White Renegade
Of The Year 2021
White Renegade of the Year — 2021
Gregory Hood • December 31, 2021
• 4,400 Words
This is frustrating because now is a time
for
optimism. The conditions have never been so favorable. The
conservative base, and whites generally, are more energetic,
organized, and
racially aware than in recent memory. The movement is far
more serious and dedicated than during the eruptions of
2015–2016.
Crowds chant “Let’s Go Brandon” (or more
direct insults) at a president who is
underwater in polls and unlikely to surface. Almost
three-quarters of Republicans
think the President is illegitimate. Most Republicans think
January 6 rioters (or “protesters,” as most Republicans describe
them) should not be prosecuted. Despite the media focus
on the Capitol Riot Myth and a congressional
probe of the former president, most Republicans
want Donald Trump to run again in 2024. Considering the
Regime Media’s campaign against all this, these are stunning
figures.
Even if you don’t think
there’s an electoral solution to our racial problems, elections
reflect the social situation. At least some elected Democrats
are afraid of the midterms and are
retiring instead of running for re-election.
They should be afraid of losing. In 2021, the GOP
scored a crushing upset in the Virginia governor’s election and
almost flipped New Jersey. Parents around the country are
spontaneously organizing against Critical Race Theory in
schools. Democrats are having a hard time holding on to the
Hispanic vote. Most importantly, Americans are increasingly
willing to violate media taboos, even in the face of official
persecution.
This is really what’s been the story of
this entire year, almost since the beginning. Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (with CNN’s help) is currently
trying to turn January 6 into a weird anti-holiday. A year
since the riots, the militant support for Donald Trump is
astonishing — more than he deserves. Tens of thousands of people
traveled to Washington DC to try to keep him in office. Some
broke into the Capitol. One person, in my opinion,
died for him. Millions believe we are ruled by a
usurper. Whether you think January 6 was a riot, a protest, a
crime, a righteous uprising,
an FBI operation, or all of that, everything that happened
that day and since shows remarkable loyalty to the 45th
president. It also shows a willingness to go beyond
Donald Trump.
Credit Image:
Ivan Radic via Wikimedia
This is a crisis of legitimacy for the
regime, and the courtier media are acting accordingly. The
sinister term “Our Democracy” and warnings of a “coup” are
reaching the level of hysteria. The supposed Republican “coup”
consists of tightening voter laws or allowing states to appoint
their own electors. That’s not a shocking departure from the way
the Constitution was supposed to work.
- “‘Terrifying
for American democracy,’: is Trump planning for a 2024 coup?,”
The Guardian, December 29, 2021
- “Trump’s
Next Coup Has Already Begun,” The Atlantic,
December 6, 2021
- “Donald
Trump’s ‘slow-motion coup’ is becoming a runaway train,”
Salon, October 27, 2021
Both progressives and conservatives make
the stakes seem higher than they are. Donald Trump, a man who
didn’t stand up to Paul Ryan on immigration
even when the President was at his most powerful, is a
Boulanger, not a Bonaparte. If he was plotting a “coup,” he
would have used the military or whatever forces were loyal to
him. He didn’t. He didn’t pardon those arrested or march to the
Capitol. He told people to “go
home.” The militancy came from the grassroots. They were
willing to go farther than the would-be Emperor.
And with little support. Big Tech
censored President Trump’s supporters (and even the President
himself) during his term, while those who opposed the President
became celebrities. Now that Mr. Trump is out of office, ratings
have
collapsed; not even journalists can turn COVID into the
moral drama they thought they had with a president they hated.
When people who benefitted from race preferences under the Trump
Administration claim “fascism”
is nigh, it’s hard to take them seriously. They have platforms
the former president himself doesn’t have. A recent
Washington Post
column from retired military officers claiming that a Trump
“insurgency” is a real threat is such a string of fantasies it
helps explains why the military can’t win a war.
January 6, and perhaps the Trump movement
itself, was a confused signal from millions of people who sense
— correctly — that they are losing their country. They rallied
around the only leader they had. Still, forget the overheated
rhetoric about coups, fascism, and insurrections. If President
Trump were still in office, what would be different?
