There are two Americas right now and the ruling class of one of them presents a clear and present danger to life as we know it. The America that elected Donald Trump president is militant, divisive, and nationalist. The ruling class of that America is, “A new type of Republican,” quoting Jeff Giesea, a former employee of SuperPAC investor Peter Thiel; now calling itself the “New Right.” It is composed of the dregs of society, of the most evil, violent and toxic elements in American culture, namely the Nazis, KKK, and the Evangelicals, three groups bound and determined to rule and reshape society as we know it in their own image. Although they have been allied for some forty years as splinter groups in the Republican party, with the election of Trump they are now unified.
If the New Right is in fact the ruling class it purports itself to be, taking over from the current leadership of the Republican party, headed by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, it would be tasked with giving direction to the masses of Republican voters who in this election voted for Donald Trump. The average Trump voter is stick stone stupid and completely lacking in any knowledge of how government actually works. But because there are 63 million of them, they were able to pull off the bloodless coup of the 2016 election to create the backwards facing and already destructive administration that you and I are sentenced to live under for four years. Here is a sample of the "thinking" and worldview of a few average Trump voters, the raw material from which the New Right is expanding its ranks. This short piece is from Mother Jones, January 21st (quoted in its entirety:)
“Thousands of red-capped Donald Trump die-hards lined up early to get into the inauguration Friday morning. They waved Trump merchandise and grinned broadly in plastic rain ponchos.
I wanted to know: Now that Trump is officially the 45th president of the United States, what do they want him to do first? Securing the country's borders and repealing Obamacare were among their top choices. Less so: grappling with the swampiness of Washington, DC. "Drain the swamp—it's not as literal as it sounds," said Evan Jarman from North Carolina, who urged people to trust the incoming president and his Cabinet picks.
I also wanted to know about voters' reactions to Trump's relationship with Russia. "I'm not 100 percent comfortable with that, but I don't think Vladimir Putin is the worst person on Earth," said Kenneth Dempsey, who drove up from West Palm Beach, Florida, for the day. "Maybe he can get a Cabinet post, I don't know."
"Him and Putin, there are similarities there, and a lot of people see that as a bad thing," said Jordan Horan, a 22-year-old salesman from Lincoln, Nebraska. "But I mean, I don't know, I'm pretty excited for it."
Clearly these three are idiots. However, people who are not idiots, who actually have the ability to organize and lead have been doing just that and it is these individuals who have appropriated the term, New Right, to replace the now outmoded alt-right. Many Republicans feel let down by the party because in their view it is not conservative enough. Hence, there flies the New Right banner. The New Right announced its intention of taking over the Republican party at the "DeploraBall" celebration on January 19th. The January 20th Atlantic said this:
If any event could make a statement about a new era in Washington, it was Thursday night’s Deploraball. A mostly young, white, open-bar-lubricated crowd in suits, tuxedos, and ball gowns packed the ballroom at the National Press Club, watching a series of speeches by party organizers Mike Cernovich; Jeff Giesea, a former employee of Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital Management; ... and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke.
The event had all the trappings of a Trump rally, proving that the same effect can be achieved without Trump’s physical presence; the booming cheers, the chants (“USA! USA!” “Lock her up!”), the hats. [...]
“This is what we are here to celebrate tonight,” Giesea said. “A new type of Republican. And a new movement.”
Cernovich said he “for sure” sees himself as the leader of the “new right.”
“The alt-right’s dead,” Cernovich said. “Well, the alt-right’s dead as to most of the people in this room.”
“The media has overstated the scope and influence of the alt-right,” he said.
Cernovich says MAGA3X [his website] will shut down now that Trump is ascending to the presidency, and he will turn his electoral focus on keeping “globalists” out of Congress in 2018. Cernovich had earlier referred to House Speaker Paul Ryan as “Cuck Ryan” from the stage, to great enthusiasm from the crowd.“If the GOP opposes Trump, what are we going to do in 2018?” Cernovich asked the crowd. “We’re taking it over. We’ll take it over. We’ll get rid of all of them.” "DRAIN THE SWAMP! DRAIN THE SWAMP!" the excited crowd replies.
And Rolling Stone, January 20th, added this about the “DeploaBall:”
Cernovich is followed by a succession of characters who, one-by-one, articulate a vision for a new Republican Party.
"Let's be very clear that we do not want Trump to be George W. Bush 2.0," Jeff Gisea, a political consultant who worked with Peter Thiel and helped bankroll Thursday's party, tells the crowd. "We may agree or disagree on issues like gay marriage or Social Security reform, but those issues don't define us." [...]
"You know what comes up in our day-to-day? A little three-letter acronym that goes like this: U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!”
“U-S-A” or “America First," translate as nationalism and that by any other name is white supremacy and anti-immigration (anti “other,”) i.e., a blend of Nazi and KKK doctrine. Right now in Congress there is a bill to resign from the United Nations and that bill, if passed, would add greatly to the nationalistic stance of the New Right, i.e, “America First.” Crooks & Liars reported this January 23rd:
Earlier this month, Rep. Michael Rogers (R-AL) filed legislation called The American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017 on behalf of himself and at least four other GOP co-sponsors.
