Congrats on the well deserved recognition, albeit in a grudging, backhand kind of way. These corporate media guys are rightly terrified to even lift the lid enough to take a peek at the significance of the 2016 election. They partially understand it though, in their own way, and hence the no-holds-barred assault on the alternative media prior to the midterms. Fingers crossed.

Ethnogenesis is most effectively implemented by attacking random members of a group for being members of that group.

In self-defense they begin to feel a sense of solidarity with other members of that group.

This is so profoundly obvious I’m unclear why it even needs to be mentioned.

Election analyst Sean Trende, dissenter. Insert joke here.

In the political amnesia world of Douthat’s New York Times Steve Sailer is the prognosticator that dares not speak its name.

How can people with graduate degrees–from good schools even–not have voted for Hillary? I mean, how? And congrats on the little link.

“Probably?”

And yes–they (and Douthat is most assuredly one of ‘them’) still steadfastly refuse to believe anything they say or do had anything to do with it. It’s a kind of studied lack of self-awareness that reminds me of, oh now what is it, it was just on the tip of my tongue.

The fun part is that ‘they’ are still wringing their hands.

The numbers offer a cautionary tale for both emerging-Democratic-majority inevitabilists and for a left whose increasing vehemence about the wickedness of “whiteness” probably encourages the white tribalism that Trump rallied and exploited.

Does Douthat vote Democrat or otherwise lean left? He certainly writes as though that’s where his sympathies lie.

“Probably?”

As my favourite Jewish academic and Labour Lord likes to say, it isn’t that the English hate the Labour party, it is that the English think the Labour party hates them.

Obviously, the truth is that the English are racist for noticing…

In reality, he suggested that a Republican Party with a more populist economic message might win the missing whites and more minority votes as well.

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The globalists (and Douthat is one of them) and foreign invaders are trying mightily to make this nationalist uprising about “white tribalism.” Don’t let them. It’s a marginalize, divide-and-conquer strategy.

Kind of gutless of him to not link to you directly.

In the political amnesia world of Douthat’s New York Times Steve Sailer is the prognosticator that dares not speak its name.

Look, I’d be the last one to want to take anything away from Steve. He is absolutely remarkable. One of the greatest men of our times.

But it doesn’t take a genius to see that American nationalism could be a winning strategy with an American electorate. But neither of the two parties had that on offer.

I’m getting tired of Douthat’s little schtick. Ross— grow a pair.

Not always. Sailer has catalogued the ‘Flight from White’ for a number of years now. Many Whites will simply attack other Whites in order to fit in with the zeitgeist or simply make up tall tales of their own ethnic background (Elizabeth Warren’s supposed ‘native ancestry’ fits this).

But there will be a core who do not shy away from the fight. And it is this core upon the future hinges.

The numbers offer a cautionary tale for both emerging-Democratic-majority inevitabilists and for a left whose increasing vehemence about the wickedness of “whiteness” probably encourages the white tribalism that Trump rallied and exploited.

The polarization is inevitable. If you see anti-Whitism, don’t bother trying to argue against it. Just expose it. Encourage the person to say the most anti-White things possible.

The globalists (and Douthat is one of them) and foreign invaders are trying mightily to make this nationalist uprising about “white tribalism.” Don’t let them. It’s a marginalize, divide-and-conquer strategy.

Yes, I understand that inevitably those of a white nationalist inclination will support a generally nationalist agenda but so should citizens of all colours.

If anything, black Americans are most hurt by the globalist trend of sacrificing citizenship value to boost other asset prices, because they have the least of the latter and so are most reliant on the former.

Getting a bit of fun by hating on whitey is a poor sop for higher wages and lower living costs.

I see a lot of Steve’s stuff pop up without attribution on Breitbart and the Daily Caller. I hesitate to call these websites cowardly, but Steve IS on the SPLC shit list for calling Obama a “wigger.” For Steve’s sake, it’s better that the SPLC cloaking device remain operational. His ideas percolate up to the journalists, researchers, and politicians who matter, yet at the same time he avoids Antifa kicking in his new garage door when Don Lemon doxes him.

Ross is wrong when he claims that Sailer Strategy can’t create a majority:

—Those losses point to the likely limits on racial polarization as a Republican strategy. Turning out disaffected whites is more politically effective than most people imagined after 2012, but white voters are ultimately too divided to make a “white strategy” work as a foundation for a real governing majority.—

It is true Trump lost the GOP many Romney voters, especially educated women, lost the popular vote, and carried the electoral college by winning PA, MI, and WI by very thin margins.

Trump, however, ran a disorganized campaign and was, notwithstanding some unique strengths, not a very good candidate. He also had the good luck of running against a nepotism/affirmative action candidate that was extraordinarily unpopular and united the GOP in a way Obama and Bill Clinton did not.

Other politicians can take Trump’s coalition and expand it just by being more personally appealing than him.

Would Tom Cotton, for instance, running on a Trumpy platform, lose many of Trump’s voters? I think he wouldn’t, but would also take back many of the educated McCain/Romney voters who defected or stayed home in 2016. The same for Mike Pence or Kris Kobach.

I seem to remember Ross linking right to iSteve several times before. But these days the kooks and “Featured Book: Mien Kampf Adolf Hitler” lined up to the right of the blog prevent that from happening.

Polarization isn’t bad as long as your side has the numbers. Perhaps Democrats are thinking long term, say, 2020 or 2022, knowing they’re screwed this year.

Douthat is a conservative Catholic on social issues and centrist on economic issues, and I believe has likely been a straight-ticket GOP voter his whole adult life.

Also a Stevosphere member of long standing

https://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/05/from-steveosphere-on-troublesome.html

https://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/09/american-scene.html

Anonymous[918]:

But it doesn’t take a genius to see that American nationalism could be a winning strategy.

Oh yeah. How come Steve Sailer was one of the few (if only) prognosticators who publicly pointed out what was supposedly so patently obvious?

SS publicly identified the Franklin on the ground. Trump was the only one who picked it up!

Give Steve Sailer a NYT editorial spot!!

Ross has credited Steve by name before, but something has changed recently with Ross, where he’s trying to distance himself from both Steve and Trump, even though he’s largely on the same page as both of them.

Trump wasn’t a good candidate? Come on. He was the best candidate. That’s why he’s POTUS.

The globalists (and Douthat is one of them) and foreign invaders are trying mightily to make this nationalist uprising about “white tribalism.” Don’t let them. It’s a marginalize, divide-and-conquer strategy.

But White people are a nation. As far as White tribalism, if all we do is end up with a multicultural civic nationalism, we have accomplished nothing.

American nationalism could be a winning strategy with an American electorate.

Aye, there’s the rub. Emphasis added.

Lot:

Also a Stevosphere member of long standing.

Unfortunately, Douthat like most of its public figures is an anonymous surreptitious member of that clandestine organization.

Trump, however, ran a disorganized campaign and was, notwithstanding some unique strengths, not a very good candidate.

He wasn’t the perfect candidate but he was by far the best candidate, and one of the best of any era in this country. Trump’s no Demosthenes and he won’t have his speeches compiled as masterpieces of literature but his ability to get unlimited free publicity with his antics is just the right tool for survival in postmodern democracy.

What would happen if He Who Must Not Be Named meets She Who Must Be Obeyed?

Steve Sailer is one of the few indispensable cultural analysts.

The only other analyst that I’m aware of that published work hinting at this electoral strategy (or something like it) was Angelo Codevilla in his “America’s Ruling Class” an essay in The American Spectator back in July 2010. Codevilla wasn’t making an explicitly racial argument, but rather that a majority of Americans in 2010 were not represented by either party, both of which governed in the interests of the Ruling Class. It happens that then (and I think still now) this unrepresented majority is predominantly white.

I think the reason such matters weren’t publicly discussed is that there was no money in expressing them. Even today, such discussions are greeted with shrieks of “witch, burn the witch!” I am sure the NYT comments section (if such a thing exists) is a hotbed of triggered SJW ravings in response to Douthat’s essay.

These elite republican pundits need to spend more time with proles. They seem to think that being supplicating will increase the share of the minority vote.

This is exactly backward. Republicans who are unapologetic, tough and practical – while also fair – will get more respect from all but the elite minorities. For example, cracking down on illegal immigration will be more popular with Hispanic voters than open borders. Why people can’t understand that a Texan roofer named Jorge might not be happy about a couple million Central Americans suddenly showing up just confounds me. And as for black voters, you aren’t going to outdemocrat the democrats, so appeal to the types who have their lives together and dislike the BLM punks. They need a reason to vote Republican, and if you just imitate the democrats with racial platitudes there is no reason.

Pandering will get Republicans nowhere. It will have diminishing returns for democrats as well. Now that minorities have more of their own candidates to choose from, why vote for some supplicating white sad sack?

The way forward for Republicans is to be unapologetic Americans. That includes being unapologetic about race, culture, religion, etc. You don’t gain admirers by grovelling. Especially not among your typical working class minorities.

Now the elite minorities are another story. They have assimilated to white elite norms of contempt for non-elite white Americans. Most of them are fully onboard with the new Morgenthau Plan for non-progressive white America. It’s a shame but it is what it is, and there’s probably not much that can be done about it besides clamping down on immigration from Asia and letting the Sarah Jeong’s of this world have it with both barrels.

And speaking of her, that fine lady is now Ross Douthat’ s esteemed colleague. Mr. Douthat, always ready to condemn any hint of something inoffensive and normal such as white solidarity, hasn’t made a peep about Jeong’s racial trash-talking. Her employment at the Times is only going to make him look more like a hypocrite than he already does. I mean, you could make excuses for Charles Blow, but not an ungrateful little snake like her. So every time he gets on his high horse about racism, people are going to know he works for a paper that endorses racial hatred of whites.

That can’t be a very comfortable position to be in for Ross.

Are you trying to imply that Sean Trende stole your idea, Steve?

But it doesn’t take a genius to see that American nationalism could be a winning strategy with an American electorate.

The trouble with distinguishing genius and non-genius ideas is, both seem obvious right after you’ve read them. Have you done the work to figure out which kind of idea the Sailer Strategy is?

If Douthat were fired from the NYT, his replacement would almost certainly be worse. The Times may forbid mention of Sailer, or Douthat may think his career would threatened by doing so, so I would cut him some slack.

