I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I am an indolent lecher, wallowing in erotic and pornographic dirt. I’m next thinking of forming a new and innovative porn studio. Now I see many parts of the public turning to still filthier pursuits than mine. There’s such a thing as mental pornography more compromising than the real. After widespread disappointments or maybe a kind of congealing senility and inertia of these two years, public discourse is reduced to the rehashing of the same enraged and doctrinaire two sides that existed around 2007. The left’s ongoing imbecile instabilities keep on unchanged, where both in France and America it embraces a geriatric international racial Marxism that pretends the last fifty years didn’t take place, with dinosaurs like Melenchon and Bernie Sanders now leading the fight supposedly for “affordability” “health care,” and “funding for high schools.” The right in America has split into two camps: on one hand mindless cheerleading of this administration, on the other mindless condemnation, both hysterical. The right of whatever type now caters to the kind of corny rage-politicsball porn that Elon Musk enjoys…and it’s very much a form pornography, though dull.
The reasons for exhaustion and disappointment with the second Trump administration aren’t as exotic as some of its defenders would like to suggest. I want to rate the Trump administration’s performance before the congressional elections of 2026. I’m only going to present here my own special concerns…there may be other problems too, but I mean to say my own impressions as a long-time admirer of Donald Trump. And also...what follows isn’t an assessment of Trump the man himself, who I believe is a historically unique individual. He stands so far above our time, what was possible in 2015, and what is still possible, that I believe he will in some centuries be remembered still as an almost lone man of vibrant color shining out against a gray bleak age of low aspirations and erased men. Quite aside from any policy proposals and achievements, he showed future generations that life in some vital sense is still possible on a grand scale in a time of almost total constriction. In Bronze Age Mindset I said this same thing: I very much doubted that Trump would be able as one man to fix the mess of modern nations. It was his example as a man unconstrained that would be the inspiration. (As for the extra matter I had hoped for, the loosening of law enforcement repressions that would allow parts of the younger right cohorts to organize in clandestine groups, it’s as yet unknown whether this has been so).
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I want to emphasize in the president’s favor that Trump has saved the world from a lot of evil with his ending of USAID in particular. Multiple fetid rooms under vicious fluorescent lights, vicious yellow lights, NGO office parks full of grim religious-moral fanatics have been shut down. This likely saved millions of foreigners from well-funded detrimental-robot busybodies. The work of DOGE and a few other agencies under his order, to hammer the knees of the bloated domestic rentier state has also been supremely important. Institutions and programs buttressing minority entitlements and ethnic mobilization that were self-sustaining job biomes for the left have been shut down; he also took on to a large extent the putrid economy of corruption, waste, and shystering manned by and for olds…all of this has been very important work. Then most of all there’s immigration. Trump alone was able to make the crisis of Global South mass migration the dominant matter of our time—before him many tried and failed. He did all of this single-handed and alone, by sheer force of his charm and personality and courage…and he did it by inspiring with images of a revived and dynamic America. He brought back hopes of an energetic and ambitious American people, the people of the moon landings, Hoover Dam, Empire State and, one hoped, many more adventures to come. It is because I am for Trump and his vision, from the day he announced in 2015—unlike most of you reading, I am guessing—that I write this article as a warning and wake-up call. What he could have achieved, and maybe still might, is put in great danger by recent bad priorities, mistakes and many squanderings.
Then in Trump’s favor for now I also say about the populist leaders of our time, especially Trump and Bolsonaro the elder, that they have been let down by their populations as much as they’ve let people down. It’s very easy to lie back and criticize as an audience and a consumer of politics entertainment. Foolish commentators want to pretend they would have been “stronger,” ignoring the fact that, e.g., Bolsonaro did try to cross the Rubicon…but the military there simply refused, as they would for Trump. As sole individuals without any institutions on their side, the only recourse these leaders would have had was mass popular mobilization, which, however, modern populations aren’t energetic and defiant enough to do maybe. There hasn’t been any Populyst leader outside of government in either America or Brazil or any other nation who has tried, for example, to create labor unions or other nongovernmental fronts with a chain of command that could have come to the executive’s aid in times of trouble. The examples also of Venezuela and Iran show that modern states can take almost unlimited popular unrest and still persevere. “It’s a tough scene” for revolutionaries today. (I wrote my book also as inspiration for middle-level colonels and junior generals in smaller nations where better opportunities exist.)
The Trump administration’s problems in 2026 and 2028, as well as the likely longer-term problems for the right I see in the 2030’s also have no bearing on whether it was right to support him and be hopeful in 2016, 2020 or 2024. There are now a few commentators claiming that had it not been for Trump, there would have been a burgeoning White Nationalist (and possibly Socialist!) movement. These remind me of complaints that I personally, maybe with my book, robbed various obese nerds and dork influencers of leadership of what otherwise would have been a Socialist Youth vanguard. Of course no such things plausibly existed in 2014 or 2016: the alternatives then were Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush in America, with the offputting chalupa Ted Cruz and the dried-up seltzer prune Boynie Sanders and so on as the “dissidents”; and in Europe there persisted similar bleakness. Trump did in fact change all this single-handed.
He gave people around the world a taste of freedom again, and greatness of aspiration: which is why he also deserves a lot of blame for losing this focus and surrounding himself often with substandard staffers who have flattered his worst impulses.
