The End of Liberalism and Rebuilding the Right
This Week(s) In Media | 24th June - 15th July
Hello everyone. It’s been a while. A lot has happened.
In the UK, on July 4th, Britain celebrated its independence from fourteen years of constant betrayal under the Conservative Party; and commiserated at least five years of unapologetic sabotage to come under Keir Starmer.
We covered the election results live, for eleven consecutive hours, on LotusEaters.com. Thanks to the generosity of our viewers, and the staff at Rumble, we became the most-watched live stream of the night!
The following week, I flew out with Carl to Washington DC, courtesy of Tim Pool to attend the National Conservatism Conference and appear on The Culture War and IRL.
So, enjoy the following podcasts and articles about the demise of liberalism, the immolation of the Conservative Party, the UK general election, and how American politics has reached an existential fever-pitch.
Why Liberalism Leads to Communism
Making good on his promise, Tim Pool hosted Carl Benjamin and I to discuss liberalism with his cohost, Phil Labonte of All That Remains.
An admirer of James Lindsay, Phil has long proposed that Liberalism is antithetical to the ruling class’ ideology and the only antidote to the managed decline in modern America.
Carl and I explained how the false anthropology of Liberalism — namely, the Blank Slate and State of Nature — and its antagonistic diad of values in ‘freedom’ and ‘equality’, lead to it having indistinguishable premises from Marxism.
Thus, Communism is the eager offspring of Liberalism, and as material conditions improve and technological apparatus progress, the two harmonise into a redistributive, Omnicompetent total state.
By the end of the discussion, Phil had changed his mind; and the audience was overwhelmingly pleased with the philosophical rigour, tone, and tenor of the debate.
We also appeared on Timcast IRL the prior night — discussing President Biden’s continued cognitive deterioration, the effects of mass immigration, and recent elections in the UK and Europe.
The following night, I also stepped in in Carl’s stead, and discussed why Zoomer men are trending rightwing with Kyle Becker; and explained why the Five Eyes intelligence agencies alliance is not a British Empire to Ian Crossland.
Thank you all for your kind comments. Tim was overjoyed by how well-received our shows were, and looks forward to bringing us back out (at great and charitable expense) again in future!
Before the Election…
Leading up to July 4th, I covered and catalogued the absurd attacks by the BBC, Channel 4, and more on Nigel Farage and Reform UK.
As I was quoted saying in a GB News article on the matter:
This Question Time is appalling. They've packed out the entire audience with people shouting at Nigel Farage and calling him a racist.
“Every question is identical and tiresome If I believed Ofcom would uphold impartiality standards against the BBC, I would complain about bias.”
Of course, my and others’ complaints to the BBC about the composition of the Question Time audience — containing their own employees and Palestinian political party candidates — were met with the insistence that the coverage was representative, fair and impartial.
Likewise, the Ofcom investigation into the Channel 4 “expose” — featuring professional actor Andrew Parker doing a demeaning caricature of the Cockneys-in-exile in Clacton — found no wrongdoing on the part of Channel 4.
Reform must get used to the fact that there are no depths that the establishment will not sink to in order to prevent their political insurgency.
That is why it was disappointing to see conflicting messaging during the campaign: with men like Lee Anderson and Ben Habib insisting the ‘indigenous’ population are entitled to ‘want our country back’ from an inconsiderate global managerial class; and then Richard Tice sharing a video compilations of Reform’s non-White candidates, and insisting that they are the ‘party of true diversity’.
As young men gravitate to Nigel Farage’s message, I would insist that Reform campaign more on the former, and not at all on the latter, to become a patriotic populist party which substantively represents disenfranchised native working Englishmen.
It’s a shame to see former Goldman Sachs banker Zia Yusuf seemingly able to buy his way into becoming Party Chairman; whilst Ben Habib’s history of loyal campaigning for Reform, years before Nigel returned to lead the party in the election, went unrewarded.
This has gone down badly with the base and requires swift course correction.
Reform UK should be unafraid of smears and insults thrown their way by bad-faith actors who were always going to call them racist anyway.
Lead a movement by the courage of your convictions; not according to the terms of engagement set by enemies who would sooner see you dead than win.
The Revolt Against the Uniparty
A week ahead of voting day, I invited my friend, Reactionary Feminist and contributing editor at Unherd, Mary Harrington on to discuss her essays on the rise of Nigel Farage, the demise of the Conservative Party, and what lures Zoomers to support the ‘Omnicause’.
If you enjoyed the above preview, you can watch the full discussion on LotusEaters.com.
And for a preview of what Labour will do, now that they’re in power…
In the most recent episode of Tomlinson Talks, I analysed the gender, climate, and constitutional reform policies promised in the Labour Party manifesto.
Net Zero’s energy policies alone are set to cost the UK taxpayer over £3 trillion — more than our annual GDP.
This will bankrupt our country, and leave us vulnerable to South Africa-esque blackouts.
The Conservative Party are to blame for ruining their reputation to such an extent that they became radioactive and unelectable.
Speaking of the Conservative Party’s Arrogance…
Days before Donald Trump dodged an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, his supporters, politicians, heads of think tanks, and members of the press gathered for the fourth annual US National Conservatism Conference in Washington DC.
I covered the Conference for The Critic, observing that conservatives, reactionaries, and rightwing patriots across the pond have a better grasp of politics than almost anyone in Britain.
As institutions lose legitimacy and the pretense of neutrality by weaponising laws against their opponents, America’s right is learning to understand the existential nature of politics. David Azerrad’s speech on day three invoked Carl Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction: that all politics is driven by insurmountable value conflicts. Jack Posobiec and Will Chamberlain made the case for reciprocating the prosecution of President Trump with investigations into credible claims of corruption by the Democrats. They recognise that they cannot compromise with those willing to ignore all Constitutional norms to perform mastectomies on gender-confused teenage girls.
I say almost anyone: because the biggest splash was made by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman. A thoroughly lovely woman, and the last remaining social conservative in the Conservative Party, Braverman’s speech went down like a brick in a duck pond when it reached the ears of her colleagues on other side of the Atlantic.
Demonstrating some rare conservatism for a Conservative politician, Braverman lambasted Sunak and the Cameron consensus for letting the Pride flag fly over government buildings. Rival leadership contender Kemi Badenoch accused her of having a mental breakdown. (Worthy of note for those championing her candidacy as a course correction.)
Ironically, a few hours before Braverman spoke that morning, I received an email announcing my suspension as a member of the Conservative Party, ‘pending an investigation into social media posts and comments you are alleged to have made.’
They then foolishly asked that I ‘not to make any public comment or announcement’ on the matter — which, of course, I then immediately screenshotted and tweeted about.
Richard Holden then resigned as Suella took to the stage. His dying breath as Party Chairman was yet another act of containment, to ensure the Tories were impenetrable by those urging them to reflect on the reasons for their defeat.
You can read my full article here.
Thank you to all of the viewers who greeted Carl and I at the event.
Interviews with Wade Stotts and American Moment are coming soon!
How to Prevent Population Collapse
The day before the UK General Election, I was joined on Tomlinson Talks by author and demographer Paul Morland to discuss his new book, No One Left, and diagnose the causes of global fertility rate decline.
I put questions to Paul concerning:
The impact of immigration and housing on native British birth rates
Why Japan and South Korea have lower birth rates than the wealthier, self-sabotaging West
Whether religious revival is the way to remedy sub-replacement fertility