Gregory HoodU.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hugs a U.S. flag as he takes the stage for a campaign town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire August 19, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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According to its leaders, the American people don’t really exist. There’s something called the United States, a landmass filled with citizens (and uniformly virtuous immigrants) who are hardworking and industrious. This geographic entity is “exceptional” and uniquely blessed by God, as are its swelling number of random inhabitants. But there’s no nation. Instead, there’s a collection of individuals, all “free,” united only by certain “principles” and “ideals.” And our leaders always say our best days are still before us.
Thus, American politics isn’t about securing our interests as a people or a nation. Instead, it is an endless argument about the American Creed, the slogans handed down to us from our founding about freedom and liberty and all men being equal. The Right and Left will emphasize one slogan or the other, but the vocabulary is always the same. And somehow, the more high-minded and abstract the rhetoric, the more comfortably it serves the interests of those who already hold power.
Their job is not to report facts. It is to reinforce a certain Narrative. The Narrative holds that European-Americans, especially heterosexual European-American men, are uniquely culpable for creating systems of oppression. These systems of oppression are responsible for any disparate impacts between whites and other races.
Journalists are also responsible for hunting down dissenters from the Narrative and trying to destroy them. They are the System’s foot soldiers. They are a control mechanism. And they know exactly what they are doing.
Someone finally said it. In the words of Congressman Mo Brooks, the Democratic Party’s push for more illegal immigration is “part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party.”
Of course, being a Republican, the Alabama Congressman immediately covered his truthful statement in half-truths and comforting lies. He continued that, “And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It’s a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well that’s not true.”
Brooks isn’t wrong – the Democratic Party does depend on identity politics to hold its coalition together. However, implicit in Brooks’s comment is the dreamy insistence that race, class, and interest conflicts simply don’t exist, and we are all “American” – whatever that is. White American conservatives – and only white American conservatives – cling to this desperate faith that a universal American identity can exist free of white guilt or tribal ties. Not surprisingly, in the eyes of academia and the media,“colorblindness” is the new racism.
There’s no easier way to make a living than as a non-white activist in the American conservative movement. Simply offer well-meaning whites the nectar of racial absolution and say you care about their country, and they will throw money at you no matter what else you tell them.
The recognized master of this unique form of hucksterism is Dinesh D’Souza, who specializes in capitalizing on implicit white identity while making sure it is funneled into ideological dead ends. D’Souza is worthy of special opprobrium because of his actions against Sam Francis and Jared Taylor. D’Souza’s hostile, sensationalistic, and dishonest coverage of the 1994 American Renaissance conference was one of the main factors in the dismissal of Sam Francis from the Washington Times.
There’s no surer sign of a scam than an appeal to conscience by a politician – unless it’s one by a journalist.
The “humanitarian crisis” on the Southern border is instructive because the usual suspects aren’t bothering with the standard propaganda. No one is pretending that that the Children’s Crusade will “be good for the economy” or “help America compete in a globalized world.” Instead, we are simply told that in order to be good people, we are obligated to accept a seemingly unlimited number of Hispanic immigrants on the grounds that they “need” it.
Indeed, this is even framed as a punishment – Central America is poor because of American foreign policy, with reporters getting to drag out references to Ronald Reagan, Oscar Romero, and even John Foster Dulles. Having to deal with an influx of helpless Hispanics is just our “chickens coming home to roost.” One would think Central Americans would be insulted. But they know their place.
With detachment, we see reality. What was achieved by those we remember today – those brave white Americans, British, Canadians, and Europeans who overcame the mines and machine guns of Hitler’s Fortress Europe?
As time passes, historians of the future will be able to take the long view on the Second World War in the same way we can sensibly discuss the rise and fall of Carthage or the Golden Horde. Absent the propaganda, the shrieking moralizing, the half-truths, and the outright lies, the real consequence of the Allied victory is obvious. Within a historically insignificant period of time after the fall of the Third Reich, European people and European civilization will cease to exist – unless something changes.
There exists no simpler, shorter, or more poetic expression of nationalism than five words from the Constitution of the United States – “For Ourselves and Our Posterity.” For all the flaws of the Founding, no White Nationalist can dispute the beauty of that phrase, nor its relevance to our cause.