Since 2017, it’s been tempting to name President Trump himself
as “White Renegade of the Year.” I didn’t because on balance he
was positive, in his bumbling way. He gave something momentum
that is bigger than he is, but he has had his chance.
Attorney General Merrick Garland looks at still images
of a video from the January 6 attack on the Capitol
during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of
the Department of Justice on Thursday, October 21, 2021
at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C (Credit Image: © Greg
Nash – Pool Via Cnp / CNP via ZUMA Press Wire)
If we still had President Trump, some
legislation would be different and immigration would be down,
but we wouldn’t be living in the vastly different situation many
hoped for in November 2016. Instead, President Trump would be
suffering from the same problems President Joe Biden does today,
problems that the Chief Executive can’t control.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which Vice
President Kamala Harris
said would be the “first thing” the new Administration would
handle, has more cases than ever. President Biden himself now
says there is “no
federal solution.” President Trump once boasted he could
shoot someone without losing support, but some have turned on
him
because he won’t denounce vaccines.
COVID-19 — this black hole that is
swallowing so much political energy — would still be there no
matter who was in office. The main difference is that President
Trump would not have ordered a national vaccine mandate, but a
federal judge halted President Biden’s
order anyway. Those who got a vaccine they didn’t want
largely did so because their jobs were at stake. Though white
advocates have good reason to distrust the
so-called experts, there’s no identitarian line on the virus
except to say that it has shown the dangers of
open borders. Blacks are less likely to be vaccinated than
whites, though whether mandates will be enforced against
them is a separate question.
Still, there’s a huge political opening
for Republicans to defend their voters, who are far more likely
than Democrats
to resist vaccine requirements. This brings us to what could
be done now with President Trump out of office. Republicans
could protect their voters not just by fighting vaccine
requirements, but by banning employees from being fired for
ideological reasons. Blatant censorship is an opening for
conservatives to push for more stringent regulation of social
media companies, particularly by forcing ones that get public
money to honor First Amendment standards on lawful speech.
Instead, figures associated with
President Trump have promoted various “alternate” platforms such
as GETTR, Parler, and reportedly
Rumble. Even after everything that has happened,
conservatives will not directly take on social-media monopolies.
With few exceptions, they won’t even use Gab.
App icon of Gettr, a social media platform, and its
support account is displayed on a smartphone. (Credit
Image: © Andre M. Chang / ZUMA Wire)
Rep. Jim Jordan has
proposed a three-step plan for Big Tech that includes
removing Section 230 protections, having the Supreme Court deal
with “the antitrust issue,” and a “private right of action you
can bring when you know Big Tech is censoring your posts.” None
of this will help. Eliminating Section 230 protection could make
things worse, imposing requirements alt-tech companies can’t
meet.
Our own experience shows lawsuits against multibillion
dollar companies don’t work. This is the same empty talk we’ve
had since President Trump’s “Social
Media Summit” in 2019.
Likewise,
there is no action to stop the denial of financial services
for ideological reasons. Christopher Caldwell
argues in The Age of Entitlement that the Civil
Rights Act has replaced the American Constitution. Conservatives
aren’t trying to abolish the Civil Rights Act or (more
plausibly) extend its protections to their own (white) voters;
they’re doing nothing.
This is especially ominous because
President Biden’s “National Strategy for Countering Domestic
Terrorism” is a clear
blueprint for expanding the national security state against
whites. It’s a campaign
cheered on by USA Today, even though a Washington Post
article from the author of Spreading Hate: The Global Rise
of White Supremacist Terrorism
identified zero acts of politically motivated right-wing
terrorism this past year. The federal government isn’t doing
much about normal violent crime, but both it and countless
journalists on the “far right” beat are busy hunting for
thoughtcrime.
It’s therefore inspiring that ordinary
Americans are organizing against Critical Race Theory. Where is
the conservative movement? Missing in action.
Bans on Critical Race Theory may be useful, but as long as
there’s affirmative action, a powerful academic network will
keep promoting poisonous ideas.
No one with power says we must abolish
racial discrimination against whites. When Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene tried to start an “America First” caucus within the GOP,
her own party shut it down. She’s since “owned” liberals by
attacking the “White Democrat President” for supposedly
putting illegal immigrants before “Sheila Jackson Lee’s
Reparations bill for Black Americans.” Thus, a representative
whom some would consider the most “right-wing” in Congress is
supporting an idea that would have been
ludicrous a few years ago.
