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Why It\u2019s Important for Trump to Win<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Kevin MacDonald
\nOccidental Observer<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s 2016 victory was seen as nothing less than a cataclysm by the American establishment\u2014the greatest shock to the system in memory and perhaps in the entire history of the Republic. After all, Trump was vehemently opposed by the entire establishment\u00a0 from far left to the neoconservative and Chamber of Commerce right. It was, one might say, a hostile takeover.<\/p>\n

The left was on the cusp of going into end-game mode, so losing was incredibly frustrating, especially since Hillary Clinton was expected to win easily.\u00a0But Trump won. Whatever you think of Trump\u2019s actual performance, the fact is that throughout the campaign and since taking office the media and pretty much the entire left has been labeling him a Nazi and White supremacist (I\u00a0wrote 5 articles<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for Vdare on this). And it\u2019s continued, even into the recent presidential debate and the town hall hosted by Savannah Guthrie.<\/p>\n

When Trump won, they were apoplectic \u2014 on the verge of complete victory with a \u201csure thing\u201d Hillary victory, to having \u201cWhite supremacists\u201d in the White House. The tears that flowed after Trump won were replaced by anger and sheer hatred. The practical result was that Trump\u2019s victory has had the effect of mobilizing the left.<\/p>\n

And because this was framed from the beginning as a contest between the forces of good (our glorious multicultural future) versus evil (the \u201cWhite supremacist\u201d American past being promoted by the Orange Nazi in the White House), anything was justified. The media\u00a0ought<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to throw out normal standards of journalism and do everything they can to destroy Trump\u2019s image. Violence against Trump supporters and certainly against the dissident Right is entirely justified.<\/p>\n

The result is a level of political polarization not seen in this country probably since the Civil War. But the polarization is what had to happen for any possible movement in the direction of the dissident right. The absolute worst thing would have been another Hillary-vs.-Jeb-type election where America keeps sleep-walking to Armageddon. The mobilization of the left has made clear the fault lines. This is about removing the traditional culture of America, and it is about removing Whites from the center of the American story. It is about replacement \u2014 first the monuments and the culture, then the people.<\/p>\n

Solid majorities of Americans\u00a0oppose<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0removing the statues, and ratings for the now-politicized NFL, NBA, and MLB are way down, even though former sports fans are trapped in their homes with nothing much to do because of the pandemic. This means the traditional American majority is moving down the road toward being explicitly aware of what the game is. Reasonable White people watching this unfold cannot possibly believe that the glorious multicultural future will be anything but a disaster for White America. The hatred for White America that has been so obviously directed against activists on the dissident right is inevitably seeping through to \u201cjust plain White folks.\u201d The hatred will only intensify when Whites have less power. And this means that the\u00a0racialization of politics<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that we have emphasized so much here will accelerate. The ~60% of White America that votes Republican (not including<\/a>\u00a0Jews and other people grouped as Caucasians deriving from the Middle East and North Africa) will increase.<\/p>\n

If the left wins they will go into end-game mode. They will establish a more-or-less permanent hegemony (via massive surge in legal and illegal immigration, amnesty to illegals and Dreamers, adding Puerto Rico and D.C. as states, and packing the Supreme Court). A Democrat victory would mark the end of the First and Second Amendments and likely lead to eventually locking up dissidents, as is already the case in Europe.\u00a0 There is now a rich body of academic literature by leftist academics (but I repeat myself) on reining in speech related to diversity. Their mantra is something like, \u201cWe won the intellectual war on issues related to race and gender. It\u2019s all over, so anyone disagreeing with our pronouncements on race and gender can and should be shut down \u2014 your words do violence to muh feelings.\u201d And liberals like Elena Kagan would love to use these ideas in majority opinions \u2014 indeed, she has already\u00a0written<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on this.<\/p>\n

