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October 19, 2025 Hunter Wallace Conservatism, Politics, Populists, Progressives 17

Lomez has the best take on the No Kings protests.

If you look at the crowds, it is all elderly White liberals who watch CNN and MSNBC. The crowds were overwhelmingly White even in Southern cities like Atlanta and Birmingham.

The No Kings protests are a spasm of rage by a peculiar type of White Boomer liberal whose worldview was shaped by the 1960s and 1970s. Trump has shattered their core beliefs about the direction of history. The “moral arc of the universe” was supposed to bend toward antiracism.

“I’ve been fascinated by the observation that all of the anti-Trump energy, especially these street protests, has been so dominated by boomer age libs. In talking to them (which I recommend you do if given the chance) I’ve found their beliefs are mostly a hodgepodge of disconnected grievances and frayed moral suppositions (true of most political belief across the board tbf) but rooted in a very particular sense of their generational aspirations crumbling at their feet and without the neural elasticity to understand or reconcile these failures except by invoking hardened and pre-formed root evils like “Nazism” and “fascism.”

These things don’t mean anything of course. They’re just placeholders for forces they can’t or won’t bring themselves to confront directly. It’s probably the case that the dissolution of any utopian fantasy ends like this. I wonder if conversations at the end of the Soviet Union had a similar cast. The old fervent believers, aware on some level the project was dead, but still bitterly possessive of the righteousness of their cause and committed to the very end to insisting that “if only but for capitalism…” etc.

Makes me consider that maybe most revolutions aren’t dramatic or violent but the mundane passing of authority across divides of incalcitrant misunderstanding. Max Planck’s line about science progressing one funeral at a time as a corollary to political life.

Post war liberalism dies when the boomers die. I think they know this. The rallies/protests then are just one last futile objection to what is inevitable. Raging against the dying of the light. I find this commendable in a certain way, if annoying and entirely misguided. I have a grudging respect for their determination, but also this derangement is unhealthy and ultimately undignified (which I guess is a perfectly fitting end; going out in the 2020s in the same self-indulgent, performative manner they arrived in the 1960s). I wish them the peace they were searching for. But it’s time for them to go home.”

17 Comments

  1. Donny Boy should have let Wallace and the MAGAtards press their snotty noses against the windows at Mar-A-Lago yesterday like it was a Charles Dickens novel as Donny and the oligarchs dined at Donny’s $1M-a-plate fundraiser for MAGA Inc..

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  3. Keep in mind,
    Boomers were the first generation in the history of the world to be raised on TV. Never before in history have so many been formed by a single institution , with the exception of religion. TV totally indoctrinated them on their views toward race, culture and political persuasion. All three networks were in the hands of the same tribe. They are too saturated in propaganda to realize that their opinions are not their own and They will go to their Graves infused with the kosher idiocy.

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  6. The above Chicago baboon just delivered a word salad of political slogans, sounding like any African dictator babbling gibberish.
    ‘Democracy ‘, which we aren’t.
    ‘Fascism’, which he has no idea of.
    ‘Totalitarianism’ which all blacks believe in, but will denounce when they aren’t in power.

    Voltaire wrote that blacks aren’t capable of living in freedom …. he was right.

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  7. I said ten years ago that the Boomers aging out of power and then dying is going to be the most shaky and dramatic handoff in generational power within 100 years of its occurrence (which is starting in early stages now). How it will shake out is the only open question that I had then and still have now.

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  8. Interesting how the Soviet Union, the original, antebellum American Republic and soon the Zionist state in occupied Palestine all existed within the length of an average human lifespan. Once the people who came up with these social and political constructs are gone the systems they created often die with them.

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  10. This Boomer declines solidarity with the No Kings protesters. I was red-pilled back in 1994 with the double whammy of the judicial squashing of Prop. 187 and the publication of “The Bell Curve.” From there I discovered the AmRen and VDare sites – even eventually this site. I was like the protagonist in the old Soviet joke about the guy rushing into one of their clinics and demanding an “ear-eye doctor”: “I hear one thing, but I see another!” I simply learned to trust what I was seeing, and distrust what I was hearing.

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  12. Get the hot K-Tel No Kings except those that fund the rent-a-mob compilation at Hot Topic comrade.
    No inoculation, no occupation.
    Follow the arrows on the floor for peace and safety.

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