Yet as the American Experiment rolls on, even the Constitution is destined to be trampled, as the United States may be the only nation in history where patriotism is defined as the willingness to replace your own citizens.
The Nature of the American Polity
Any nation, by definition, excludes. Some people belong to the political community, and some do not. All nations are reliant to some extent on ethnic kinship. Some admit it, some deny it, but all need it, as the first political communities relied upon blood ties, with extended families developing into tribes. Whether it be an empire or a city-state, any polity needs an ethnic core that can be built upon. A pure “proposition nation” doesn’t exist any more than do unicorns – and the fact that some people claim to have seen one or the other makes no difference.
The French author Jean Raspail noted that his French Fatherland was betrayed by thos
John Singleton Copley, “The Copley Family,” 1776
e who confused Republican values with the nation itself. In America, the process is far worse, because the nation was a flawed ideological experiment from the beginning. Yet there is still that “historic American nation” and the institutions and cultural norms associated with it. For European-Americans, the flag, the Founding Fathers, the West, and all the rest of it will always mean something to us, even as we understand this country was doomed from the beginning. More importantly, they will always mean something to the great majority of European-Americans.
What remains is to mobilize the Fatherland against the Republic – the specific cultural norms and symbols of the historic American nation against the egalitarian values of the founding. Here, there is much to celebrate, and our enemies have done much of the work for us.
For example, in 1775, when revolutionary fervor was actually greater than in much of 1776, members of the Virginia House of Burgesses attended the legislative session dressed like militia members, carrying knives and tomahawks. Sam Adams’ scorn towards the effeminate foppery of the European courts is also a model to follow. The ideal of the white man at arms, organized in his own defense, and not at the beck and call of the state, is a recurring motif in the American past and a pillar of early republican (small r) ideology in the United States. It can also never be tolerated by anti-white forces within the country – even college mascots named “Pioneers” are having to be renamed.
There are symbols and slogans of the American past that can be co-opted and utilized. Everything from the Continental Army to the Alamo is fundamentally the property of the European-American historic American nation. After all, what better phrase can be used to justify white nationalism than “for ourselves and our posterity?”
At the same time, these symbols have to be utilized in the service of an explicitly identitarian and anti-liberal cause. That which is not explicitly for our people inevitably turns against our people with time. The Ron Paul movement so enthusiastically supported by white patriots in 2008 has devolved into an explicitly anti-white libertarian movement that champions open borders, white dispossession, and endlessly harping on the need to reach out to “minorities.” White nationalists can no longer afford such mistakes.
This historic American nation must be separated from the regime. As part of this, minorities should be accurately described as what they are – obedient clients designed to solidify the regime. The current American government sees European-Americans as its biggest threat. Non-whites, utterly dependent by design on government handouts, jobs, and patronage, are the main pillar of support for the existing federal government. If the federal government disappeared tomorrow, whites in North America would thrive. Nonwhites would instantly have no place.
For that reason, the primary strategic challenge for white revolutionaries is separating European-Americans’ emotional attachment to the state. Each action by the government against the memory of the historic American nation is a propaganda victory in this regard. The refusal of the federal government to fulfill even its most basic responsibilities even while it launches foreign interventions all around the world helps make that case. The European-Americans who built, sustain, and fight for the country are treated with contempt even as illegal immigrants who openly despise the United States constitute a new privileged class. It is precisely those who contribute the least to the country who are most actively rewarded. Therefore, why sacrifice for those who hate you?
While traditional American symbols can be used, the same old classical American rhetoric can not. European-Americans are not fighting for equality and certainly not for democracy. Liberalism, classical or otherwise, is the problem. European-Americans need to fight for identity. They need to fight for a homeland. They need to fight for their very existence and survival. They must fight for the upward development of the race, and of humanity, for the defiant faith that there is something better than the filth we are offered as “freedom.” The American Dream has to be replaced with something better – in the words of Harold Covington, it is time to replace the American Dream with the Iron Dream.
