From Ron Paul to Pepe
On How Libertarianism Created the Alt-Right and Ended the Age of Egalitarianism
Libertarianism and the Alt-Right are inextricably linked, and the Dissident Right is its brainchild. Allow me to explain.
The President and nominal “founder” of the highly lucrative organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Charlie Kirk, is arguably the modern avatar of contemporary conservative sentiment in America. With nearly 3 million followers on X, and one of the top ten most engaged accounts on the website, Kirk has the power to precipitate ideological beliefs into the free market of ideas, having it trickle into the political American Zeitgeist and manifest through the formation of online (and in person) discourse.
However, the “principled Reagan conservative” profile TPUSA has been appealing to has now withered away into the ether, completely irrelevant to modern conservative activism and outreach. I believe Charlie is aware of this, and as a result, has resorted to signaling to more radical attitudes for his movement to still remain somewhat relevant. He has exemplified a more marketable racial consciousness that white replacement theorists have articulated long ago.
The Revival of Racial Consciousness and Radical Conservatism
Thanks to the post-2016 Donald Trump administration and the MAGA-fication of the Republican Party, a revival of ultra-nationalism and ethnocentrism has reemerged within the circles of conservative politics. The post-2016 Alt-Right movement, and the figureheads it has espoused; including Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin, have led to an awakening of racial consciousness among Right-Wing (RW) whites. Some aspects of this were misconstrued as the next Rockwell-esque Nazi movement. For others, it was only a matter of a spirited conversation on immigration policy.
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