American Authenticity

Responding to Striker's "Old Right Authenticity"

On paper, this would appear to be a time for hard right celebration. Illegal immigrants are being rounded up at record numbers that are rapidly increasing. Jewish influence and the Israel Lobby are in a tailspin. Affirmative Action has been terminated. The Supreme Court just affirmed yesterday that straight White people share the same discrimination protections as everybody else. Anti-White immigrant college students are being rounded up and deported. The federal government has even halted and reversed most of its refugee program, sending the Haitians home and importing White South African victims of ethnic cleansing.

The mood is incredibly sour among the more prominent altright e-celebs, of course. And the reason is obvious: Our ideas won, but we didn’t. Nationalism, identitarianism, explicitly pro-White talking points, and explicit opposition to the Jewish Mafia have all gone mainstream, but we have not. I’m still sitting here in a trailer park in Southern Indiana. Striker’s still drinking alone in an unfurnished apartment. Nick’s ghettoized in his Internet comedy echo chamber. Kessler’s still not scoring. Spencer’s still, … well, I mean, okay. Spencer’s still rich, skiing in premium gear and hiking around in national parks while the rest of us have day jobs.

You get my point. The whole thing took off without us, and we’re all bitter about that. Except me. I have always maintained a perspective on elite theory wherein wealthy and powerful insiders will remain inside and we’ll remain outside, but that jamming the culture determines which elites win and how those elites achieve their victories. The real heroes of the altright aren’t the namefags and clowns who colluded with the media to prop ourselves up as “leaders,” but the tireless anons who relentlessly waged memetic warfare on social media for the last two decades.

In Striker’s recent essay, he asserts that Charlottesville is what transformed the culture.

From a Gramscian perspective, the identity right (thanks to the frontal assaults against the system by the Old Right) has soundly won the metapolitical battle on questions of ethnic self-determination, civilizational self-doubt (“Wokeism”), and the irreparable harm of mass immigration

He links to a Tablet essay supposedly affirming his theory.

The article, of course, affirms the exact opposite of the point he’s attempting:

Six years after Charlottesville, it seems clear that the alt-right’s coherence and influence were dramatically overstated in the rush to explain Trumpism and larger upheavals in the U.S. political scene. At the same time, however, judging the alt-right as a set of ideas and ideological claims, rather than as an organization or collection of personalities, we have to grapple with something that feels uncomfortably like its success.

We e-celeb “leaders” were overrated and overstated. Tablet is coming to terms in the essay with a realization that Striker hasn’t had yet: The “leaders” were never leading anything, and the crackdown on the Charlottesville organizers, if anything, helped the hard right shake off an entire generation of corrupt, egotistical, and delusional celebrities who imagined themselves the next “fuhrer.”

Striker’s thesis is:

We need a complete revolution in our political thinking, its application, and in the end, a completely new elite […]

The devil is in the details, of course, with Striker clarifying that “we” are Europeans, not Americans.

The future of Europe lives in the wild youth of the Old Right, nowhere else.

Those familiar with Striker’s writing and streaming know that “American” and “Anglo” are slurs in the Striker household, and America’s only partially redeemable to the extent that a cultural revolution can replace the Anglo-American culture and identity with one centered on Germanophile revisionism. The “completely new elite” is himself, of course, and the authentic and uncompromising vision for Americans (Europeans in America) is a 20th century military history larp centered on celebrating and emulating Nazi Germany.

The correct course of action is to ignore all of the failed altright e-celebs (including me!) and continue jamming social media with pro-White, anti-Israel memes and themes. I agree with Striker that it’s gross watching our ideas end up in the hands of cynical elite operatives like JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Nancy Mace, and worse. But short of becoming billionaires with tentacles embedded deeply in the national defense infrastructure, changing the landscape so that Marco Rubio has to repeat our talking points to survive is how we’ve been winning and how we’ll continue to win.

The future of the American right isn’t 20th century continental european solutions to 20th century continental european problems. It’s not venomous misogyny. It’s not neoconfederacy. It’s not Spencer’s NATO imperialism fantasies. It’s not costume parades. It’s applying the demand for White Americans to have greater agency and sovereign control over our destiny to the 21st Century American landscape we’re operating within.