Nevertheless, supposed viable political alternatives to Trump “from the right” continue to exist mostly as an online contrivance. Ten years after 2026 parties and organizations that are branded as “hard right” or far right or even populist in forms even slightly less tactful than Trump’s continue to perform, when they encounter any contact with reality, at levels they performed also in 2008 or 2009. Outside the astroturf of the Elon-ADL condominium on sites like X, they have no reality. Although the left runs DSA-Red candidates successfully in the United States and wins major elections or organizes major marches and commotions undisturbed at will in Europe (e.g., the recent far-left Linke success in Berlin or the Paris street riots ongoing now), the “hard right” to Trump’s supposed right hasn’t credibly contested a single election in the United States. It’s been, again, over ten years, and nothing, not even a state-level win. Even as milquetoast a creature as Laura Loomer, in conditions ideal for her to make the attempt, lost by a large margin simply because for normal audiences she’s branded as “altlite.” Otherwise candidates like Casey Putsch or the possibly entirely fraudulent James Fishback continue to perform same as Paul Nehlen did in 2016, which is the same as “far right” candidates did in 2008. Even after years of publicity for “altright” talking points since 2016 and apparent hand-holding by a salivating leftist press, so far not one has approached the success that the similarly hopeless closet case David Duke attained in the early 1990’s. In England the new and unfortunate Restore Party got not only a smaller percentage but a lower absolute number of votes than the BNP did in 2009.
It looks like Trump retiring won’t open the gates to a “hard right” political insurgency of popular rallies in bellboy outfits doing a Hardcore neo-Weimar “ethnonationalism,” but back to the dreary landscape before 2015. (One can judge how much the left and the establishment fears the prospects of a “far right” by the fact that the SPLC bankrolled much of it…it is, for the left and the authorities, at most a great opportunity…and most surely a scarecrow for scaring grandmas into sending donations). Complaints about Trump from “the right” are as disingenuous and hopeless as those of traditionalist, religious and social conservative Republicans, who will without a doubt return to their decades-long loserish ways after he retires.
Thus in everything that follows I want to keep in mind Trump’s uniqueness as well as his great promise. On the other hand this again doesn’t excuse his derailed priorities…it makes recent behavior much worse. The other “retard right,” which has turned itself into a Cable News-like cheering-on of the president no matter what he does, not only fails to help and serve him well…but also abolishes itself. Nobody logs on to hear mindless cheering and broadcasting of “support” of this administration or of anything else…as little as they log on to hear rote condemnation. Why? They could just watch that on screamers from TV. Why not get a job on TV or for the RNC if you want to do cheerlead broadcasting then? Demanding Party Unity under, of all things, the corny PR of Elon Musk and Catturd from 2017…or to demand assent and clapping from others on pain of calling them traitors or leftists or “groypers” or wreckers… There is also the closely related matter of perverse incentives here, in that this front of clapping seals needs their mirror image as a foil, so as to be able to smear all criticism by means of that inversion. But both are caricatures.
Trump was a great man and plausibly the type of Caesar—a real estate mogul, stand-up comedian, reality-TV innovator, social media and PR genius—that a postmodern America deserves. In the end, he was so alive in our dead time that maybe it didn’t even deserve him…
Ten years of Trump may well pass through America in a more evanescent way than twenty of Mussolini did through Italy…
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But now for the disappointments. Recently several commentators claimed that disapproval or apathy on this presidency’s achievements comes from the public’s insufficient memory and fickleness. This could then maybe be solved with more effective reminders of its (very real, in my opinion) successes, or in other words by messaging and PR. This is however an old excuse conservatives use about all kinds of failures…and so I’ll give a favorite example.
This all reminds me of the conservative claim that the Vietnam war was or would have been a great success but for the leftist media’s agitation against it. Allow me this tangent: I think in that case Hilaire du Berrier was correct in his 1965 book Background to Betrayal, published in the year many take the Vietnam war to have started. A man of the hard right, American patriot, and world adventurer on the level of a James Bond, the case he makes in this book—one of the best political books of the last 100 years—is that through the contrived puppet dictator Diem, the United States taxpayer had been duped into destroying all the vital anticommunist factions of South Vietnam under the pretense of “nation building.” America supported a socialist labor leader whose own government was riddled with Vietminh and “ex” North Vietnamese security officials who directed all their efforts to destroying South Vietnam’s own security immune cells. Thus after 1965 there wasn’t really anything to “win”: even great American military might and money could be applied to prop up a territory left without immune system or spine of its own…but that was it. Thus the considerable military and intelligence successes of 1969 and after were all too late and couldn’t deliver a favorable political resolution, regardless of media portrayals or American elite solidarity. By the early to mid-1960’s, American intelligence and funding took out the last Vietnamese Emperor Bao Dai, the many secret societies, and the French “colonialist oppressor” remnants, which is the say the institutions of South Vietnamese identity. These were the only power centers and constituencies that could have sustained resistance to communist rule in South Vietnam. The only alternative at that point would have been American annexation, which was obviously not on the table.
It’s important here also to remember that America isn’t an “empire,” and was never able to sustain one even when it genuinely tried like in the Philippines. The pretense America is an empire is of course important for leftist polemics. In the right’s case it encourages a delusional strutting as if you are a conqueror when in fact you don’t enjoy any of the actual benefits of a conqueror.
Vietnam ended up communist in the end anyway. America spent more than a decade of effort, untold money and the lives of tens of thousands of young soldiers to pursue Soviet strategic ends. The actual escalated war itself 1965-74 is very interesting to study, but it was an exhausted coda. It was not winnable without radical domestic changes bordering on science-fiction and therefore the efforts were much sound and fury without issue.
The problem with the Trump administration of 2024 and after is analogous in that it feels like a coda that comes too late, too little and probably can’t achieve what people hoped for. Here also there are considerable successes and there are actions and especially words that come now from an American president that I would have never thought possible in 2015. Some are major tactical wins. And yet it all feels like it’s “not what you thought”… by summer 2026 you get sensation it’s like shooting a bullet at a hill. This isn’t because of the democratic mob’s forgetfulness and effeminacy. Nor can it be waived away through some Buddhist reasoning on the vanity of achieved desire, or the emptiness of post-orgasm depression. I think Peter Thiel is right that there’s an “exhaustion” on the Republican side. There was in fact no consummation and by now there’s a feeling there won’t be: I want briefly as a supporter of Trump from the moment he declared in 2015 to try to explain why there’s disapproval and disappointment with his second term.
At the end I try to recommend some emergency measures…though I know they’re going to be more like fantasy wishes.
