Against the Black Pill
... More generally than not, though, those who... realize just how much ground has been gained by the left in the past century and how corrupt the regime has become - tend to despair. As the kids say, they’ve been "blackpilled."... What was once justly known as the land of the free and the home of the brave has devolved into an oligarchic, feminizing regime that is hostile to most of the defining elements of traditional American identity...
At worst, they [our elites] are woke believers hellbent on further accelerating Third World immigration, turning your kids transgender, and eradicating all dissent. What they almost never are, is unabashedly committed to constitutionalism... or any other of the features that once defined this republic...
In 1994, Chronicles columnist Sam Francis coined the term "anarcho-tyranny" in the pages of this magazine to describe the now-prevalent double standard... The tyranny - that is, the draconian enforcement of laws - applies not just to "the innocent and the law-abiding" ordinary citizen, but also to the political enemies of the regime...
The left actually did transform America...
Republicans... [have] demonstrated, time and time again, a failure to enact any transformational reforms once they are in power...
For all his flaws, Trump did reveal the intellectual bankruptcy of the right and the extent to which it was disconnected from the priorities of its base...
If there is a path forward for the right - and therefore, for the country - it lies in figuring out how to produce smart leaders, at both the national and state levels, who can successfully advance an unabashedly right-wing agenda...
As Christopher Rufo, author of America’s Cultural Revolution, recently explained regarding the all-important issue of schooling: "We should repoliticize the universities and understand that education is at heart a political question."...
Ultimately, nothing could be more un-American than to give up on America.
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