Paul Gottfried reviews Jonah Goldberg

Paul Gottfried, the true father of the alt right, reviews Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West:

Goldberg has crassly stolen the title of James Burnham’s great work… Goldberg’s random opinions represent the very pathology that Burnham railed against. Goldberg hates national identities (although he makes an exception for Israel), opponents of the Deep State, immigration patriots, and those who imagine that democracy has something to do with the popular will… Goldberg identifies “conservatism” with resisting Donald Trump.

 Hat tip to Vox Day.

The Mystery Gang and the Spooky Miner ’49’er

The infamous pussy-spelunker of 2008, Andrew Sullivan has emerged to milk another load from the fatuous New York nomenklatura:

upended the two most stable democracies in the world

“Stable” can mean “stagnant.”

a supremely talented demagogue who created an authoritarian cult with unapologetically neo-fascist rhetoric.

It’s like Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln or FDR never happened.

This is now Trump’s America. He controls everything from here on forward.

… and Obama?

He has won this campaign in such a decisive fashion that he owes no one anything.

It was a close election, and he owes “we, the people.”

He will seek unforgiving revenge on those who dared to oppose him.

… Did we elect Trump or Albert Anastasia?

he can pick a new Supreme Court justice who will make Antonin Scalia seem like a milquetoast.

Shocking.

They will likely build a propaganda machine more powerful than Fox and Breitbart

/facepalms

The only sliver of hope is that his promises cannot be kept.

All of them can be kept. Tax rates are one part of America’s problem, another is the Federal Executive’s metastasizing, lawmaking bureaucracy. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme; Chile has a private retirement system that works quite well. We can create jobs.

But hope fades in turn when you realize how absolute and total his support clearly is.

/facepalms

And so there will have to be scapegoats — media institutions, the Fed, the “global conspiracy” of bankers and Davos muckety-mucks

All of whom will do better to cooperate with Trump than not.

his rankly anti-Semitic closing ad

Huh?

doubtless civilians who will be targeted by his ranks of followers

/facepalms

And then there will be a terror attack

QUELLE SURPRISE!!

there will be a clash between police and largely black protestors after another unarmed black man is shot.

(Nostradamus, thou shouldst be living at this hour!) The Dallas police chief said it: “if you’re black, and you want black patrolmen, join us.”

Then he will reinstate Guantánamo and capture prisoners and torture them until the truth he wants is extracted.

A hard line against Islamic jihadi terror is perhaps the best way to secure Muslims in America. Everyone else living here wants to feel secure.

the institutions he will have to destroy to achieve what he wants — an independent Department of Justice

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

our scientific institutions, and what’s left of free thought in our colleges and universities.

Ah, yes, precious little of that Left. Pardon the pun. And what did Eisenhower say about “the scientific-technological elite”? We’re far down that road following Presidents Sullivan boot-licks.

We will need to march peacefully on the streets… nonviolent civil disobedience.

BWAHAHAHAHA!! To do that, you’d really need to destroy the Left!

We must transcend racial and religious division

Whatever you do, don’t call Obama.

we will have to resist partisanship.

Resist partisanship, reverse gravity, push the toothpaste back in the tube. Whatever it takes!

In a country which just elected and re-elected a black president — whose grace feels now almost painful to recall

/facepalms

Someone saw it coming a long time ago:

George Washington did not want us to have political parties. He lived just before the age of a Loyal Opposition. Something the Democrats never quite mastered.

A country designed to resist tyranny has now embraced it.

A country fed up with a worthless, even dangerous, political class has hired the strongest man available, a man with no military experience, whose power is one entirely of personality, to clean its public house. A man with riches, unimaginable in Washington’s day, to return to, who needs no more. Bless him, and all who follow him.

The New Mercantilism and the New, New Deal

Vox Day mentions Ian Fletcher and the New Mercantilism:

If corporate America pretty much has to make a profit by selling goods to Americans by Americans, this means that corporate America has an intrinsic interest in the productivity of Americans and in their ability to consume. Now, productivity plus consumption is prosperity, I mean, that’s pretty much all it is, so if you have an economy that’s set up that way then corporate America pretty much wants what the rest of us want, and for decades in this country, roughly from 1940 to 1975 there was an arrangement in this country where things were set up that way. It wasn’t perfect, but there was, broadly speaking, a structural alignment between what was in the interests of big corporations in this country and what was in the interest of the average American.

No, I can’t sign on to this. No “New, New Deal.”

America is set up to systematically screw the worker because Congress (95% Democrat-controlled), “roughly from 1940 to 1975,” took more and more money from workers and sold it back to older workers, collecting their votes “in kind.” It was a neat grift, but you can’t jack the rates anymore, and I cannot and will not endorse it. (“Employer-based” “health care”: same grift, different sector.) We need to undo the damage and return Americans to a competitive position by unf–king the system.

Yes, protectionism works in some areas. Defense plants must be built in the US. US agriculture subsidies should be paid out from the Department of Defense, since they protect us from dependence on foreign foodstuffs but D.C. loves denial, so the Ag Dept does it. A small tariff on goods entering the US is probably a good idea for tracking and to stabilize trade between nations. (If your sleeve is being tugged by a Liber-tard mooing about dem ebul $21 bn in ag subsidies, remember $112 bn, 80% of DeptAg budget, goes to SNAP, the new name for food stamps.)

Vox, you’re wrong; so is Fletcher. Yes, we need massive reform, but 85-90% of these wounds are self-inflicted. The GOP has failed all reform; they do not have the ruthlessness to win, or even set up a win.