Review: Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America

Scott Greer, Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America

Scott Greer has dismissed me as an “Alt-Right dinosaur.”

Well, I don’t take it personally. I was involved in that movement far longer than Greer. I first got involved in White Nationalism in 2001 when Stormfront was a small vBulletin forum. I’ve been around long enough to remember the collapse of WN 1.0, the rise and fall of the Alt-Right, Donald Trump coming down the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 and the whole ride of the MAGA movement.

I’ve even come close to crossing paths with Scott Greer on his journey to becoming a “highly respected” conservative pundit. I also joined Youth for Western Civilization. I also lived in Virginia and took courses at the Leadership Institute. I also met the lame interns there. I went to Tea Party rallies. I still have my Fell for It Again award from the Tea Party Revolution of 2010 in the archives. I’ve known Richard Spencer for over 15 years, remember the launch of AlternativeRight.com and went to Charlottesville.

The biggest difference between us is that I never really aspired to be a conservative pundit. I hated those people in my youth. I didn’t want to live anywhere near DC. I didn’t want to be on FOX News. I didn’t want to live a double life and write culture war slop articles about how Democrats are the real racists for a paycheck. I decided very early that I would rather go back home to Alabama, get married, have a bunch of kids, get a normal job and live out my life here. It was the best decision that I ever made.

Scott Greer chose to continue traveling that road into professional conservatism. He got a job writing for The Daily Caller in the Obama years. He published his first book called No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education Into Hateful Indoctrination in 2017. He started appearing on FOX News. Eventually, the life that Greer had built in professional conservatism came crashing down in 2018 when he was ratted out to The Atlantic by Katie McHugh who used to work for Breitbart. In Whitepill, he recounts the story of how he was fired and denounced by The Daily Caller, memory holed by the Leadership Institute, blacklisted by FOX News and how his publisher tried to take away his royalty payments. These events and others like the defenestration of Rep. Steve King illustrate how little the world of professional conservatism had changed even well into Trump’s first term.

As a memoir, Whitepill reads like an emotional roller coaster. It begins in the dark days of the Obama presidency when the True Conservatives like Paul Ryan ruled in Washington. The mood brightens as our humble author discovers the rebellious internet culture of the Alt-Right and Trump steamrolls over the True Cons in his 2016 campaign. We fall into despair again after the Alt-Right crashes out in Charlottesville. We become whitepilled again in the core of the book which concerns the post-Charlottesville era. This is when figures like Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk mainstreamed a lot of Alt-Right ideas and rhetoric. The climax is Trump’s miraculous comeback victory in the 2024 campaign. Finally, storm clouds appear on the horizon in the final chapter when Greer’s instincts detect a shift in the energy of the online right and senses that another purge might be coming. My only complaint is that Greer skips past his involvement with America First in the Stop the Steal rallies which culminated in the January 6 disaster. He was out there dressed in black doing street theater with Nick Fuentes long after a lot of us gave that up.

I don’t dispute the core thesis of Whitepill which is that the conservative movement has changed over the past decade under the influence of Trump and the Alt-Right. I read the book to see if there was any angle of this transformation that I hadn’t either covered and considered before. There wasn’t. I personally went though my own Whitepill era on this website as I reflected on the disastrous end of the Alt-Right. I was also optimistic that conservatism was evolving in the Biden years. I shared dozens of polls that illustrated that on this website. I did interviews about it. We tracked and covered every new milestone – Tucker’s injection of the term “anti-White” into conservative discourse in 2021, Tucker mainstreaming the Great Replacement in 2022, Trump’s embrace of concepts like “mass deportations” and “remigration,” Charlie Kirk’s surprising new skepticism of MLK and the Civil Rights Movement, etc. In hindsight, this was all real and this period lasted from about March 2018 to Charlie Kirk’s assassination in 2026.

As a Southerner, I was always repulsed by the weird side of White Nationalism which I have extensive experience with. I have spent years recounting these stories about activists. Harold Covington never wrote a fantasy novel about President Scott Greer’s mistress assassinating him with a pencil in the Oval Office. I don’t grieve the loss of marginal Alt-Right personalities like Commander Matthew Heimbach or Chris Cantwell who shared an audio file of himself having gay sex with a man last year. Richard Spencer and Mark Brahmin have a new manifesto out about deciphering comic books. This is the sort of ridiculous atmosphere on the fringe right that causes people to give conservatism a second look.