May 22, 2021, Mesa, Arizona: Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene.
(Credit Image: © Christopher Brown / ZUMA Wire)
There is also little resistance to the
barbaric iconoclasm that has swept the South. Republican Glenn
Youngkin won in Virginia partially by campaigning against “wokeness,”
and one progressive
called his election a victory for “whiteness.” Others made
similar wild claims. However, that won’t prevent Confederate
statues from
being handed over to a black history museum. What makes it
even more remarkable is that
all referenda to relocate or remove Confederate
memorials in Virginia failed on Election Day. Charlottesville
rejected an offer to buy the Lee statue and instead gave it away
to be melted down. Our rulers can be just as culturally
barbaric as the Taliban that defeated them in Afghanistan.
However, our anger should not be with the radical leftists who
begin these campaigns, but with conservatives who do nothing to
stop them despite profiting from the backlash.
Isn’t “Confederate” symbolism more
relevant amid talk of a “National Divorce?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene
broached the idea in response to the many cases of
progressives fleeing states such as California and New York for
Texas or Florida. However, this is also just for show, since the
real political divides are between urban and rural voters and
between different races. President Trump won Texas by fewer than
six points in 2020. That’s not the basis for secession. Possible
presidential contender Ron DeSantis won an extremely
narrow election to become governor of Florida. He’s not going to
be the caudillo of some new tropical empire. (His black
opponent, Andrew Gillum, was later found in a hotel “with a male
sex worker and suspected drugs,” in GQ’s delicate language,
though it still published a
puff piece calling him a “rising Democratic star.”)
What alternatives are there to secession?
State and local elections could mean something if residents had
to live in a certain area for several years before being allowed
to vote. More plausibly, state boundaries
within the Union could be redrawn. This could be
done very easily in some places. It’s also something Republicans
will need to do if they want to keep the balance in the Senate
after Democrats give statehood to the District of Columbia (assuming
it is still named that) and to Puerto Rico. Of course, this
is just buying time unless demographics are brought under
control by halting mass immigration, repealing birthright
citizenship, and deporting illegal immigrants — the things
Americans voted for in 2016. Gerrymandering congressional
districts or having state legislatures select presidential
electors means nothing if the entire country goes Third World.
An envisioned “Greater Idaho”
There is a time limit for whites to act.
About a half million illegal immigrants managed to evade the
Border Patrol and
make it in this year. Their children will be citizens. If
they are black, Hispanic, or some other privileged class (or
just claim to be), they will enjoy greater privileges than
whites whose families have been here since the Revolution. What
do Republicans or conservative organizations say about that? We
are farther away from repealing birthright citizenship, building
a wall to control immigration, or imposing a remittance tax than
we were in 2015, even within the conservative movement.
Congressman Paul Gosar has
sponsored a bill that would impose an immigration moratorium
for a decade. It has
zero co-sponsors. If Republicans win back control
of Congress, we might get yet another
amnesty bill from Republicans pimping for the Chamber of
Commerce. Though corporate America has
clearly sided with progressives on race, there’s been little
reaction from Republicans or conservatives, except to accuse
them of being too soft on China. This is typical: Conservatives
duck the fights that matter to their voters and instead search
for monsters abroad to whom they can lose in pointless wars.
Representative Paul A. Gosar (Republican of Arizona)
offers remarks during a press conference outside of the
U.S. Capitol, March 17, 2021. (Credit Image: © Rod
Lamkey – Cnp / CNP via ZUMA Wire)
President Biden’s fall in the polls began
with the
collapse of the Afghan puppet regime. However, while
Americans were disgusted with the chaos and unnecessary deaths,
they wanted to end the war. Prominent Republicans wanted more
fighting. Lindsey Graham
said the United States will be going back because the
Taliban has “a view of the world that is out of sync with modern
times.” Mitt Romney and colleagues including Marco Rubio, Rick
Scott, and Marsha Blackburn
introduced a
bill that denied recognition of the Taliban as Afghanistan’s
government. It would also set up a State Department task force
to evacuate “Afghan Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) who are still
stuck in Afghanistan.” President Trump claimed that the United
States should have never gone into Afghanistan but after the
withdrawal
mused about bombing the country. Republican leaders could
take us right back into Afghanistan, with the conservative
movement cheering it on so it can “own” the liberals.
