Another Big Tent Fail

White nationalists should have nothing to do with these folks.

Laugh at this.

I have been following the downward trajectory of the America First movement for some time now. The initial Bleeding Kansas of the infighting within Nick Fuentes’ movement has escalated into what people online are beginning to call the Groyper Civil War.

Consider the “optics” of all of this to the “normies” you want to recruit.

After I wrote my previous article on the issue, it seemed as though things were calming down, and so the America First (AF) movement would continue to slowly decline as it has been since AFPAC II, and eventually fizzle out. However, it is now clear that AF is in a dramatic downward spiral. 

Who would have ever guessed?

Indeed, the “movement” has degenerated into nothing more than the equivalent of an online discord fan club or gaming group.

When I criticize the “movement,” Johnson labels me as a “paranoid piece of crap” suffering from “insanity.”  Guess I was right, huh?

Shortly after my last article on the issue was published, political activist Ryan Sanchez, also known as Culture War Criminal or CWC, let bygones be bygones with Fuentes. 

Sanchez and Fuentes. That's the Alt Lite. The Alt Right is Spencer, Johnson, and Taylor.  From one ethnic extreme to another. What's missing?  Where are the wops and hunkies?

The tides of war seemed quelled in AF. Everyone seemed to agree, at least outwardly, that the goal was to continue activism in the US against COVID tyranny…

Of course. Public health measures during a pandemic are the “tyranny” we must oppose. Genocidal mass migration and enforced racial integration – who cares about that?

…In those texts, CWC called it a “big grift”…

The entire “movement” is a “big grift.”

Within hours of announcing his plan to attend, AF leaders were jumping down CWC’s throat. Both Beardson and Baked Alaska announced on a public livestream that they planned on “pressing” CWC. Beardson went so far as to shamelessly state that he planned on trying to trigger CWC into physically attacking him so that he could then press federal charges. This is a tactic straight out of an Antifa playbook. The game was on. CWC still made the choice to attend the rally, regardless of the drama. This test of wills is what ignited the Groyper Civil War.

Optics!

There seems to be a misunderstanding as to what AF is. Most rank-and-file Groypers see it as a movement, and therefore a scene. The AF hierarchy clearly sees it as a brand first and foremost. There is an inherent dissonance between these two viewpoints. The AF movement has always been referred to as just that, although the rhetoric has slowly changed to shoehorn “AF brand” into the lingo.

How about this – AF is a bunch of stupid bastards wasting everyone’s time and effort. That’s the “big tent” that the Quota Queens have promoted and that I opposed. Can you guess who was right?

Furthermore, Fuentes’ “plan,” which he always harps on about, now seems to boil down to nothing more than growing the AF brand, and by extension, himself. 

How is that different from Counter-Currents and Greg Johnson?

It devolved into a shouting match in which a multitude of accusations were thrown both ways. The Baked-Beard duo had a crowd of dozens supporting them and shouting down CWC. Eventually, CWC became tired of the situation and simply walked off smirking. Later on, a similar interaction occurred in which Beardson was verbally reprimanded by MAGA-moms for being a nuisance at the rally and causing infighting. Even the most ordinary of normies seem to recognize this jerk for what he is: A troll who stokes division for thirty pieces of silver. Even among his supposed base, the far Right, it is quite difficult to find anyone who doesn’t hate this bearded hobbit man, whether online or in the real world.

Bearded hobbit man! To the hobbit hole!  The fact that this nonsense represents the current state of the public face of Der Movement tells you all you need to know about the total and utter failure of the “movement” and its affirmative action “leadership.”

This can mean only one thing: that the website, the show, and the movement are dying.

We can only hope.

In my last article, I wrote against these tendencies toward NEETism, misogyny, inceldom, and so on. 

How about Nordicism, HBD, traditionalism, and ethnonationalism?

However, I was naïve to the fact that not only have these anti-social tendencies been allowed, or even encouraged, but enforced. In the months since January 6 and AFPAC II, Fuentes’ group has fallen from a cutting-edge, energetic political vanguard of the new and young Dissident Right to an incel support group. It is pathetic. It’s no wonder that the old guard of quality Groypers has backed off, along with quality movement leaders such as Jake Lloyd and Scott Greer…

If you want ten words that sum up the catastrophic failure of Der Movement they are:

...quality movement leaders such as Jake Lloyd and Scott Greer...

That’s quality????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The distinctly negative reaction towards the movement’s proclaimed leader, when juxtaposed with the positive reaction towards the relatively new CWC, indicates that the youth of the New Right are yearning for a strong leader who demonstrates accountability and action. 

Err, “a strong leader who demonstrates accountability and action” is not something one is going to find in Der Movement. That’s a complete incompatibility.

Many of them were boomers who probably learned of the rally from various crossover-friendly activists, like Michelle Malkin.

A Filipina married to a Jew.  What’s not to like?

What can we learn from the death knells of America First? 

That Sallis is always, always, ALWAYS right.  How long have I been warning you about all of these moronic, juvenile buffoons? How long have I opposed “big tent” and “amnats?”

