The Flight 93 Election is in a nose dive with Conservatism, Inc. at the controls
On September 5, 2016, Michael Anton published the notable article, The Flight 93 Election. It's still well worth reading.
The 2016 election has failed to deliver substantial, permanent results. Conservatism has failed to re-establish itself as a resonating paradigm in America. Part of the reason is that the Republican party hasn't even tried. In actuality, the Republican party (i.e., Conservatism, Inc.) doesn't represent the interests of conservative Americans and thus it has no vested interest in promoting populist conservative values. It's geared more toward skimming profits from the society that the open borders Left has created. For example, an unending stream of cheap, foreign labor.
Another part of the explanation is that the left controls messaging through public education and the media. Then there's the Deep State, which resists every conservative action (such as halting illegal immigration) initiated by President Trump.
Here is an excellent, readable article that offers good insight into why conservatism has failed, especially after Trump's election. The author points out that as long as liberals control education, the media, and censor the internet, conservatism will fail to reach the average person.
The article focuses on America, but it's equally applicable to Canada and to European countries.
The Flight 93 Election Crashed, by Hunter Hearns, American Mind, October 31, 2019
The Right has yet to Re-Form the Culture.
Republicans have controlled the presidency for 32 out of the last 52 years, a time during which they have appointed 15 of 19 Supreme Court justices. In the last 25 years, they have controlled the Senate for about 15 of them, and the House for 20. For a party to be so remarkably successful politically while losing on practically every issue requires a deep rethinking of where things have gone wrong.
Conservatives for two generations now have worried that immigration was turning the country more liberal....
In 2016, President Trump won the election and had both houses of Congress, yet his only legislative accomplishment of note before losing the House was tax cuts....*
Many Trump supporters were motivated by his taking on political correctness and the collection of myths about identity-related issues that distorts practically every political debate. Yet social media censoriousness continues unabated, so much so that the sense of urgency to actually deal with the issue has faded away.... This level of oppression would have been unthinkable in the McCarthy era...
Conservatives thought that they might take their nation back in 2016; that hope is now gone. Electing more Republicans means at best getting a few-years-long reprieve until the next time Democrats control Washington....
Practically every significant movement—whether ancient or modern, religious or secular, totalitarian or liberal—knew that to succeed in the long run it needed to gain control of the institutions that manufacture public opinion. Yet from this perspective the American right has not simply failed in its efforts to build a more conservative society; it has not even tried....
One does not need to read ancient or modern philosophy or social science to understand what practically all political theorists throughout history have agreed on: most people do not have the time, motivation or inclination to think deeply about political and social issues. They will take the opinions that have been prepared for them by higher status individuals and institutions. If these opinion shapers are liberal, the public will be liberal, and this includes intelligent people naturally inclined to live in accordance with moral ideals....
John Adams declared in his 1798 letter to the Massachusetts militia that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The implication is that, should the morals and religious character of the people degrade, it would be a crisis for American democracy....
Hearns points out how the left pervasively controls political messaging and why the average voter is simplistically swayed by leftist dogma:
There are two major cultural institutions which have generally been used to shape public opinion: the education system, and the media. In America, both have been wholly dominated by the Left....
... from a purely rationalist perspective: one vote will never change the outcome of an election, so people have no incentive to think very deeply about public policy and instead choose based on emotional and psychological factors...
We are marching towards a more violent and divided version of Germany or Sweden....
Some conservatives talk about “balkanization” as a major threat to the country. But that phrase refers to circumstances in which there are multiple tribes competing with one another. The identity politics coalition on the left gets along pretty well and focuses its ire squarely on one enemy....
A media and education system that better represents conservative views is not simply a nice luxury to have, one of a countless number of things we might wish for. Rather, it is a basic requirement for any kind of political victory, and needs to be prioritized as such. ...
Conservatism, Inc.
In the July 23, 2009 American Conservative article, Conservative INC., Sean Scallon defines Conservatism, Inc.:
However, what we’re dealing with here is an establishment that has split itself in two. In the majority is what I like to call Conservative INC. It has become a money-grubbing scam as the Boston Phoenix article shows and one that is totalitarian in the way it operates and disseminates ideas....
