Tag Archives: populism

Trump vs. the Tyranny of Experts

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Salvatore Babones
The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts
Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2018

Savatore Babones is an America academic with an appointment in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Unusually for someone in such a position, he has a few good things to say about Donald Trump—or at least about the fact of his election. Read more …

Published: January 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, democracy, Donald Trump, elitism, F. Roger Devlin, globalization, liberalism, managerialism, North American New Right, originals, Salvatore Babones, technocracy, The New Authoritarianism, Trans Pacific Partnership | 3 Responses

What Populism Isn’t

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Jan-Werner Müller
What is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

When a political establishment feels threatened by a growing force like National Populism, Plan A is to defend the establishment and attack its opponents by dispatching middle-brow journalists to sneer and jeer and middle-brow political hacks to construct partisan talking points. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Carl Schmitt, democracy, Greg Johnson, Jan-Werner Müller, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, What Is Populism? | 10 Responses

Beyond the Alt Right
Toward a New Nationalism

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The Alt Right is dead. But the Alt Right was so useful—and so much fun—that we need to create a replacement for it, the sooner the better. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt-Right, articles, democracy, elitism, fascism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Matthew Goodwin, metapolitics, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, Roger Eatwell, the Alternative Right, white nationalism, yellow vests | Comments closed

Video of the Day
Alain de Benoist on the Yellow Vests Revolution

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The founder and primary thinker of the French New Right, Alain de Benoist, discusses his view of the ongoing Yellow Vests movement in France and their significance for French politics during his visit to Budapest, Hungary last week. In French with English subtitles.

Published: December 19, 2018 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emmanuel Macron, France, French New Right, gilets jaunes, video of the day, yellow vests, Yellow Vests movement | Comments closed

Le Peuple, C’est Moi

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Jan-Werner Müller
What Is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

Jan-Werner Müller, a native of Germany, is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the author of several previous books. The present study of populism was published in 2016 by the University of Pennsylvania Press and quickly reprinted in a popular paperback format by Penguin Books in the UK Read more …

Published: December 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, democracy, F. Roger Devlin, Jan-Werner Müller, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, What Is Populism? | Comments closed

Whatever Happens, the Yellow Vests Have Already Won

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Interviewed by Yann Vallerie; translated by Greg Johnson

Breizh-info.com: First of all, how do you analyze the events of these recent weekends?

What I find most striking is, first of all, the continuity of the movement. While the government expected the pressure to ease, it has not. It is the fruit of an extraordinary determination, to which is added a surprising maturity. Read more …

Published: December 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emanuel Macron, France, gilets jaunes, interviews, North American New Right, originals, translations, yellow vests | Comments closed

A Globalist Struggles to Explain the Failure of Globalism

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Ian Bremmer
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Portfolio/Penguin, 2018

Glancing through the blurbs on the back of Ian Bremmer’s new bestseller, one finds the Secretary-General of the UN, a managing director of the IMF, a co-chairman of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the President of the International Rescue Committee, and Larry Summers: not a lineup one would expect to find endorsing a bold challenge to conventional thinking. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, economic inequality, F. Roger Devlin, globalization, Ian Bremmer, mechanization, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Us vs Them | Comments closed

Populism in its Pure Form

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Interview by Nicolas Gauthier

Translated by Greg Johnson

Boulevard Voltaire: For about ten days now, France has been living in the era of the yellow vests, and opinions about it are already piling up. Flash in the pan or groundswell? Read more …

Published: December 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emanuel Macron, France, gilets jaunes, interviews, North American New Right, originals, translations, yellow vests | Comments closed

The Rise & Fall of South Park, Part 2
South Park in the Age of Trump

Travis LeBlanc

Canadian Donald Trump from “Where My Country Gone?”

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Matt and Trey: Never Trumpers

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the presidential election, and the next evening, South Park had an episode about it. Read more …

Published: December 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, satire, South Park, Travis LeBlanc, TV reviews | Comments closed

The Rise & Fall of South Park, Part 1
South Park Conservatism

Travis LeBlanc

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Novelist Robert Anton Wilson once famously said, “It only takes twenty years for a liberal to become a conservative with changing a single idea.” Read more …

Published: December 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, satire, South Park, Travis LeBlanc, TV reviews | Comments closed

A Mainstream Primer on Populism

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John B. Judis
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2016

Following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and, two years later, of the Soviet Union itself, there was a widespread sense in the West that the free market had conclusively vindicated itself Read more …

Published: December 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, fascism, John B. Judis, North American New Right, originals, The Populist Explosion | Comments closed

Now in Audio Version!
British Politics Today:
Optimism, Pessimism, & Realism

Michael Walker

Theresa May trying (and failing) to be the multicultural Dancing Queen, a clear case of too much optimism.