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If you understand Trump’s promise as not just an avatar of middle white America, but actually a man with concrete proposals on immigration, trade policy, and foreign interventionism, who ran in order to reverse really terrible mistakes made by the incompetent political establishment of the United States…and you saw the results on these three specific fronts now in the second term…what would you conclude?
The Iran war demoralized Trump’s earliest supporters just by the fact that it took place at all. Against all his promises and behavior during the first administration, and against Vance’s and Miller’s promises in the 2024 campaign also, this war in particular was a mistake for any reason and regardless of outcome just because it consists of a reversion of priorities back to the pre-Trump era of senseless and profitless interventionism. If it had gone well, all these complaints would have little power…but it hasn’t gone well. The Venezuela raid was an amazing military-political operation that I see people in my travels around the world still remark on with wonder. I think it convinced Trump the same could be done in Iran. There was no plan B or C if a decapitation didn’t lead to a coup or regime change or for what to do if Iran predictably did what everyone always knew it would, close down the strait of Hormuz with relatively cheap and solid methods. Trump can’t blame this on neocons or the GOP establishment—he walked into this by himself. It was a huge derailment and squandering of his momentum and political capital and it’s disgusting that people made excuses for this. If there’s one big thing that will have sabotaged all potential of the second term, it’s this stupid and entirely avoidable misadventure.
I don’t want to dwell on economic matters, as I’m not an economist or finance guy and it’s tedious to me. I refer here to my earlier article on tariffs for my opinions on that. There’s now a lot of outrage over gas prices, inflation, affordability, which I can’t comment on and which it’s almost surely unfair to blame on Trump. I know Americans and now the French and Germans are pretending to be very mad over prices but in my opinion they’re really angry over the general suffocation of life and opportunities under a burgeoning demographic bulge of olds and useless population dross. And it is this decrepit thing where a death of freedom and general boredom of the prison looms over all of us that concerns me…and that I saw Trump as possibly a symbol against. So it’s his faltering in this role that bothers me…I can’t talk about the price of diesel or beef. (Probably food should be more expensive in obese places like America and Mexico. Maybe millions should go on a diet.)
The stupidest part of the tariffs and Trump’s economic policy isn’t any passing material effect, it’s the way he allows many barnacles to distort his promise of a dynamic and progressive America that greatly expands freedoms smothered in the last few decades. For example, it became obvious that many of the defenders of tariffs, both among nationalists and religious conservatives or hoary weird “Integralists,” didn’t see these measures as a path to a modernizing America full of economic progress, inventions, and so on. Their aims weren’t to have a nation with great companies able again to make products that exceed the competition and that people around the world actually want to buy (American high-quality products do just fine around the world despite unequal tariffs, whereas Boeing jets and many American cars don’t because they’re bad products). Most important and beyond this, they didn’t see as desirable a resurrection of the wild growth of America in, say, 1890 with its attendant numerous opportunities for the innovative and free-minded. It was for many ideologues who have attached themselves to the Trump moment a political-economy means to achieve the vision of Rick Santorum or Pat Buchanan: a reproduction of mid-20th Century working class white ethnic Catholic life and community for largely moral and aesthetic or denominational ends. It was in other words intended as a jobs program. It was actually similar in spirit to the dreary post-Soviet “keep the toilet factories open” agenda of people like Orban and other ex-Komsomol brown-nosers from the East Bloc. These things about Trump, which he partly encouraged, bother me more than this or that passing material effect because it threatens to confuse his mission even to himself: this is a static vision of life and an alternative prison of sorts, an imprisonment to different types of priests and matrons and wardens than reign among the left. But it’s not compatible with a free youth colonizing Mars.
Another demoralizing aspect of the second Trump term has been a pointless chest-beating against European nations that no one in 2024 actually voted for. The tariffs were defended as a punitive measure against European economies that supposedly had “taken advantage” of America and that now had to pay through tariffs. This was claimed to be just because the United States supposedly “protected” them. It’s a kind of adversarial stance against economies largely already integrated with the American market, and mutual interdependent. It’s also tribute by other means, which America already low-key has imposed on Europe and Japan for decades and which it was very tactless to make explicit against one’s only plausible partners against China…but let’s leave that be.
This constant bullying Europe and Europeans over the tariffs happened also with absurd threats to take over Greenland. Greenland belongs to Denmark, a small and friendly country whose soldiers have faithfully fulfilled their alliance with United States and died in places like Iraq alongside American soldiers. The references to European “colonialism” during these contrived and unnecessary disputes was highly repulsive after years of the left doing the same. As was siding with Morocco over Spain, and now with Argentina over England regarding “colonial” territories and so forth, all at the same time that this administration’s defenders absurdly invoke “Third Worldism” as their opponent…all this cuts a very poor figure, but also works to discredit the right in Europe and to rally populations behind soulless Eurocrats. That the result in the end regarding for example Greenland was something very similar to the status quo before all the commotion is something else that results in exhaustion. In the end it feels like chest-beating for the sake of it. The provocations against Canada, engendering a weird “Canadian nationalism” that drove that public also there into the arms of the left in reaction, and the fumbling of what would have been a plausible bid by Alberta—the most conservative part of Canada—to join the United States (the recent vote went 75% in favor of staying in Canada) is again another missed opportunity. All of this is the result of pointless blustering and boasting.
This posturing against Europe has also significantly damaged the political position of the European right in the last two years. This is foolishly dismissed by American conservatives and diehard Trump loyalists who have returned actually to the views of the Weekly Standard and National Review from the early 2000’s with their bleating about “Eurabia” and sensationalistic agitations about how “Europe is lost.” The ensuing rhetorical competition between the American and European right over who is more “based” versus who is more far gone down the drain is self-defeating for both sides. The United States and Europe are both in trouble; the right on both continents of the greater European world are in very serious trouble and probably need to work together to solve many problems. For this administration to provoke Europeans in this way is simple bullying born of weakness and frustration: hitting and abusing junior friends who you know will not strike back because you can’t achieve your objectives against China or more defiant rivals.