In an article on the same subject from a mainstream conservative outlet, American Spectator, Steve Sailer is mentioned repeatedly by name:

https://spectator.org/a-most-expected-backlash/
A Most Expected Backlash
SCOTT MCKAY
August 10, 2018

There is an essential read by Steve Sailer at Taki’s Magazine from a week ago which might well explain the cultural and political landscape better than anything else you’ve seen in recent vintage. It’s entitled “A Half Century of Amnesia,” and you should take the time to have a look.

Sailer makes several important points, which could very easily be lost to readers not courageous enough to wade through obvious, though perhaps politically incorrect, facts, in recognizing the current cultural atmosphere which has not only given us Donald Trump in the White House but an apparent brewing sea change in the culture which the academic and media-elite Left simply isn’t recognizing (Caitlan Flanagan’s surprising piece on Jordan Peterson’s growing celebrity at the Atlantic notwithstanding). Chief among those is Sailer’s central point; namely that the Left has declared war on straight American white people for decades — and there is a natural price to pay for that hostility.

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“he’s trying to distance himself from both Steve and Trump”

Douthat and other columnists have difficult jobs. They have to tiptoe through the minefield for now. They recognize that there are many changes afoot. There will be no glory in the present media environment by being early to say what is becoming patently obvious to the average person on the street.

The numbers offer a cautionary tale for both emerging-Democratic-majority inevitabilists and for a left whose increasing vehemence about the wickedness of “whiteness” probably encourages the white tribalism that Trump rallied and exploited.

We can but hope!

Steve,
Hasn’t quite worked out for you as well as Nate Silver eh? I mean MSM isn’t beating down your door to get a pulse on the political climate. Strange.

I think Dohat probably knows who you are and read you, but is too scared to name you, because then it might imply he read you. You have big PC cooties and at least one degree of separation must be maintained.

“Getting a bit of fun by hating on whitey is a poor sop for higher wages and lower living costs.”

Sadly, they’ll take that sop, every day of the week.

Sailerism… is a future we should try to avoid.

When did new stories become editorials? This is now common but when did it start in the modern era? I know back in the old days newspapers were party outlets but in the modern era they used to pretend to be non-partisan except on the editorial page.

The tag line seems to be tagged on at the very end. The story seemed to be fairly neutral as they acknowledged Steve’s many contributions (now that it’s fund raising time it’s sad to think that one of our most influential thinkers has no mainstream platform and has to beg for tips like a street busker) and laid out his positions on race without becoming completely hysterical, but then I suppose they had to put this in to show that it was not intended as an endorsement. Yes, Steve has been right about everything important in American politics for 20 years and all the geniuses like Rove (not to mention 100% of the left) have been wrong, but still we should avoid him.

Getting a bit of fun by hating on whitey is a poor sop for higher wages and lower living costs.

But, apparently, they cannot resist it. Witness the kneeling NFL players, who can’t resist hatin’ on whitey, even as it so obviously damages the league and threatens their wages.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/11/politics/mitt-romney-racism-essay/index.html

Mitt Romney reminds us that he is a total scumbag.

As my favourite Jewish academic and Labour Lord likes to say, it isn’t that the English hate the Labour party, it is that the English think the Labour party hates them.

Obviously, the truth is that the English are racist for noticing…

Alas still lots of them – at least the blue collar natives – don’t notice and continue to vote Labour out of habit, legacy tribal loyalty and so on.

The UK Labour hasn’t represented the interests of working class or blue collar Britons, at least outside of the ever expanding trough that is the public sector, for decades.

We will see. The pre-Trump Republican party offered them very little. It can take a bit of time for political perceptions to change.

I miss Lawrence Auster. Sailer’s commentary was always a nice complement to Auster’s…what I didn’t get from one, I got from the other.

Cotton and Pence. A war monger and a bible thumper. This Deplorable would never vote for either one.

I have been saying since 2000 that the working class is up for grabs. If I had said white working class I would have been as smart as Steve. If working class African Americans were capable of understanding that they are working class they would be Socialists or Deplorables. Same goes for perverts, feminists and self hating whites.

Self respecting whites are now a voting block. They are not wedded to the GOP but neither can the Democrats ask for their vote. The beauty of the Trump victory is that he defeated both parties. The truth is emerging. The working class is bigger than the political duopoly.

“Sailerism… is a future we should try to avoid.”

Limiting immigration was the only way that could have been accomplished; Sailer advocated for that, and they didn’t listen. They thought they knew better. Turns out, the Ruling Class isn’t as smart as they thought they were.

Things are going to get very bad in the future. If you are white – or even Asian – you should fear what the democrats will do if they win in 2020. Obama’s second term unleashed a wave of racist hate against whites, and I expect 2020 to greatly exceed that in magnitude.

In other news: they just voted to remove Donald Trump’s star on the walk of fame. Reason? Who knows. These people are f’n idiots. Anyone who votes democrat is a monster. Don’t talk to them, don’t hire them, don’t associate with them, don’t do business with them…#walkaway.

In other news pt.2: democrat representative Cohen called for republican congresswoman Martha Blackburn to jump off a bridge.

I was just thinking (the smoke is still thick in the air) this morning about leftards mantra that “we must make it uncomfortable for whites.” And I agree. We must.

White men in particular tend to go to work, focus on work, come home still thinking about work and deal with domestic life, then sleep, awaken, and repeat. We slept while our entire manufacturing economy was offshored. We sleep now as our Nation is subsumed by hordes of invaders.

We must be made much more uncomfortable. Those of us reading iSteve are canaries. We are the vigilant. We notice. That we are here is prima facie evidence. Our less observant brothers must be awoken. To that end, shouldn’t we embrace “let’s make it uncomfortable for whites?”

It’s a hard pill to swallow for those of us who are already awake. “More uncomfortable Stan?” “Are you retarded (an open question admittedly)?” But look around you, your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow parishioners, are they awake? What exactly will it take to awaken them? Make it happen or be willing to go down with the sleeping ship says Stan.

We hold 100% of the hard power in America. We design, build, operate, and maintain the energy, water, food, chemical, transportation, and every other fundamentally necessary ingredient of existence including the media. NYT works only because of white men. We own and know how to use all the weapons (we invented and built them!). Yet we sleep complacently as we are mocked and hated by media and our wives and children abused in the streets. This could be stopped tomorrow by a general strike. A National White Out. Just stay home. Go John Galt for a week. In any case, we need to be made uncomfortable enough that all of us see it.

Forget Mike Pence- he’s a cuck. But the others you mention are Trumpian.

Because it wasn’t immediately clear to me where your quote came from, here’s a bigger excerpt and a link to the April 2017 NY Magazine article linked to by Douthat as a laughable and cowardly way to reference Sailer without naming him:

… Sailer sees himself as having presented an intellectual justification for commonsense politics, which Donald Trump, by being ignorant of the (as Sailer put it in an email to us) “Davos Man conventional wisdom,” arrived at out of instinct.

And he’s not entirely wrong. Sailer’s influence is impossible to understand without recognizing how far what he refers to as the conventional wisdom has drifted from the common sense of a large part of the country, creating a demand for people who are indifferent to the castigation that normally deters the airing of sometimes wrong, sometimes merely inconvenient ideas. “In 2017, I’m the voice of reason and moderation,” Sailer told us, in reference to the open ethnonationalists to his right and cosmopolitan liberals to his left. That isn’t true — Sailer is a perceptive thinker, but his views on race, for which he will inevitably be best-known, still represent the more resentful end of white opinion. Yet if current trends toward partisan and racial polarization continue unabated, Sailerism may indeed come to represent a kind of uneasy center, flanked by identitarian leftism on one side and raw white nationalism on the other. This is a future we should try to avoid.

The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right
By Park MacDougald and Jason Willick
THE NEW FAR RIGHT APR. 30, 2017
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/steve-sailer-invented-identity-politics-for-the-alt-right.html

To sight you Steve takes away from who whom to a debate of ideas. I recently saw a great political cartoon showing dozens of donkeys coming to a crossroads one labled “call them racist bigots” the other “challenge thier ideas”. Douthat is not up to the challenge.

Pat Buchanan was begging Nixon to after northern Catholics and the Wallace vote when the rest of the campaign (eg Bill Safire) was convinced that Nixon should go after black votes. Explaining basic fractions to Republicans has a long history.

His mix of economic populism and deliberate racial polarization

I don’t understand how anyone gets taken in by this gaslighting. It’s as obviously false as claiming Trump diminishes respect for the office by juggling every time he’s on camera.

I hesitate to call these websites cowardly, but Steve IS on the SPLC shit list for calling Obama a “wigger.” For Steve’s sake, it’s better that the SPLC cloaking device remain operational. His ideas percolate up to the journalists, researchers, and politicians who matter, yet at the same time he avoids Antifa kicking in his new garage door when Don Lemon doxes him.

I’d be on the SPLC shit list if they knew I own a copy of “Truly Tasteless Jokes.”

Yet Conservatism Inc. stooge David French is mentioned like he is some sort of authoritative source on the topic.

Whites are weird (and, on an individual basis, downright irrational) in that we prefer jobs to handouts. Blacks don’t want jobs, they want gibsmedats.

He probably likes being employed at the New York Times.

Trump won mainly because of his platform and Hillary’s well-earned unpopularity.

A charming, less arrogant, more thoughtful, more knowledgeable candidate with Trump’s broad platform and establishment-rocking agenda would have beaten Hillary in probably at least 40 states.

I want both

This is why the Overton window matters and not just in ideology but also temperament. compared to a guy like Richard Spencer Steve seems like a bank manager.

Far be it for me to give advice to a guy like Steve but I do wish he’d lay of the first law of female journalism and Becky with the good hair analysis for awhile though. Outside the alternative right that stuff does turn people off.

Eh except for the fact that as the stigma around things like disability have deceased white disability fraud has exploded.

Revealed preferences are that most people would rather not work if the choice is between life time entry level jobs and handouts.

The best thing he does (besides the polling analysis) is the Deep State analysis stuff. I showed a relative, who is a diehard liberal, his article “Immigration and the Deep State” and she thought it was great.

Anecdotally, I’ve seen next to no evidence for educated whites leaving the Republican Party. The poll numbers reflect a reality that I don’t see in my day-to-day interactions with that type of people.

Not sure if the polls are being intentionally fudged or running into the same retarded assumptions that made them miss 2016.

As John Durant has noted, once the Internet made information free established news outlets pivoted wholesale into opinion-blogging.

