It is constitutionalism, which incorporates federalism, republicanism, legal equity, and a separation of powers. Our “right” - conservatism or classical liberalism -is dead-center on our spectrum, no matter how persistently the Left tries to claim otherwise. The alt-right is a European-style right-wing movement that is at odds with the classical liberalism upon which our country was built, and which the Left has redefined as “Right.” That is to say, the European “Right” is mapped onto a political spectrum different than our own. You are on the Right because of what you believe, how you act, and what impulses and ideas undergird your philosophy. Communists, Marxists, Marxians, cultural Marxists, and neocons are not Alt Right.” The only problem with this formulation is that it is entirely wrong.ĭeclaring that the alt-right is on the Right in “both the American and European sense of the term” is utter rubbish, and you can no more declare that you are “on the right” than you can declare that your gender is fluid and not expect people to raise an eyebrow. Vox Day writes: “The Alt Right is of the political right in both the American and the European sense of the term. The list begins predictably enough by declaring immediate segregation.

Unfortunately, this same set of core beliefs is now ascendant on a vocal part of the self-described “Right.” In his “ What the Alt Right is,” Vox Day, one of the leaders of the alt-right “movement,” details what he calls “a core Alt Right philosophy upon which others can build,” then provides a list of 16 items one can imagine he sees himself virtually nailing to the doors of Benetton stores like a modern-day Martin Luther. As with much the Left does, it remains policed by a kind of mob shaming and an enforced intellectual correctness that is linguistically incoherent. Identity politics necessarily brackets and minimizes individualism. His Orientalism laid out the case for identity politics, declaring who controls particular group narratives and how, and who and what comes to count as “authentic” and thus permitted to represent a given identity group and its (collectivist) narrative. Said enormously influenced Western academics. This counter-trend, make no mistake, is every bit as identitarian as anything Edward Said ever wrote, and just as toxic. As it did so, this long march created a counter-trend we now see bubbling up through cracks in our national foundation. It is opportunistic: in the ’60s, it infiltrated the “bourgeois” Democratic Party the cultural Marxists despised to become the New Left that today controls many of our institutions. We need to re-embrace American exceptionalism and reject the kind of toxic identitarianism the Left uses to divide us, manage us, and place us into needy voter blocs they then collect to win elections, and through which an institutionalized progressive cancer spreads to eat away its bones.īut we need recognize this cancer is not necessarily isolated within a given political party.

To reclaim our birthright, we need only reclaim the Constitution. This exceptionalism is found not in its genetic makeup (after all, we fought other white Europeans for our independence) but in a collage of Enlightenment ideas our Founders pulled together to create what became our national portrait. American exceptionalism, which neither Barack Obama nor Donald Trump understand or can articulate, was born of our founding. Still, there are fixes to our national maladies that reside in the constitutional system of government we each inherited as our birthright as American citizens. Libertarian economist Milton Friedman knew well that you can’t have an open borders-type immigration system tied to a welfare state. I can read crime statistics, and have watched states turn blue as the result not of good Democratic Party governance but entitlement promises and the logistical changes that inevitably follow. The complete corruption of that system and the usurpation of its intent by those who redefine it in the terms of transnational progressivism are largely responsible for the resurgence of the white nationalism at the heart of the alt-right’s identitarian “philosophy.”Ĭoncerns over a loss of sovereignty or the overdetermined influence granted preferred minority groups are legitimate, despite the putative conservatives who pretend they are not, or parrot an establishment apologia that waxes poetic about “inclusivity” and “economic growth” while Americans are increasingly self-segregating and an entire generation of young people will struggle to find a way into the workforce. Our system was designed for assimilation and naturalization.

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