“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Vladimir Lenin
This past month of July has been very bad for the “nothing ever happens” crowd. A lot of things did, indeed, happen - things whose ongoing effects may not be immediately important to those who are tied to the 24-hour news cycle, but which are nevertheless there. As a result, they will still continue to resonate even after the lemmings who consume that news cycle have forgotten about them.
So it is with the three subjects I’d like to briefly discuss today. In each case, we see clear examples of the Left’s increasingly panicked accelerationism coupled with the sort of anarchotyrannical regimen that comes when you created a two-tiered political system based on ever-shifting progressive revolutionary ideology. But even more, they bear on trends within our own collapse phase that are going to contribute to things getting spicy further on down the road.
First, the really big one, which is the attempted assassination of President Trump while he was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, PA on July 13. Certainly, this is not a completely unprecedented act, as our history has seen quite a number of assassination attempts on presidents, several of them successful. What is different here, however, is that the available evidence seems to suggest a pattern of neglectfulness and contrived incompetence that were designed to create the conditions necessary to make an attempt on Trump’s life both easier and more likely.
The shooter was sighted by attendees prior to the event who reported it to police…who apparently did nothing. Did nothing about a guy on top of a building that was an almost perfect sniper’s spot, conveniently located outside of the security perimeter (which it logically should have been included in), who had earlier been seen range finding the area and flying a drone around. In the weeks previous, Trump’s Secret Service detail had been deprived of resources even as the radical Left was ramping up its already feverish campaign of violent rhetoric against him, almost guaranteed to eventually trigger some mentally-unbalanced left-wing stochastic terrorist into action.
And this is what almost certainly happened. Now, the media and the institutions tried to claim that the Trump shooter, Thomas Crooks, was a “registered Republican” even as it began to emerge that he was the only 20-year-old in modern America to completely lack an online and social media footprint (hint: that means it was wiped by the powers that be). However, they apparently missed something because a few days ago, the CEO of Gab, Andrew Torba, reported that they had received a request from a law enforcement agency for information about an account that appears to have belonged to Crooks. While the account had been inactive since 2021, back then it was definitely a pro-Biden account, spewing the typical left-wing talking points appropriate for that ancient era. So yes, this was almost certainly an attempt to engineer a stochastic hit on Trump.
This is exactly in line with the Left’s accelerationist tendencies. The more desperate they get, the more brazen they become. Having been unable to land Trump in prison on the basis of a contrived guilty verdict, the next step was to try to simply remove him permanently. This only failed because of a last second turn of his head which has been variously attributed to incredible luck or Divine intervention (I lean toward the latter, myself).
After this attempt failed, the frustration on the part of the average leftist was palpable. To give vent, progressives high and low took to the internet to inform all the rest of us that they wished it had been successful, and even to “suggest” that it ought to be tried again. Except this time around, something funny happened on the way to the “Publish” button. Because they were engaging in “speech” that was in many cases illegal and certainly unethical, they started getting pushback. Lefties actually got doxxed and canceled. Accounts like LibsofTikTok on Twitter/X started essentially doing the same thing that the Left had been doing to the real Right for years, causing many of these left-wing bad actors to lose their jobs or face other consequences.
Now, I want to preface my comments by noting that I am emphatically not a “free speech absolutist,” and have not been for a very, very long time. So I have absolutely no problem with seeing lefties - even common, everyman types - get doxxed and socially punished when they do stuff like approving of assassination attempts on presidential candidates. I’m not at all hypocritical in wanting them to be doxxed but not wanting people on my own side to be. It’s called “friend/enemy distinction” and I fully support applying it to American politics. The Left has been socially prosecuting people on the Right for innocuous, non-controversial things (to the normal person) for years, so I see no reason why it can’t be turned back on them when they call for someone to be murdered online. If I could potentially be hounded by millions of complete strangers and lose my job for calling a dude in a dress a dude, then I am not at all sympathetic to the calls to “be better than” wanting to see the same happen to people who literally call for the assassination of political figures they don’t like.