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Counter-Currents readers may be familiar with the name Tai Lopez. Tai Lopez runs commercials which regularly appear on YouTube. He is a self-made millionaire and latter-day preacher of the “God helps those who help themselves” school of economics: Read more …

Published: October 15, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, environmentalism, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, optimism, originals, pessimism, realism, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | Comments closed

Notes on Revolution in Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day

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Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day is a highly imaginative and entertaining novel that reflects a long and deep immersion in the online world of White Nationalism, from the best of it to the worst and all shades in between.

I don’t have much to add to the reviews of Adjustment Day by Jef Costello and James O’Meara, so I wish to focus here on some of Palahniuk’s thoughts about how an ethnonationalist revolution might occur, and how it might go wrong. Read more …

Published: September 10, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, articles, Chuck Palahniuk, classical republicanism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, Islam, North American New Right, originals, polygamy, Social Credit, white nationalism, white sharia | Comments closed

The Counter-Currents 2018 Fundraiser
& Charles Krafft Auction Update
Plan B: Co-opting & Subverting Nationalism

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In the last week, we have received 26 donations totaling $4,234.33 for which we are enormously grateful. Our goal this year is to raise $70,000. So far, we have received 104 donations totaling $16,547.27. So we are almost one quarter of the way there. See below for new incentives to give.

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Some readers have asked what’s my next project now that The White Nationalist Manifesto is finished and going to press. Read more …

Published: August 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Fundraiser, Francis Fukuyama, Greg Johnson, liberal democracy, Mark Lilla, Plan B, Straussianism, William Galston, Yascha Mounk | Comments closed

A Winning Ethos

Franz von Stuck, “The Spirit of Victory”

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Author’s Note:

This text is based on a talk I gave at the Victoria Forum on July 28th. I want to thank my hosts and everyone who attended for a wonderful weekend.

The White Nationalist movement is more like a subculture than a political party. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dedication, elitism, Greg Johnson, idealism, North American New Right, originals, punching right, self-sacrifice, white community organizing, white nationalism | Comments closed

Nationalism, True & False

William Kristol, guardian of neo-conservatism.

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Ruling classes exercise power through combinations of coercion and manipulation — what Machiavelli called force and fraud, or the habits of the lion and the fox that he recommended to princes who wish to stay in power. Like most princes, most ruling classes tend to be better at one than the other, and depending on their talents, interests, and psychologies, they will habitually rely on one style of domination more than on its complement. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Chronicles Magazine, conservatism, George Will, managerial state, neoconservatism, North American New Right, Paleoconservatism, reprints, Republican party, Samuel Francis, Weekly Standard, William Kristol | Comments closed

Démocrature:
Nazi Concept Welcomed into French Language

Guillaume Durocher

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It’s that time of year. The French dictionaries Le Petit Larousse and Le Petit Robert (don’t ask me why they are called “petit,” they are huge) are adding various neologisms and foreign loanwords to our beloved langue de Céline.

My interest was particularly piqued by the following new entry: Read more …

Published: July 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, democracy, Démocrature, Guillaume Durocher, illiberal democracy, liberal democracy, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 219
The Populist Wave in Europe

Counter-Currents Radio

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Revolution is in the Air

Members of the West Ohio Minutemen Militia outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016.

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Is it idle, or at least premature, to talk about “revolution from the Right”? Whether it is or is not, that is exactly what leaders of the Right have been talking about for some years, from Pat Buchanan’s “Middle American Revolution” and his imagery of the “Buchanan Brigades” and peasants with pitchforks rebelling against “King George,” to Newt Gingrich and his now-forgotten jabber about the “Republican Revolution.” Read more …

Published: June 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American politics, articles, Chronicles Magazine, conservatism, North American New Right, reprints, revolution, Samuel Francis, the Right | Comments closed

Suicide of the Right

Republican leaders in 1996, including Bob Dole (center), Jack Kemp (to Dole’s right), and Patrick Buchanan (far right).

