“To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences for defying all of it is to achieve a level of contentment.” – The New Right
As Republicans assess their standing following the ouster of Trump in the 2020 election, factions within the party battle to gain control. Whether that power is reclaimed by the conservatives, the Republican establishment, or remains with Trump, the latter’s impact cannot be denied. This oft-dismissed juggernaut is not your average right-of-center contingency, but instead a disparate group of mostly outsiders who are united in one thing: their complete and utter disdain for elite America and the progressivism they promote. Trump quickly gained their support by regularly attacking the most despised sector of the progressive power structure, the Corporate Media. Trump was a thorn in their side, and they loved it.
In Michael Malice’s 2019 book, “The New Right”, Malice traces the growth of this new anti-establishment movement from the Old Right to the Trump era, through a motley collection of influencers from Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard to Pat Buchanan and Gavin McInnes. Focused on culture over politics, Malice identifies the New Right’s main opposition as the “evangelical left”, a secularized religious movement controlled by the media, academia, and government, whose progressive policies serve to save a bigoted nation. Within this leftist hierarchy, known as the “Cathedral”, its bishops are represented by the universities where society's only acceptable thoughts are formulated and advanced. Once enshrined, no further debate is needed or allowed.
The New Right organically formed against creeping socialism ushered in by the progressive dogma of the 1960s and 70s. Known as the New Left, this movement launched under the social justice banner of civil rights, feminism, gay rights, and other leftist causes. Diversity came in the form of race, ethnicity, and gender, but never in the multiplicity of thought. While many conservatives and mainstream Republicans believe they can tweak or work within the existing system, the New Right has no such delusion. This opposition to establishment politics regularly ruffles feathers on both sides of the aisle.
Despite chronic misrepresentation from the media, the New Right’s conflict with immigrants and minorities is rarely based on nationality or race, but on their anti-Western values and support of leftist ideology. In fact, members of the New Right are more likely to belong to a similar social status than the overclass who control Washington. Internationally, the New Right is largely anti-war and anti-interventionist. Instead, they are Nationalists to a fault, who fervently support their country of choice, America First.
Exposing the media and other leftist institutions as dishonest players who deliberately misinform is the New Right’s red pill strategy, a quick cure for the passive acceptance and blind trust in news, without any question or doubt. It is here where the New Right has found its advantage. As corporate media loses its stranglehold on the narrative, new media is now aggressively countering their propaganda with their own set of facts and figures. With technology adding to the media’s growing inability to control speech and thought, the New Right’s next battle has moved to the college campuses, where the seeds of leftist depravity are planted.
Europe had its own brush with the globalist agenda through the expansion of the European Union. Brexit was the UK’s movement to preserve their national autonomy lost in the unification. While nationalism fights world dominance, globalism seeks to equalize people of different nations by removing the cultural characteristics that make each countryman unique. The loyalists may have won the first round, but the war rages on. Populism is on the rise, as concern for the working man continues to gain ground over the ruling aristocracy.
There is growing sympathy for the New Right’s fight against wokeism and cancel culture as BLM, Hollywood, and national sports leagues become increasingly unpopular. As more Americans discover the life-altering red pill, the left will continue to be outed as defenders of the status quo. And as dissenters become more marginalized and politically displaced, the more emboldened the New Right, the true resisters, become. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, America’s new rebels are here to stay.
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