A year ago, I would have agreed with this take: the Alt-Right or Dissident Right was losing coherence, our ideas and beliefs were becoming integrated into mainstream conservatism, we needed to shift from our metapolitical focus on “moving the Overton Window” to practical politics.
“Over the past year, however, the politics of this digital subculture have shifted. The fight over “wokeness” has come down from its peak, with major figures of the woke era, such as Joy Reid, Ibram Kendi, and the founders of Black Lives Matter largely disappearing from the public stage. The Trump administration has put many of the dissident Right’s ideas into practice. And the online space, which was once a galvanizing force, has splintered. …”
Is this still true in 2026?
Consider how the landscape has shifted over the past six months:
1. The Iran Strike – In June, Trump attacked Iran on behalf of Israel in Operation Midnight Hammer which took out Iran’s nuclear program. The Iran Strike set off six months of bitter infighting in the conservative movement over Israel and its influence in American politics.
2. The Epstein Files – Donald Trump followed up on the Iran Strike in June by declaring the Epstein files were a “Democrat hoax” and invited his “former supporters” to get lost.
3. Thomas Massie’s Purge – Around the time of the Iran Strike and Trump announcing his resistance to releasing the Epstein files, Trump and his Jewish billionaire friends began working together to purge Thomas Massie from Congress.
4. Marjorie “Traitor” Greene’s Purge – Trump purged Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress for criticizing the Iran Strike, supporting the release of the Epstein Files and criticizing the administration for focusing too much on foreign affairs at the expense of more salient domestic issues.
5. Charlie Kirk’s Assassination – In early September, Charlie Kirk was assassinated which escalated the infighting in the conservative movement which had been growing more serious since the Iran Strike.
6. Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes – In late October, Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes which set off two straight months of hand wringing over the need to purge Tucker Carlson, antisemites and assorted racists from the conservative movement. Ben Shapiro launched a campaign to restore “boundaries” and “borders” to the conservative movement.
7. AmericaFest 2025 – In December, the infighting in the conservative movement reached a fever pitch at AmericaFest where Vivek Ramaswamy denounced racists and the concept of Heritage Americans and Ben Shapiro attacked Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. For six years, Carlson had been the primary conduit through which Dissident Right politics had been normalized in mainstream conservatism.
8. Regime Change in Venezuela – For years, MAGA had believed that Trump would empower people at the FBI who would expose and prosecute Jeffrey Epstein’s network of pedophiles. MAGA had also spent years declaring its opposition to “regime change wars.” We opened 2026 with a regime change operation in Venezuela and threats to topple other regimes in Iran, Cuba and Colombia.
9. Comprehensive Immigration Reform – Trump told the New York Times in a recent interview that he would support comprehensive immigration reform. This is another 180 degree turn.
10. “No Room For Antisemites” – Trump also told the New York Times that there was “no room for antisemites” in MAGA and the conservative movement by which he meant anyone who is critical of Israel. This comes after purging Greene who opposed regime change war in Iran, H-1B visas, amnesty for illegal aliens and who earned Trump’s ire for supporting the release of the Epstein files. All of these things had been popular MAGA causes for years.
11. “Help Is On The Way” – Trump is now poised to launch some type of renewed military action in Iran.
In light of what has transpired over the past six months, can you still stay that Dissident Right politics is becoming mainstream and is being seamlessly absorbed into conservatism? Has the movement exhausted itself and run out of ideas or are we returning to where we were circa 2014?
Trump was a sort of trojan horse back in 2016, a man Who could bring the ideas of the dissident right wing into politics. Things did not go exactly as planned. But, it works in this way even in other countries, where some politicians have been elected to make mainstream our ideas and the didn’t.
He opposed the left only to secure zio-con rule. He was never for White people.
In restropect yes
The alt right is simply not in power. The zio-cons still have the dominant influence over the GOP.
The lesson seems to be that Israel and Jews always win. Even the mounting attacks on DEI can be seen as, in large part, rising Jewish anxiety about being excluded from traditional fields in Hollywood and academia.
It feels like the “success” of dissident-right ideology has been largely down to Stephen Miller who is obviously a big fan of Pat Buchanan and paleo-conservatism. OTOH Miller may also be a hard-core Zionist and could be motivating much of mideast policy; his fantasies about annexing Greenland for security reasons strongly echo Israel’s behavior over the past 55 years. Other figures in the admin like Marco Rubio and the assorted oligarchs have other goals which they are busily pursuing, that are tangential or outright opposed to Dissent Right/WN interests.
Are we going back to 2014? I think there’s great risk of that. TPUSA was the best chance to build an institutional counterweight to AIPAC and the Chamber of Commerce. Since Trump has invariably destroyed the careers of MAGA’s rising stars, any void will be filled by a new generation of Con Inc. errand boys. Of course the GOP has not codified ANYTHING into law, so everything will be 100% reversed on Day 1 of the next Dem admin, which will send Air Force planes to pick up Congolese refugees by the thousand and detail ICE officers to hand-deliver welfare checks. Only the Supreme Court victories will last and may be Trump’s only positive enduring legacy.
The first rule of dissident club is that you don’t mention it.
That and first time at Waffle House you have to fight.
Well if the sum of the Dissident Right was neo-Isolationism, Pro-Sand N@ggerism, Anti-Israelism, then yes, it hasn’t been mainstreamed and has been exhausted. As to the other points, either it’s too early to judge such as the Epstein Files which have been released and showed not much but more typical Democrat sickism, or in the case of MTG and Massie is caught up in larger political issues over legislative policy priorities.
For me the sum of the Dissident Right was centered on Whiteness. In that aspect, it has been mainstreamed. We are now talking about Native Americanism aka Heritage Americans, and ethnic identities as a reality, such as the influence of Jews, Papists, Yankees, Southrons, Blacks, etc and their opposition to ideological identity of Leftwing Wokeism.
Another aspect was economic nationalism. We now have Protectionism as a valid and valuable trade policy being discussed and promoted within the right and in the Executive itself. In opposition is the Globalism of the neo liberalism who are in retreat all over the economic policy circles. This has been all mainstreamed.
I am promoter of more muscular American foreign policy and economic Protectionism and American ethnic nationalism. Chris Rofu is aligned almost exactly with me and we’ve discussed this many times. So, it appears your problem is the muscular American foreign policy. The other stuff like MTG and Massie can be separated as part of political differences over timing and self interest. Overall, I don’t see the twighlight I see the dawn.
Based on rapidly changing racial demographics MAGA was/is about as close as the US is ever going to get a “Right Movement”.
Boom! Thanks for the buzzkill HW. Dump’s gone full retard. Law and order my ass. Dump’s a shitlib crook and true to his shitlibbery it’s time to reward more criminals. This has to prove the left right paradigm is an illusion and the culture war is just a layer of control and manipulation. The only thing progressing now are the machinations of oppression that will always be turned against critics of Israel (that will always be a constant) and the opponents of the next pathological lying fart huffing winner in the next season of Americas Next Top President. Were going full Oceania now with lots and lots of of colors. The dystopian Oceania of the book was all White lol will be a future new rallying cry for America’s White so-called “Nazis”.
Trumpism has no staying power.It also incoherent. It will fade away once Trump is out of office.There is no fixing the United States.It is terminal.We need to get off the USS Titanic before she drags us to the bottom with her or conversely gets us vaporized in a nuclear exchange with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, or whoever the enemy of the moment is because it seems to change daily under the Global American Empire. The Ethno-State resolution is the only solution!