Why I voted for Trump

I realize that Trump is far from perfect, and some prominent figures on the dissident right have said they are not voting for him. His first term accomplished little (if anything) besides mobilizing the hate-filled left to combat the “fascist threat.” (And if he wins again, there will be rioting that will make the rioting of 2016 look like a picnic.) But I voted for him (I’m in an early-voting state). This is why.

Listening to Joe Rogan’s podcast with Trump, Trump admitted that he had no clue about how Washington worked when he got there. This resulted in lots of bad appointments, like John Bolton, who never saw a war he didn’t like. Christopher Wray, who has shown nothing but hatred toward all things Trump since being appointed. John Kelly, who now says Trump is a Hitler lover. He is quite aware of the problem: “Mr. Trump’s greatest regret from his first term is hiring staffers whom he came to believe were the wrong people.”

Because Trump seems aware of his mistakes, I trust it will be better next time, although having Robert Lutnick as co-chair of his transition team is certainly troubling. Lutnick has said that he is in close touch with Jared Kushner (a huge cancer in his first term), despite Kushner’s claim that he was not going to be involved. Scary.

And Trump has floated names like Tom Cotton and Mike Pompeo for Secretary of Defense or State. This is indeed worrisome—but far from assured. Given Trump’s much-advertised commitment to non-intervention and avoiding wars (i.e., the stance that alienated the neocons like Bill Kristol, Jennifer Rubin, and Max Boot in 2016), one would think he would have learned not to appoint neocon war mongers. His closeness with Tucker Carlson would certainly weigh against that, since Tucker has often railed against the neocons and their promotion of forever wars; he has loudly opposed the Ukraine war and the endless wars in the Middle East.

And yes, I realize that if anything, Trump is more wedded to the Israel Lobby than Harris. His campaign got $100 million from Miriam Adelson, widow of Israel-firster Sheldon Adelson who got Trump to appoint Bolton via the same kind of money as Miriam has contributed. Sheldon Adelson fervently hoped that his support would get Trump to make Iran into a nuclear wasteland. Didn’t happen, and I don’t think it will happen the second time around.

And the general point is that the Israel Lobby dominates U.S. foreign policy toward Israel, whether it’s the Democrats or the Republicans. Like Biden and only because of all those Arab voters in Michigan, Harris may criticize the Israelis more because of their ongoing genocide in Gaza (which now includes banning the UNRWA from the West Bank and Gaza), but there’s no reason to think that she would withhold the military aid from Israel and would continue to involve U.S. forces in shooting down whatever Israel’s enemies throw at them. Bottom line: No difference between the candidates. Effectively, it’s a wash.

But there are people would push back against the threats represented by the likes of Jared Kushner. People like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon—recently freed from his bogus imprisonment, and Elon Musk. I think that Carlson truly “gets it,” although he is not as explicit as would be ideal (remember, the perfect is always the enemy of the good). Carlson has a huge following on his podcasts and live shows. He has definitely shown signs of getting off the Conservatism Inc. reservation. He has interviewed Trump and J.D. Vance, and he will be hosting an event at Mar-a-Lago on election night. A Trump victory would cement his status in the GOP—definitely a good thing.

Carlson’s April, 2021 monologue on his Fox News show is the most powerful and most explicit statement in the mainstream media that Whites—as Whites—have an interest in immigration. He portrayed the middle class as one of the victim groups of the Great Replacement as America is transformed into a society with a hostile, ultra-wealthy elite who are politically supported by a dependent mass of Democrat voters and college-miseducated White liberals. And he dueled with the ADL, pointedly discussing their hypocrisy on immigration to the U.S. vs. immigration to Israel. No wonder he was fired from Fox News.

Carlson’s interview with Darryl Cooper showed that he rejected some basic parts of the standard World War II narrative, such as the hero cult of Winston Churchill so dear to the neocons. And he was excoriated by the left for his interview with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister who is opposed to transforming Hungary away from its ethnic and cultural roots.