It should not go unmentioned that the Black vote, according to the 2016 exit polls, was down 5.5% when compared to 2012. The combined margin of victory, for Trump, of a mere 80,000 votes in 3 states : Wisconsin (Milwaukee), Michigan (Detroit), and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) meant that Hillary’s candidacy did not drive the Black turnout in those places. Hillary was a Bridge Too Far, particularly for Black males : they stayed home in 2016.

Trump’s candidacy encouraged Whites to turnout for him. In 2016, White turnout was up 2.2% over 2012 (Romney). The White die-off continues and the Immigration Act of 1965 voters increase, so perhaps Trump cannot be re-elected in 2020 – – – but does anybody in their right mind think that either Cory Booker or Kamala Harris will win in a cakewalk in 2020? It seems that Trump has a better than even chance to repeat his “Racist Appeal” in 2020, even with the declining population of remaining White voters, who will vote for him out of frightened motives of self-preservation in 2020. Hillary won California by 29% over Trump in 2016. Kamala Harris could win California by over 50% and still lose Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania bigly because of increased White voter turnout in those 3 states.

It is hard for Whites to forget the last four years of Obama : it seemed that he was forever agitating for corrupt Whitey to be brought to heel and that evil Whitey must be brought to heel, out of “moral necessity” – – – the arc of history is long but it leads to Justice! If there ever was a racist and a liar, it was Obama. In Obama’s political world, Whitey stinks like a fart in church and it’s always payback time for righteous Persons of Color to descend on Whitey from a great height. Obama’s favorite word in the dictionary was REVENGE.

Hey, my comment on the Times article got awarded a Times Pick!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/the-white-strategy.html?comments#permid=28198729

I deliberately angled for that by wording the comment to make it appear as though I was concerned about the future of the Democratic Party, but in fact my goal was to try to pound into the stupid heads of the Republicans the fact that, as I put it in the comment, “Any strategy that can get a train-wreck like Donald Trump elected president is truly powerful!”

If you have a Times account please feel free to head over there and upvote my comment.

Trende was misunderstood by certain critics as making a normative argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_syllogism

Aristotle discusses the notion of the practical syllogism within his treatise on ethics, his Nicomachean Ethics. A syllogism is a three-proposition argument consisting of a major premise stating some universal truth, a minor premise stating some particular truth, and a conclusion derived from these two premises.[2] The practical syllogism is a form of practical reasoning in syllogistic form, the conclusion of which is an action. An example might be that the major premise food cures hunger and the minor premise I am hungry leads to the practical conclusion of my eating food. Note that the conclusion here is not a third proposition, like I will eat, or the occurrence of an utterance like “I will eat,” but is simply the act of eating.

The numbers offer a cautionary tale for both emerging-Democratic-majority inevitabilists and for a left whose increasing vehemence about the wickedness of “whiteness” probably encourages the white tribalism that Trump rallied and exploited.

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World is a book by Pedro Domingos released in 2015. Domingos wrote the book in order to generate interest from people outside the field.

The book outlines five tribes of machine learning: inductive reasoning, connectionism, evolutionary computation, bayes theorem and analogical modelling. The author explains these tribes to the reader by referring to more understandable processes of logic, connections made in the brain, natural selection, probability and similarity judgements. Throughout the book, it is suggested that each different tribe has the potential to contribute to a unifying “master algorithm”.

When did new stories become editorials? This is now common but when did it start in the modern era? I know back in the old days newspapers were party outlets but in the modern era they used to pretend to be non-partisan except on the editorial page.

It’s hard to say. Opinion pages (as opposed to the editorial and letters page) dates back to 1970, when the New York Times introduced an opinion page opposite the editorial. Opinion columns and opinion articles were simply unknown, in newspapers through the post War years, until that point in time.

Slanted reportage, or reportage as opinion probably dates back to the Clinton era, when newspapers started taking a very strong pro-globalist position in their coverage of the Seattle riots. I’m pretty sure it would have happened earlier, in the Reagan era, but for the fact that older generation publishers such as the current Sulzberger’s grandad, Punch Sulzberger, or Katherine Graham would simply not tolerated it. It pretty much became the norm during the Bush and Obama years.

Sam,

Consider the possibility that the struggles of your preferred candidates/principles may have something to do with a misconception on your/their part about what actually turns women on/off.

Certainly your/their relative performance with that demographic might suggest that possibility could have some validity. In that case, some humility and curiosity could be in order.

Far be it for me to give advice to a guy like Steve but I do wish he’d lay of the first law of female journalism and Becky with the good hair analysis for awhile though. Outside the alternative right that stuff does turn people off.

I’d half agree but the “Featured Book [w/ gold border]: Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler” is probably turning more people off at the moment.

Non Germans were immune to Hitler’s charisma even prewar when he seemed a highly successful politician and statesman. We are always fooled by our own, the other can never deceive us.

I hope by Trumpy platform you are including not only the populism/nationalism but also the more pragmatic foreign policy he ran on- calling out George Bush for not keeping the U.S safe on 9/11, criticizing intervention in the Middle East, wanting to make deals with “adversaries” etc.

Because no neocon will ever win the Presidency again. A non-isolationist Republican will never win no matter how nutty the Dems get- voters will stay home. Foreign policy is a big part of how Trump got places like Michigan and nearly got Minnesota. That’s how he got a lot of former Bernie supporters to switch over (which the media doesn’t talk about much). Trump won because he was outrageous, because he called out the powerful and slammed their ridiculousness and waste on national tv, often in a hilarious way. That was appealing to a lot of people and I really can’t imagine a Cotton or Romney style candidate doing that.

Revealed preferences are that most people would rather not work if the choice is between life time entry level jobs and handouts.

One guy in Washington State was so sick of three years in his dead end airport job that involved lots of heavy lifting, baggage lifting. That he stole his employer’s 30 million dollar airplane for a 20 minute joy ride and crashed it. But that airplane must be worth more than the reported 30 million.

I’d half agree but the “Featured Book [w/ gold border]: Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler” is probably turning more people off at the moment.

Yeah, I’ve been wondering if Ron’s thrown caution to the winds—leave that gold-bordered Mein Kampf as a headline item under the masthead for a while and it is sure to attract attention from the usual suspects—Morris Dees’ SPLC and Foxman and Greenblatt’s ADL.

I make a hobby of reading old newspapers and magazines — slanted reporting has been the norm from the very beginning.

Yes, there is the Coming Apart / Bowling Alone / White Death trend — the collapse of white lower-middle class norms and the corresponding rise of underclass norms (including preferring handouts to jobs) among whites. But the way whites are nevertheless atypical is that many or a majority of us continue to hold to the “jobs > handouts” norm, and that we ever had that norm in the first place.

“Probably?”

A more accurate term would be “perhaps”.

Maybe next week we will get Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream

Nah, it’ still under copyright.

(also, tropes)

Stylistic Suck: Hitler’s not a very good author. As anyone who’s read even a few short passages of Mein Kampf can attest, he really wasn’t. He’s also very repetitive:

“racial will” appears 31 times
“leather” appears 69 times, with loving descriptions of uniforms and flags
“steel” appears 142 times

Good points, but regarding the lack of a link, given the accelerating repression of alternative opinions in the media, I doubt if the NYT editors would have allowed Ross to put a link to Steve in this column. (Assuming he even wanted to). Their strategy is to render the opposition voiceless and invisible. Notice that Ross didn’t even mention any names so the snowflake NYT readers won’t be tempted to go looking for sites like Unz and get turned to pillars of salt.

Party switchers, not race was the key to 2016 election.
I disagree with the “white voter” analysis simply because it is not based on fact just opinion. There are no statistics kept anywhere on the race of a voter.
If one seeks a reason for Trumps win one should look at the 2016 primary election vote totals for those states which allow voters to choose a candidate in either party. Simply compare vote totals in those states for Democrats and Republicans in 2016 to the primary vote totals by party in 2012 and 2008. You will find the vote totals for the R primary voters to be significantly higher in 2016. Those increases are almost exactly matched by decreases in D voter totals. This is all public information and easy to find.
The conclusion is that a lot of Democrat voters (of all races) switched to voting Republican. This trend is real and can be supported by real facts. This is the reason Trump won the nomination and the reason he won the general election.

Does Douthat vote Democrat or otherwise lean left? He certainly writes as though that’s where his sympathies lie.

Douthat exists on the margins of elite polite society as a sort of curiosity with his TradCath views – it’s expected that whether he sincerely believes it or not he has to say when called upon that downscale whites are icky and problematic.

Who in his right mind could write this with a straight face? I mean, someone who has been paying attention?:

His mix of economic populism and deliberate racial polarization was supposed to be demographically foredoomed — but instead it won him precisely those regions Trende’s analysis had highlighted, and the presidency as well.

In this view, “racial polarization” must mean not enthusiastically offering one’s self and progeny on the altar of the cult of multicultural diversity.

The polarization is inevitable. If you see anti-Whitism, don’t bother trying to argue against it. Just expose it. Encourage the person to say the most anti-White things possible.

Exactly. The inimitable Tyrone Trump lays out this theory at considerably greater length, in his rather idiosyncratic (and somewhat profane) style:

https://tyronetrump.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/fascism-warfare/

https://tyronetrump.wordpress.com/2017/12/22/subkult/

This is why the Overton window matters and not just in ideology but also temperament. compared to a guy like Richard Spencer Steve seems like a bank manager.

It matters a lot, but for right now, not the way you think.

The one clear accomplishment of the Trump Administration is that we’ve moved our edge of the Overton Window in our favor. And despite what most of us like to think here, that’s not holding us back at the moment. We can make, in a respectable enough way, whatever arguments we need, we just can’t win them.

Right now, it’s a lot more valuable for us to move their edge of the Overton Window in our favor. If the Republicans do reasonably well in November, the Sarah Jeong/Maxine Waters Left edge of nasty is a clear loser for them. That will be a significant problem considering how much of the activist Left is invested in that sort of thing.

I make a hobby of reading old newspapers and magazines — slanted reporting has been the norm from the very beginning.

Of course. “Objective journalism” is, and has always been, a myth. Even if the facts are reported more or less straight on a particular story, it’s still easy to lie by using selection bias and the memory hole. What’s the “objective” standard for what’s “news,” and what isn’t?

The best you can do is to have some sense of of the overall narrative that a particular source is pushing and what the financial interests and other loyalties of its owners are. And always seek out information rather than passively consume it from a single source. Even then, it’s hard to know what’s being left out.

She tells him they need a new dishwasher?