And what happened after the defeat? A
report in September from the State Department found that
about 24,000 Afghans had already come to the United States.
Republican governors
Spencer Cox of Utah,
Doug Docey of Arizona, Kent Stitt of Oklahoma and
others pledged their states as potential
havens. South Dakota and Wyoming
alone refused. The main result of the Afghan war, aside from
the American servicemen killed and maimed and the money wasted,
is a new class of Muslim dependents who will quickly learn to
claim discrimination and shout “racism.” Republicans will never
send them back.
There is conservative
hawkishness over
Ukraine,
Taiwan, and
Iran. Just what we need: a flood of Iranian “refugees” into
Europe and the United States. Conservative Republicans such as
Senator Tom Cotton are among those who want more foreign
intervention. This isn’t just a case of “RINOs.” If President
Donald Trump was supposed to mark a return to an “America First”
defense policy, his influence has already faded.
White conservatives are reacting
against whatever the Biden Administration does abroad.
There may also be some residual attachment to American honor,
and loyalty to a country that has already turned on us. All of
this conceals the brutal reality that we live under a
social credit system more arbitrary than China’s and that
promotes destructive values. To adopt a slogan from Vietnam-era
leftists, bring the war home.
The repression we face is mostly through
private companies. That doesn’t excuse conservative inaction.
Such arguments have been irrelevant since the 1964 Civil Rights
Act. It is not radical or racist to demand equal treatment under
the law. It’s not extreme or “big government” to say that banks,
which are practically inseparable from government anyway,
shouldn’t be able to cut you off because they don’t like your
views. It should be common sense that the law should deal only
with illegal acts, not turn into exercises in mind-reading in
which
political views determine the level of punishment.
Without endorsing the most militant
troublemakers (some of whom are not in custody, raising the
question of FBI involvement), it’s not surprising that January 6
rioters thought they would get concessions by turning violent.
Corporations, politicians, and journalists almost unanimously
supported BLM rioters. White conservatives who thought it
worked both ways learned a harsh lesson.
Republicans, even supposed conservatives,
seem comfortable with double standards. Every Republican Senator
stood against President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan.
However, few argued why, except for the cost. Ann
Coulter
found close to two billion dollars in handouts for
non-whites. Republicans didn’t complain. Parts of the bill
looked much the same as President Trump’s “Platinum
Plan,” with huge sums for Historically Black Colleges and
Universities. Is it too much to ask that Republicans protest
government discrimination against their own base?
December 7, 2021: Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) speaking at
a press conference about the Build Back Better Act.
(Credit Image: © Michael Brochstein / ZUMA Press Wire)
The 2016 election showed that it wasn’t
just the Republican party but the conservative movement that had
lost touch with its base. Given something close to the fabled
“marketplace of ideas,”
we win. Movement conservatives often want to help blacks who
are “stuck on the Democrat plantation,” but they consistently
flimflam whites who expect their representatives to do more than
give Jeff Bezos another tax cut. Conservatism Inc. is more
reliant on censorship and deplatforming than Black Lives Matter.
The resistance to the Biden Administration, the continuing
support for President Trump, and Republican election victories
in the teeth of Regime Media show that there is huge political
potential. All we get is Conservatism Inc. functionaries
reciting slogans from the Reagan Administration.
In the long run, even the most
respectable conservative is doomed to defeat if current trends
continue. The campaign against America didn’t stop with
Confederate generals, and it won’t stop with the Founding
Fathers, Teddy Roosevelt, or
John Wayne. Most people don’t like this, but an organized
minority will
triumph over a disorganized majority. Ordinary whites
require at least some political cover to be effective. That
means someone who has power, a platform, and a plan to take the
offensive for their side. There are tens of millions, perhaps
hundreds of millions, just begging for leadership, but such a
leader would be savaged by mass media.