It is this situation that has created a minority of dissenters within said establishment including messrs. Frum, Brooks, Parker, Noonan and Buckley and so forth who are appalled at what Conservative INC. has done or is doing or how it operates. Conservative INC. responds in kind by attacking such dissent as viciously as Big Brother once attacked Goldstein [in Orwell's book 1984]...
James Kirkpatrick has pointed out that National Conservatism - that is, true Conservatism - is being co-opted. In the August 19, 2019 VDare article "National Conservatism" Is Being Co-Opted. Either We Reclaim It—Or The Future Is Separatism, he writes:
I argued for “National Conservatism” in 2014, referring to a specific European tradition that puts the unity and cultural survival of the nation-state first. Put bluntly—the economy exists to serve the nation, not the nation the economy...
My current thinking: Even if President Trump fails utterly, there's no going back to Reagan-Bush 'conservatism.' The only question: genuine nationalism—or separatism?...
There's also the National Question. Is America still a nation-state—the political expression of a particular people? No commonwealth can survive without some kind of public spirit. If [George] Will is right, we really are in just a continent-sized Mall of America. So why should anyone fight, sacrifice, or even care about it one way or the other?...
This last paragraph ties in with what Hearns wrote above about leftist dogma swaying public opinion. If people are taught to believe that the nation-state has no value, they will have no interest in supporting conservative nationalistic principles over globalism.
In the November 5, 2019 VDare article Nationalist Campus Insurgency Against Conservatism Inc. Shows America's Right Up For Grabs, James Kirkpatrick writes:
Conservatism Inc. grifters are on the defensive as passionate, educated, and brave young Christians, nationalists, and patriots are confronting them at their campus events. Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh, Rep. Dan Crenshaw and others are being bombarded with questions about immigration and the double standards of identity politics. Conservatism Inc. is responding to this grassroots, spontaneous movement the same way it always does–with demands for censorship, purges, and centralized control. Yet the scam is exposed for all to see. New leaders are emerging, ready to transform the American Right into a force truly representing the Historic American Nation.
"Conservatism Inc." is the parasitic network of nonprofits, phony activist organizations, and outright scam operations masquerading as a movement that I target in my new compilation Conservatism Inc: The Battle for the American Right....
Not surprisingly, Conservatism Inc. has a long tradition of purging those who want to ask intelligent questions about race, immigration, and the real nature of politics. As a direct result, 'the movement' is filled with a combination of cynical con-artists possessed of a certain low cunning and outright fools who implode when they meet with serious opposition....
Because of Conservatism Inc. cowardice, the Left has total control over the culture and even the American Right...
This resonates with what Hearns wrote, above, about Leftists controlling the culture.
Kirkpatrick is spot on when he writes, "Unless the point is to lose. Which, of course, it is." It's obvious to anyone who follows conservatism that something is drastically wrong with the conservative establishment. It, along with the Deep State, are actively fighting President Trump's nationalist agenda every step of the way.
And so, the Flight 93 Election has crashed - or at least is in a steep nose dive.
Kirkpatrick points out that:
If conservatives want to win, they need to treat the right to free speech online as an "existential issue,"... Yet we know Conservatism Inc. won't defend free speech—because if it did, it would lose its hold over its own constituency.
America is witnessing cultural and demographic collapse. A new conservative movement needs to be built upon the strength the existing populist conservative base. Kirkpatrick offers hope, commending conservative students for confronting Conservatism, Inc., saying that these young patriots are showing us the way forward.
Related
* Notwithstanding resistance from all sides, here is a Stunning List of Trump Administration Accomplishments, Geller Report, November 4, 2019.
Book: Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right, by James Kirkpatrick, October 16, 2019.
Book: Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction?, by Michelle Malkin, September 10, 2019.
Is America Still A Nation?, by Patrick J. Buchanan, July 3, 2017.
Conservatism, Inc's jihad against American conservatives, by Fred Elbel, CAIRCO, January 16, 2016.
Video: Putting America First. A youthful Nicholas J. Fuentes (Right Side Broadcasting) discusses mass immigration, conservatism, American sovereignty, and putting Americans first. This presentation was given at the September, 2017 Social Contract Writers Workshop in Washington, DC.