The Case for Trump 2024: Riding Waves

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— Richard Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) July 27, 2024

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— Gaddius (@GaddiusMaximus) July 27, 2024

In the 2016 election, I went along with the Alt-Right frenzy and supported Donald Trump, although I was much more reserved in the reasons that I gave for supporting him. I never bought into the “God Emperor Trump” nonsense. I never fell in love with a meme or my own idea of Trump.

In the 2020 election, I was extremely blackpilled in the wake of the collapse of the Alt-Right after Charlottesville. I did not vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. I was exhausted with the chaos of the Trump presidency and was ready for it to be over. I wanted to move on. As in 2016, I was influenced by the climate of negativity and cynicism of the activists in my internet silo who seemed to have swung from euphoria to depression on the Trump Question in the span of four years.

In the 2024 election, I have become more detached from politics. I have a larger family and work a lot more than I used to. I have less time to pay attention to activists. Over the past four years, I have also seen all sorts of things that have led me to believe that the collapse of the Alt-Right was inevitable and that activists played our hand poorly in the 2016 election. In light of where so many of these people ended up, I am much more skeptical of the thinking and judgment of activists than I used to be.

2024: The Do Over Election

2024 is the do over election.

Donald Trump is running for president. Trump is running for a second chance and a second term. The Revenge Tour is also a second chance for activists to avoid the mistakes that we now regret and handle ourselves the way we should have the first time around.

A big mistake that I now regret was giving interviews to “journalists.” I personally never said anything to a “journalist” which I would not publicly say on my own website. In retrospect, I now see that “journalists” were fishing for comments from activists which could be used to damage Trump and the movement. I only gave very moderate comments to the press, but other activists went on the record to say all sorts of absurd, damaging things and gave unbelievable levels of access to hostile actors.

Here are some examples of what they have to show for it:

Never again.

Attention is like crack for activists.

In the 2016 election, they gave interview after interview to the press, spammed Twitter with swastikas and gas chamber memes and paraded with tiki torches into the national spotlight in Charlottesville and in doing this went on the record to identify themselves to the world as Trump’s Top Guys. In retrospect, they were painting a gigantic bullseye on their foreheads.

Still to this day, some of these of people do not see the relationship between the national attention and scrutiny that they courted and the social media bans, criminal charges and endless lawfare they were hit with. In particular, the Roberta Kaplan lawsuit over Unite the Right was funded by Reid Hoffman and was a strike from the top levels of the Democratic Party. It was payback from people close to Hillary Clinton: Karen Dunn, Roberta Kaplan and Gov. Terry McAuliffe who controlled the Virginia State Police. The clearest example of this is the DOJ indictment of Douglass Mackey aka Ricky Vaughn who Luke O’Brien described as a “field commander in the assault on Our Democracy.”

Rather than seeing this coordinated campaign as Hillary Clinton’s Revenge Tour, which is what it was given the people and the money involved, the retarded narrative took root among activists on X that it was Trump who had “betrayed” the Alt-Right. In reality, it was activists who had decided that the best use of our time was to parade through Charlottesville at Jason Kessler’s rally chanting Nazi slogans and to emulate MILO’s Dangerous Faggot tour for media attention and to get into pointless street battles with Antifa in the most liberal parts of the country like Portland, OR and Berkeley, CA.

Hail Trump was one debacle.

Chris Cantwell earning the sobriquet the “Crying Nazi” was another.

Eli Mosley’s stolen valor story in the New York Times was yet another.

“Journalists” are not your friends and denying them access could have saved us a lot of trouble. The Richard Spencer college tour was driven by narcissism and could have been avoided. The pointless street fights with Antifa could have been avoided. The “free speech” rallies in liberal strongholds could have been avoided. The bipolar reaction to Trump winning the presidency could have been avoided. Throwing ourselves in front of MAGA to absorb the backlash to Trump was another.

In 2024, as a more seasoned and experienced activist, I refuse to do interviews with journalists. I am a tepid supporter of Trump. I am voting less for Trump than against Kamala Harris. I not going to stupid rallies in the most liberal cities in the country with total strangers. I am not going to pointless college tours. I am going to stay at home and watch how this plays out and leave the street battles to MAGA. I am not a True Believer anyway and it is not my job to fight Trump’s enemies and absorb the costs of doing so.

Riding Waves

American politics is extremely polarized.

Neither party is popular enough to command a majority large enough to push through its agenda. As a result, we have these predictable swings from one party to another: Obama in 2008, the Tea Party in 2010, Trump in 2016, Democrats in 2018, Joe Biden in 2020, likely Trump in 2024.

In 2016, the Alt-Right caught the Trump wave and got drunk on their own kool aid and it ended badly and the movement got wiped out. 2016 was a very rare occasion when activists gelled with a mainstream Republican candidate. The Trump wave in 2016 brought in an enormous new audience to the movement and activists succeeded in channeling new people into reading their web zines, watching their YouTube channels and listening to their edgy podcasts. The same has been true of previous waves like the Pat Buchanan campaigns and the Ron Paul campaigns. The movement has always been rejuvenated by this dynamic with mainstream politics. The waves come and go and always recede.

As activists, I think we have to get better at riding these waves and making the most of these opportunities to reach a larger audience. Donald Trump has never been more popular than he is today. The Right has never been more united behind him. Personally, I do not believe that Trump is going to Make America Great Again (I didn’t in the 2016 election either), but it is not in my interest to antagonize those who do. I’m on the side of people like Corey Comperatore. I basically agree with them that Kamala Harris would be a terrible president. It is not my interest to antagonize these people or mock them or sneer at them like the other activists on the beach, but rather to connect with some of them and try to educate them and lead them in a better direction after Trump has departed national politics. These waves come and go and my cynical view is that we should make the most of them to find new allies.

I’m going along with this out of solidarity with my peers although I do not really believe in either the man or the message. Trump will not succeed in Making America Great Again. If he wins the 2024 election, this is his last chance and MAGA will be forced at least to move on from this delusion. If I am wrong and it is sunshine and rainbows in 2028, then I will happily admit that I was wrong.

Instead of being a lemon, I think the practical thing to do in this election cycle is to make some lemonade. You do not have to be a True Believer to publicly support Trump. The majority of influencers who are doing it on the Right are adjusting their sails to take advantage of the favorable winds. They are correct in their assessment that it is pointless and damaging to spit in the wind. They are navigating political reality with an eye toward protecting themselves and gaining something from this election cycle, not making some autistic points about THE TRUTH which only activists are going to care about.

As usual, the point of this article is to explain my own thinking because otherwise you would not understand the shifts in my position. I am not telling you to vote for Donald Trump. You are capable of making your own decisions. This is my attempt to flesh out my own inner monologue.

1. The Right finally moves on from Trump in 2028

2. The Alt-Right has terrible political instincts

3. Joe Biden has been a sedative as president

4. Activist brain blinds us and creates prejudice against conservative normies

5. Trump is the leader because he is the best of the Republicans

6. “Worse is better” is a cope and was tried in 2020 and maintains the status quo

7. Voting is not a sacrament. Few know this

8. Voting is not going to change anything about Zionism in the next four years

9. Activists have the chance to ride the Trump wave without making the same mistakes