But for Elon and the broader right of which he has crowned himself Big Man Chief, the motivations are I think far worse: he and his preferred conservative biome would very much like to screw all discourse back to 2006 or 2007…maybe with some appropriated 4chan-themed artificial flavor. To achieve this it’s important for them to introduce strife and separation between the European and American right. These had engaged in much intercourse in the years after 2010. Science, a secular turn congruent with Trump’s anti-homily 2015 irreverence, above all humor…and to a lesser but still important measure, engagement with ideas from Nietzsche and the European rightist artistic tradition—Celine, Junger, and others—is what characterized the fresh thinking of a handful of innovative minds during that time, who attracted international attention. Despite the bannings, they continue to be the only reason the “new right,” or call it what you will, attracted any worthwhile attention. It was bracing and new for intelligent audiences on all political sides and for the apolitical as well, to see an opposition to the left, and maybe a version of the right that was not beholden to the narrow, polarized and vulgar political-religious church lady postures of the conservative movement in the United States for the last few decades. And that included a handful of minds who looked at the world in a way entirely new and unseen for many decades. Elon of course hates Nietzsche and Schopenhauer but loves Catturd (look up Elon’s preferred list of influencers and pundits, already published years before). To cater to Elon’s media preferences, the same agitation against Europe that predominated in American conservative media after 9/11 (especially when France, e.g., wisely tried to restrain America from the Iraq mistake) has been reintroduced. This is now rendered through accounts Elon heavily promotes, like “Radio Genoa,” who, for those not on X/Twitter, provides European decline rage-porn basically indistinguishable from black supremacy sexual-political propaganda.
This aside on Elon Musk and X isn’t a tangent of merely personal interest to me: it’s ever harder to distinguish between Elon’s tastes and the orientation of much of the staffers in the Trump administration or even people who have positions in various GOP bodies. Many of these are hired by Trump or his allies but play to Elon’s tastes. Most big “right wing” accounts also are posting to seek favor with him or his appointed viziers and “product heads” on social media. In the policies toward Europe also I don’t really know if actions are sometimes taken because they’re Trump’s orders, or in fact on the initiative of officials who hope to cater to Elon’s preferences and are looking forward to a media career of some type (or even….wretched situation…for potential clicks, clout and retweets and “doing the viral”…if you think this is not a motivation for politicians and government people now…but….you see ladies and gentlemen, the president of Tanzania is a piker because he has less “influence” than me, a Bronze Age Pervert, and…how could this be!)
Just as with Trump’s support for affirmative action and gay rights during his 2016 campaign many of his supporters are willing to look the other way at many of these things as a kind of “artist’s excesses and eccentricities.” He’s certainly an eccentric man and a loving public indulges his vices as a certain kind of man indulges his arthoe mistress in tantrums he’d take from no other woman. But the other men who are coming after Trump won’t be given these lovers’ indulgences. I don’t know if any of them are lovely at all…and in general his political successors as well as the many pundits who hope to achieve money and fame off this moment maybe don’t get it…they don’t see that policy purity or ideological correctness isn’t what drove the Trump thing. I worry they’re going to dig in because that’s all they have. They will become more intolerant, loud “Yes-Chud”'ders. And that heavy-handed humorless turn will give the left wins indefinitely into the future.
Regarding “plans,” it’s worth it to mention that for much of this administration, the National Security Council basically didn’t exist. It was gutted by the apparently dull political operator Susie Wiles in response to some loyalty scandal. But without the NSC there can’t be talk of “trusting plans,” because there’s no mechanism for the president’s orders to be activated through the foreign policy and military structures. I hear this situation is being corrected in the last few months; but before that, talk of “plans” was nonsense. So far from Machiavellian multi-dimensional plans…Trump seems a man who wings it and is often blessed by exceptionally good luck. Again I don’t think special quality will transfer to anyone else after he retires in two years.
Then finally on immigration Trump has on one hand been amazing: he has stopped migration flows, asylum claims, and, as in his first term, greatly curtailed legal immigration. He is addressing H1B visa abuse as well. The things achieved and said on all this are unprecedented and I think Trump’s critics are foolish when they criticize him in facile ways pretending he hasn’t delivered on these promises. He did all this single-handed and it’s only because of his efforts in the 2015 campaign that this is part of American and world political discourse at all. There was absolutely no inevitability that this would become an issue of our time and it was inconceivable in 2014 that you’d soon have an American president and his aides speak openly of the “great replacement.” That said, Trump is considerably limited by law and circumstance in establishing a lasting reversal of the last four years and last three decades of illegitimate mass migration.
Everything he’s done so far on immigration can easily be turned around by the next leftist president. There have been no real changes in law or immigration structure to fullproof one lost election. During the 2024 campaign season I pointed out that the best path would be to induce self-deportation through velvet-glove low-key polite legal measures rather than just punitive ICE raids. Showy raids would be predictably outrageous to a large number of softhanded voters (indeed disapproval of Trump from many young people and college educated white women isn’t as some online would like to claim because he’s not Based enough, but because they are upset by ICE “brutality”; in particular he has record low poll numbers among Latinos because he’s perceived as having “gone too far” on immigration). But I think here too Trump could have gotten away with almost anything if he had done it right: let me then go back on that. Exceptionally brutal raids could maybe have been tolerated and even cheered by the public, black bags asphyxiating abuelas thrown like sweet Andean purple potato sack into the back of a van. As long as this would have achieved a showy and deterrent purpose and as long as it would have been the cinematic accompaniment to more serious measures to scare both migrants’ employers and then the migrants themselves into returning to their sunny and cheerful lands. But instead you got clown show of soyjack people on the make like Bovino and dog-tormentor Kristi Noem fagging off for a future anticipated TV career, again aided by the noxious incentives Elon Musk also contributed to. Much of the immigration posturing was squandered for this very purpose again, to cater to this man’s media consumption tastes.