The lessons are not much different from past iterations of the grassroots right such as the Alt Right. Perhaps the greatest new lesson is that quality should not be sacrificed in pursuit of quantity. 

Der Movement hasn’t learned that since the days of Rockwell. What makes you think that “big tent” Quota Queens will learn it now?  Why did anyone EVER take Fuentes seriously to begin with?  Remember all my previous comments, for years, about poor judgment?

Fuentes remarked earlier in the debacle that CWC’s revolutionary ethos and “over-serious” demeanor don’t work in his experience. 

Sure!  Acting like Beavis-and-Butthead juvenile jackasses sure worked for the Alt-Right, huh?

It has become clear that Fuentes wants to focus on marketing the AF brand, but not America itself. He has sunk to scraping the barrel and appealing to the lowest common denominator. 

The perfect “movement” “leader”- apart from his unacceptable “Low Trust” ancestry.

We can also learn – again — the folly of trusting a man above all else. 

Like any of the Quota Queens?  Assuming of course that you consider them to be "men."

Fuentes has claimed, with some truth behind it, that people follow a person, not an idea. However, until we find the person, which may be all but impossible, we will be led again and again into dead-ends by megalomaniacs like Richard Spencer.

Or like Greg Johnson, George Lincoln Rockwell, William Pierce, Jared Taylor, David Duke, or any of them.

The Right has been heading towards a coalescence. You yourself may have noticed that an idea you independently came up with was soon later repeated by someone else and then popularized. 

Like the idea that the “movement” is a fraud and a grift?

We are all coming closer together ideologically as more pieces of the truth are revealed by the powers-that-be as they conceal less and less of their true nature. Also, so-called “meme magic” only seems to be intensifying. Even complete normies and centrists are coming around to secession, an idea which only a year ago was exclusively on the fringe. Now, a decisive supermajority of 84% of Trump voters are worried about anti-white discrimination.

Onward to victory!  Now, time for fundraising!

Unless a literal Jesus figure emerges, it not only can but must be an idea which guides us, and not an egomaniac with his own motivations.

By "egomaniac" you can substitute the name of any of your fearless leaders.

Another lesson to this iteration of the Dissident Right is the association question. As I wrote in the previous article, you are the company you choose to keep. 

This is just too easy to criticize.

Fuentes’ folly, very much like Trump’s, was allowing bad or unserious people near power and influence. 

Ditto.

Fuentes’ almost exclusive association with losers and sycophants...

What major "movement" "leader" is not a loser and what "movement" follower is not a sycophant?

...despite having a multitude of experienced personalities near him...

Who? 

...the embarrassment of a plethora of respectable commentators who are now associated with an incel nationalist gamer brand that only pretends to be a serious movement when it suits them.

Who are these "respectable commentators?"  Are those the same people who didn't realize from the beginning (as I did) that AF was no more or less than "an incel nationalist gamer brand that only pretends to be a serious movement when it suits them."

Furthermore, not only does keeping and inviting those of low quality dilute quality in itself, it also drives those quality men who already there out. Quality is attracted to quality. When it becomes apparent that a group has lowered its quality, the high-quality individuals will naturally look elsewhere for a scene which fits what they are looking for. 

I have been saying that for years, as any long-time reader of this blog well knows.  I've written post after post about this.  But it's a useless exercise in Der Movement because those Quota Queen "activists" who talk about "quality" are precisely the same people responsible for the quality problem to begin with.

There is a vacuum forming. Let us hope and pray this vacuum is filled soon.

That would have to be from outside of Der Movement.

To conclude, this Groyper Civil War will inevitably lead to the disintegration of AF’s last vestiges. However, it can still teach us some lessons about how not to run a dissident movement. Some of these are new, while others are already known:

Yes, known for decades. So how come your "leaders" keep on making the same mistakes over and over again?

Lesson 1: Appealing to the lowest common denominator is a failing strategy in a dissident movement that relies on quality over quantity.

I've been saying that for years. That was one of my primary complaints about the same Alt Right that all of the Quota Queens eagerly joined.

Lesson 2: It is easier, and yet counter-productive, to run a movement through a cult of personality rather than a creed that everyone agrees on. We must follow national movements, not personal brands.

For example, the National Alliance was a William Pierce personality cult, which is one reason that it collapsed so quickly after he died.

Lesson 3: You — and your movement — are the company you keep.

Promoting books like The Homo and The Negro and My Nationalist Pony defines "you and your movement."

Lesson 4: Choosing low-quality people causes high-quality people to scatter.

Again, this is precisely the exact point I've been hammering away at year after year. This is Gresham's Law of activism. By the way, focusing so much attention on people like Fuentes is driving away quality people from your "movement" - so keep on doing it.

Lesson 5: Shunning criticism and good advice is folly.

Tell that to Johnson who "bans" critics and calls them "insane."

The Sun is sadly setting on young Fuentes. I am not alone in having once been optimistic about his prospects. He seemed destined for much more, but what has happened cannot be undone. May we remember these lessons when a new, and hopefully better, iteration of American Dissident Right activism sprouts up. We don’t have time for more screwups.

Hey!  I thought we had "fifty years" - or is that just the "feel good" talk required to prompt "D'Nations?"