Why I Rejected The Whitepill

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Read Whitepill on how MAGA took over mainstream conservatism and made White Nationalism obsolete https://t.co/hfnrpDCo6b

— Hunter Wallace (@LutherEnjoyer) August 5, 2026

Ben Shapiro says the Iran War that he championed “has had basically no impact on food prices in the US.” pic.twitter.com/ONa4IMOBnO

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The GOP is trying to save Western civilization by focusing on the White House helipad https://t.co/XDLBTWt8TR

— Hunter Wallace (@LutherEnjoyer) August 5, 2026

I was once Whitepilled.

For about five years, I grew increasingly optimistic about American politics. I made many of the same arguments that Scott Greer made in his book. I argued that conservatism was changing. I tracked dozens of polls which showed how conservatives were changing on this or that issue. In fact, I spent years arguing with activists who thought that Trump would go to war with Iran for Israel.

As recently as last May, I was delivering speeches defending the Trump administration. I thought conservatism could be reformed. I thought we could reshape public opinion on the Right, reenter mainstream politics and start getting our people elected to office. This was still plausible to me up until about last June and July with Operation Midnight Hammer and the Epstein files debacle. In my defense, this was the fork in the road in which “MAGA” as we had known it began to fall apart.

Here are the Top 10 reasons why I reconsidered my own views on politics:

1. Jewish Power and Influence – I had argued that Jewish power and influence was in decline and that a devastating war with Iran was unlikely for a number of reasons. I thought that the Jewish power structure at the top of the Republican Party was being replaced by Elon Musk and other Tech Bros. Trump had a huge falling out with Musk and DOGE proved to be a colossal failure. He took America to war with Iran for Israel twice last June and in early February. Finally, the Jewish oligarchy that controls the GOP had enough pull to order the biggest purge of conservatism in a generation. This was all politically damaging too.

2. Squandering Three Trifectas – The GOP has been handed three trifectas in government over the past 25 years and has squandered all three of them. Trump was handed two trifectas and has blown the opportunities to “Make America Great Again” that he was given. We have watched in horror as he threw away his presidency on a war with Iran for Israel that only Jewish donors wanted.

3. The Tea Party and MAGA – We have lived through 16 years of turmoil in the GOP since the Republican establishment was discredited at the end of the George W. Bush era. In retrospect, the Tea Party and MAGA were a complete waste of time that failed to accomplish their ostensible goals. Both of these rightwing populist movements became vehicles to get Israeli assets elected.

4. Purges – After the death of Charlie Kirk, Con. Inc. spent six months whipping up hysteria about “antisemitism” and as a result conservatism has gone through the biggest purge since the 1990s. Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro emerged as the public face of MAGA.

5. Metapolitical victories – We have spent much of the last 10 years congratulating ourselves on our Overton Window trophies. Tucker Carlson was responsible for elevating and mainstreaming most of these “Alt-Right ideas.” It is people like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, however, who wield the real power in Congress. MAGA is a cult of personality. It doesn’t care about ideas which is why only MAGA Republicans support the war with Iran for Israel. MAGA’s biggest idea for years was that pedophiles like Jeffrey Epstein had compromised powerful politicians. The people who care about ideas haven’t fared well in the second Trump administration. Trump endorses people like Randy Fine, Mike Lawler and Maria Salazar.

6. Hierarchy – The last two years have discredited the argument that the spread of Alt-Right ideas and rhetoric was a triumph. This is because of their place in the Republican power structure. The opinions of Republican voters at the bottom of the hierarchy don’t matter. The opinions of staffers working in congressional offices don’t matter. Even the opinion of the Vice President about going to war with Iran didn’t matter. Alt-Right ideas and rhetoric can easily be adopted to convince low propensity voters to turnout and vote for the GOP. Those voters will get policies favored by the Israeli government and the Republican Jewish Coalition. Younger voters don’t have any power in the Republican Party.

7. The Grievance Factory – Initially, I was “white pilled” that the GOP was adopting Alt-Right ideas and rhetoric, but now I see what has happened very differently. There is a big difference between activists who genuinely care about our ideas – people like Jared Taylor, who has responded to Scott Greer – and people who see them as an opportunity to be capitalized on to get what they want. We have powerful grievances which resonate with a large swath of White voters. This makes us a useful captive audience to powerful figures in the GOP who want to use our own rhetoric and ideas against us. Specifically, they want to harness White grievances as fuel to win elections to deliver the payload that their investors want like a permanent corporate tax cut, AI deregulation or a war with Iran for Israel. We are just one of several constituencies that was targeted and scammed by the GOP in the 2024 election. After the war with Iran for Israel, it became indisputable that our movement was being hijacked by Jews to be used to put wind in their own sails.

8. Running Out of Time – We are less than 100 days out from the 2026 midterms and the Trump era is 85% over. We know from experience that nothing much will happen in the last two years. The vast majority of this is now behind us and it isn’t too early to take stock of results. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but we are objectively worse off than when the Trump era began in June 2015. We would be better off today if we could rewind the clock to our initial starting position.

9. The Cult in Congress – Donald Trump will not leave behind a bench in Congress. He hasn’t changed the ideology of the GOP in Congress or at the state level. Instead, he will leave behind a party of people who got ahead in their careers by flattering him or who bought his endorsement. He will leave behind a bunch of sycophants who otherwise have nothing in common. The movement was a cult of personality that was centered on Trump and he is stepping down in two years as a historically unpopular president.

10. Lack of Seriousness – Every day we are reminded on Truth Social that the president isn’t a serious person. This is not a party that is focused on “civilizational issues” like the decline of the West. Instead, it is focused on the stock market or the war with Iran for Israel or the White House Ballroom. The president is more concerned about the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall or redesigning his personal helicopter pad because he doesn’t like the angle than the future of the White race. At this point, you can only look at the AI videos that he shares with his idiot followers on Truth Social and laugh. We allowed this person to waste nearly 15 years of our time on a reality television show. We handed him two terms in the White House and two trifectas in which he had complete control of Washington and this was the result.

Personally, I need some time to reflect on how I fell for it in 2010 with the Tea Party, and again with MAGA in 2016 and 2024. I want to do better moving forward.

Note: The biggest joke of all is that you can look at the sum of this and his collapsing polls as millions of people exit the building and check out in disgust and try to sell them a book called Whitepill.