Self-deportation induced by economic policies would actually be the only real way to effect reverse-migration. Deportation raids are slow and clumsy, and so long as jobs and economic incentives exist, migrants will continue to try to get in even if you were to put up machine gun towers at the border. But maybe if you were to make it illegal for employers, on pain of fines and imprisonment, to submit false social security numbers (or rather to enforce laws already existing against this); and if you were to heavily tax remittances…maybe then reverse migration would begin in mass.
Then to be fair again thoug, one other problem is that if Trump were actually to do this even over outcry and over likely judicial interference, it would lead to the collapse of much of the hotel, restaurant and other service sectors, who are at once regulated to hell and entirely dependent on cheap labor. And so possibly to an economic crash. What? On this too, as dramatic as it is, only half-measures are possible it seems.
I look at how easily Orban’s complete control over that country can be overturned in one election. I think about how pointless the analogous idea would be of fighting in a country like America, already highly “diverse”… for twenty years to fight—a generation, or a lifetime’s work—only for one election to reverse everything; and then a new government can just reopen the migration gates. What’s the point of that? It’s a wasted life and effort.
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As with everything, this administration proceeds without a plan in things big and small—deregulation, prosecution of leftist abuses, the Epstein nonsense. Everything is done it seems without any strategy. If it were done to satisfy emotions it would be bad but might have some energizing effect. But by now it just feels like “based” things are being done at random without regard to consequences or achieving lasting wins. In many cases it feels to me like things are done by foolish or very cynical people in government who are hoping for a media career after…on very little evidence they could ever have one but again because a completely contrived simulation of Cable News has been refashioned on the internet. So they have motive to display maximal Basedness even if it doesn’t lead to anything. Drunk and incompetent, they can then blame their predictable failures on a mysterious Deep State of secret-handshake Evil Elite Harvard Bad Guys. They do this because they imagine that their Activism will win them a TV job after….which may be true in some cases.
The question of no planning and no strategy is closely related to the rapid squandering of political capital that has characterized these last two years. Here are some examples: above all, again, the Iran war that seems unwinnable (even strategic nuclear bombing of that country wouldn’t stop decentralized groups from hindering shipping in the Persian Gulf with cheap drones; Pete Hegseth is up-to-date on all the Prophecies transmitted to him from Afro-Judaean chronicles via Erika Kirk regarding Armageddon and such, but he’s way out of his depth on recent developments in warfare, and was just the wrong man at this time). But there are many other such examples: the inept prosecution of the execrable James Comey, which never had a chance of going through the way it was attempted but which was announced with much pomp; thereby acting as yet another of many “boy who cried wolf” episodes that specifically works to exhaust supporters. Or the political capital spent on such inanities as banning certain law firms from federal buildings. Take also the late Roman-emperor buffooneries over the Kennedy Center reforms, the attempted renovations and takeovers of DC golf courses, leading to court injunctions, misconduct inquiries and the reputation or sympathy capital of the DOJ and this presidency again misspent. Aren’t Elagabalus’ excesses less costly? Lawyers are humans too and want to join winning ventures, and good lawyers have options: half-senile measures like these were a way to drive away talent that might have relished serious pursuit of universities over antiwhite and other forms of discrimination, but who now suspected they’ll be drafted into bullshit pointless lawsuits and just be made to look like clowns.
The apparently pervasive corruption of this administration is another huge demoralization for its supporters. I’m not a moralist when it comes to this: in the past actually great men were also often very corrupt embezzlers…Themistocles, the savior of Greece from Persia had actually to flee Athens (to Persia) because of how big a crook he was. But here the corruption is very obvious and there’s nothing like the Battle of Salamis or Plataea or the salvation of a continent to weigh in exchange. The bad example here was maybe set by Trump himself set even before the inauguration with the crypto scam pump-and-dump coin, and then after with providing paid-for early access to Truth Social posts. But then others have copied him or done even worse. Again I don’t want to sound like Joe Rogan. If all else had been OK, the corruption wouldn’t matter…but where multiple tawdry and irrelevant priorities replace the exciting vision Trump promised in 2016, a perception arises that blatant profiteering isn’t just a charming blemish. There are recent attempts to set this right by firing especially egregious examples like Fox News pornography-news piledriving personality Kimberly Guilfoyle who was in October 2026 let go as ambassador to Greece. There was too much quid-pro-quo sale of her office in OnlyFans prostie style. But it’s too little and very late, and many others in this administration like Witkoff, Lutnick and Kushner are alleged to be doing the same on a much bigger scale.
Much of this is related then to Trump’s bad judgment when it comes to staffing, a problem he had in the first term too. The promotion of multiple mediocrities: both establishment types from Conservative Inc but also “dissident” “loyalists” from Populyst Inc. (e.g., the dull bidnessman Gorka in the first term and the number of drunks like Bannon and his people). The elevation of plastic surgery women freaks and Fox News TV porn-news twats; multiple Republican Hill staffers and various brown-nosers hired from the same think-tanks as before 2015 (now “reformed” with new Talking Points). Meanwhile quite smart, competent and yes, credentialed people loyal to Trump since 2015 can’t get jobs in the administration, or get jerked around for months before getting hired, to then get offered substandard positions…under the above-mentioned unserious characters on the make.
In this connection I also need to say something about supposed rumors about “networks” of nefarious “BAPists” or my imagined associates or disciples in government. As I don’t run a cult, I have no way to know who is or isn’t a “fan” of mine in government at moment. Nor do I have any ability or desire to police who reads or poses with my book. That said, from what I know, very few people who are my friends, or who are like me from the online right, are currently employed in the second Trump administration. (As an “influencer” I’m not supposed to admit this: but take it with a grain of salt when anyone like Brzezinski, or many others, claim to have deep tendrils in the political system…their reputation and often their financial well-being depends on this perception…the right was doing PR for catering administrator Klaus Schwab for years. But as for me, I depend only on my words and what I say.) It appears to me that “frogs” or online posters are either young and inexperienced, and although they can prove intelligence and energy, no one in this administration would be willing to take a chance on them; or they are already so highly qualified in their own fields and industries, or have such good credentials even when young, that for them to accept government work would mean a big pay cut and apparently a big risk.