“They are more worried about undersampling minority groups than undersampling whites,”

Great. If they knew how fragile their hold on power is, they’d do something.

Amirite?

I fail to see what Sailer’s complaint is – Douthat linked to an article that explicitly mentioned “The Sailer Strategy” – while characterizing it as “on the margins” of conservatism. This is factually correct, and exactly what Sailer bemoans!

A comment on the Douthat article: “Here’s the thing: the Democratic Party knows that if its share of the black vote ever falls below 85%, it will never win a presidential election again. ”

I really don’t know that this is true – I suspect there is a grain of truth in it. I think it would depend on individual states. We don’t have one General Election, we have 50 elections. The comment might be true in the states in which the black vote is a decisive swing vote.

SS publicly identified the Franklin on the ground. Trump was the only one who picked it up!

Why was Trump the only one to pick it up?

And despite proven success, why is he still the only one close to espousing nationalist views two years later?

even though he’s largely on the same page as both of them.

What evidence have you seen of that?

I doubt if the NYT editors would have allowed Ross to put a link to Steve in this column. (Assuming he even wanted to). Their strategy is to render the opposition voiceless and invisible.

Yeah, they try to actively steer people away from crimethink. But part of it may also be that they’re still trying to maintain some semblance of the old “And that’s the way it is” model — the media as the Voice of God; a pseudo-primary source that you must trust implicitly. The more they utilize links, the more they call people’s attention to the fact that they’re actually an intermediary, and that if someone has any real interest in the topic, they should read the original source, rather than simply accepting the Sulzberger Blog’s opinion on what one should think about it.

Yes, there is the Coming Apart / Bowling Alone / White Death trend — the collapse of white lower-middle class norms and the corresponding rise of underclass norms (including preferring handouts to jobs) among whites. But the way whites are nevertheless atypical is that many or a majority of us continue to hold to the “jobs > handouts” norm, and that we ever had that norm in the first place.

Perhaps, but the left has a plan for that too. A large part of the motivation for things such as the “Affordable Care Act” is to create an economic climate in which staying out of the government subsidized benefits pool is more and more difficult, acculturating proud and independent whites to dispense with their ethos of shame.

“Contempt for non elite White Americans”

Sounds just like our commenters Jeff Stryker and Jilles Dystrka.

Yes. Hence propaganda to that effect like the “Life of Julia” and the push for “universal basic income.”

Coincidentally am re-reading “A Troublesome Inheritance” and while I agree with most of Wade’s points, I still remain unconvinced that it is possible for the human mind to measure its own intelligence in any meaningful way without necessarily having to become arbitrary –indeed subjective– or risk falling into paradox . Be that as it may, a whole industry has been built up around such as IQ so…it is what it is.

In a world with a press interested in free and open inquiry into all ideas, Douthat would reply to you directly here. Given the state of the NY Times he works for, it was most likely a struggle to get that link in his column. NY Times readers may not be that curious about the links, I ran a search on “Sailer” in the comments and didn’t get any hits.

OT,

That awkward moment when a dedicated hack says something true:

Whoops, NYT. pic.twitter.com/jS3YOS7jbz

— Orwell & Goode (@OrwellNGoode) August 11, 2018

Great point about the most effective way to bleed off some minority voters is to be unapologetic.

What does this even mean? I’d venture im to your right on social issues. But the whole mean girl clucking at ugly people thing turns people off. I’d love to see some evidence that it doesn’t.

“One straightforward way to demonstrate that you are Harvard material might be to denounce Harvard as racist.”

The Reihan Salam article Douthat links to is actually pretty good, if you imagine him as a narrator taking on the role of a disinterested naturalist studying a curious phenomenon, allowing the reader infer the article for himself as a description of a holiness-spiraling civilizational death trap.

I seem to remember Ross linking right to iSteve several times before. But these days the kooks and “Featured Book: Mien Kampf Adolf Hitler” lined up to the right of the blog prevent that from happening.

I thought about that as well but decided:

– It’s far better to err on the side of being a free speech absolutist. Planting a flag all the way out there beside Hitler’s Mein Kampf gives one a lot of middle ground to play with.

– The saying “they’re going to call you a Nazi anyway” has merit. If one agrees to run through their politically correct obstacle course, they always win the game. By bypassing it, vast areas of opportunity open up. Trump got this during the election.

Pro tip for those who must struggle to survive in the rhetorical minefields of academia, government, and journalism: When a progressive proposal is necessarily predicated on a progressively unpalatable assumption, simply state the conclusion, and leave the assumption unspoken, even if there’s so little inferential distance between the assumption and the conclusion that they can be stated in almost exactly the same words.

That’s the essence of “the fine boundary between ‘I try to be sensitive to differences in learning style and their implications for diversity’ and ‘I understand that poor and minority students may learn differently to others.’”: https://quillette.com/2018/06/25/shibboleths-that-exclude-in-the-name-of-inclusion/

A) not much room there

B) being afraid of women turns them off

Indeed. The cracks are showing. Poor polling, as done by CNN, shows black male Trump vote share at 13%.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/1205/Among-black-men-a-spark-of-support-for-Donald-Trump

I have seen analyses elsewhere that show black male voting for Trump at 20%. I suspect that this percentage will rise if the nationalist economic platform improves things for the working classes, white and black.

Codevilla expanded that essay into a 147-page pamphlet in:

The article is right in that the secret to Trump’s success is focussing on the white vote, and getting enough of it to win whatever the remaining 30% of the electorate do.

…and I think that white people can do this, and in the present situation, should do it.

The sad bit about it all is that it leads to the kind of political paralysis that marked Northern Ireland for so long. Instead of Protestant versus Catholic, you get White versus non-white, and all other political considerations become subordinate to that.

Take Trump. I think a lot of his policies are literally catastrophic, but what choice do I have? Support the Democratic candidate? I’ll take bad policy over suicide, thank you. We no longer have the luxury of debating among ourselves — that way lies Hillary Clinton. We have to rally around the ‘white’ candidate — and stick to him, no matter how big an idiot he is.

And that’s where we’re headed. That or worse. Once everything is defined in terms of race, how do we reverse course? About the only other observation that seems germane at the moment is that it’s the minorities and the Left that started this. The ‘white power structure’ (such as it was) in this country was perfectly willing to share; there wasn’t much effective resistance.

One would think that would have been enough. For most ordinary non-whites, it probably would have been. But no. The only way the ethno-warriors could keep their jobs was to keep demanding more, and so they did, and so here we all are.

So it’s all somebody else’s fault. That, however, is cold comfort. It remains our problem.

newspapers started taking a very strong pro-globalist position in their coverage of the Seattle riots

Aren’t the black-clad anarchists who rioted against globalism during the Seattle WTO meeting the same types who now riot in support of globalism?

Ron needs to add a link to “Das Kapital” next to “Mein Kampf”. Let’s see what they can make of that. Throw in a link to “Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl and her Daddy” just to get their hamster wheel really spinning.

Several things killed Mitt Romney; but personally, what I saw was the devastating effect of that ‘49%’ crack.

My wife is Hispanic, and an Evangelical, and although we personally weren’t poor, we certainly weren’t rich. More to the point, though, my wife continues to identify with the sort of Hispanics that patronize Evangelical churches — usually poor and economically marginalized, but desperately hard-working. It is not unusual for the men to hold two full time jobs while the woman holds one and tries to tend to the kids.

So anyway, we’re at a wine-tasting place, and the server starts praising Romney. I kind of bite my tongue — I’m enjoying being mildly buzzed, and I don’t actually want a furious political argument. My wife is won over, and she comes out sure she’s going to vote for Romney. I continue to bite my tongue.

The very next day Romney comes out with that ‘49%’ remark. It was priceless.

Why people can’t understand that a Texan roofer named Jorge might not be happy about a couple million Central Americans suddenly showing up just confounds me.

The latinx “Talented Tenth” elite managed to retcon Cesar Chavez into an anti-white open borders activist, so most latinx don’t have any ideological leaders around whom to coalesce.

The potential to snatch latinx who favor border enforcement is still there, but has not been tapped. Audacious Epigone, for example, recently posted polling data showing that latinx are divided on open borders.

Concern troll is concerned.

Could you give us more examples?

To be perfectly honest (and I know I’m going to get junked for saying this here), I think talking about race and ethnicity at all is generally a nonstarter. And this is not because “normies” are too thoroughly indoctrinated in multiculturalism to absorb the discussion, but because it really is far too Procrustean a bed into which to fit the vital issues of the day. The kind of people who frequent places like Unz may have difficulty remembering that ethnological studies just aren’t a priority for most people. Once you start throwing in a lot of HBD terms, genetics, IQ, and evolution, you’ve effectively glazed the eyes of 90% of the audience, and you’re left preaching to a very odd choir. The average person doesn’t really want to have a conversation about race at all. He wants to forget about it; he wants this whole silly subject to leave him the heck alone. He doesn’t want to have to have an opinion about it, not one he is obliged to confess in public anyway, and especially not one that he has to carefully tailor in order to avoid suspicion of thought-crime.

This should suggest what ought to be a proper populist strategy: Dismantle those legal and social structures which lead to the emergence of a racial grievance industry. President Trump could take a huge step in this direction simply by announcing that Affirmative Action and federal hiring quotas will no longer be enforced. The Left will raise an unprecedented outcry over this and will probably sue and demonstrate like never before, but it’s hard to argue with the substance of the decision. Since the opposite of preferential treatment is “meritocracy,” the inherent fairness of the proposal will win over that portion of the public who really matters. Let everyone who takes the opposite side be forced to buy in to the explicit proposition that certain ethnics are entitled to special treatment at public expense. They will never succeed at getting that ratified into law, nor will it ever be accepted by the general population. Once individuals and private institutions know that they are free to associate with whom they please, the grievance industry will dry up for lack of profit.

The only two things even making this an issue are the Warren Court laws and the welfare state. The liquidating of these two pernicious influences is a difficult but politically attainable goal. The effort should be focused there.

That link was just a polite and highly volubile way of saying to the PC brigade that they are unsufferable assholes.

Respect!

Interestingly, philosophy is also under fire for its diversity problems, so one can assume that philosophers’ Diversity Statements will face particular scrutiny. But one needn’t approve of all of the conduct ever exhibited by philosophers to wonder how easy it will be to get trained logicians to swallow the party line without question. They tried that on Socrates, and he chose to swallow poison instead.

LOL.

Somehow the movie Ridicule comes to mind.