Of course, the usual suspects in ConInc were horrified and fell all over themselves trying to gatekeep the Right to “not sink to their level!!” Essentially though, all those people are doing is allowing the Left to create a two-tiered anarchotyrannical system in which our side can be canceled for basically being normal people from 2015 while they can do anything they want online, including advocating the most extreme political violence against their opponents. No thanks. This is something that you’d think these “constertooshunul consurverturvs” types would be against, but apparently they’re fine with gatekeeping opposition to anarchotyranny.
In fact, the doxxing and cancelation of lefties is a good thing because, even if temporarily, it represented a shift in the application of power. The Left feared this because previously, this had always been something they do to others, not something that was done to them. While the focus may have been on Home Depot granny losing her job, the real fear is that if it becomes normalised that people on the Left can face real consequences for bad behaviour, then this might start working its way up the food chain. The Left, and their lapdogs in ConInc, began to get a sense that they were losing control of the narrative and the power dynamic. And let’s be honest here - when some wacko far-left teacher loses her job, that’s a good thing because she no longer has power to corrupt your kids. When a far-left fire marshal loses his job, that’s a good thing because he no longer has power to decide “Hey, that house has a Trump sign in front of it, let’s slowroll this call at their address.” Undermining the power of the Left is not, and can never be, a bad thing, intrinsically speaking.
But again, the one drawback to this is that, when the Left fears a shift in the distribution of power, they are liable to do anything to try to halt it. They already saw what could happen, so you can bet your booties that in the future, they’re going to redouble their efforts - both institutionally and demotically - to stamp out the brushfire before it spreads. This will, once again, involve accelerating the decay of our already precarious social stability. So while the whole “Home Depot granny” thing may already be long gone from the media hamster wheel, the long-term psychological impact it had on left-wingers probably means more attempts at violence and official repression in the future.
The final event I’d like to talk about here is the soft, bloodless (one assumes) coup that the Democratic party just perpetrated against their own presumptive nominee and his replacement with someone who didn’t receive a single vote in the primaries. In a way, the whole sham was kind of hilarious. For years, the Democrats had been telling us that Biden was JUST FINE HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THIS! Even the week prior to the debate with Trump, the media was inundated with stories telling us that Biden is fine, his dementia is all a right-wing conspiracy theory, all those videos of him wandering aimlessly and checking out were just digitally altered by Rethuglikkkans to try to make him look bad. And then the whole country watched the debate and saw that it was all true, every last bit of it, and that the Regime had been lying to us about his condition for years. Suddenly Biden’s polling tanked and the Democrats decided they needed a new nominee.
Biden didn’t go quietly, apparently. For about two weeks, the Biden faction within the Party fought off the replacement attempts. But then, Biden suddenly disappeared out of sight for several days, leading to speculation in some quarters that Democratic attempts to bump him off might have been more than just figurative. Suddenly he reappeared (with an odd bruise on his chin), endorsing Kamala and resigning from the race. Needless to say, the circumstances surrounding this whole matter were more than a little suspicious.
Obviously, Biden was forced out because his terrible polling represented a threat to the Regime’s hold on power. In overthrowing him, they effectively disenfranchised around 15 million of their own voters. “Democracy is on the ballot!” Not anymore, it’s not. Of course, being a bona fide monarchist, I don’t actually care about the Democratic party’s distinct lack of democracy. It’s just amusing to see them spend years talking about Trump’s “fascism” and whining about how he is a “threat to democracy,” to then turn around and run a total overthrow of an elected candidate and replace him with someone who got zero votes in their primaries.
What this speaks to is not so much “democracy” itself (which the discerning observer knows is a sham anywise), but the desperation felt by the Left. This desperation is going to continue to get worse as Kamala Harris’ honeymoon period comes to an end and the ability of the media to sustain the TikTok-driven “Kamala is cool!” astroturf wears off. We can already see a manifestation of this in that the Democrats are piling up into two weeks what normally would have been a couple of months’ worth of talking points about Trump/Vance. There’s a reason it seems like they can’t decide if Trump is a fascist, Trump has dementia, or if Trump is weird - it’s because they know that Kamala hasn’t moved the polling needle very much and now is their best (and perhaps only) chance to try to make something stick before she is forced to interact with real people who are not on TikTok, and once again show the nation why she was one of the most unpopular politicians in the country. But again, in keeping with the theme of Democratic acceleration, don’t be surprised if we start seeing violence as the election nears - against Trump and against his supporters - if the Left starts feeling itself backed into a corner.