For these latter types of people no genuine search was made, although this administration desperately needs competent and experienced intelligent people. But when these friends were offered jobs, it was for positions that were below their qualifications. Meanwhile this administration actually continues to be staffed by exactly the same kind of people who did this work before Trump, namely the kind of person who went to DC with ambitions to work in the GOP, to be staffers, to work in GOP-adjacent think tanks, and people from Heritage Foundation. These have learned to say different things now than they would have before 2016…but this doesn’t change that they are the same types of people.
(To understand this problem study the “changing rhetoric” of e.g., the Heritage Foundation head Kevin Roberts and consider the latest topics of his podcast. Go ahead and look them up. He is also the head of the Heritage Oversight Project whose officials in 2022-4 had such interesting priorities as running spaces on X with their factotum Nicolas Fuentes to host “panels of BAP experts” and essentially try to mass-dox me).
The GOP has certainly learned a lesson from Trump, to be more assertive, more cocky, to “Yes Chud”…maybe such fancy questions of style, of game, of agree and amplify. Just like Kasich for example, or Rubio, tried in 2016 primaries to copy Trump’s assertive “New York style.” But the constitution of people actually in government hasn’t changed, and no effort was made at all to find new blood. For me personally this is a grievance and a disappointment…not because I ever wanted government work myself, but because the promise of the Trump moment in 2016 was that things might change and there might be entry for a different type. An honest search could have been made for nonpartisan and highly intelligent young people—yes including with intelligence tests—from outside the usual GOP and dreary conservative channels of recruitment. But the prospects of the equivalent of menaquinone4 being given even a research role in government are now as thin as, on the media side, Steve Sailer getting a regular TV spot...instead it is nobody dull party-line professional ideologues like Bari Weiss, Jeremy Boering and Matt Walsh saying somewhat different things than they would have on cable TV before 2016.
Maybe Matt Walsh can go on a fact-finding trip to Washington DC again and ask why if Washington Monument should be built Big and Black and twice the size! This is your conservative movement manifest, ladies and gentlemen. The result of 2016 wasn’t to elevate and reward a new type of mind in either government or media but to dox, deplatform and chase off any original mind while third-rate piledrivers plagiarize and mimic them.
In government itself, the unfortunate Kristi Noem in early 2025 is a good example of this…one of the colorful strong woman populyst characters whose public many elegances have lent a very particular perfume to this second Trump term and pressed on the nerves of many of his original supporters. In April through June of 2025 the Trump administration tried to defund Harvard in multiple ways. This was justified in public because of a record of DEI, and a lack of viewpoint diversity, or discrimination against conservatives, etc.. Hopefully eventually there would be actions over discrimination of white male students, of which these universities are also obviously guilty. It was again a good cause badly planned: it was inevitably going to be thrown out by a judge because of the lazy way the case was presented (it was in fact thrown out in September of that year I think). The evidence invoked had to do with generalities regarding trends and attendance and relied entirely on referencing a previous ruling, SFFA versus Harvard from 2023. But that ruling was based on a nine-year effort of painstaking collection of individual examples and discovery. If the Trump administration in the DOJ and DHS under Kristi Noem had wanted to achieve their ends, they would have had to build, slow and with many concrete instances over some time evidence of obvious individual discrimination by these universities. It’s the way that the left attacked Liberty University, building a file for two years, with concrete supposed instances of wrongdoing, leading up to a major and unprecedented fine in 2024. Such things could work in courts, but what the Trump administration was trying in spring of 2025 never could.
Thus the very serious matter of reining in leftist universities for their racial discrimination (really, ethnic cleansing of white American males) and long-time discrimination of conservatives was frittered away on a showy but hopeless “tough” chest-beating…the buffonish spectacle of dog-torturer Kristi Noem preening on how she’d bring Harvard down to size and also deport the Degenerate royal, the Princess of Belgium who was enrolled there as a foreign student…a lesson to teach them all…!
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Imagine another world that was less stingy in spirit…or if Trump had the historical imagination to see this unique opportunity he alone had to leave behind him new seeds for the future. The president could have demanded the hiring of a number of bright and energetic young Americans, of which plenty could have been found (for example among the funny and innovative posters who Elon so relentlessly banned off his “free speech” platform in order to turn it into circa-2006 Cable News 2.0). Under the direction of smart and professional one or two lawyers, these could have run a research office with government subpoena powers to document cases of provable discrimination against American-born white males and completed a real file on this, which would take at least maybe a year of work. DOGE, the only attempt I know of actually to do something similar in terms of a youth-run big government research project, ended with some of its agents already forced to give “testimony” before a bullying Stalinist directorate, while their output was largely dismissed.
The ideal case use of DOGE would have been as a fast-track and promotion program for young intelligent white men who are otherwise unfairly discriminated against by America’s increasingly corrupt broken fake “meritocracy.” The left shamelessly funnels state money not just to the bleak beige upkeep of biomass in exchange for votes, but also to its many activists and foundations. DOGE and many other similar research bureaus could have been a way of getting money, connections, and first career experience for highly intelligent and bold young men, bypassing the gunked-up and sclerotic pantsuit channels…this would have been worth it. Restarting USAID and the Peace Corps under another name and with another function and other types of recruits would also have been a good idea…
But the rule of the vampiric old then persists over everything, sinister and without solution. There’s this far worse problem looming over everything. Even if Trump hadn’t started the nonsensical war in Iran, and if by some contrivance mass remigration had been initiated without collapsing sectors of the American economy. Immigration restriction and remigration are long-term benefits for the nation but don’t improve day to day life for the most intelligent few right away. And it is these most intelligent and sensitive who in fact formed the energetic core of the Trump moment. They and those like them who are apolitical are also the material basis of any hopeful future for the nation. Trump’s loyal younger supporters, and let’s say in general, the very intelligent young and ambitious wouldn’t see an immediate benefit in their lives even if all immigration aims were achieved. This is quite aside from the problem that younger men in America, and especially younger white men, have maybe never had it worse regardless of intelligence or skill. There are no economic prospects in general, no prospects of building wealth, and the environment both at work and in relationships is very hostile. In this connection also, massive active ethnic cleansing of young white men from America’s leading universities and institutions continues despite the Trump administration’s efforts…this is quantifiable and maybe right wing people should talk about the numbers instead of vague “dissatisfaction.” The Trump administration are trying to do things regarding antiwhite discrimination in elite institutions, and are actually achieving quite a bit on this front; but huge obstacles are in the way…and so maybe not enough.