The problem with Scott Greer’s book Whitepill is that the book is surprisingly myopic and focused on surface level rhetorical changes. Yes, we can grant that in Trump’s America it is a lot of easier now to operate as a conservative pundit churning out race war and culture war articles without having to look over one’s shoulder. It hardly follows, however, that this is a huge change in mainstream conservatism. Bill O’Reilly waged the culture war for over 20 years on FOX News. He wrote the book on it in 2006. Conservatives have also always engaged in race baiting and dog whistles in Republican campaigns. It was just more muted in the past because of the sensibilities of older generations. It never occurs to Greer in Whitepill that millions of Republican voters have died since 2016 and that the younger voters who have replaced them are more racist and thus stronger rhetoric is needed to activate them.

The Alt-Right’s obsession with metapolitics over political representation and actual results has been easily parried by the conservative establishment. Rich Lowry and Mark Levin are “America First” nationalists now. Lowry has written a book called The Case for Nationalism and condemned anti-White racism. Yoram Hazony is hosting the annual National Conservatism conference in Jerusalem in October. We have a trophy room full of Overton Window awards. It is true that conservatives have adopted the language of nationalism and meme warfare. They have hijacked nationalism and populist energy and funneled it into their golem – the MAGA movement – which they have used to vanquish antisemites at home and the Iranian regime abroad. Alt-Right concepts like “mass deportations” and “remigration” were neutered and reconstituted as traditional dog whistles to excite low propensity voters in the 2024 election.

Fundamentally, mainstream conservatism hasn’t really changed at all. It is still basically a grievance factory. It seizes control of marginalized constituencies like White identitarians or anti-vaxxers and exploits them to push its own agenda. Greer spends a lot of time bashing “Paul Ryanism” in Whitepill without ever noticing that the signature legislation that has come out of 11 years of the MAGA movement was using budget reconciliation to permanently lower the corporate tax rate. MAGA has spent years pushing deregulation and cutting entitlement spending to pay for a $1.5 trillion dollar defense budget and a war with Iran for Israel in the Middle East. It seems that Greer was mainly annoyed by the nerdy affect of Paul Ryan or George W. Bush’s pious evangelicalism and hasn’t been bothered when Trump has implemented their policy vision with the brash, more bullying style of a Bill O’Reilly or a Biff Tannen.

For an Alt-Right veteran, it appears that Scott Greer has forgotten everything he used to know about Jewish power and influence over American politics. It doesn’t come up in Whitepill. This is remarkable at a time when the MAGA movement is self destructing over Israel and the war with Iran. Charlie Kirk is dead and Tucker Carlson has been sent into exile. Perhaps Greer is silent on these issues because Laura Loomer is now in charge of keeping a “Woke Reich” list for the president of who is naughty and who is nice?

If you want to get in on the ground floor of Trump era mainstream conservatism, your race realism will have to be left at the door. Your dreams of a White ethnostate will have to be left at the door. Your concerns about Jewish power will have to be left at the door. Your White advocacy also to be left at the door. Your “identitarianism” has to be diluted to the point where you see yourself as having more in common with Mark Levin, Vivek Ramaswamy and Byron Donalds than, say, Amren, Patriot Front or Return to the Land. I’m sorry but the Whitepill being offered as an exit ramp here still isn’t worth it.

Note: As I said on X, you could say Trump’s Golden Age is like the timeline where Biff Tannen bullied George McFly out of politics with a barrage of insults, became a cult figure and two term president, cashed out and turned over America to his Zionist donors, crypto investors and AI techbros.

37 Comments

  1. Greer’s book was published too late. Didn’t age well at all. By the time it dropped Trump betrayal 2.0 was in full effect. BLACKPILL.

    • When I asked Parrott about Heimbach, he made it clear to me that he’s out of politics now, but I don’t think he’s changed (the way McLaren did). Spencer wants to “save” white people by telling them to vote for Kamala Harris and writing a baseless theory. He’s been mocked by Ed Dutton, Keith Woods, Greg Johnson, and others for this bullshit book.

