Can a movement win if it has the right tactics but the wrong target? The story of the American Conservative Movement after the Cold War suggests that it can’t. The American Right has chased tangential issues, acted as controlled opposition, and operated more like a business than a serious movement, partially because it didn’t know what it was fighting. Conservative radio host Jesse Kelly [Tweet him] deserves credit for trying to point to a real target, suggesting some productive means to fight the enemy, and having a clear view of the stakes. Unfortunately, he may be wrong about who it is that really threatens America and what they really want. America is being torn about by tribes who fundamentally aren’t part of the country and never want to be, not simply people who want a different economic system. As Paul Gottfried might put it, we aren’t threatened by “Communists,” because we are actually facing people to the left of them. Still, Kelly deserves credit for rejecting the complacency and triumphalism in American political thought. “I wish I could tell you that our nation stands at a crossroad…” he says in his June 2023 best-seller The Anti-Communist Manifesto. “But that’s not the case. America chose a path long ago. Now we stand within sight of the journey’s dark end.” Read the review here --> https://vdare.com/articles/jesse-kelly-s-the-anti-communist-manifesto-a-start-but-not-nearly-enough And remember, if you aren’t yet a member, you can join here --> https://vdare.com/book-club ❗ VDARE.com is being censored ❗ ? Bookmark our TOR address: f2vfjp3jc37gxgn4hum4uf2bhi2w3kp4jbzdwegrn6bvtezbhminobid.onion/ ❔ How to use TOR: https://www.torproject.org/ ? Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vdare ? And Gab: https://gab.com/vdare Follow us on Minds: https://www.minds.com/vdarefoundation and VK: https://www.vk.com/vdarefoundation Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/vdare Parler: @VDARE ? Sign up for our quarterly magazine: https://vdare.com/magazine and weekly news-bulletin: https://vdare.com/ebulletins ❤️️ Make a tax-deductible donation to VDARE today: https://vdare.com/donate ❤️️ Make checks payable to: The VDARE Foundation PO Box 211 Litchfield, CT 06759

LEGAL IMMIGRATION FINALLY SURFACED IN THE FOURTH GOP DEBATE—at 6:22 when Governor Ron DeSantis attacked it (admittedly in the context of importing antisemitism, but whatever) and, perhaps more important, at 8:20 when Vivek Ramaswamy said: "…the Great Replacement Theory is not some grand rightwing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform. Of course this is true, but who else has the courage to say it?" One hundred years ago, Lord Birkenhead, the then Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and a piratical upwardly mobile product of the same socially marginal English school I attended some 75 years later, caused a great scandal by remarking in a Rectorial Address to the University of Glasgow that the world continued to offer glittering prizes to those with ”stout hearts and sharp swords.” By sheer imagination and courage, Vivek Ramaswamy is illustrating this principle. As of course does former Trump aide Stephen Miller [Tweet him], whom I continue to regard as America’s first Jewish president, cf. Britain’s Benjamin Disraeli. Overall, my take as a thirty-year veteran of the Immigration Wars: As I said after the second GOP debate, the GOP has come a long way on immigration. Read the rest here --> https://vdare.com/articles/vdare-com-video-supercut-immigration-at-fourth-gop-debate-stout-hearts-and-sharp-swords ❗ VDARE.com is being censored ❗ ? Bookmark our TOR address: f2vfjp3jc37gxgn4hum4uf2bhi2w3kp4jbzdwegrn6bvtezbhminobid.onion/ ❔ How to use TOR: https://www.torproject.org/ ? Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vdare ? And Gab: https://gab.com/vdare Follow us on Minds: https://www.minds.com/vdarefoundation and VK: https://www.vk.com/vdarefoundation Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/vdare Join our Slug group: https://slug.com/group/VDARE Parler: @VDARE ? Sign up for our quarterly magazine: https://vdare.com/magazine and weekly news-bulletin: https://vdare.com/ebulletins ❤️️ Make a tax-deductible donation to VDARE today: https://vdare.com/donate ❤️️