The Post-Partisan Emporium

  A Wolf by the Ears: Or Why the Left Can't Moderate The Patronage–Client Trap John Slaughter Definitions up front: By “Left,” I mean today’s progressive coalition clustered around the Democratic Party and the administrative class. By “dominant culture,” I mean the historic high-status bloc that set a nation’s public norms (in the U.S., White Christian Historically Protestant America). And by “Bioleninism,” I mean Spandrell’s idea that regimes recruit marginal or low-status groups with promises of power and protection, using their resentment to upend the old hierarchy/status quo. A coalition that survives by perpetual grievance must either mint new enemies or pay ever-rising rents to its clients.  — the Patronage–Client Trap The Left cannot tone down its rhetoric. It cannot moderate its positions. The Left is, by nature, a revolutionary force, and a revolutionary force needs an enemy. Every nation has a high-status ethnic or religious group that sets the public norm. That grou...

  Sutherland, Kalergi, Camus, Replacism and Technocracy Iain Davis In the UK, the so-called far-right‘s stance on immigration is said to be driven by “the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.” According to the influential global think tank the  Institute for Strategic Studies  (ISD): “The Great Replacement” theory was first coined by French writer Renaud Camus. Identitarian movements across Europe (including in Austria, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany) have used the theory to recruit others to their cause, claiming their countries and national “identities” are under threat due to increasing immigrant populations. It is true, in part, that Camus made this argument. Some elements of his philosophy are racist and do offer apparent rationales for religious bigotry. It is also true that Camus has been influential in the rise of the  identitarian movement,  which is perceived as “right-wing.” Identitarianism broadly stands in opposition to  i...