  2. Conservatives won’t address the most toxic issues, race mixing and jwzsh control, therefore they are a useless distraction.

  3. Elites don’t change because people vote this or that way.
    They don’t change because popular attitudes and poll results change.
    Elites change when the people give up on them, and their system.
    When they start losing dozens of millions of people, when people radically disinvest, stop following their laws, norms and rules, only then will they consider throwing out some red meat.
    Until then, there’s no reason for them to.
    As long as people keep investing in a system that screws them, nothing will ever change.

    They have rigged the voting system.
    There are no candidates with a chance of winning an election that threaten the elite’s system.
    All have been bribed and blackmailed.
    Or they’re already part of the elite, and so benefit directly from policies that benefit the elite at the expense of the people, so they don’t even have to be bought, they’re already corrupt by virtue of the class they belong to.

    There is also massive election fraud, perhaps total, but at least massive, due to electronic voting in some districts, and various other means.
    This election fraud, along with the bankfare, and lawfare, their armies of lawyers, legalese and hurdles that make it next to impossible to get on ballots, doesn’t favor democrats over republics or vice versa, it favors the duopoly/uniparty over 3rd parties that haven’t been corrupted.

    They also have an unlimited amount of money at their disposal to practically buy and so corrupt everything and everyone.
    They have black agencies, stuff above the CIA and FBI, these people can assassinate you and make it look like an accident easy with the latest and hypertech should anyone pose a serious threat.

    Until people understand this, that it’s a rigged system, until people give up on being good citizens, and start being bad, nothing will ever change.
    Without civil meltdown, nothing changes.
    Democracy is a lie, your vote doesn’t count.

    There have been scientific studies that prove this, that the will of the people doesn’t matter, but that the will of wall street and Israel does.
    It doesn’t matter which way the public swings, it matters where wall street and ZOG swings.

  4. Rump ranger Bessent is a Soros man just like Hymietown assclown Moshe Trumpsteinberg (Israel) and the only Golden Age is the Great Reset Leap Forward.
    Red white and jew? F’ you.

  5. …you will continue to get poorer, and increasingly alienated from your country at all levels, financially, culturally and in every way.
    That’s the default direction, for the people to become increasingly alienated from government.
    That’s what happens when you stay the course, when you comply.
    This inevitably leads to societal meltdown, sooner or later.
    And that’s when things can change, for better, or worse, when the elite start to lose the people, because that means they’re reaping what they’ve sown, that means they’re finally taking a hit and suffering consequences for their corruption.
    Until they pay for their consequences financially or with their blood, there is no reason for them to change.
    Elites only care about themselves, and their class.
    It is not in the nature of elites to care about the masses.
    This is how it’s always been.
    This is not something unique to modernity.
    This is the rule.
    If you’re waiting for elites to look out for you, or some good elites to come along and vanquish the bad elites, you’re waiting for a unicorn, a batman/superhero, something that will never come to pass.

    • If you think when what remains of the mostly worthless White elite is destroyed you can rise up and replace it, you are delusional. Hunter lives in an area where he is basically an Afrikanner in South Africa. There is no rising up for him. Instead he has chosen to support the ANC Black Supremacy version in his district. His like the 20% of Afrikaaners who support the ANC.

      When the White worthless elite are gone they won’t be replaced by you, they will be replaced by Mugabe. You decide how you wish to respond. Hunter has decided to support Mugabe because Muh Israel. Note Mugabe was an ultra Anti Zionist and would probably be invited to speak at the modern day Southern Cultural Center opposite of Papist Midwesterners representing Southern identity to own the Ozarks for a White (and covertly Papist) Orania.

      • I’m not promoting anything specific, just that people disinvest from the current system.
        What they turn to in its place, if anything, isn’t any of my concern.
        How they go about disinvesting from it is also not my business.
        I’m simply promoting its dissolution, or at least its punishment.
        I am simply here to promote cynicism, skepticism, and antipathy towards the system.
        I could be speaking to rightwingers, leftwiners, all sorts of 3rd wayers, it doesn’t matter to me, because I’m not so ideological.
        I believe what’s most important is to hurt the system and the elite that run it, to make them suffer, and to stop feeding their greed as much as possible.
        I have nothing positive to promote.
        I believe nature will take its course.
        I am not here to build, but to facilitate nature.
        When man or some men hoard too much from the earth and their fellow man, eventually nature will come to tear them down, I am just facilitating natural processes that occur in every civilization sooner or later.

