Paris
I wanted to write this last week, but last week was not a good week for deep philosophical thinking for me, thanks to Bremen. In case you missed the analogy of all that, I’m taking what happened in Bremen to Frank Magnitz so personally, because I know that, when you get hit in the head that hard, you’ll never be the same. In some way, shape or form, it’s going to affect you for the rest of your life.
Thankfully, one thing that has not changed about me is my ability to beat everyone else to the punch of getting inside the paradoxes and contradictions, the margins and differentials, of a thing, or an event, and learn the moral and object lesson before anyone else, and make or advise practical applications in earnest. I took my talents to a whole new continent; LeBron has nothing on me.
I was originally intending for this missive to be much longer, but I think I can net it out in a few paragraphs.
I’m referring to the Yellow Vest Movement, which sparked in Paris, and still has its Ground Zero there. In case you didn’t know, in most European countries, among other things, you have to carry around yellow emergency vests in your car, and you have to put them on if you break down on the road, so that other drivers can see you and hopefully not hit you. Looping it back around to the personal.
All I needed to know is when I read legitimate research which showed that a Parisian Yellow Vester is twice as likely as the French general public to be a voter or supporter of the Rassemblement National (RN), trans: National Gathering, the new name for the Front National (FN).
Twice as likely seems pretty good, but it’s not as good as it seems when you look at the bigger picture. Half the Yellow Vesters are RN, while a quarter of the general population are.
What really interests me is the other half of the Yellow Vesters that aren’t.
I’ll just cut to the chase:
The object lesson is that populism, economic and social, sells a lot better than pure racialism or white nationalism. Even though in my experience, proper white nationalists who keep an open mind on everything else will eventually become more populist, especially on economic issues. In spite of the fact that so many American WNs passed through one variant or another of libertarianism to get to WNism.
What does this mean? It means the white nationalist movement needs a mild rebooting and rebranding to put economic and social populism front and center, both for public campaigning and the keynote agenda item for public governance when we get that chance. The explicitly racial stuff needs to be relegated to something of a back burner, and when we get power, we need to do the race stuff in the background and relatively discretely.
After all, that’s what the left and to a lesser extent the normie right do, they lead with what are the most popular articles of their manifestos, and do the stuff that appeals to the base or the donors but not so much to the masses, behind the curtains.