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After spending several weeks in deep hugger-mugger at the Republican Party platform committee this summer, the leaders of the Right wing of the GOP emerged triumphant. Their deeply beloved and totally useless Human Life Amendment was reaffirmed. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1996 presidential campaign, articles, Chronicles Magazine, neoconservatism, North American New Right, Patrick Buchanan, reprints, Republican party, Samuel Francis | Comments closed

Bannon:
Orbán was Trump before Trump

Hungary Report

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The following report was published on May 24 at the Hungary Report Website. A video of Bannon’s talk in Budapest is here. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Trump, Hungary, Hungary Report, Left/Right divide, North American New Right, reprints, Steve Bannon, The Future of Europe conference, Viktor Orbán | Comments closed

The Buchanan Victory

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Whether a full-scale nuclear war between modern superpowers would last quite as long as the three-week blitzkrieg among this year’s candidates for the Republican presidential nomination is an intriguing question that neither military nor political scientists seem to have asked, but whatever the answer, a duel with nuclear weapons might well be less bloodthirsty than the GOP’s recent shoot-out at the OK Corral of American democracy. Read more …

Published: April 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1996 presidential campaign, articles, Chronicles Magazine, Confederate flag debate, David Duke, Larry Pratt, North American New Right, Pat Buchanan, reprints, Republican party, Samuel Francis | Comments closed

Now in Audio Version!
Europe’s Dams are Cracking: A Review

Michael Walker

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Konrad Windisch, ed.
Europas Dämme bersten: Ursachen, Hintergründe und Folgen des Flüchtlings-Tsunamis
Pähl: Hohe Warte, 2017 Read more …

Published: April 18, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Christian Social Union, Europas Dämme bersten, European Union, George Soros, Germany, globalization, Konrad Wndisch, mass immigration, Michael Walker, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, white ethnocide | Comments closed

Principalities & Powers, Part Seven:
The Buchanan Revolution, Part II

Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Ross Perot at a 1992 presidential debate

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Perhaps the greatest irony of the periodic political revolutions that occur in American democracy is that most of the voters who make them possible have not the foggiest notion of what they are doing. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt won the White House by running on a platform that promised to balance the budget and reduce the scale and power of the federal government, and there is no doubt that most of the Americans who sent him to Washington supported him simply because of the desperate economic straits in which they found themselves and their country, not because of any passion they shared with him for the socialist and internationalist experiments that he and his brood immediately imposed. Read more …

Published: April 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1992 presidential election, articles, Chronicles Magazine, civic nationalism, cuckservatism, Left/Right divide, Middle America, neoconservatism, North American New Right, Patrick Buchanan, Reagan administration, reprints, Ronald Reagan, Ross Perot, Samuel Francis | Comments closed

Video of the Day
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s March 15, 2018 Address

Video of the Day

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address to the nation on March 15 of this year, with English subtitles. March 15 is a national holiday commemorating Hungary’s revolt against the Hapsburgs in the 1848 Revolution. Orbán voices his opposition to Brussels and the other forces which he sees as instigating Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis ahead of Sunday’s national elections.

Published: April 5, 2018 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged European Union, Hungary, migrant crisis, video of the day, Viktor Orbán | Comments closed

Principalities & Powers, Part Five:
The Buchanan Revolution

Patrick Buchanan in 1992

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Nothing churns the entrails of the professional democracy priesthood more than the rancid taste of a little real democracy. Since one of the main dishes on the 1992 political menu has been a generous serving of authentic popular rebellion, the sages have spent a good part of the last year lurching for their lavatories. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1992 presidential election, America first, articles, Chronicles Magazine, civic nationalism, conservatism, George H. W. Bush, Israel, Left/Right divide, neoconservatism, North American New Right, Paleoconservatism, Patrick Buchanan, reprints, Republican party, Samuel Francis | Comments closed

Steven Pinker’s Anti-Enlightenment Attack on White Identitarians

Ricardo Duchesne

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Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
New York: Viking, 2018

Pinker “Loathes” White Identitarians

With the publication of Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker has decisively established himself as the foremost public intellectual in the United States. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, cosmopolitanism, diversity, Enlightenment Now, ethnonationalism, European identity, identitarianism, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, progress., Ricardo Duchesne, social capital, Steven Pinker, trust, universalism | Comments closed

On French Politics, Populism, Trump, Hungary, & Being a Right-wing Intellectual

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Translated by Garrett Deasy

The following is an interview with Alain de Benoist that was published by the Hungarian magazine Mandiner on November 4, 2017. It was translated from the original French. Read more …

Published: March 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Chantal Delsol, Charles De Gaulle, Christianity, Dominique Venner, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, European New Right, European Union, Euroskepticism, France, French New Right, French translations, Front National, Hungary, interviews, Left/Right divide, liberalism, Mandiner, mass immigration, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, Thomas Molnar, Viktor Orbán | Comments closed