American Greatness Symposium

Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress.

Christopher Roach is first up to bat.

Roach was been around for years. He was one of the first bloggers who caught my attention when I started this website over a decade ago. Unsurprisingly, Roach observes that Charlie Cuck can’t explain why being a White Christian male should be taboo while being an open homosexual should be mainstream and acceptable or how welcoming drag queens into fold and giving platforms to homosexual atheists to act as gatekeepers makes sense as “conservatism.”

American Greatness:

“Over the past month, the far-Right’s troll culture turned against Conservatism, Inc., by haranguing the establishment’s “youth outreach” guy, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). TPUSA is a large and well-funded youth movement, but it is starting to lose its audience because many are asking what exactly TPUSA aims to conserve?

The answers they are getting are unclear.

Although Kirk makes some modest concessions to the nationalist Right in his essay, for the most part he has been pushing the old and failed conservative strategy of sticking to “free-market principles,” while being “liberal on social issues.” This is why he confuses conservatism, which is really a disposition and set of instincts, with a laundry list of positions that he labels “dogma.”  …”

Can we stop for a moment to reflect on how bizarre this is?

I’ve got this huge secret that I have been keeping to myself all this time while living in the conservative closet. Leans over, whispers in hushed tone … I am a White male.

The Left makes full throated, visceral appeals to every identity group in the Democratic coalition to get out the vote and explicitly blames the White Christian majority for all of their problems. It doesn’t hold anything back to the point of engaging in violence, impeaching the president, doxxing its opponents and pressuring their employers to cancel them.

The Right, however, stigmatizes its own constituency as illegitimate. It is too afraid to so much as identify, talk about or motivate its own constituency or go to bat for their interests without tripping over and violating one of the bullshit -isms and -phobias that it seeks to preserve for some inexplicable reason. Instead, it condemns “identity politics” while loudly making identity based appeals to all the non-White, non-Christian, non-male groups which are not socially stigmatized because that is the easy, cowardly cuckservative thing to do.

“It is telling that he reaches for words popular on the Left like “xenophobia” and “racism,” seemingly unaware of how they have lost their punch, as they’re invoked so promiscuously to silence anyone to the right of Paul Ryan.  …”

The -isms and -phobias are all leftwing critiques which emerged around the time of World War II that stigmatize rightwing views, behaviors and attitudes. They are designed to weigh down and shackle the “Authoriarian Personality.” So, you can’t recognize patterns and follow the data to the logical conclusion that race exists or sex exists or that gender has a biological basis or that there are differences between human beings which arise from our biology and lead to inequality. You can’t prefer your own group to foreigners because that is, say, “nativism” and “xenophobia.” The Western moral tradition is tossed out the window and replaced with this garbage.

“Kirk and his guests have often responded to questioners the way the Left usually does: with sputtering and ad hominem insults. This is just weak. Groypers have not been rioting or even heckling at TPUSA’s events; rather, a slew of pointed questions have exposed TPUSA as purveyors of the same thin gruel cooked up by Conservatism, Inc.  …”

Benny Johnson’s response to Fuentes was telling.

You can almost hear him chortling “we got him on racism” or “we got him on sexism” or “we got him on xenophobia” or “we got him on homophobia” or “we got him on Holocaust denial.” Now, the issues that he is raising can be totally dismissed because Fuentes hasn’t contorted everything he has ever said online to conform to all the -isms and -phobias that we are accustomed to enforcing. The respectability of being a member of the club of True Conservatism is derived from living up to moral standards created by the Left to neuter the Right.

Next up, Matthew Boose.

American Greatness:

“In the wake of the Donald Trump moment, conservatism is up for grabs: white identitarians, “Catholic integralists,” paleocons, and American nationalists all sense an opportunity for greater representation. But the bigger story is that the globalist, anti-nationalist, progressive “conservatism” that came before Trump isn’t yet quite dead, and it’s fighting for survival.

The degree to which this is true has become apparent over the past few weeks as a civil war within campus conservatism has raged on between Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA and paleoconservative activists who follow the nationalist podcaster Nicholas Fuentes.  …

The leaders of the conservative movement must be able to answer these questions: why are white Christians, and only white Christians, prohibited from acting in their rational self-interest? Why must Republicans, given the prospect of a dim future in which it can only survive by pandering to the Left, respond by pandering to the Left now, just to win over people who hate and want to persecute them anyway? “

The answer to that question of how White identity, not to be confused with white supremacy or racism, came to be so uniquely stigmatized in our culture is that Conservatism, Inc. is conserving multiculturalism and political correctness in much the same way that is now conserving the Civil Rights Movement, feminism, gay rights and the LGTBQ revolution of the Obama years. It has assimilated, stabilized and conserved every leftwing social revolution of the past 70 years while exploiting populist backlashes by people who are angry about these social changes to pass tax cuts and deregulation and the pro-Israel agenda for the donor class.