“De l’audace, encore de l’audace,
toujours de l’audace et la Patrie sera sauvée!” cried
Danton. He changed history, but we all know what happened to
him. The cries for Donald Trump to be put in prison for even the
modest challenge he represented is surely meant to
encourager les autres. Many accept subjugation by putting
self-interest and safety above what’s right. This includes many
in Conservatism Inc.’s ranks whom I know are aware of the truth
because they’ve told me so.
What may save us is that there are forces
in motion forcing millions who simply want a normal life to
become dissidents, then activists, then perhaps revolutionaries.
By our very nature, we’re not trying to overturn society, but to
build something greater. We’re not naturally subversives. We’re
held captive by our virtues. However, if we are forced
out of so-called respectable society — a respectable society
that looks increasingly perverse — then we must organize and
act.
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COVID-19 is part of this. The pandemic is
not directly a racial issue. However, it’s leading to a society
in which
ordinary people are losing control over their own lives. If
business is done online and powerful tech companies control data
in the “cloud,” this means those who control these economic
choke points have power over us. Access to social media,
financial services, cloud servers, and other tools are becoming
an economic necessity. It is the difference between being able
to earn a living or not.
If “Our Democracy” is to be anything
other than a cynical joke, there must be some way for ordinary
people to seek out information, debate issues, and make up their
own minds. If tech companies and the government have the power
to ban what they think is “misinformation,”
that is more “authoritarian” than President Trump complaining
that the election was stolen. Time even
said, “In a way, Trump was right” about the election. It
added that “an informal alliance between left-wing activists and
business titans” was working against him. “They were not rigging
the election,” Time assured us, “they were fortifying
it.”
Censorship began with white advocates,
but we now live under a vast system of control that bans
dissidents, manipulates information, and uses selective law
enforcement for political ends.
Our rulers will continue to invent
new justifications for repression. When political operatives
openly discuss the political benefits of bringing in
foreigners to replace you, what legitimacy does an election
have? An invading army could presumably outvote the natives, but
that would not be democracy.
Despite colossal levels of censorship and
propaganda, ordinary whites are seeing through this. They are
resisting a system more insidious and degenerate than that of
the Soviet Union. The Regime Media prop up the Biden
Administration, but it’s still failing. Conservatives are poised
for a historic victory next year, even though 2021 began with an
event many thought would discredit them. Donald Trump could even
retake the presidency in 2024.
Of course, Donald Trump will not save us.
A Republican Congress will not save us. Conservative activists,
who these days are essentially performance artists, won’t save
us either. Indeed, the fact that they get media access just
gives the impression of opposition. The Eastern Bloc had
“elections” too, which changed nothing. Millions of white
Americans know something is wrong, but those whom they trust to
protect them aren’t just failing them but helping to oppress
them.
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We are left with
politics as entertainment. One might as well argue about
which Marvel superhero is the strongest. “Let’s Go Brandon”
captures the phoniness of the opposition, a joke masquerading as
politics. It
started as a vulgar chant against President Biden. A
reporter told us it was “Let’s go, Brandon.” It was just another
example of what we face every day: so-called experts trying to
hide the obvious. “All I know is that to see, and not to speak,
would be the great betrayal,” said Enoch Powell. Conservative
activists at least admit we are being lied to. Yet I’d say that
to see, to speak, and then not to act is a greater
betrayal, especially when your people are suffering.
Countless men and women are just trying
to survive in a world that seems to have lost its mind. They are
trying to serve and save a country that has turned on them.
However, there are people with power, platforms, and
resources who know there is something deeply wrong. They must
know another world is possible. Perhaps some will step forward.
Perhaps others will support us quietly. Until then, we must rely
on ourselves alone. Help won’t come from CPAC.
The good news is that our ranks increase
daily with serious activists who know exactly what they are
signing up for. After blasting the failure and cowardice of
conservatives, it’s important to have perspective. I’m not
attacking those people because they are unwilling to sacrifice
themselves in a doomed cause. I’m begging those who have the
power to pick up a crown that’s already lying in the gutter.
This is not a grim struggle for survival, but an opportunity for
greatness. It baffles me that so many refuse to take it and are
content to let this perverse comedy roll on.
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conservatism, and organizes the
Conservative Political Action Conference. Founded on December 18, 1964,
it calls itself the oldest ongoing conservative
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The ACU is concerned with issues such as
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