Did you know that contempt for democracy among the educated steadily grew through the Gilded Age and that reactionaries eventually won? pic.twitter.com/0G82M3jsnE
— Hunter Wallace (@LutherEnjoyer) January 18, 2025
As I pointed out on X, American culture turned against the idol of Democracy over the course of the Gilded Age. From Andrew Jackson until the Compromise of 1877, American democracy was in a bull market and the franchise expanded until the fervor peaked during Reconstruction.
In the 1880s, skepticism of Democracy became increasingly commonplace as the reaction against Reconstruction gained momentum in the North and South. In 1888, Massachusetts became the first state to adopt the Australian ballot. In 1890, Mississippi adopted a new state constitution which featured literacy tests and the poll tax. The Mississippi Plan was adopted across the South after the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 cleared the path toward Jim Crow. By 1901, Rep. George Henry White was giving his farewell address to Congress. Blacks disappeared from Congress for about 25 years.
Reactionaries actually won.
Democracy wasn’t defeated outright. Mass disenfranchisement was still too high of a constitutional hurdle to overcome. Instead, the 14th and 15th Amendments were essentially nullified in the South, and the North gave up on civil rights after the failure of the Force Act of 1890. Reformers came up with all sorts of ingenious schemes to restrain and limit democracy like the poll tax and the literacy test. New laws were passed in the Progressive era to require permits for public demonstrations. There was a conscious effort to make politics so dry and boring that only the educated would bother to vote.
After 1900, turnout in American elections crashed. The “respectable White man” was emancipated as the working class lost interest in elections. This established the 20th century pattern of voting where college educated voters are more likely to vote than working class voters. In the late 19th century, the opposite was true. Voting was held in disrepute among the educated. Workers were enthusiastic partisans. Gentlemen ceded the public square to the lower classes. This only began to change during the Progressive era.
I am sorry but this feels like your version of Spencer imagining that ZOG is actually the true Third Reich. Over the years you repeatedly pointed out how Modernism was the culmination of the societal dislocations happening in the wake of the Union victory i.e. the Gilded Age.
Curtis Yarvin is a Jew. Like all Jews, he talks and acts in accordance with furthering Jews. The “powerful conservatives listening” are either whores like Musk, who completely lost to the ADL, gay Ayn Rand shills like Thiel who function like “conservative” Jewish donors, or whatever outright Jewish billionaire or millionaire like Zuckerberg, all of whom converted over to the GOP solely because of Gaza.
Modernism was an aesthetic movement that began in France in the late 19th century. It gradually made its way here around World War I and became highly influential among the new rising liberal intelligentsia in the 1920s. When Woodrow Wilson was president, it was still a fringe movement in the United States confined to neighborhoods like Greenwich Village in New York City and parts of Chicago. America was still in the middle of the Victorian era in the Gilded Age.
As for Curtis Yarvin, I haven’t even watched the interview. My point was that democracy worship peaked during Reconstruction. Democracy had expanded from Andrew Jackson’s time down until Reconstruction. Then the culture changed and a contraction began which lasted down until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s. Yarvin’s interview was only interesting to me in that it is another historical parallel like Luigi’s assassination of the United Healthcare CEO. Americans soured on democracy during the Gilded Age. This cultural shift is why the South was able to essentially kill democracy and create the Jim Crow system starting in the 1890s.
He is also a “red diaper” communist…” Curtis Guy Yarvin[15] was born in 1973 to an educated, liberal, secular family.[16] His grandparents on his father’s side were Jewish American and communists.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Anybody aligned with these people pushing global “second coming” messiah global monarchism are committing treason (Article III sec 3 of the constitution for the Confederacy and for the U.S.) against Dixie’s soverign’s (1790 Naturalization act) and the soverign’s several REPUBLIC’S.
The new line on this website seems to be that anti-semites are cringe and “neo-reactionary” literal kikes who want to replace White people with infinity pajeets are based. Heil Musk! Heil Bibi!