The Centrist Strategy

More and more Alt-Right, white nationalists, and neo-Naizs are supporting #YangGang as a way to re-gain opacity. Richard Spencer argues, “We’ve taken so much heat, maybe we need this ‘fortune cookie’ to envelope us,…to..survive and rebuild. I’m not against thinking like that.” pic.twitter.com/ppry6rawLO

— It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) March 16, 2019

Where are you actually at on the political spectrum?

If you had to choose between Yang and $1,000 a month or mainstream conservatism, what would you do? What is your gripe with conservatism? How valuable is Conservatism, Inc. to you?

Are journalists who live in a bubble right about you?

Are you really Far Right? Judging by what I have seen over the years, I think a lot of you are ACTUALLY quite moderate and somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum. You’re just angry because you have no representation in the Republican or Democratic parties.

Set aside identity politics for a minute. The thing you are mad about is that there is no place for White identity on either the Democrat or Republican plantations. There is no acknowledgement that you even exist. What would happen if White identity were destigmatized? What would it even take to do that? Someone like Drumpf could never do that because he is so polarizing.

What is your actual stance on the issues? Richard Spencer and Greg Johnson are described as “Far Right” in the media, but both have supported UBI and abortion for a decade. The truth is that many people in the “Far Right” are actually somewhere to the left of the conservatives. They have a blend of views that combines social conservatism with economic populism.

Yang comes out of nowhere and offers THOUSAND DOLLA A MONTH. In doing so, he refocuses the debate away from identity politics and to age, class and ideology. Richard Spencer, Greg Johnson and Cernovich are perplexed because all three have supported UBI for years. Most people in the Alt-Right actually think it would be a great idea to offer a New Deal to heavily indebted Millennials and Zoomers. Enslave the robots and let everyone start their lives on a firmer financial foundation.

Ask anyone in the Alt-Right what there opinion is of Charlie Kirk’s ideology and CPAC 2019. It is the Alt-Right because the bulk of those people are moderate populists.

Do you support globalist free trade policies that impoverish the working class? NO.

Do you support spending trillions of dollars on endless foreign wars? NO.

Do you support rebuilding America’s infrastructure? SURE.

Do you support open borders and endless waves of immigration for corporations that want to exploit cheap labor? NO.

Do you support our current healthcare system? NO.

Do you support gun rights? SURE.

Do you support political correctness? NO.

Do you support universal basic income? PROBABLY.

Maybe I am seeing a mirage that isn’t there, but I think Yang has got it all figured out, which explains this sudden upsurge interest and warming to him on the populist Right and in the Center of the electorate. The Obama and Trump years have been intensely polarizing and the middle of the electorate has been having a temper tantrum and shifting between these two poles.

Suppose Yang were to offer a compromise that consolidates the moderate Center of American politics. It would deflate the real extremists on all three sides: the AOCs of the world, Charlie Kirk and the Republican donor class and the Sean Hannity and Glenn Becks of the world. Yang offers legal weed, student loan forgiveness, universal basic income, peace and prosperity.

Mainstream conservatism or $1,000 bucks a month? It’s the funniest meme in years.