Michael Brendan Dougherty writes at The Week:
“The new nationalism in Europe and America is no longer rising. It has risen.
But what does this new nationalism stand for? What do the new nationalists who voted for Brexit and Donald Trump actually want? Up until now, they have been defined more by what and who they’re against than by some motivating vision of what kind of world or nation they wish to create, or the kind of people they want to serve and be. And if they don’t soon define what they stand for, these new nationalists could go down in history as just a severe irritant to the global order of the last three decades rather than as a living alternative to it. …”
Bro, you could always ask. You know where to find us.
Basically, nationalists stand for a politics that is grounded in realism and identity, and what flows from that is an iconoclastic attitude and a zealous defense of our concrete interests. In contrast, conservatives believe in idealism and abstract liberal principles. We cling to the particular. You cling to the universal.
“Even if it never could (or dared) describe the final end state of history, this creative power within globalism touches on deep millenarian impulses in the Western mind, implanted in it by Christianity, and later adopted by Whigs and Marxists — namely, the idea of eternal human progress and moral arcs bending across the universe. …”
Are those impulses synonymous with the West?
I don’t think so. They aren’t even synonymous with America. Here in the South, we have traditionally found that Eastern millenarian mindset to be ludicrous. It is a product of your own culture in a particular phase of its history. There’s no such thing as “eternal human progress” or “moral arcs bending across the universe.” As a matter of fact, the “moral arc” bending across the Dar al-Islam right now isn’t the same one that exists in the old bastions of Unitarianism.
“We know that nationalists are against multilateral globalist trade deals, but not all of them are mercantilists. We know they are against political correctness, but we don’t know if they are for restoring mid-20th century libertinism or if they are a creative pious remnant. In other words, this new nationalist movement does not yet have that suggestive power that globalism had.”
If nationalism is grounded in the particulars of identity, then shouldn’t we expect it to vary? The economic interests of, say, a Denmark are likely to differ from a continental sized republic like the United States. A traditionally non-Christian culture like a Japan will differ from a Germany.
I was hoping you would respond to this.
Dougherty, Douthat and Continetti are shifting. American Affairs referenced Sam Francis.
Douthat is shifting? I haven’t followed him lately, but I assumed that he was towing a line similar to Brooks’.
I don’t think so. Douthat gets some stick from Hunter but I think Trump and this populist moment have caused him to be bolder.
Let’s not overestimate how far they are shifting. The editor of American Affairs, Julius Krein, has the blessing of Bill Kristol:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-trumpist-magazine-debuts-at-the-harvard-club
And, in his essay on Burnham, Krein says that Sam Francis was “rightly denounced” for his views on race.
Sure, there is always a introductory caveat when dealing with edgy ‘racist’ thinkers. But Francis is too interesting too ignore.
Continetti wrote a long piece on Burnham and it seemed he was obliquely tackling Francis.
Continetti is Bill Kristols son-in-law. You can see his thinking evolve in his Free Beacon column. Interesting he explicitly referrered to Israel as part of the right-wing populist global wave.
Like the ‘brands’ these 3 guys are the left side of the overton window, but intellectual rather than clickbait.
Where is the article on Burnham?
The article on Burnham is here:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/02/james-burnhams-managerial-elite/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-managers-vs.-the-managed/article/1028522
From late 2015 when Trump was making waves.
Julius (((Krein)))? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b3dbe3f909d5db66a7878b8b2c551577bb5463614537d0f5d3c6c94fa2719ecb.jpg
Typical conservative intellectual twaddle so as to confuse the confused and pretend its all a great plan and the normie conservative rube is part of it.
This traitor is scribbling for bucks to hide the work of looters.
We want a white ethnostate, free of Jewish filth and propaganda.
Agreed!
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Beware of the foolish civic nationalism argued at that new journal, which Dougherty cited with some praise. The journal, called American Affairs, is for cucks and reflects the establishment’s attempt to control the energies released by the Alt-Right.
Sure it’s an attempt to co-opt. Compared to National Review or the Weekly Standard however…
The moral arc of history bends in the direction of billionaires, because I hired a really strong guy from Norway to bend it.
I am on the right side of history in the current year, because I have bought all the historians.
I’m not afraid of the status quo, because I bought the status quo, in fact, I put it in the same Amazon cart that I used to buy my wife her daily allowance of 100 new pairs of shoes. (It saved me some shipping charges).
Because when you’ve got the kind of money I do, you can buy both reality and history.
Make my immigration reform comprehensive, please!
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A nation is a blood people, not a political society; clearly Dougherty doesn’t get it
Nationalists want to kick the door down and split skulls… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/131e0d1365a62bd12484c9dd0e893654930351b8200ba5becc462cf53012499a.jpg
I certainly hope so! There has been a lot of talk about “resistance” among WNs. It’s time to start going on the offensive.
Pow! Over the “green monster”she sails…
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Its about race, it about resisting the idea that whites must be replaced by non whites, resisting the idea that races are equal, resisting the idea that whites exist to make non whites lives better and have to ignore their own interests, resisting the idea that whites must go extinct.
Well said, but nationalism isn’t just about resistance to globalism.
After reading that article extolling the joys of (((globalism))) I’m reminded of why I cancelled my subscription to The Week years ago.
It does not have suggestive powers? Benny Hill does…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJC4HvpWewM
Amazing how funny that guy was …
This column is bogus; Dougherty asks questions that he doesn’t really want to be answered!
He subliminally denies that we could be religious, racially aware, tribal, colonial, and merely knowing that we want to be rid of the Xenos in our midst… and that all of that is actually enough as a means to change the world. The reason why he doesn’t want the question to be answered is because he would have to then admit that everything he believes in, has failed.
Which, of course, it has!
It’s simple. We want a country of our own.
A white nation should be free of races, cultures and religions that are not compatible with us.
It should have leaders installed that serve us, not noisy minorities who shouldn’t be here anyway.
It should make its own products that are protected by fair and reasonable trade barriers.
We want a political and legal system that rrewards hard work and punishes wrong doing.
A halt to truckloads of foreign aid being paid out to ungrateful failed states who give nothing back, except an endless supply of refugees- it isn’t fair.
An end to all wars that don’t concern us. Muslims are who they are. We cannot change them. When they’re not fighting the West, they’re fighting each other- let them go for it and stop babysitting them. Its a waste of time, money and lives. Nobody cares when they only kill each other.
Finally get leftwing poison out of our schools and instead instill in our children the importance of race , culture, Christianity, national pride and common decency.
I could name others but you get the idea.
What really gets me is that the idea of a moral arc through history is quite popular with atheists. Because a cold, lifeless universe just happened to impart a moral plan to a bunch of hairless, talking monkeys. This moral plan also just happens to coincide with the world view of upper class, white liberals.
And they think Christians are ridiculous…
“Here in the South, we have traditionally found that Eastern millenarian mindset to be ludicrous.”
And let’s face it, the South simply will not tolerate anything ludicrous.
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CSA Hunley?
It’s about white Supremacy, absolutely defined… Yesterday, today and tomorrow… And it will take the greatest of white men to make it a potent reality.