Never underestimate the damage a Tucker Carlson can do to our fragile coalition, by a near miracle cobbled together with people as different as Trump, Vance, Kennedy, Gabbard, and Musk. Things could have gone differently and they just might in the future.
When elections are decided by only a percent or two, intemperate talk can sideline enough voters to change the outcomes. I think an incestuous tribe of podcasters who won’t stand up for decency “because they’re my friends” are, in the words of George Carlin, are part of a big club… we aren’t in it.
I have a hard time defining a Harris voter (Fuentes) as The Right. He seems to be more than a little unhinged and I choose to ignore him. The Heritage board needs to consider whether Roberts made a judgment error. Carlson is a journalist and does his thing. Non-fringe MAGA types like The Federalist and Kimble think the whole thing is battlefield prep for 2028 when the Neocons are gunning for JD and trying to take the Republican Party back.
As to how many Democrats want us dead, millions in Virginia just voted for a guy who is on record to that effect. One of them just killed Charlie Kirk and millions celebrated. Another tried to kill Trump and millions were disappointed that he failed. I consider these to be clues.
Fuentes neither supported nor voted for Harris. He warned against supporting Trump, who, thus far, has been a disaster. Friends tell me, "OK, but Harris was worse." But if the next three years go like this last one....
There is a real leadership vacuum when it comes to criticism of Israel. Why do I need to sit through Nick Fuentes' racialist or antisemitic views or some Leftists anti-imperialist, internationalist views to hear genuine criticisms of Israel? The wars started by Israel and the US's ties to this country with no coherent explanation make me internally uncomfortable and it forces me to find answers from somewhere
Such an unserious effort by Oren. It's convenient to slough extremism on the right off on Fuentes. But any serious observer has to admit that Don is the root of this evil. He's unleashed the worst among us, with JD following in lockstep.
I could fill the page with Don's vile utterances. Racist, sexist, mean spirited slop. It's all on tape. Any honest, civil human would acknowledge it. And, he isn't just another internet troll or media hack, he's the freakin POTUS.
Here are Oren's words, the words he refuses to live up to: "At its root, the problem is a leadership vacuum. Conservative leaders, especially, should take seriously their obligations as role models. Playing these games, refusing to confront radicals, represents an abdication."
Oren, as an establishment elite, a supposed leader, we await your leadership.
Yes one of the logical implications of this essay is that American Compass should not associate with the Vice President. I suspect he won’t follow through with that!
I think subconsciously white men are somewhat tired of the racket – the sacred victim/entitled parasite culture. Think Kneeling Nancy. But they are unable to critique it or frame it from a cultural/spiritual standpoint and the resentment devolves into saying "we don't give a shit anymore about the endless name calling." In fact, the decades long drum beat of slander (male chauvinist pig, racist, hater, now white supremacist and ultimately, you can do anything to a Nazi, they have no rights) aimed at white men may be the cause of the Fuentes phenomenon in the first place. And the scapegoating of white men has now moved up the food chain (H1B, blatant anti-white male quotas, feminization of sectors, etc) and their reaction/resentment is becoming more noticeable and vocal.
I’m a libertarian, constitutional conservative. I remember when Heritage was definitely the latter and even flirted with the former. What it is now is an embarrassment. I’m so tired of being embarrassed by morons.
Never underestimate the damage a Tucker Carlson can do to our fragile coalition, by a near miracle cobbled together with people as different as Trump, Vance, Kennedy, Gabbard, and Musk. Things could have gone differently and they just might in the future.
When elections are decided by only a percent or two, intemperate talk can sideline enough voters to change the outcomes. I think an incestuous tribe of podcasters who won’t stand up for decency “because they’re my friends” are, in the words of George Carlin, are part of a big club… we aren’t in it.
I have a hard time defining a Harris voter (Fuentes) as The Right. He seems to be more than a little unhinged and I choose to ignore him. The Heritage board needs to consider whether Roberts made a judgment error. Carlson is a journalist and does his thing. Non-fringe MAGA types like The Federalist and Kimble think the whole thing is battlefield prep for 2028 when the Neocons are gunning for JD and trying to take the Republican Party back.
As to how many Democrats want us dead, millions in Virginia just voted for a guy who is on record to that effect. One of them just killed Charlie Kirk and millions celebrated. Another tried to kill Trump and millions were disappointed that he failed. I consider these to be clues.
Fuentes neither supported nor voted for Harris. He warned against supporting Trump, who, thus far, has been a disaster. Friends tell me, "OK, but Harris was worse." But if the next three years go like this last one....
How about Tucker?
There is a real leadership vacuum when it comes to criticism of Israel. Why do I need to sit through Nick Fuentes' racialist or antisemitic views or some Leftists anti-imperialist, internationalist views to hear genuine criticisms of Israel? The wars started by Israel and the US's ties to this country with no coherent explanation make me internally uncomfortable and it forces me to find answers from somewhere
Such an unserious effort by Oren. It's convenient to slough extremism on the right off on Fuentes. But any serious observer has to admit that Don is the root of this evil. He's unleashed the worst among us, with JD following in lockstep.
I could fill the page with Don's vile utterances. Racist, sexist, mean spirited slop. It's all on tape. Any honest, civil human would acknowledge it. And, he isn't just another internet troll or media hack, he's the freakin POTUS.
Here are Oren's words, the words he refuses to live up to: "At its root, the problem is a leadership vacuum. Conservative leaders, especially, should take seriously their obligations as role models. Playing these games, refusing to confront radicals, represents an abdication."
Oren, as an establishment elite, a supposed leader, we await your leadership.
Yes one of the logical implications of this essay is that American Compass should not associate with the Vice President. I suspect he won’t follow through with that!
I think subconsciously white men are somewhat tired of the racket – the sacred victim/entitled parasite culture. Think Kneeling Nancy. But they are unable to critique it or frame it from a cultural/spiritual standpoint and the resentment devolves into saying "we don't give a shit anymore about the endless name calling." In fact, the decades long drum beat of slander (male chauvinist pig, racist, hater, now white supremacist and ultimately, you can do anything to a Nazi, they have no rights) aimed at white men may be the cause of the Fuentes phenomenon in the first place. And the scapegoating of white men has now moved up the food chain (H1B, blatant anti-white male quotas, feminization of sectors, etc) and their reaction/resentment is becoming more noticeable and vocal.
I’m a libertarian, constitutional conservative. I remember when Heritage was definitely the latter and even flirted with the former. What it is now is an embarrassment. I’m so tired of being embarrassed by morons.