jay Jones’ desire to kill his opponents’ children (or the moral contradiction of the asymmetrical outrage in a role-reversal scenario) they will readily manipulate voter roles, throw away ballots, burn ballot boxes, harvest votes from the mentally incapacitated and infirm and manufacture election night surprises. They are morally superior, though. They’ve been told as much by their college professors, whose own moral superiority came self-proclaimed - a sort of pharisaical ouroboros, feeding itself by swallowing its own tail. It is perhaps understandable why the Dillons and Lindsays would rather take the easy way out and just proclaim their moral superiority - as if electoral victories will simply follow naturally from that.

The New Right doesn’t control enough NGOs or government departments or media outlets to make any of that happen even if they wanted to. It needs to win votes the old fashioned way, just on a slanted playing field. And the Fake Right wants us to play with blindfolds and straight-jackets. Thanks, we’ll pass.

This is also why the bluster from Blue State governors is simply hot air. Their capture of the court system isn’t sufficiently hermetic to allow them act with complete impunity. Thus their comments about precluding federal officers from enforcing the law in their realms are posturing for the next election. When that election comes they’ll gee their rhetoric back to the center, or at least cast a purple hue over it. The MSM will run cover for them just as it’s always done.

Sadly the Party system, even if in it’s Cerebral Palsy phase, can’t be eradicated as there’s too much money tied to the brands. As Yarvin said, “Republican” is just a label, but there’s a lot of money in that label. Thus the political game will become a cage match to the death since allowing the sanctimonious Fake Right and boomercons (who have no stake in anything save the paper-money bubble) to win means the same as allowing the Left to win.

Fighting the Culture War With Culture

There’s a big irony in much of the foregoing. For a generation we’ve been accused of being the aggressors in the Culture War, yet conservatives have almost zero influence on cultural institutions. Naturally it makes sense for the Left to accuse the Right of one more thing that it’s doing itself. But we’ve allowed them to perpetuate the lie that culture is Left-coded by nature. The images of the Bohemian painter, the Beatnik poet and the puffy-pantalooned director have all saturated our consciousness. Yet these are recent innovations. Conservatives can’t make art, they say, because they’re too busy banning gay books and censoring rappers. They forget to inform you that it was internet-inventor Al Gore’s wife, Tipper, who led this charge in the 80s. They omit the central role of the Great Feminization - emasculating and transifying video games and TV. And strangely, they also leave out the fact that art was a conservative undertaking for all of history until a variety of low-talent movements popped up around the time of Bolshevism.

Paralleling the history of art and politics is far beyond the scope of essay, however art and culture are extremely important if we are to win in the long run. Even the Brotards vote more on culture than they do on politics. They get their politics (and history) from culture. Building an entirely new ecosystem is thus the most critical aspect to winning the movement and replacing the stale detritus from the Republican Party. Besides, money might follow power, but power follows culture.

All of this means two things: (1) we must become culture creators; and (2) we must actively cross promote each other. Culture creation can take on many forms. I won’t even dunk on TikTok here because everyone (and every media) has their part to play. We’ve excelled at creating a diverse intellectual culture drawing on history and philosophy. Now it’s time to move that into the artistic phase. We used to have books, movies, TV and music that were Right-coded even if the creators were Leftists. For what it’s worth, Right-wing artistic culture isn’t Christian Rock - which looks and feels as artistically bereft as its secular counterparts (that’s on purpose, of course).

Leftists simply don’t understand that every story that’s worth telling has been told before… what they’re peddling simply aren’t stories, they’re just plangent recapitulations of someone’s miserable existence compressed into a lecture. No wonder the film/tv industry is losing money. A Right-wing artistic culture celebrates the timeless themes that inspired our ancestors to build the greatest civilizations ever. It tells the same stories that have been told a million times before, but in a contemporary context and in light of the current struggle against the stifling forces of Leftist conformity.

I’ve tried to start something along these lines with my novel The Toll of Fortune: An Indo-European Origin Saga, which will eventually become part of a longer series (hence the name “The Thirteen Fathers”). These novels will explore the genesis of Indo-European myths that have influenced all successor cultures and languages (including those no longer extant), covering issues relevant for us today like the conflict between the masculine and feminine, the adventurous and sedentary, the nature of ruling and its legitimacy, the ethics of genocide and most importantly the primacy of glory and legacy.

I’m far from alone in this quest either. Others like Hans Schantz have stepped up by aggregating and promoting “based” books. Passage Press also offers an outlet for based literature, though they’ve yet to move beyond the anthology stage6 and Imperium Press also publishes some fiction as well. The Manosphere abounds with other based authors and by simply canvassing the issues of Man’s World Magazine you’ll find many budding authors.

But we need more than that… much more. We need to build an ecosystem and that takes capital. As it stands right-wing billionaires (to the extent they actually exist) have offered almost nothing. There are rumors that Peter Thiel helped Passage Press get started but the rumored sum is piddly compared to the billions spent each year by mainstream media conglomerates. The page-to-production-to-screen pipeline has to be re-created (and reinvented). New loci of production need to be established to break the monopoly of Hollywood. This is a task for billionaires and there is ripe fruit hanging - it’s just not low hanging. The amount of capital to be invested is high, as is the level of risk. But the rewards aren’t just a massive share of the entertainment audience that’s been made permanently homeless, it’s also a chance to build a legacy as a savior of Western civilization.

Authenticity will come through culture, not through politics. The Republican Party might be a moribund carcass but America’s political vacuum means that the two party system will probably be around for a while. Like the work of Dr. Frankenstein, revivifying a dead political party can be both terrifying and gratifying. One thing is certain, only a pitch that reflects authentic beliefs, motivated only by a manifested desire to restore American power to glory, will succeed. This task will continue to be daunting, but have faith in one thing: no other political movement (Leftism or the Establishment Right) can aspire to authenticity. The future will be real.

If you’ve read this far I’d like to thank you. If you’d like to support the restoration of masculine literature consider reading my novel, now restocked on Amazon here.