The measure aims to repeal the United Nations Participation Act on 1945, which authorized U.S. membership in the intergovernmental organization.
The bill states that the president "shall terminate all membership by the United States in the United Nations, and in any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations."
Add to that powerful tonic of nationalism the equally toxic elixir of the evangelical religious fanatics. Televangelists Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker and Jerry Falwell organized their "Moral Majority" back in the 1970's and Ronald Reagan not only co-opted the name he received quite a bit of funding from them. Here is a highlight of their doctrine from USHistory.org:
“The New Right was a combination of Christian religious leaders, conservative business bigwigs who claimed that environmental and labor regulations were undermining the competitiveness of American firms in the global market, and fringe political groups. [...]
Despite theological divisions, all evangelical leaders agreed that America was experiencing a moral decline. They explained that homosexuality was a crime against God, and that a woman's place was in the home in support of her family. They criticized the "liberal" media for corrupting America's youth. They chided the courts for taking religion out of the public schools and supported private Christian academies and homeschooling as alternatives.[...]
Like most movements, the New Right contained an extremist element. Racial hatred groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party joined the outcry against American moral decline. Ultra-libertarian militia groups formed in many states dedicated to attacking the American government they believed had become far too invasive. They steadfastly supported the right to bear arms as a means to defend themselves from tyranny. Some groups began stockpiling arsenals. These organizations interpreted the term "cultural war" in the most literal, ominous sense.”
The dots become very easy to connect at this point. The evangelicals plan to take over the schools, those very same schools that are “flush with cash but which leave our young and beautiful students deprived of ALL knowledge.” [Emphasis added] Trump made that absurd allegation in his inaugural address. Presumably, with Trump's help and all that we know about evangelical Betsy "Grizzlie Bear" DeVos, set to take over the Department of Education if approved by the Senate, the purported overpaid teachers and the fat-cat school budgets will somehow re-align properly like an out of place vertebrae snaps back to position once a chiropractor thumps it. (For those who like a reality check against whatever projections Trump makes from the alternate universe in which he lives, school graduations have risen the past eight years. The young and the beautiful are doing better than they were under Bush.)
Also it is interesting to note that Trump is the figure head for the evangelicals presently, but far more importantly, Vice President Mike Pence is the mentee of Betsy DeVos' brother, Erik Prince, whose long game is to see Mike Pence become President, and propagate the Christian Supremacist agenda, eradicating forever any notion of a division between church and state. The church will be the state on Erik Prince's watch. The Christian Supremacists are rabidly white-biased and patriarchal and they fully support the New Right agenda and seek to take the United States back to the Dark Ages, with the gays back in the closet and the women back in the kitchen, and woe betide the blacks, browns, or disabled.
And if you doubt for a moment that the “ultra-liberatarian militia” groups mentioned above are very much alive and well, know that Christian Supremacist Erik Prince’s militia group, which he called a “security agency,” is named Blackwater and that a federal jury in Washington convicted four former Blackwater guards in the 2007 fatal shooting of 14 unarmed Iraqis in Baghdad. If anybody in this country was going to lead a “cultural war” or Holy War it would be ex-CIA agent and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince.
Additionally, focus on what Stormfront, the American Nazi site has to say about the New Right. This is important because the intellectual underpinning of the New Right is pure Nazi dogma. The KKK doctrine is a watered down, southern states customized version of Aryan supremacy dogma, and of course the evangelicals rely upon a warped interpretation of scripture. So any intellectual or philosophical meat that you will find in New Right doctrine is lifted directly from Nazi texts. In a May 5, 2009 article by John Gordon, "Left-Right Out:"
The New Right is organized throughout Europe and beyond. We are strongly opposed to liberalism, democracy and egalitarianism and fight to restore the eternal values and principles that have become submerged beneath the corrosive tsunami of the modern world. The New Right has an interest in the various strands of thought connected with the Traditionalists, the Revolutionary Conservatives; the Nouvelle Droit; and the Eurasianists.
What is the essential, non-ephemeral core of the right which is not subject to fluctuation? The substantive principle of the right is: the common good of a community of people in a political formation. Or, more abstractly: the right of the particular, not the universal. A number of consequences follow from this: that no world government is possible or desirable (and if instituted, would constitute a tyranny). Two other consequences follow from this: - the greater or lesser attainment of other races/nations has no priority of claim over one’s own nation, the group has to ensure its own survival and its own good.
- Aid, assistance, or help of any form therefore becomes an act of grace, and not a moral duty: it is an uncompelled favour – freely given (if given), and cannot be compelled.
Parse those last two concepts for just a moment and you get a clear stance against globalism, (and what was said at the DeploraBall? "The focus is on keeping globalists out of Congress in 2018,”) followed by an obvious endorsement of nationalism, and lastly and most importantly the last sentence is a refutation, as I read it, of any social safety net as we understand that term.