A large part of the motivation for things such as the “Affordable Care Act” is to create an economic climate in which staying out of the government subsidized benefits pool is more and more difficult, acculturating proud and independent whites to dispense with their ethos of shame.

That, and to ensure the people depend on the government for basic life needs, and will continue to vote for higher taxes and bigger government even when they perceive the government to be otherwise hostile.

Antifa types are for globalism on the ground (ie. multiculturalism) but against it at the international level. Centrist globalists take the most extreme position. They are for both international and local globalism. Conservative Inc. globalists are for international globalism but increasingly drag their feet on globalism at the national level. Of course their resistance to multiculturalism and mass immigration is half-assed, apologetic and deliberately impotent, so they should just be counted along with the centrists. They’re judas-goat globalists in charge of bringing the White majority population along with the plan.

acculturating proud and independent whites to dispense with their ethos of shame.

From what I’ve observed, the under-40 cohort has dispensed with shame–and are far from being acculturated as proud and independent. They are glued to social media making them fad and trend followers of the most banal sort. They’re buying the propaganda pumped out on Facebook, et al., which is why there’s so much alarm expressed about fake news or “fake news,” and the need to shut down/censor alternative voices that challenge the propaganda, challenge The Narrative, or merely present alternative perspectives (even if dark conspiracy theories).

Just ask yourself, how is Kim Kardashian a “thing”–a celebrity, a socialite, a TV personality, except for a complete lack of shame?

In his most infamous and widely condemned blog post, written during the unrest following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Sailer wrote that African Americans “possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.”

Seems like the Ferguson effect would also vindicate whatever criticism Steve’s Katrina post generated as well.

The biggest Trump supporter I know has degrees from Harvard, Princeton, and Caltech.

The Sailer Strategy is irrelevant to national elections, but the Sailer coalition of the fringes is very much in play. The Sailer Strategy would require that whites nationally start thinking and voting like whites do in the Southeast. I don’t see that happening for at least a generation.

Trump got the two million or so missing white votes Romney repelled, of course, but in the end, Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. The republican vote is tapped out at about 62-64 million, but the democratic vote can get up to at least 65 or 66 million. Those are the raw numbers. Nothing can change that. 2012 and 2016 show that clearly. The demographic die is set.

If the republicans cannot get beyond 62-64 million, which I believe is the case, then their only hope is that the democrats put forward another pasty, old, white. Clinton lost because she could not get out the black vote in Obama-like numbers in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania–and we’re talking in the 10s of thousands, not 100s of thousands. In 2020, another pasty, white democrat will be even less able to. Can the democrats put up another Obama like figure, or is he a once in a century-type aberration?

‘Aren’t the black-clad anarchists who rioted against globalism during the Seattle WTO meeting the same types who now riot in support of globalism?’

Orwell observed something similar eighty years ago; the same people who had supported Communism in the twenties advocated fascism in the thirties.

It’s not about specific policies; it’s about adopting a set of views that allow you to be violent.

These people are hypocritical, morally empty swine. They just want an excuse to smash someone’s face in.

Today’s NYT magazine features 2 articles regarding GOPe. First, Paul Ryan gets to cast himself as The Left’s new favorite Republican as a bulwark against Trumpism. This is the same collection of MSM who had no problem portraying Ryan as a heartless goon dumping Grandma off a cliff by merely mentioning any changes to federal medical plans. What’s not mentioned is how Trump assumed after McConnell and Ryan had spent years claiming to replace Obamacare, in Trump’s first month he found their plans to replace it where empty nonsense.So Mr. Policy Wonk Speaker, on his leading issue, did not have a workable plan on President Trump’s desk at the outset. Good luck loving your new boy,lefties. The Joe Scarborough track awaits.

Also,article how grunts in the Middle East wars have long figured out they’re fighting for each other and to get home in one piece. And not much else.

Hope Trump reads both. The GOPe need to be hunted like rats. And the wars have to be ended.The Middle East; they’re animals anyway, let them lose their souls, not our problem.

NPR is still trying to figure out who voted for Trump.

Why Is It Still OK To ‘Trash’ Poor White People?
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/08/01/605084163/why-its-still-ok-to-trash-poor-white-people

I think Nick Szabo (almost certainly Satoshi Nakamoto) is also not averse to Trump. He certainly disdains progressives.

It would if it was a thing, but it’s not. If you read the NYTimes, there’s BLM and then there’s this huge increase in crime in the cities in which BLM was most active and it’s a total mystery why that happened. A puzzlement. Our greatest minds and top social scientists have no idea. Maybe years from now it will be understood, but for now, it’s completely inexplicable – maybe a new drug epidemic? Who knows? The connection to BLM is never, never openly acknowledged.

This is how the leftist media works in general – certain tenuous or non-existent connections, such as Trump’s connection to the Charlottesville Nazis and the Russians, are just as accepted fact despite the total lack of evidence and other connections, which are as plain as day, are never, ever mentioned or even baldly denied. Every failing ideology has a whistling past the graveyard quality to it – just before the final collapse you have to double down on the ideology to prove that you have no doubt in your heart and to buck up the others. So the cries of “Segregation Forever” are not loudest in Alabama 1883 but in Alabama 1963.

Dems split on Israel: Only 27% support Israel vs 25% for Palestine; establishment versus progressives, old versus young. Jews may have to rethink support for mass migration and multiculturalism as the Dems go the way of the Labour Party in the UK. https://t.co/0YmkJEsVLp

— Kevin MacDonald (@TOOEdit) August 12, 2018

But rank-and-file doesn’t matter. What matters is thinktank-and-finance. It doesn’t matter what grassroots Dems think. Democratic politicos depend on big money from Jewish elites who remain staunchly Palestinian. Notice Ocasio shut up about Palestinians the minute she won the primary.

In Democrats, lots of rank-and-file Dems are anti-Israel but all Democratic politicians and bureaucrats are Israel, Israel, and Israel.

If US were a democracy, it would matter. But US is an oligarchy.

“Trump, however, ran a disorganized campaign and was, notwithstanding some unique strengths, not a very good candidate.”

That sentence would make a lot more sense if it started with “Clinton” rather than Trump.

The best evidence points to the late Hal Finney, although Szabo is the next-best candidate to be Nakamato after him.

Ross Dou-that, not this. Seriously, what conservatives are looking for helpful advice and info from the NYT?

100 Sarah Jeongs will only have a marginal impact on in-grouping whites. The people who want to dismiss her can do so easily because there is no punishment or price to pay although it might come back later to haunt the left. What it is really going to take is some Horst Wessel (bad example possibly) type hideous real unmistakable black (or brown) on white hate crime that will force a litmus test on other WHITES to acknowledge anti-white hate. Right now they are allowed to hide.

The left is so used to being the only one’s to pull this shit. It is also why they are patrolling the internet and social media so heavily. It is not because they are concerned with decency or that they are not obsessed with hate crimes; they seem to live for white on black issues. Once black on white hate becomes a meme there will be no stopping it and the left will sorely rue ever using it in the first place.

Off topic but this nytimes article talking about how terrible they think nerds are and how great they think athlete are is fascinating and might be of interest:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/nerds-lebron-james-elon-musk.html

Trump, however, ran a disorganized campaign and was, notwithstanding some unique strengths, not a very good candidate.

I agree that Trump was not a very good candidate. However I believe his campaign proved to be very well organized. He had a small team doing polling and data mining that paid off big in targeting their efforts.

Would Tom Cotton, for instance, running on a Trumpy platform, lose many of Trump’s voters?

No, but he would lose a lot of his current donors, and he probably wouldn’t be willing to do that. Running on the Trump platform that is – the platform that Trump ran on – not the one he has been governing on, that is.

I think he wouldn’t, but would also take back many of the educated McCain/Romney voters who defected or stayed home in 2016. The same for Mike Pence or Kris Kobach.

I think that is true for Kobach. Pence, on the other hand, is a lousy candidate. He’s too milquetoast. That overt christian conservative vibe is a strike to a lot of people (I know it is to me). He seems like the kind of guy who will cuck, and he probably will. Trump has proved that conservative christians will vote for a candidate who isn’t one, provided he does not seek to alienate them and makes an honest effort to represent their interests.

Yeah, of the people I personally know who are what I would consider disability frauds, about half are white.

So the spineless Ross Douthat can’t bring himself to mention “Sailer strategy”. Even when it is known as such by well-informed liberals, centrists and conservatives alike. Pathetic coward!

Nah. Almost certainly Nick Szabo, albeit in collaboration with someone to code.

Evidence is stronger that it is Szabo. See, for instance –

https://towardsdatascience.com/stylometric-analysis-satoshi-nakamoto-294926cdf995

Bingo. The 20th anniversary of the WTO protests will be an excellent opportunity to review the shift in leftism.

The “Trump Electoral Strategy” isn’t particularly new. Nixon (with help from Buchanan) utilized it in 1972. Reagan used similar strategy. Buchanan was on to something, but the GOP abandoned citizens in favor of the world’s people, just like the Democrats have done for the last four score and twenty-plus years.

Had Buchanan’s insurgency in 1992 or 1996 been successful, iSteve’s analysis would not have been necessary. Heck, iSteve would probably be known better as an ex-Cabinet member now.

I also found the sanctimonious disgust from the NYmag hacks quite humorous :

Perhaps the Sailerist idea most closely echoed by the Trump movement is “citizenism,” which he describes as the philosophy that a nation should give overwhelming preference to the interests of its current citizens over foreigners, in the same way as a corporation prioritizes the interests of its current shareholders over everyone else.

God forbid.

Ok so you basically admit whites and conservatives are racist

Good to know

Completely OT

I’d love to read an iSteve review of Three Identical Strangers, the new documentary about triplets separated at birth which is really about a Jewish adoption agency that was a front for private twins-reared-apart studies from the 1960s through the 1980s. I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention it around here yet (though I have been off the grid quite a bit lately, so maybe someone did).

It’s very good until the last ten minutes.

Revealed preferences are that most people would rather not work if the choice is between life time entry level jobs and handouts.

I think most people want to work, they just want “cool” jobs.

Taste tester, professional athlete, coach, cinematic action hero, tv personality, social media celebrity, rapper, bikini contest judge, personal assistant to Kanye West, gigolo, sports blogger, race car driver, fashion model, space fleet captain, etc. That sort of thing.