The deeper and possibly also unsolvable problem behind this stagnation is the gerontocratic domination of American corporations, society and money. I can’t emphasize this enough, and that this is ultimately the source of my disappointment with Trump and his bizarre priorities. For young, ambitious and intelligent men in particular the possibilities of life today are extremely constricted if you were to compare to American daily life say from 1890-1910. I mean in ease of getting a job, switching careers, ease of starting and running a business. The regulatory burden on small and new businesses alone is a huge demotivator: it’s basically illegal after the 1990’s to start e.g. a new stock trading broker-dealer house (you can check new such small houses in the post 2000’s era compared to before—new registrations in a time called “free market laissez-faire” are off a cliff because bipartisan “anti fat cat” regulations have been written with the big banks to prevent new entries who don’t have access to armies of lawyers. This type of regulatory capture or rentseeking by the timid and hoarding is the essence in a nutcase of the American economy and life now).
Aside from the recent AI-boom, the results of which are still uncertain, vast parts of the American economy are sclerotic, run by risk-averse older or older-souled people in communion with younger women on the make. These latter are also risk-averse, rule-following rent-seekers. Throughout the American economy, media, academia, and government, there is the recurrent phenomenon of the older man who surrounds himself with mediocre and imperious young women out of narcissistic motivations…flattery, vanity, imaginings of affairs or sex and so on, plus the generally pliable and intellectually unthreatening character of these “leadership” aides. Trump himself is a classic example and this syndrome is especially pronounced in Ellis Island “big men,” or those who mimic this manner. Aside from finding a homosexual “big man” counterpart, intelligent youth have few opportunities for advancement. This needs to be addressed somehow…
So even beyond the almost total abandonment of meritocracy by 2021 (and actually well before), the time-serving tranquilized and extraction-seeking aspects of many formerly great American corporations is a constricting net on all economic progress. In a commercial country, that means a suffocation then of life itself. To deliver real changes for his smartest and most devoted and promising supporters—the people who are the only plausible human foundation of a progressive future—Trump would have had to initiate changes to labor law, corporate law, targeted regulations…far more radical than anything proposed now. It’s almost certain that he would have been stopped. The outcry from many large sectors of the economy would be louder and more desperate than anything now from leftist hysteroids having to do with immigration. Forget shrill women: olds, if sufficiently scared or provoked, may well do the financial equivalent of a nursing home tantrum, sell off, crash the economy and kick off a depression.
The problem of housing prices is a good example: younger Americans need lower housing costs, maybe desperately. Not just buying, but for renting: it’s extremely hard for younger Americans to afford an apartment even with roommates now. It’s by far the biggest chunk of the paycheck when they do (well over 50% and often 75%, with little left over). But high housing costs are also the basis for the economic well-being of the older generations. These voted less for Trump in the last election than they normally would for a Republican, but he still has to appease them politically…ejecting them means loss after loss for his allies. There’s then this bind that he’d either have to do things to lower housing prices, and that would without any doubt cost him and his political allies elections; or then he can allow the intolerable housing situation to continue and thereby make the lives of America’s younger cohorts continue to be hellish…how to solve this and many other such things?
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Deteriorated and degenerate times call for emergency solutions. I propose two very imperfect but urgent-intervention paths to address the most pressing problems for the constituency that matters and the demographic crisis pending in the United States:
The demographic and immigration crisis is unsolvable by ways of thinking or tools now used. Talk of increasing the birth rate is insane—no one knows how to do this, no society has been able to figure it out with any predictable measures, and any measure you tried in the current cant-ian environment would likely increase the birth rate of the underclass far faster. Even if successfully somehow limited to tax-paying demographics, it would lead to political and economic results in 20 years…and you need solutions sooner as no body or person is able to plan beyond a few years maximum in modern states. You obviously can’t deport at the scale necessary to reverse the deleterious demographics of America without causing multiple economic crashes. The left imported a constituency so you have to do the same: and in this case, you must put country over party and import a constituency not for an election, because these people may not vote for you to start with…but for the material future of the United States. In Singapore to maintain the ethnic and racial balance ratios of that city, Lee Kuan Yew imported in 1989 25,000 ethnic Chinese families from Hong Kong at one point. You must do the equivalent: Trump must, or must at least attempt, to import millions or tens of millions of white people from West and East Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa and the broader white world. The efforts so far from South Africa and in a more limited way from East Europe are about numbers much too small to make any difference. There is no other way to maintain in the medium term America’s liberties as well as its economic and material-military dominance in the world. This is the only solution, and you have limited time to try: fail to do so and the United States and the West will have a much harder time avoiding humiliation at the hands of the Chinese for a century. No one is solving the “natality crisis”: it’s now increasingly a race to see who can import younger people of high value and rob other nations of this most precious resource. This proposal may be bad for west Europe or Australia but would help the white citizens of the United States (or what I, as a naive immigrant, call “Americans”). Note—it is insane that years into the mainstream of “white nationalism” there’s not a single wannabe-white-Jesse Jackson who’s proposed something like this. This is literally what racial nationalism means; and for better or worse the United States, like South Africa, has an insane racial situation and definition that makes this the only plausible solution. Obviously this can never be the public basis of such policies. But I don’t know what online “white nationalists” are even about at this point. (You can figure out by the way what “Christian nationalism” is from this, and it’s nothing other than advocacy for importation of fellow-believers from Philippines or Africa by another name; which is why they pick Israel as their model…a now-mongrelized Oriental nation of Bible-banging screamers in thrall to old rabbis, lording it over the founding stock of that state). This policy can be achieved not on explicitly racial terms, but by using such (true) reasoning as, “we are trying to open our doors to talented immigrants and are interested in welcoming those from areas underserved by American policy in the last few decades. Also many of you pro-immigration people talk about America as a nation of immigrants: this is a return to that, quite literally, the same nations of people whose prior arrival you are now celebrating as a national success.” Maybe this wouldn’t “fool” leftists, but it’s actually true and it’s fair and I think it may persuade many centrists. Although I have friends who think the United States favoring European immigrantion in mass again is about as likely as the establishment of a NeoAmerican Gestapo or a moon colony. But again, it’s the only way short of a Fiji military coup situation that America saves itself from the cruel fate of a Bosnian future. Predictions of a “Brazilified” America are hopelessly optimistic at this point.