Unbelievable as it may be, elimination of the social safety net is part of the evangelicals’ platform as well as the Nazis: www.yuricareport.com/…
“During the 1980’s I began taping and transcribing Pat Robertson’s 700 Club show because of the alarming anti-Christian political philosophy he was endorsing. Robertson’s guests did something I I’d never seen before: they reversed the scriptures and called it immoral for the citizens to help the poor through taxation, which, by the way is expressly required in the Old Testament. The accusation was and is that taxation robbed the rich to help the poor.”
Pure Nazi doctrine, playing on the teevee set, and voiced by man of God, Pat Robertson. And diametrically opposed to scripture, on top of everything.
Look at the language a bit more closely and you will see what they bee-leave, the evangelicals. Go back to the first sentence, "the right of the particular, not the universal," and re-write it, "the right of us over them," and it will make a lot of sense. This is the kernel of truth, "the essential, non-ephemeral core...not subject to fluctuation:" our oligarchy first, our ideas, our dogma, period. Other supposedly “Christian,” concepts like charity, tolerance and inclusivity belong to the left and are strictly eschewed in the New Right doctrine. Read a bit more from Gordon's article to get a pre-amble of the New Right agenda with respect to the institutions we know of as the “free press” and Congress because that’s where they plan to start cleaning house.
So, what specific policies or positions do the principles of the right call on us to adopt? The laws and institutions which back, support, monitor or enforce “Hate speech” legislation or any other Orwellian curtailments of freedom of thought, speech, or association need to be abolished and revoked....The only possible excuse for such failure to act to remove these leftist institutions, treaties, and laws is that the media and the left have grown so powerful that any opposition to them is now impossible to achieve, even for a democratically elected government. That is an admission in effect that parliament [or Congress] and our liberal democracy have failed, are dead, and need to be replaced. And that such a radical position must be the conservative political policy and agenda of our times. [...]
This anti-free-speech, anti-establishment spiel is typical Nazi fare and has been since the '30's. Free speech is perceived as dissent and even as treachery by the Nazi mentality. Likewise the evangelicals preach that the only permissible expression is that of the Bible — their version of the Bible. Mike Pence was quoted in Huffington Post last September as having a text called, “the Republican Bible.” Pence was asked why he had canceled nutrition assistance for hungry children while Governor of Indiana and incredibly he replied, “The Bible says that God helps them who help themselves.” When the HuffPo reporter pointed out to Pence that that comment was not in fact in the Bible, Pence replied, “It’s in the Republican Bible.”
Pence later tried to have the statement retracted as satire, but HuffPo said no and stood by its reporter. An interesting glimpse into the psyche of Mike Pence, learning that he believes that children should be out there helping themselves rather than getting a meal at school. But then again, Mike Pence is an evangelical and under classic Nazi cum New Right doctrine there is no moral obligation to assist the vulnerable or the marginalized members of society, even the little ones when they’re hungry.
Similarly, the anti-establishment doctrine of the New Right is necessary to engage the average voter which the New Right covets , convincing him/her that s/he has been egregiously used and abused by a cruel and uncaring government. This is the note that Trump kept playing over and over again during his “American Carnage,” inaugural speech with his references to “empty talk,” and “rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.” It was pure propaganda, ignoring the easily obtainable facts that the number of manufacturing jobs have actually increased over the past eight years. The point of the speech was not to delineate facts, the point was to push emotional buttons with inflamed rhetoric and Hitler himself invented that gimmick back in the ‘30’s. Trump is Hitler’s spiritual successor.
In 2017 with the elevation of Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the New Right now feels sufficiently empowered to come out of hiding and show its face openly and declare its intentions to destroy the institutions which it identifies as being in its way; a free press and Congress being only two they plan to engage. If you doubt for one minute Donald Trump's commitment to destroying the free press, kindly explain why he and Press Secretary Sean Spicer went apopleptic on the first day of the Trump regime over factual reports of small crowd sizes at the inauguration, or what Trump hoped to accomplish by disparaging the press to the CIA. Trump doesn't want to deal with facts and truth, and he wants to "punish" the press for what he perceives as disloyalty. Finally, his chief strategist Steve Bannon, Editor of “Neo-Nazi” website Breitbart, was quoted back in 2014 as telling the Daily Beast that he was a Leninist and here's what he had to say about his intentions towards both Congress and the press:
“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html
The emergence of the New Right in the Republican Party is very bad news. This is a group that is dark, dangerous, and divisive. They have no business controlling a major political party and if they do, their elevation in stature to leadership of the Republican party will not bode well for democracy as we have known it up until now. Donald Trump loves to talk about “midnight in America.” His election clearly marks the sunset of this republic. We're in twilight now and it's going to get a lot darker before the dawn. But we can light the candles and build the fire, and we will. And at the end of this long hard day, we shall overcome.