An Ancient People, a New Ideal
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created unequal, that a natural aristocracy has been endowed among them by their Creator, and that the purpose of human existence is the upward development of the individual, the ethnic community, and the race. That to secure this development, the state is implemented among men, deriving its authority from those who are willing to establish and defend it, and fight on its behalf. ”
Not quite the spirit of 1776. But there is still something in the great stories of the American Revolution and in the American past that speaks to the European soul. Our triumphs as a nation came despite, not because of the flawed ideals of our founding. America accomplished many great things in its history. But those deeds were the product of our people, not hoary slogans that were nothing better than the champagne socialism of the day. There is more value in the deeds themselves, than in the shallow justifications used to justify our rebellion. We are the sons of the North, the race of Europa, the People of the Sun. America is but one of our creations – and the power that created its greatest triumphs is in our blood, not in words on a piece of parchment.
The American Dream can be pleasant on occasion, like a drunken revelry, or a drug induced haze. But it ends in the dungheap that piles up all around us and it must be said plainly – this ideology, this culture, this government, and this America is not worth dying for, working for, or even living in. Like an addict, we must awake from the American Dream, or die in our beds, surrounded by filth.
Let our next rebellion be more honest, free of illusion and classical liberal propaganda that’s been outdated for centuries. On this continent, let’s build the purest expression of our Northern soul, the most glorious triumph of our European spirit. For this is the challenge the present offers– a new dream, a “rising empire,” to use Washington’s phrase, dedicated to the best within us. And this time, we will rise not in defense of a meaningless “freedom,” but in defense of our blood, and in defense of the idea of rising itself, transcending the egalitarian swamp.
It’s hard to wake from a pleasant dream. After all, during a dream we can experience the impossible, obtain pleasures without effort, and even when half awake, retreat back into the soft comfort of our beds.
But we have to awake. Reveille has sounded. The next few decades will determine whether Western Man has a future on the Continent his ancestors discovered, explored, settled, built, fought, and died for. The American Dream is over – and it has to be replaced with the waking vision of the White Republic.
The present climate is the culmination of centuries of egalitarian momentum. This is not a
Jon McNaughton, “The Empowered Man”
particularly unique observation. With the rise of the Dark Enlightenment, the American Revolution has come under critical purview from the authentic North American New Right.
Many intellectuals conclude that the American experiment was destined to be a failure, grounded as it was in egalitarian, Enlightenment nonsense. Therefore, we should raise our glasses and give a hearty toast to His Britannic Majesty.
The historical truth is more complicated, as always. One of the driving forces of the Revolution in Virginia was the efforts of Lord Dunmore, the royal governor, to arm black slaves and white indentured servants against property owning white settlers.
In New England, theological motivations were at the forefront. Insofar as one person can be seen as being primarily responsible for launching the Revolution, it was Sam Adams. Sam Adams is sometimes called the last Puritan because he was Congregationalist true believer who thought he was doing the Lord’s will – and opposed British efforts because he thought they were trying to impose Anglicanism and eventually Catholicism on New England. He said he dreamed of Boston as a “Christian Sparta.” It is hard to think of an ideal more foreign to the contemporary United States than a “Christian Sparta” which banned plays and frivolous pursuits.
One of the more tragic figures of the recent past was Samuel Huntington, perhaps the most significant political scientist this country produced in the last century. Anyone who has gone to graduate school will study his books in several courses simultaneously, on subjects as diverse as democratization in Latin America to civil-military relations.
And yet, he’ll be remembered in the media, insofar as he will be remembered at all, for his analysis of the so-called Clash of Civilizations, a challenge to the End of History. He’ll also be outright demonized for his final book, Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity, which attempted to answer the elusive question of what constitutes the American identity.
Huntington identified an American Creed as central to what defined the country. However, the American culture was also present, and while it contributed to the development of the Creed, it was distinct from it. The American Creed of limited government, suspicion of royal authority, and all the rest of the classical liberal boilerplate we are used to was identified with the dissenting Protestantism brought to the United States by English settlers. However, Huntington stated that while the American Creed and the American identity is elastic, it is not infinitely so: “America cannot become the world and still be America.”
, which attempted to answer the elusive question of what constitutes the American identity.
Foundations of The Twenty-First Century 