Now, the combination of blatant propaganda, incompetency, and official low-key repression involved in the acceleration represented by these events carries with it a strong “1980s Soviet Union” vibe. For those old enough to remember, this was when the Soviet Union really went into terminal decline after a few decades of collapse phase stagnation and decay. By the end of it, the propaganda just got lazier, the bureaucrats even less motivated, the leadership class just wanted to spend time at their dachas with the great-grandkids. But what they didn’t want was to be out of power. So however clumsily it was done, the Party made sure that incipient opposition was tamped down through a combination of propaganda, social stigma, and cancelation that rarely invoked actual state force being used (though it obviously could, on occasion). Remember that Havel’s greengrocer was pressured to put up the party slogans in his window not because the secret police would bust his door down, but because he might lose his job and his kids wouldn’t be allowed to attend university.
While some don’t agree that comparisons with the Soviet Union are in order, I think this argument misses the mark. The Soviet Union itself wasn’t an all-encompassing strongman state, at least not after Stalin died. It was mostly just a bureaucratic mess of competing factions, divided governmental apparatus, and superficial adherence to the party line, enforced on pain of social stigma and cancellation, though sometimes with imprisonment as well. Which really does kind of sound like the system we’re heading towards, and in many cases already have. I mean, if you can lose your job for refusing to use someone’s preferred pronouns, can be stripped of your academic credentials because you take a contrary view on things like IQ and genetics, if you can be locked in jail for years for participating in a protest that the Regime didn’t approve, then you are in a Soviet system. So yes, as Moldbug famously opined, America is a communist country.
The problem, though, goes back to the American Left’s accelerationist inclinations. In the Soviet Union, the youth pretty much did not support the Party, so when the terminal collapse came and the hardline Regime tried to overthrow Gorbachev, it didn’t really find anyone willing to riot and otherwise commit violence on its behalf. The “countercoup” was more or less aborted before it even got started. Here in the USA, there is a sizeable contingent of the younger cohorts who have been radicalised by the Left and who are available to come out and commit violence under the wing of official state protection whenever the Regime needs them to. This was what we saw in 2020 using George Floyd as an excuse, and this contributed to the process of performing the colour revolution which eventually succeeded in getting Trump out of office.
Think about it. We have a Regime which routinely uses its access to information to expose its enemies to doxxing and personal destruction. It habitually tells us the most obvious lies, not caring that we know these are lies. It basically just purged its own sitting president and electoral nominee in a coup because it thought it might wring a couple of more polling percentage points out with a new (and undemocratically selected) candidate. It did this because it’s planning on scamming the vote once again, as it has done for decades previous, and needs things to appear to be close enough that the scam appears plausible. It even attempted to assassinate the leading opponent to its political power just a few weeks ago.
You think that Regime is going to sit by quietly if its new nominee starts falling apart after she faces real scrutiny over the next three months?
No way. The sad fact is that, with either electoral outcome, we will see continued left-wing acceleration. If Kamala wins, expect official suppression of political enemies to be ramped up. Close calls are unacceptable, after all. If Kamala loses, expect the Left to fall back on officially licensed violence, not unlike what we’re currently seeing in Venezuela, where a sitting progressive government pulled out all the stops to nullify election results that didn’t go its way - gangs stealing ballot boxes, the military preventing voters from coming into polling places, the works. They may not be as blatant about that here as they are there (or they might be, who knows?). But do not expect the Left to voluntarily give up power peacefully if they can help it. They’re not going to give Trump a second chance to do the stuff he talked about doing previously, and which he may actually try to follow through on if he gets back into office. The Left knows they’re in a precarious place and for them, the only way out is to keep pushing it harder and faster.
Let’s not forget, and sure the left has not, that we now have “The Rittenhouse Effect” added to “Roof Top Koreans”. I really don’t see the Antifa fools getting a free pass to burn down cities anymore, without out some deadly push back from property owners. I know in my neck of the woods, “The Rittenhouse Effect”, is the case and the local sheriff has started to gather together his “Local Posse” too ensure he can repel an invasion of commies from the left.
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