Between Renaud Camus’ great deculturation and low-brow populism, there must be a middle path, and there is one! The path is elite conservative culture and glitz and glam. On the American right, we have Yarvin, Thiel, @VaubanBooks, Passage, for intellectual people, and then we have the lovely Mr. Hyde for disaffected Zoomer mujahadeen, and then countless accounts, named cute things like MAGA Labrador Mom, for suburban housewives. And we all know about Tradwife 1488 and her ten dozen sister-enemies.. Turns out, you need all these things for an enduring movement. You even need glitzy boomers. You even need evangelicals. You need evangelicals making rubber bracelets. The lesson the British should take from Hulk Hogan at the RNC was that having Hulk Hogan at the RNC was cool. Not that it was low-class. Populism is successful when populism is accessible, and when there are smart people at the top directing the popular sentiments of people to wise ends. Which we are. Soon, MAGA Labrador Mom will know the word “remigration.” And once that is achieved, we can spend our time restoring the primacy of high culture. Serious politics is not people in suits soberly discussing statistics. We have that. It’s the other team. Someday, when we win, we will work to offer an alternative to glitz and glam and low-brow culture. But until then, it's a necessary political relationship and politically suicidal to laugh at the aesthetics that disenfranchised working-class whites and boomers enjoy.
Between Renaud Camus’ great deculturation and low-brow populism, there must be a middle path, and there is one! The path is elite conservative culture and glitz and glam. On the American right, we have Yarvin, Thiel, @VaubanBooks, Passage, for intellectual people, and then we have the lovely Mr. Hyde for disaffected Zoomer mujahadeen, and then countless accounts, named cute things like MAGA Labrador Mom, for suburban housewives. And we all know about Tradwife 1488 and her ten dozen sister-enemies.. Turns out, you need all these things for an enduring movement. You even need glitzy boomers. You even need evangelicals. You need evangelicals making rubber bracelets. The lesson the British should take from Hulk Hogan at the RNC was that having Hulk Hogan at the RNC was cool. Not that it was low-class. Populism is successful when populism is accessible, and when there are smart people at the top directing the popular sentiments of people to wise ends. Which we are. Soon, MAGA Labrador Mom will know the word “remigration.” And once that is achieved, we can spend our time restoring the primacy of high culture. Serious politics is not people in suits soberly discussing statistics. We have that. It’s the other team. Someday, when we win, we will work to offer an alternative to glitz and glam and low-brow culture. But until then, it's a necessary political relationship and politically suicidal to laugh at the aesthetics that disenfranchised working-class whites and boomers enjoy.