Cooper’s take on election fraud is spot on without going into what are widely considered on the left as conspiracy theories. Tucker read it verbatim on a 2021 show:

Tucker Carlson Reading @martyrmade‘s Viral Thread On Why So Many Trump Supporters Have Questions About The 2020 Election & Their Distrust Of The Mainstream Media pic.twitter.com/HY6MECgd3s

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021

Elon Musk’s support for Trump — not only financially (at least $119 million which is greater than Adelson’s), but also happily appearing with him at rallies — is important because of Musk’s celebrity status and very large following on X, especially among young men. Musk is increasingly off the reservation in his tweets: “The damage was done,” [holocaust activist] Deborah Lipstadt remarked about a Musk post on X. “The endorsement of the Great Replacement theory was very harmful.” Lipstadt added that she disapproved of what she saw as any attempt to “mitigate” Musk’s earlier tweet, without criticizing ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt directly. “You can try to mitigate, but once you open the pillow, it’s like chasing the feathers,” she said.

Musk was replying to a user who wrote, “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s— now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities [they] support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”

Musk responded, “You have said the actual truth.”

Greenblatt joined a loud chorus in condemning that post. Other Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee, harshly condemned it. Later in the same thread, Musk went after the ADL itself, saying the group “push[es] de facto anti-white racism.” He apologized for a lot of this and made the mandatory visits to Auschwitz and Israel, but it’s hard to believe that he now rejects these ideas.

Steve Bannon is a strong and influential Trump supporter who got into a war with Kushner during the Trump presidency—a war that he lost. I suspect he totally gets it on the danger Kushner would represent to a new Trump administration.

Incidentally, the gender gap will be huge in this election, and Democrats are actively encouraging the wives of Trump-supporting husbands to vote for Harris. Trump Derangement Syndrome is especially common among White women—obsessed as they are with abortion rights, ignoring everything else. Women are more conformist because of fear of consequences—social ostracism — and departing from the moral consensus of the mainstream liberal media is certain social death in many social circles. White women are also more empathic than men and hence more likely to have empathy for all the victim groups created by our hostile elite.

And White women are much less prone to identifying with their race, at least partly because of fear of that same ostracism from the contemporary moral community (which is now a pathological consensus created and managed by our hostile elites that dominate the media and academia and aggressively police what politicians say). Moral communities are the social glue of Western societies.

White men, including many young White men, are beginning to see that everything is increasingly stacked against them—jobs, promotions, etc. DEI is completely opposed to their interests. They are attracted to Trump’s masculine persona in an age when the left rejects it. Trump’s interview with Joe Rogan definitely appeals to young men—they even talk about UFC stuff.

But the main reason to vote for Trump — the reason that, IMO, makes this a no-brainer — is that a Kamala Harris administration would be a complete disaster for our side:

Creating a Permanent Leftist Majority. The Left is clearly aiming at a permanent majority, and another four years would allow them to cement it. Despite Harris’s newfound claims that she will enforce the border, who can believe it when she has previously called for abolishing ICE and happily stood by as Mayorkas completely demolished the border? (I never blame Biden for anything because he was non compos mentis for pretty much his entire administration.) They blame Trump for not agreeing to a horrible “bipartisan” immigration bill (>1.8 million/year, not including ports of entry), that included lots of money for more border patrol officers so they could process illegals faster. All this when they could have stopped the onslaught at any time by simply reversing the policies they adopted on Day 1 of the Biden administration.

Another 10–15 million illegals in addition to the massive number already here would further change Congressional representation in favor of blue states—illegals affect elections even if they don’t vote. And Dems would have a massive amnesty to ensure that their new dependents (immigrants and their descendants are far more likely to be on welfare) would vote as soon as possible.  In fact, they have already made it virtually impossible to deport illegals, leading to what the House GOP called a “quiet amnesty.”

Another Democrat administration would also result in a push to end the electoral college, so states like California would have even more influence than they do now. California has already made it illegal to ask for voter ID. How can anyone believe that vote totals from California are remotely valid?

The result would be a permanent left majority, dramatically opposed to the interests of the soon-to-be-former White majority and funded as it always has been by Jewish money and reflecting perceived Jewish interests in a non-White America.