There seems to be a coordinated effort on the part of the establishment the past couple of weeks to really drive home the new explicitly anti-white line and to vilify and isolate those middle of road conservatives who are not alt-right or nationalists but who are objecting to anti-white speech and population replacement.

Did anyone read Goldberg’s latest at NRO? He’s really edging right up to rejecting the right to free speech. In the article, he shows sympathy for the silencing of alt-right voices and repeatedly scoffs at and mocks free speech arguments. The cucked right’s strategy to signal against outright anti-white hate and censorship while simultaneously keeping their sheep out of the jaws of the alt-right can’t go on much longer. At some point, there is going to be a split.

I think you can divide up the right into four groups now. The alt-right/nationalists, nationalist leaning conservatives like Tucker and Ingraham, the cuck leaning types like Peterson and Shapiro who signal against PC but support population replacement and the openly anti-white shills like Kristol, Williamson and Goldberg who don’t even make a pretense of caring about free speech. These four groups are all sharing the same spaces to some extent.

How long can that last? How is this going to crack up?

Circulating for Years on the Margins of Conservatism

Circulating in a body with atherosclerosis. Or more likely peripheral arterial disease.

I think this is relatively on topic. Someone said that the Sailer Strategy was not rocket science. Well, Steve said it first and best, while all in the media were kowtowing to the numbskull Rove.

I read the current first headline at Breitbart, the backbone of modern Republican thought. It came before Trump was a thing, and it is to the right of Trump.

https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/12/pelosi-trumps-whole-thing-is-make-america-white-again/#disqus_thread

I read it looking to find a “You say that like it’s a bad thing!” type quote, for reassurance. But it goes beyond that. And I find Steve’s influence again, although it takes it an extra, excellent step:

“and our posterity” in the Constitution means this 1965 law is UN-CONSTITUTIONAL.

And this follows on from it:

Exactly. The 1965 bill was an act of TREASON against America. Only White countries are being forcibly diversified.

This is a war on Whites. The media tells us only white people are racist. So “we must eliminate racism” means eliminating Whites.

Nailed it. The “War on Whites’, that’s what it is. We are fighting back. The first step is to have our intelligentsia realize what’s going on. This is being accomplished in spades. Breitbart is the new mainstream right. They may shut our outlets down but it’s a losing battle. Another will pop up, and once redpilled, no one goes back.

Just pitch it to them that they “earned it”, like all those taxpayer-subsidized hip replacements.

Among prime-age (age 25-54) individuals, 87% of Non-Hispanic White males are employed. For Black males, the employment rate is 76%. Asian and Hispanic men are nearly identical to Whites in their respective employment rates.

Non-Hispanic Women (72%) and Black Women (73%) have a similar employment rates.

“life time entry level jobs and handouts.”

Work is a very broad category. Many maybe most entry level jobs are physically demanding work. After 30 it becomes harder and harder.

Even the Guardian grudgingly admitted the validity of the Ferguson Effect (once):

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/13/ferguson-effect-real-researcher-richard-rosenfield-second-thoughts?CMP=share_btn_tw

But the NYT? No way. Part of this may be that media outlets usually have slightly more freedom to cover racial issues in other countries than their own — just look at Daily Mail coverage of black crime in the US, or any conservative US publication’s coverage of crime by non-white invaders in Europe.

That’s more or less pseudoscience, especially comparing between personal correspondence and academic writing.

I find the evidence for Finney compelling.

1. He was neighbors with the man identified by Newsweek actually named Satoshi Nakamoto. Too much of a coincidence.

2. Nakamoto’s retirement from Bitcoin development and sharply curtailed online presence in 2010 corresponded to Finney’s retirement from software development and sharply curtailed online presence at the same time due to his confinement in a wheelchair. The complete lack of communication from Nakamoto since 2014 corresponds to Finney’s total incapacitation and death. Nakamoto has not spent any of his bitcoins, now (and for some years) worth many billions, since 2009.

3. Finney was the first persona to respond enthusiastically to Nakamoto’s initial Bitcoin post to the crypto mailing list. Finney was the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, from Nakamoto. AFAICT, Finney is the only person known to have received Bitcoin from Nakamoto. Finney was the first persona to be publicly involved in Bitcoin development other than Nakamoto.

4. In 2011, Szabo wrote (emphasis mine):

Myself, Wei Dai, and Hal Finney were the only people I know of who liked the idea [of cryptocurrency] (or in Dai’s case his related idea) enough to pursue it to any significant extent until Nakamoto (assuming Nakamoto is not really Finney or Dai). Only Finney and Nakamoto were motivated enough to actually implement such a scheme.

An odd statement considering Finney didn’t implement such a scheme, under his own name.

There is good evidence for Szabo as well of course; we can say for certain that both Finney and Szabo were at a minimum very early collaborators with Nakamoto.

I keep wondering what impact having Mein Kampf as a dead-center, yellow-highlight Featured Book has on this site. My gut tells me the cons probably outweigh the pros.

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Monsieur Zack Beauchamp went down to the Unite The Right rally and found someone naive enough to dox himself. This is journalistic malpractice on the part of Monsieur Beauchamp but a life-long teacher’s pet just has to tattle-tale.

https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1028741505052291073

Agree Douthat is wrong there. The South serves as the model. Mississippi is 37% black, yet Republicans carry it easily. Nationally, the GOP share of the white vote has jumped to 60/40 in the last couple of elections, and it will go higher. That shift is happening much quicker than Dems can possibly bring in and naturalize foreign voters. It was a delayed reaction, but whites have now noticed what’s going on before Democrats could bring in enough reinforcements.

I disagree entirely about Trump. He is a polarizing figure to be sure, but I think he was uniquely suited to win on a realignment platform (i.e., dissent from new-liberal globalism or whatever you want to call it). What establishment Republican would have run on a Trump platform without backing down? It is to laugh. Who else could have withstood the fierce media onslaught without wilting? Who else could have won without the donor money? I just don’t see any of the McCains or Romneys doing it and I sure as hell don’t see those guys staying in the pocket and landing counter punches like Trump did so admirably. By that I refer to the way Trump was able excite and provoke the media and use their attacks against them. Trump seemed to feed on it and it ended up serving as evidence of his populist bonafides. Same thing with the issue of “decorum.” A polite or inoffensive version of Trump would have gotten buried.

Now that Trump has set the course, many will follow the ways of MAGA. Because MAGA will have built up momentum, these others will not need the unique savvy of Trump.

What is your friend’s reasoning? Equally interesting, have you seen his advocacy in action? What arguments or rhetoric does he employ?

I think Bernie or Biden or Warren would have beat him. They just needed Hillary’s support plus 85,000 more midwest votes. And part of that 85,000 could have come from Jill Stein’s anti Hillary far left support.

The Dem nomination process was totally broken as it allowed Hillary to rack up superdelegate endorsements early and muscle Biden and Warren away from even running.

On the same topic, Jeb Bush raised $105 million before even formally entering the race using basically the same tactic. Did anyone who advised the corps to set their cash on fire this way get fired?

Oh, this explains why the normal rules can be thrown out the windows: these people areb’t fellow citizens, they are an existential threat! Call your opponents Nazis and the rules can go out the window.

https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1028669911386734592

Yes. And at the time I wondered why they would oppose a system that would share America’s wealth with the rest of the world. Because we monopolized so much of it.

I believe it was Pat Buchanan who noted: when the economy is bad the economy is the most important issue, when the economy is good other concerns are the most important issue.

Broke: Haven Monahan

Woke: Karen (or should I say Becky?) Monahan

Keith Ellison flatly denies allegation that he abused an ex girlfriend. The story had been circulating in MN, and not held up under media scrutiny, so no stories ran. It blew up last night after the ex’s son posted the allegation on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/A3VQQhgzQh

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 12, 2018

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/12/politics/terry-mcauliffe-charlottesville-trump-cnntv/index.html

I legitimately understand why Pinochet’s men resorted to torturing communists. The utter shamelessness of the left is perhaps their most salient and perennial attribute.

Reminds me of a convo I had with some relatives who lost their jobs in W’s Depression and had to take minimum wage work.

Them: complaining about situation

Me: Why don’t you sign up for EBT? You easily qualify, two adults three kids on 30,000 a year.

Them: No we’d never sign up for welfare

Me: why not you paid taxes for years, it is just getting some back

Them: Never, we’re not *****

By the way one of them registered to vote for Trump, first time he voted in his life. His wife went Obama, Obama, Trump. I might have too, I forgot who I voted for in 2012.

Orban kills Gender Studies as a college major!

http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/08/10/gender-studies-programs-to-be-banned-in-hungary/

Meanwhile the increasingly embarrassing Betsy DeVos is getting ready to kill the single best thing Obama did, which was cut off “colleges” whose graduates failed to repay their loans or get jobs from further federal loans.

With Big Ed, the approach should be the same as with immigration. Since nothing good will ever pass Congress, do everything possible to shut it down from the Exec Branch. We need a Sec of Ed whose first goal every morning is how to cut of federal money flowing to the bloated America-hating higher education complex. By far the biggest flow is federal student loans.

Does Stephen Miller need to step in here too?

A generic Democrat might have beaten Trump – generic candidates often beat named opposition. This is because generic candidates have only strengths while real humans have strengths and weaknesses.

Biden and Warren are both real humans with real weaknesses (which Trump would have exploited). It’s a miracle that Biden hasn’t been Me-Tooed. Warren is a phony Indian.

Trump steam rollered not only Hillary (admittedly a flawed candidate) but a dozen Republican primary opponents, included Yeb who had hundreds of million to spend and yet Trump effortlessly tore him to shreds. (Hillary too outspent Trump by a large margin despite the HUNDREDS of $ that Trump received from Russia and yet he won. )

Trump resonated with the zeitgeist like no one else – no other candidate could have shrugged off Pussygate the way Trump did. No other candidate could have withheld his tax returns. Trump was like a judo master – he could take the force of his opponent’s blows and turn them against them.

Douthat was the founder of The American Scene, a once engaging group blog which has been all but defunct for a number of years, as well as a columnist for The Atlantic. His personal social circle was made up of liberal writers from the sort of social milieux in which he was schooled (though not in which he grew up). For many years, he seemed to almost apologize for what he was advocating as he was advocating it. He improved for a time, but has at times seemed to recede to old mental habits.

Someone did a study of who reporters, critics, and editors at The New York Times were following on Twitter. Answer: people very much like themselves, which is one source of the circle-jerk quality of American journalism. Only 10% followed Ross Douthat, who offers the paper’s sole display of starboard discussion. He is, indeed, a decorative curio there.

