8.5.25 - Yarom Hazony and Nick Fuentes
I recently listend to Yarom Hazony on the Ezra Klein show, a guy I had been familiar with for some time and who I've listened to and read here and there (no I haven't read his book).
I was a little stunned by how little he had to say with respect to what National Conservatism is trying to advance. It was a pretty milquetoast conversation and you can sense that Ezra was trying to coax something more meaty out of them. He described what nationalism was, expressed some boilerplate platitude and gripes with liberalism, and Ezra was kind of like "yeah, and? what's the argument."
Anyways, I'm increasingly convinced that the real heart of the NatCon movement today is not Hazony, Carlson, or any of these guys. It's Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes (who I do not agree with), is actually presenting a true alternative vision for political organization in the United States. It's radical, it's describable, and its intellectually honest. When asked about Fuentes by Ezra, Hazony sort of minimized him as a marginal figure. But that's not really true anymore. I think we'll be seeing and hearing a lot more from Nick Fuentes in the years to come. Because there's clearly a hunger for National Conservatism in this country, but it has no real leaders. Vance is a fraud. Hazony is a lightweight. Carlson is getting old. The rest are grifters. Whose left? An asexual hispanic incel. Funny but its true. Will be intertesting to see how things shake out.
If you can stomach it, I'd encourage people to actually go on Rumble and listen to a Fuentes stream all the way through. It may be surprising how thoughtful he comes off, and you get a sense of why he has such a following. Unlike Carlson and the others, it never feels like he's trying to pull one over on the audience. He's very authentic. Has the same sort of appeal as Bernie Sanders in that you beleive that he believes everything he says, and has thought about it quite a bit. It's a refreshing degree of idealism and commitment to ideas rather than political calibration. He really is a racialist catholic integralist and thinks that that's a good and moral way to orient society, and can talk about why he believes that without equivocation.
This isn't an endorsement of Fuentes (I remain a reluctant believer in liberal cosmopolitanism for the most part) but I'm just calling it like I see it. It's either someone like him or the NatCon movement just falls flat. Which, I guess, might be good news for liberals. Or not.
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