Censorship. The Left wants media censorship to silence the right, while the right’s proposals for censorship only involve LGBT+ propaganda directed at children, although admittedly, I and some others were banned from X in the post-Musk era. Nevertheless, X is much hated on the left because people like Nick Fuentes are still holding forth with oftentimes very anti-Jewish statements—far less subtle than what I was posting.

As Hillary Clinton noted, “Without censorship, we will lose control…” The lack of social media prior to the internet age led to the complete dominance of Jewish-owned media and their poisonous messages. The possible end of this dominance is a major problem for Jewish organizations and for the left in general—hence the hatred toward Elon Musk since he bought Twitter. The intolerance of the left even toward mainstream conservatives is well established. They are essentially banned from college campuses because of the well-grounded fear of leftist rioting.

Historically the move toward censorship has been led by the ADL and other Jewish organizations. In my 2002 Preface to The Culture of Critique, I wrote about the ADL’s already-robust attempt to pressure media corporations to censor the internet. This reached its apex in the 2020 election suppression of the Hunter laptop story and of dissident information on Covid, the former of which kept enough votes in the Biden column to swing the election, and latter of which dramatically changed voting procedures in a way conducive to fraud. Needless to say, both of these stories turned out to be true and together helped swing the election for Biden.

Promotion of censorship is now common in high places on the left and has resulted in a large body of legal scholarship promoting it. For example, leftist SCOTUS judge Elena Kagan is entirely on board, writing in 1993 that the Supreme Court “will not in the foreseeable future” adopt the view that “all governmental efforts to regulate such speech … accord with the Constitution.” But in her view, there is nothing to prevent it from doing so. Clearly, she does not see the protection of viewpoint-based speech as a principle worth preserving or set in stone. Rather, she believes that a new majority could rule that “all government efforts to regulate such speech” would be constitutional. All government efforts.

And because the present conservative majority is so distasteful to the left, many on the left are demanding that a leftist majority be created by Congress—i.e., by packing the Court.

More Leftist Judges. The left will continue to appoint radical judges prone to enforcing censorship and facilitating lawfare against White advocates (see the work of Gregory Conte on the trials resulting from the Charlottesville marches; or the travesty of the January 6 trials [Trump promises to pardon the protesters]; or the campaign against Vdare by NY AG Letitia James and liberal New York judges).

Reverting to the old GOP. Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of the Trump ascendency in the GOP is that it has threatened to destroy the old neocon-big business GOP. Neocons like the aforementioned Kristol, Rubin and Boot deserted early on, and the GOP became identified with the White working class. If Harris wins, the GOP will revert to the Conservatism Inc.-Paul Ryan-Liz Cheney-Adam Kinsinger-Bush party of war mongering and tax cuts for the wealthy. The result would be leftism lite: eternal war, pro-non-White immigration, and a conservatism that delays leftist agendas for a few years (Coming soon: “The conservative argument for free, government-funded transgender surgery for migrants and prisoners”). Trump’s greatest accomplishment would be to permanently take the GOP away from the neocons and stuffed-shirt liberal Republicans and preventing it from reverting to its role as a loyal component of the uniparty. It’s interesting that arch-neocon Robert Kagan (husband of the notorious Victoria Nuland who engineered the Ukraine war) resigned after Jeff Bezos’s non-endorsement of Harris. Clearly the Dems are the war party.

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So please vote for Trump even though you have serious misgivings.  It’s like Pascal’s wager. If you vote for Harris you are sure to lose big when she wins—the left would love to throw us in prison when they get their permanent majority. At the very least.

On the other hand, if you vote for Trump, you are reasonably hoping he would be better than Harris. And quite possibly, much better. And we have to think about what comes after if Trump wins — quite possibly an irrevocably changed GOP that is much more attuned to White interests. It could happen.

In recent years I’ve been thinking about the situation in the U.S. as analogous to the end of the Roman Republic — a time of civil wars and instability such that most people were relieved when Augustus established the Empire. We are inexorably headed to an either-or moment of autocracy, either by the left or by the right. I’m hoping it’s a populist autocracy that protects the interests of the traditional American White majority. The left wants to destroy us and will do so if they get enough power.