Douthat mentioned Steve by name (albeit as part of a long list of names) as recently as April 25 of this year: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/opinion/california-democrats-trump-republicans.html

I thought Obama promoted “deliberate racial polarization,” but no one at the New York Times seemed to notice..

If I’m recalling the survey research correctly, the polled support of Messrs. Bush, Walker, and Huckabee largely evaporated during Trump’s first 3 months as a candidate. He didn’t have to tear them apart. They simply faded away. Trump ended up fighting Ted Cruz, the one candidate the Capitol Hill nexus arguably finds more alienating than Trump (with the nomenklatura vote seeking refuge first in Rubio and then in Kasich).

In previous Republican contests, you had this large bloc of voters (1/3 of the total?) whose preferred candidate was The-Guy-Whose-Turn-It-Is. The thing is, The-Guy-Whose-Turn-It-Is is never the guy who holds fixed and astringent views on any topic (that’s ‘divisive’), so Rick Santorum was not considered. Santorum’s utter failure was curious inasmuch as in addition to having been the runner-up in 2012, he’s something of an immigration hawk and not an enthusiast of Paul Ryan’s unpalatable libertarian nostrums (e.g replacing Medicare with vouchers). Someone who thinks Trump was a bad candidate has to answer why Huckabee and Santorum could not marshal and motivate their natural constituency and Trump could.

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Pelosi: Trump’s Whole Thing Is ‘Make America White Again’

https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/12/pelosi-trumps-whole-thing-is-make-america-white-again/

Nancy’s own family:

I think how you’re treated by your bosses and how you get along with your coworkers are more important to job satisfaction. Also, whether you’re in an environment that fits with your personality. I think a lot of men and women are miserable in feminized office environments. I’m not sure what sort of job, if any, would make most women happy, but a lot of men really enjoy jobs like coal mining: the camaraderie, the danger, the masculine nature of the work, etc.

The Unite the Right II has concluded in DC with less than 30 participants and over a thousand counter-demonstrators.

Alt-Rite can officially be pronounced dead as a doornail.

Still waiting for Steve’s analysis of the Alt-Right.

They’re dorks.

>He Who Must Not Be Named

Speaking of, did you coin this phrase (in an alternative order):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/09/male-pale-stale-university-professors-given-reverse-mentors/

Googling, it seems the reporter’s work has made appearances on this blog multiple times…

I think there are about 10 million people collecting Social Security Disability. It does appear that the understanding of what constitutes a ‘disability’ has grown increasingly relaxed on the part of applicants and officials alike, which is disturbing but something different than ‘fraud’. The median age at which an initial award is granted is 49 and the median duration of benefits is about 8 years. The application process requires a ruling by an administrative law judge and takes about two years. Most people who apply get turned down. I cannot see that it’s analogous to AFDC or general relief payments. There’s another 4 million working-aged people collecting SSI. About 40% of them are mentally retarded or schizophrenic; fewer than 10% have muskuloskelital problems. You’ve got 14 million working-aged people collecting benefits while you have over 150 million people working. If half of these are people who would have been turned down in 1970, that amounts to 7 million people against 150 million working. I don’t think that sustains your thesis.

Douthat’s partner at the American Scene, Reihan Salam – the anti-Sarah Jeong – might have been a better choice for the Times, but only White Men are allowed to express heterodox thoughts in Progland.

Upon further googling, looks like the phrase has been around (and I wasn’t getting the reference). For instance, was used in speaking of NASA in the early 90s.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/185731/what-is-the-origin-of-pale-male-and-stale

Honestly that passage should never have made it into the article if it was meant to be a hit piece. That’s Steve’s killshot.

This comment was meant as a reply to you.

They’re dorks.

It simply evaporated into its surroundings in perfect Moaist fashion. The biggest danger to an elite challenging movement is agent provacateurs stay out of the meat space (I hate this term my apoligies) and you can’t get set up. It helps that the worst aspects of the alt right happen to be the guys that like to lead demonstrations.

Opinion columns and opinion articles were simply unknown, in newspapers through the post War years, until [1970].

No, that can’t be right. Columnists like Walter Lippmann on one end of the spectrum and Westbrook Pegler on the other had been around since at least the 1930s. Drew Pearson was another. I remember James J Kilpatrick and Nicholas von Hoffman in the Post back in the … late ’60s, I think? There was lots of opinion journalism in the big-city papers, nationally syndicated and local, before 1970. Wasn’t it always a thing?

What you might be thinking of is the existence of a dedicated op-ed page with regular columnists and guests. I seem to recall the Kilpatrick, von Hoffman and Jack Anderson (successor to Pearson) columns being sort of scattered through the Post prior to the op-ed innovation.

One big difference between then and now: Everybody read these guys, even those on the other side. They more or less had to, since the newspaper was the main source of news – much more important in places like NY and DC than TV network news. You saw the columns whether you wanted to or not, and so you read them.

Now, people only see the words of those they agree with, along with a few tame “opponents”.

What is the point? Is that where Ron is at now, or is it free speech purism?

‘Yes, I understand that inevitably those of a white nationalist inclination will support a generally nationalist agenda but so should citizens of all colours.

If anything, black Americans are most hurt by the globalist trend of sacrificing citizenship value to boost other asset prices, because they have the least of the latter and so are most reliant on the former.

Getting a bit of fun by hating on whitey is a poor sop for higher wages and lower living costs.’

This kinda depends. I suspect the introduction of the Great Society welfare programs and government sinecures via affirmative action may have seduced the black population.

Your position implicitly assumes blacks want to work, earn a decent living, acquire the rewards of thrift, upward mobility, etc. If that were so, indeed they above all others should object to immigration.

But what if it isn’t so? What if blacks — depending on their station in life — either want that AFDC or want that government clerk position? What if they aren’t interested in fixing cars, or becoming a carpenter, or opening that Quickee-Mart, or whatever?

Then all of a sudden the balance shifts. Immigration may not be actually be to their benefit, but priority one is making sure the gravy train keeps running.

That means vote Democrat.

Trump, however, ran a disorganized campaign and was, notwithstanding some unique strengths, not a very good candidate.

I was, and still am, convinced he really wanted to lose. Every time the polls showed he was maybe narrowing the gap, he’d say or do something to blow it. He won because he ran out of time; he just didn’t have enough time, between Comey’s reopening of the Hillary investigation, and November 8, to think of a brand-new way to blow his lead.

And, as with so many things, Ann Coulter’s got it right: we all voted for Trump despite his many faults, because we cared so much about the National Question. The “mandate” for that (if there’s such a thing) was thus far stronger than any “mandate” for national single-payer health care emanating from the election of Barack Obama. Obama won for the opposite reason: millions of people voted for him primarily because they liked him (or what he told them he was), and only secondarily because they wanted the policies on his platform. (They could have gotten those policies if they’d made Hillary their nominee.)

‘People who smashed windows in the 1990s…’

I completely agree. These are essentially testosterone-filled young males. If they were in Highland New Guinea, they’d go off and fling spears at members of the next tribe working in a yam field on the trobal frontier. Since they come from white liberal suburbia, they amp up leftist ideology until it provides them with the necessary rationalization for violence.

I suspect that as a rule, they probably suffer from self-esteem issues related to their failing to get good grades and get into an elite college. Adopting the ideologies they do offers them an alternative means of self-appraisal, in which a willingness to smash windows and hit those safely weaker than oneself makes one a success.

These people are vermin. Give me an honest black looter any day. At least then there’s no pretense.

I think you can divide up the right into four groups now. The alt-right/nationalists, nationalist leaning conservatives like Tucker and Ingraham, the cuck leaning types like Peterson and Shapiro who signal against PC but support population replacement and the openly anti-white shills like Kristol, Williamson and Goldberg who don’t even make a pretense of caring about free speech. These four groups are all sharing the same spaces to some extent.

I am not sure of the level of support for each, but no one will pull the R lever for the last group, not even that group themselves (who will vote D).

Looks like one of our fellow whites, without the quotes. Rock on pro-white Jew, if that’s what you are.

Origins of the phrasing aside, that is one hell of a story. Imagine being a senior STEM academic, and having to place your career into the power of a ‘junior female colleague from an ethnic minority’, who will be judging your commitment to ‘diversity’.

The whole scheme sounds overtly, aggressively Orwellian:

Prof John Rowe, who is overseeing the project at Birmingham University, said he hoped the scheme will allow eminent professors to confront their own biases and leave them “feeling quite uncomfortable”.

The biggest Trump supporter I know has degrees from Harvard, Princeton, and Caltech.

Probably because he’s actually worth something.

‘I’d half agree but the “Featured Book [w/ gold border]: Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler” is probably turning more people off at the moment.’

That’s a point, but it raises an interesting question.

Is it better to allow the Mainstream narrative to lead you to censor yourself, or is it better to express exactly what you think — or in this case, post — what interests you?

Both have their pitfalls. Trying to placate the mainstream of course leads to the sort of conventional ‘conservatism’ we have today. What is it? It seems to consist mostly of bashing Trump and serving Israel.

On the other hand, it’s also easy to marginalize yourself. I won’t even bother to spark the usual responses, but I can think of at least one category of poster here I simply skip as soon as I realize what’s up. If a tree falls in forest, and everyone’s plugged their ears, is there a sound?

For myself, at least in theory I try to distinguish between groups that I would eventually like to have as allies and those I fully and frankly intend to push off the bridge as soon as it’s feasible. For example, I will try to avoid being rude to women — but I see no need to be nice to Zionists.

Ross co-wrote a book about how the GOP could and should attract the (white, implicitly) working class. He also echoed Steve’s “coalition of the fringes” observation after the 2012 election. There’s more evidence, but those are two examples that come immediately to mind.

Long Island seems like a center of disability fraud.

It’s the home of Blue Shÿster Cult.

Agree.

People who smashed windows in the 1990s to fight globalism and smashed windows in the 2010s to promote globalism really just like smashing windows.

Are you an Olde Frothingslosh drinker?