Reform the tax and legal code to allow intelligent and ambitious Americans to form businesses and financially colonize Africa, parts of Asia and parts of the Developing World. At present the United States is one of only two countries that continues to tax its citizens when they are expats and live abroad or make businesses in other countries. There was a recent proposal to reverse this, and the Trump administration deserves credit for trying, but it failed and it was an anemic effort. America furthermore aggressively prosecutes its citizens if they bribe foreign officials or engage in similar necessary actions for enterprise in unusual places. Again, the Trump administration to its credit has stopped this insanity but this can easily be reversed by the next administration. It’s all very stupid: the Chinese are colonizing Africa by allowing Chinese to emigrate there, form tax-free companies and “marry” several African women. They do this because they know even if they forego the so-huge benefit of some minor tax revenue, Chinese doing this abroad increases in the medium term China’s influence and power. (China actually does have its own tax laws, but doesn’t enforce them). The United States must realize the great good to its own future in doing similar and, regardless of these next elections, the Trump administration should work now to create cadres of American youth who are encouraged and empowered with resources to go abroad and make it there. There must be generous grants for those willing to risk it and start a new business in Borneo, Papua, Africa, parts of Latin America…not just for businesses or projects, which exists now (though not enough, and not aggressively promoted)…but there should be efforts for individuals as well, including free seminars, language classes, grants, and diplomatic support for such missions. Pressure other countries in various light-handed and half-friendly ways to provide special financial and legal privileges to American citizens doing business in this way there. China has dozens of such agreements in Africa recent years, compared to less than a handful America has inherited from the mid-20th Century. Given that the American economy is under the hold of vicious and grim olds, and little can realistically be done about that: then therefore do something, provide a real out for the intelligent and ambitious young. I am talking here of probably less than 10,000 men (and they’ll be almost only men), maybe 20,000…but believe me that improving the prospects, freedom and fortunes of these men will do the country a great good and will help you politically. You don’t want to upset them. This proposal gives them adventure, freedom and real economic opportunity for a change in life and, if they are capable and lucky, true wealth. There is plenty of historical precedent in both America and England: eminent American families like Perkins, Forbes and Delano made their fortunes in Canton, China under such circumstances starting at ages 16, 18 and 24. The East India Company regularly started clerks at ages of 16 and 17. These men maybe ages 16-32 let’s be generous… can be identified by examination and then turbo-supported. Don’t tax them, don’t enforce laws, treat them as your spoiled kids abroad…train and gift them, send them out as your wild wolves. Then America benefits hugely also by their success. Abandon the bleak, narrow and stingy spirit that reduces citizens at present to levels below the enserfed subjects of Medieval barons. Note: ask yourself in the hectoring or scolding of vile conservatives over young men’s predilection for “video games” or “porn,” if they ever so much as raised a finger in this direction to try and offer something concrete worth working for, a real path to freedom, opportunities, prosperity and ever-broader horizons: you haven’t because, like the “white nationalist” activists, they are constricted and constipated, malicious, dumb people.
These two reforms are hardly solutions to America’s problems or the crisis faced by the broader European world (or actually most civilized nations). These aren’t my ideal wishes for government, but only what I consider as hopeful plausible long-shots that could maybe be enacted under current highly degraded conditions.
(If it were a question of wish, I would like to see a replacement of this state with a temporary Directorate headed by a man like Erik Prince overseeing a new Constitutional convention process; who will return local liberties to Americans and reform the federal government into a limited body, maybe something like a Guardianship selected through intellectual and physical competition, examination, and formalized dueling, with Prussian (or Spartiate)-style military academies as the pillar. The present congress, courts, etc, could all be put into seclusion for their own protection by this temporary Bakufu. Thereby allowing an eventual reprieve from the crushing demographic weight of ever-growing older generations that is the true apocalypse…many are forgetful. “But that is Science Fiction.” Maybe even just an alternative two-year grant for training programs for men who wish to move directly into PMC’s, which should be entirely unregulated…as a way to bypass the bloated jobs-program, the Pentagon military.)
I hope this article is taken in good faith by friendly elements in the White House. I probably supported Trump before you did. Consider that disappointment may have an objective and factual basis in the performance of these last two years, and then, if so, take your own advice…realize what time it is…and abandon all illusions that you have anything but desperate last-ditch measures…look to the benefit of the real, material future of this country.
PS If you worry about the timing of this article regarding the midterms, you shouldn’t; I’ve always denied that I or anyone else on Twitter or from the “online right” or the “new right” has any electoral role whatsoever. I don’t think this article will affect the election one way or another. Anyone who reads and understands it also knows that if Trump loses in 2026 or his successor in 2028 everything I and others complain about in good faith will just get a lot worse…the Iran war will accelerate under the left or a regular Republican, immigration will get worse, industry and the economy will get worse, opportunities for the young and intelligent will continue to be neglected. But maybe everyone can keep hoping the robots will save us.
I would vote for you.
Great article