        • Ah, yes, the libertarian nihilist aka anarcho-capitalist revolutionary finally makes his appearance. I’ve always believed someone like you was at the center of right-wing movements like what the Southern identity movement turned into. Probably started when they invited exiled Murray Ruthbard of CATO into the movement. I think I might have actually supported that with strong reservations at the time. My suspicions were correct.

          There are no similarities between what Southern identitists are now and what they were before the 2000s. I mean Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmand and Byrd would be godsmacked to learn that what is circulated around here is called Southern conservative identity politics. Your views are ultimately the views of many people here at OD. I bet even Hunter is even one. The Ra’s al Ghul of political operatives in the fake and gay modern Southern Identity Movement.

    • @Munching Popcorn,

      If you think when what remains of the mostly worthless White elite is destroyed you can rise up and replace it, you are delusional. Hunter lives in an area where he is basically an Afrikanner in South Africa. There is no rising up for him. Instead he has chosen to support the ANC Black Supremacy version in his district. His like the 20% of Afrikaaners who support the ANC.

      When the White worthless elite are gone they won’t be replaced by you, they will be replaced by Mugabe. You decide how you wish to respond. Hunter has decided to support Mugabe because Muh Israel. Note Mugabe was an ultra Anti Zionist and would probably be invited to speak at the modern day Southern Cultural Center opposite of Papist Midwesterners representing Southern identity to own the Ozarks for a White (and covertly Papist) Orania.

  6. Venting:

    I’m so sick of these libtard commentators who move to Asia and complain about racism in America. They move to nations that are ethnically 99% pure and then have the nerve to comment on racism. They are de facto practicing the most racist behavior.

    HYPOCRITES !

  7. It’s hard for Yankees to accept the reality of living in an occupied state. Continuing to vote in elections for two parties, neither of which represents the interests of white America, makes no sense and gives the occupiers a false sense of legitimacy. We are better off withdrawing from the political process and preparing for the inevitable breakdown of the foreign, occupational, and illegitimate government. Look at what they do when they achieve ultimate power – piss off the entire world, start wars on multiple fronts, and destroy their soft power with their hatred of gentiles, especially us. We need do nothing other than let them continue to destroy themselves.

    • It is not white America they hate, it is Christ. Whites are just a stand in for the innocent one who did no wrong. “Before they hated you they hated me.”…..And why do they hate an innocent man who did no wrong? There has to be a reason.

      • That’s why it’s known as the ‘two-millenia hate’ – a handy riff on Orwell’s famous ‘two-minute hate’.

  8. Greer is still talking about the pills. Lame. Time to move on.

    Won’t read that book, for sure. That he was close pals with a man who is a homosexual and a Federal Agent (Fuentes) suggests to me there is something else going on with Greer, something hidden.

        • I don’t know. Nick is just barely coming into consciousness about what is going on. He still doesn’t realize he’s part of the joke. Trying to use him as an example is not smart marketing. People have moved on from the Mexican Chihuahua.

          What’s even more funny is Nick being treated like a dog, kept on a leash outside, and barking “Jew,” “Jew,” “Jew,” non stop as the adults in the house make and eat dinner and scoot greer and the kids are at the kid table trying to mention immigration. Where are you Hunter, outside on a leash with Nicky the Mexican Chihuahua, or sulking at the table with the kids cuz Greer and Brimelow were allowed to come and talk to the adults periodically?

          At least Brimelow and Greer learned some tricks and table manners. They still managed to bring it to the attention of the adults. We do have changed as a result, even if they are marginal and 25 years too late. But, still, you guys can only bark “Jew.” No conversation ability to the adults. Nick literally has no self awareness. That is why he was so useful to us in stop the steal and J6. Events I might add that did more to change things than anything. It could’ve happened with Charlottesville. Nick was just more manageable and less retarded so it worked out better.

          • When Trump leaves the White House, all of his “immigration wins” will be wiped out in less than a week. The hordes of legal immigrants and illegal aliens who were temporarily kept out will be let in. 13 years of Trump will be shown to have been a complete waste of time. It was all just a scam to get the Iran War and lower corporate taxes.