With enough of a mandate, the Biden-Harris administration would also get rid of the Electoral College and two senators per state, resulting in the complete domination of the left-leaning urban centers\u2014the issue has certainly been raised by many leftists since 2016. This is already the case in many states, such as California, where rural areas are effectively disenfranchised and all the statewide offices are held by Democrats, including around 75% of the State Legislature. The only Republican who could possibly win would be one who can fit into this new context, but even such a person could likely only win by taking advantage of some major Democrat screw up, like an economic depression or rampant corruption. In other words, once this happens, there\u2019s no turning back. It\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

A Democrat victory would speed up the transformation of the educational system. Already, Critical Race Theory, which is basically anti-White hatred and guilt-tripping, has a strong foothold in the public schools and corporations. Trump outlawed teaching it to government workers, but that would change and there would likely be federal money for such programs at all levels of the educational system and for corporations.<\/p>\n

Could the fact that Trump is attempting to appeal to Hispanics and Blacks undermine the GOP as the party of White people? It\u2019s common for politicians to try to expand their base, and the fact is that these groups would benefit from many of the same policies that would benefit White America\u2014opposing the defunding of police, curtailing immigration, and ensuring a robust economy (which Trump delivered on until the virus-induced lockdowns). Latinos in particular may be more open to Trump because of the national obsession with Blacks in the Summer of George.<\/p>\n

No one is saying Trump is the savior, but the reality is that a great many White people are hopelessly caught up in the liberal\/left mindset. This is especially true of educated Whites\u2014the White working class has been solidly pro-Trump. These educated urban and suburban Whites are not going to vote Republican in the face of the constant stream of propaganda from the elite media and universities which has resulted in the left dominating the moral high ground, and in massive virtue-signaling and mindless conformity by great masses of liberal Whites whose hatred toward Trump has been fanned into a fever pitch by the elite media. No one on the dissident right saw Trump as the solution, but only as a stepping stone to a more explicitly White candidate. That is still possible, but only if Trump wins. In the meantime, trying to get non-Whites to vote for Trump makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, it\u2019s clear that the Trump victory in 2016 energized the left. There were riots in the immediate aftermath of the election and off-and-on throughout his term, crescendoing in the Summer of George\u2014~130 straight days in Portland, with no serious effort to rein it in. The leftist media became nonstop Trump hate, and university professors routinely expressed their hatred in classrooms and in op-eds. Could one argue that a Biden victory would result in the civic peace and tranquility so eagerly desired by all those urban and suburban liberal Whites? I suppose it could, although in Portland the BLM-antifa have made leftist mayor Ted Wheeler a consistent target of their attacks, and they also\u00a0turned on<\/a>\u00a0the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey; riots have continued to occur in cities dominated by very liberal-left mayors, such as New York and Atlanta.<\/p>\n

But the question is, would a Biden victory be good for the dissident right, and the answer is no. The worst possible outcome would be to return to elections between Hillary types and Jeb types. Flip a coin, it really wouldn\u2019t matter. We don\u2019t really want peace and harmony.\u00a0Polarization is good<\/a>\u00a0because the bipartisan center-left\u2014center-right consensus is suicide but would just take a little longer than if Trump hadn\u2019t come on the scene. But now that he attained the presidency, a victory by the energized, radicalized left would result in hegemonic, authoritarian control by the left and a complete eradication of expressions of White identity politics, opposition to immigration, public discussion of the genetics of race, likely the eventual shutting down of sites like\u00a0The Occidental Observer,<\/em>\u00a0and even putting dissenters in prison. When I hung out with radicals in the 1960s, it was common to hear opinions like \u201cworse will be better\u201d\u2014if the present system gets worse, it will ultimately result in a revolution of the left. But when a revolution of the left gains power, as would happen if Biden-Harris win, they will arrogate all power to themselves and ensure that it won\u2019t be possible to give it up. Revenge and punishment will the the order of the day. Just recently Robert Reich, former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor, suggested Truth and Reconciliation commissions should be set up in the wake of a Biden victory on the model of South Africa after 1994\u2014although what he really has in mind may more resemble Nuremberg and denazification that occurred after World War II.<\/p>\n