Olde Frothingslosh Pale Stale Ale

A visitor (Bill Graham) informed me of a memorable hoax that I missed: Ye Olde Frothingsloth Pale Stale Ale. Frothingslosh is a unique beer that’s so light that the beer actually floats on top of the foam. It all started out as a running joke on Rege Cordic‘s Pittsburgh radio show in the 1950s. He made up all kinds of joke ads for this fictitious beer and invented slogans such as “A whale of an ale for the pale stale male” and “Hi dittom dottom, the foam is on the bottom.” But the Olde Frothingsloth concept became so popular, that eventually it caught the attention of the Pittsburgh Brewing Co. who started selling small runs of Olde Frothingsloth for special occasions such as Christmas and holidays. Of course, the beer being sold was really just Iron City Beer repackaged with Olde Frothingslosh labels, but the labels themselves were so outrageous that they instantly became prized among beer can collectors. The most popular cans were those that featured Miss Olde Frothingslosh, Fatima Yechburgh (pictured below), the supposed winner of the Frothingslosh Beauty Contest. Fatima was described as a resident of a small town near Pittsburgh. When not studying arc welding, she enjoyed soap carving, arm wrestling, sky diving, and ballet. I believe that the Pittsburgh Brewing Co. still occasionally produces small runs of Olde Frothingslosh. I’d love to try some.

—From the Musée d’Hoaxeaux (http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/olde_frothingslosh_pale_stale_ale).

Rege Cordic was the DJ who replaced Bob Crane on 50,000 watt KNX-AM in 1966-67.

Kind of gutless of him to not link to you directly.

It is a dilemma. I want Sailer to be as widely read as possible – especially the Taki articles. OTOH I don’t want a herd of libtards harassing Steve when he wants to go out for breakfast. Douthat cites Sailer and it is practically a doxing.

I have the same hobby, and I concur.

Have you ever heard of this site? I spend a lot of time browsing through old papers:
http://www.newspapers.com

If you’re not willing to spring for a subscription, Google has a decent little archive. The scan quality ranges from decent to awful:
http://news.google.com/newspapers

Foreign policy is a big part of how Trump got places like Michigan and nearly got Minnesota

Ronald Reagan ran three percentage points ahead of Hillary while losing the state. In 2016, unfortunately, the anti-Clinton vote split Minnesota.

‘Government jobs are typically restricted to US citizens, so black women with the right educational levels don’t have to compete too much with Hispanic women.’

That’s more or less my point. If blacks aren’t even interested in private sector employment (except for being IBM’s necessary Vice-President-in-charge-of-being-black), then immigrants cease to be much of a threat.

Blacks running small businesses, being self-employed artisans, etc are becoming exceedingly rare. I’ve dealt with a few, and they were just fine, but they’re more of a historical curiosity than anything else.

More typical is the experience I had driving around West Oakland looking for something (I forget what) once. It was lunch time, and it was a light industrial area, so all the workers were out lining up at the roach coaches. In spite of the fact that Oakland is a heavily black city, everyone was Asian or Hispanic — until I got to one building.

Ah, blacks working too! I confess it: my inner liberal rejoiced.

Then I noticed the sign: ‘Oakland School District Textbook Depository.’ Government ‘job.’

Dismantle those legal and social structures which lead to the emergence of a racial grievance industry.

I like it. If Trump could realize it, the field of play would be reoriented, and dramatically so.

There’s a $100 bill on the sidewalk, lying there for any politician to pick up.

Standing nearby is a political donor offering him $1,000 not to pick it up.

I think Zack got pranked.

Just ask yourself, how is Kim Kardashian a “thing”–a celebrity, a socialite, a TV personality, except for a complete lack of shame?

How were Bill and Hillary Clinton a “thing”–a president, a senator, foundation heads–except for a complete lack of shame?

If the republicans cannot get beyond 62-64 million, which I believe is the case, then their only hope is that the democrats put forward another pasty, old, white.

I think the Democrats will do worse if they put up Kamala Harris or Cory Booker. As Zach Galifianakis asked Barack Obama, “How does it feel to be the last black president?”

What it is really going to take is some Horst Wessel (bad example possibly) type hideous real unmistakable black (or brown) on white hate crime that will force a litmus test on other WHITES to acknowledge anti-white hate.

I guess the MSM just won’t cover it. The New York Times has never mentioned Frederick Demond Scott of Kansas City, after all. He’s the black Dylann Roof.

Trump was also willing to repudiate McCain and the Bushes, which I believe was an absolute necessity for the Republican Party. Sad that sometimes savvy Limbaugh and Hannity don’t get this. They’ll still praise the Bushes.

Eric Bloom … greatest stun guitar -ist of all time?

Good comment.

Trump’s foreign policy has been generally great.

Regarding the neo-con issue, that term has evolved several times and I think it has now lost its usefulness, except as a historical term.

What was a fairly coherent very pro-W group 10-20 years ago has split into many different groups

1. centrist Democrats (Max Boot)
2. anti-Trumpers who are otherwise conventional Republicans (McCain, Frum, George Will, the Bushes)
3. anti-Trump to neutral Trump (the Kochs, Bill Kristol, much of National Review)
4. MAGA (Pipes, Bolton, Gingrich, Giuliani, Pompeo, Cotton)

Not sure if I have ever seen a SS on-spec op-ed before. The Rice student paper review of Right Stuff was quite good.

What’s the best one you can link to? What papers printed you first and most often?

Yeah the guy looks quite Jewish. He may be pulling a prank or he may genuinely trying out this White supremacy he’s heard so much about. All the alt-right celebrities were advising people to steer clear of this so who knows what motivated this guy?

“Trump was also willing to repudiate McCain and the Bushes”

It was absolutely his finest hour.

Something to think about:

2004: Dem establishment crushes anti-war Dean, then loses

2006: huge Dem gains in Congress running against Iraq

2008: more Dem gains in Congress, anti-war Obama beats pro-war Hillary then pro-war McCain

2010: Obama follows the advice of Hillary and Kerry, slow walks ending Iraq, Dems are crushed because of their low turnout

2012: War finally ending, Obama beats pro-war Romney

2016: anti-war Trump beats pro-war Bush III, then pro-war Hillary. Obscure Vermont socialist nearly beats pro-war Hillary.

If the Republican Party was a Catholic party then Santorum would have been perfect but it isn’t. Also explain to me how someone who couldn’t win re-election to his own Senate seat was going to win the White House? Also Santorum backed idiotic crap like “Intelligent Design”. Trump played along with the social conservatives to get their votes but everyone understands that Trump is no Holy Roller in his personal life (far from it) and this is just a cynical ploy to get votes. Santorum appears to really believe that shit which make him a rube. Don’t get me wrong – I happen to like Santorum as a person (and because of his economic positions) despite all this, but he was/is never going to be POTUS.

Right, the great threat to the Republic that all good people of conscience must struggle against consisted of 2 dozen people. The New York Times is still looking for their fugitive leader, Emmanuel Goldwhite so that he can be given a proper show trial.

You think Paul Manafort every delivered suitcases of cash to a member of Congress? Or perhaps wired them cash from his foreign accounts the way he paid his tailor?

He supposedly received in total about $60 million from one of the sides in Ukraine, but had cash flow problems. Was he spending millions on personal consumption? A million dollars in suits?

He purchased a lot of NY and DC real estate. That has been consistently going up in value since 2010. Even if he overpaid and wasted money on renovations, those markets have doubled, he still made a lot.

In the W years, Chakah Fattah, Bob Ney, William Jefferson, And Duke Cunningham all were convicted of bribery. So this isn’t outlandish.

Probably Italian. Often confused with Jews and vice versa. (It looks like Ashkenazim are 50-60% Italian, genetically).

I’d be on the SPLC shit list if they knew I own a copy of “Truly Tasteless Jokes.”

Is Regnery the publisher and Ann Coulter the editor?

What you might be thinking of is the existence of a dedicated op-ed page with regular columnists and guests.

I was. My apologies for being imprecise—people like Walter Lippman were writing opinions in newspapers long before 1970, of course.

Regarding the neo-con issue, that term has evolved several times and I think it has now lost its usefulness, except as a historical term

All too true. Remember when it first appeared? It applied to domestic social and economic issues, on which the neocons were mostly arguing for common sense. Charles Murray was one of them.

Whatever happened to that kind of domestic neo? Are they preserved in aspic at the Manhattan Institute, Mackinac Center, and Center of the American Experiment?

Or in amber, like fossils?

The cream is a nice touch.

Alas still lots of them – at least the blue collar natives – don’t notice and continue to vote Labour out of habit, legacy tribal loyalty and so on.

The UK Labour hasn’t represented the interests of working class or blue collar Britons, at least outside of the ever expanding trough that is the public sector, for decades.

To be fair working class and blue collar Britons know that the Tories hate them more than Labour does. So voting to keep out the Tory scum does make some sense.

Pence was a based talk radio host Tea Party guy. While not my favorite either, but I would worry less about him getting tricked into some amnesty for wall-funding deal than with Trump’s.

Lmao at all these people in here kissing Steve’s ring at his “prediction”.

Steve was eeyore for most of the campaign season. Lets not kid ourselves.

Mmmm, aspic. I could go for some duck liver pate on rye crackers crackers and gouda. I like the cheaper and meatier ones more than the now-illegal foie gras.

A few years ago there was a family of hawks nesting over the door of some upper east side apt. building in NYC . The male was called “Pale Male” by the local bird watchers as they had been observing him for some time .
Probably one of earliest social media mobs went after the guy because he intended to remove nest for blah blah reason . His daughter was harassed in school , the whole familiar tale . I’m not sure if he was actually Hitler but might as well have been .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Male

The Wiki article just mentions the board but I recall the mob singled out a specific individual .

They suffer from about as many self-esteem issues as Muhammad Ali. Seriously, where does this idea come from? Why is it so persistent? They’re spoiled, snobby rich kids. They’ve got self esteem coming out their ears.

…or simply make up tall tales of their own ethnic background (Elizabeth Warren’s supposed ‘native ancestry’ fits this).

Churchill’s own Iroquois ancestry was better established, albeit never proven. Not that these people would claim him.

That’s Winston. Ward is another story.

You and Lot are forgetting that winning the primary is part of the process. No one other than Trump could have both won the nomination of one of the two major parties and won the general election in 2016.

I think you’re being a bit too humble there and aren’t giving yourself as much credit as you should. I mean, the alternative is that it wasn’t quite so obvious back in 2000, but by 2012 (after 2 presidential electoral defeats) some analysts finally started to notice the pattern. To notice that early on is quite an accomplishment.

Did Sean Trende ever contact you or read your posts on the subject (that you know of, at least), or did he independently re-discover the missing white voter issue?

All this kind of reminds me of the Newton-Leibniz calculus controversy, actually.