          • @Hunter Wallace,

            It was all a scam to get Iran War and lower corporate taxes? You literally believing Trump came down the golden escalator thinking “Fools, I am doing this for war with Iran and lower taxes on corporations” has got to be the funniest cherry on the top of this load of Democrat bullshit you’ve been trying to sell now for a year.

            P.S. Alabama’s Hispanic population will double, perhaps triple in 5 years meaning you will have twice to thrice more as many accidents as you’ve had in the last couple of years. That’s not including all the honking and “phuck yuz cracker” you will get from the loads of shit bag Ellis Island Rif Raf Papists you’ve invited down from North of Richmond to join your weird Adolf Hitler meets Deconstructionist Jeff Davis outfit your trying to build.

          • “all of his “immigration wins” will be wiped out in less than a week+

            I really fear the backlash.

  9. Best comment below says what Mr. Taylor (as always) dares, at most, to “hint at.”
    https://www.amren.com/blog/2026/08/breaking-news-huckleberry-finn-is-racist/

    Don’t we all harbor a desire—one that defies all rationality—to escape the inescapable daily madness of “postmodern” hell and wake up once again as a white boy in an unspoiled world? With Huckleberry Finn and His Friends from 1979, we are granted this respite for a few hours. https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x98tbw

    And not only that: this Canadian-German co-production features familiar German faces: Brigitte Horney as Aunt Polly, Dinah Hinz (daughter of Ernst Udet) as Aunt Sally, Gunnar Möller as Constable Miller, and Heinz Schimmelpfennig as The Duke. https://grokipedia.com/page/Huckleberry_Finn_and_His_Friends

    There was also a German-French three-part series from 1968, but I couldn’t find an English dubbed version of it. https://www.youtube.com/@VolkerKreuger/search?query=sawyer

    • Dawson is an excellent researcher on things like Epstein and the kushners, doing the deepest and most thorough research, but on matters of race he’s a dunce.

  10. Scott Greer wrote an article about what he called “Sunbeltism” which he claimed is the New South: small “c” Conservative, non-religious, never mentions the Condfederacy, they just want to have a good time; and he promoted this as a good thing. What he describes is what modern so-called country sings about. It’s the culture Fox News promotes. It’s something Dinesh Souza could get excited about. But there is nothing Southern about. It is corporate made garbage and it may be in the South but it is as foreign to the South as Marxism. It is garbage. Scott Greer has nothing to contribute to anything. Just one more grifter in along line of many.

    • There is nothing Southern in Southern Identity political groups either. I mean look at the state of this place. Look at the LoS. Look at the Southern Cultural Center. They are nothing but places for platforming Northerners, usually Papists, to talk about Jews, Israel, or how to unite more Northern Whites into the South to make more Whiteness. Total unadulterated fake and gay sell outs. I think Scot Greer was speaking of places like here when we was talking about Southern conservativism without any Confederacy.

      • The Papacy since Vatican II has been almost as big a fellator of your tribe than Donigula himself is. They stopped all efforts at conversion long ago. The current clown has even fully endorsed sodomy (which will make jews even happier). Your remarks about the “papists” are totally incoherent. The whole bureaucracy of the rotting carcass of the Roman “church” is aligned with your own positions on nearly everything: Jewkraine, Jew-supremacy, Globalism, etc. “Pope” Leo has excommunicated the few traditionalists remaining (like Vagano). The lay traditionalists like Barnhardt are adrift – still unable to face the complete control of the Vatican by the Lavender mafia, who serve the same spiritual entity as your people do.

        • The Papacy was even more corrupt and full of Sodomites before Vatican II it just hid it behind a venere of anti Protestantism, authoritarianism, and traditionalism. Nothing has changed. It’s very strange for a supposed Lutheran like you to celebrate a pre Vatican II Church that overtly practiced Anti-Lutherian politics. Once again, it’s all about Israel with you folks. It’s dumb.

  11. An overall solid analysis, aside from your speculation that minor figures like Cantwell and Heimbach drive people toward conservatism. You have no evidence that this happens.

  12. Cantwell is a big disappointment.
    He’s an intelligent guy with many good ideas and insights, but his personal vices drag him into the gutter.

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