The Conservative movement’s total failure to conserve anything has rightly become the stuff of memes. One reason why Conservatives have proven utterly ineffective at stopping the Left is that Conservatism is really just slow motion Liberalism. It accepts the basic Liberal premise enshrining freedom detached from the good as an absolute.
Compounding this handicap is that the Left’s power brokers long ago learned that the best way to win was to pick their opposition. The most flagrant example was William F. Buckley’s reign at National Review. His job was to serve as the gatekeeper of official Conservatism and make sure that nobody who might challenge the Left got a hearing in mainstream society.
Here’s Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boering amplifying BowtieCon huckster Benny Johnson and illustrating both of the above points at once:
It must be said that William F. Buckley, these clowns are not. Buckley could at least tell the Republican Party’s constituents to go to hell in a way that made them look forward to the trip. The shabby network of grifters jockeying to fill his loafers come off as parodies. Their professional accomplishments consist of debating feral children on college campuses and composing tweets that read like a thirtysomething’s conception of a Boomer’s image of himself at 20.
If you want the Platonic ideal of a Conservative Inc grifter, look no further than Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. His biography reads like the articles of incorporation for a dummy company set up to siphon resources away from the authentic Right. The son of a Trump Tower project manager, Kirk parlayed his connections into a sinecure heading a campus org that grooms Zoomers into future NRO cruise passengers.
The joke’s on Charlie. Thanks to the waves of H1Bs he supports, no members of Generation Z will be able to afford NRO cruises.
Get a load of this poser:
I’m old enough to remember the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress and the Tea Party. Every time, establishment stooges would jump in front of the parade and march it off a cliff. Charlie Kirk spends every waking moment grasping for the MAGA grand marshal’s baton.
Thankfully, someone decided to stop him.
The pushback began when TPUSA fired their former associate Ashley St. Clair for simply having her picture taken with America First host Nicholas J. Fuentes.
Fuentes, whose early promise Conservative Inc. tried to co-opt, only to see him turn renegade, has run afoul of pretty much every controlled opposition group. They’re so afraid of him that Charlie Kirk hid behind a wall of police officers to avoid debating Fuentes at Politicon.
In response to these waves of purges and gatekeeping, Fuentes asked his viewers to attend Charlie Kirk’s ongoing series of college speaking events. He urged them to present themselves professionally and respectfully, to calmly wait for the Q&A, and to ply Kirk with pointed questions aimed at exposing his grift.
The results have been a disaster for Charlie Kirk and TPUSA. The ranks of questioners at his tour stops have rapidly come to be dominated by Christian traditionalists and American patriots now known collectively as groypers.
In response to being exposed as frauds, Conservative Inc fell back on their Leftist DNA and called for Nick’s deplatforming. Battle lines were soon drawn, with controlled opposition shills like Kirk, Johnson, and Sebastian Gorka, joined by the usual Leftist hall monitors, clamoring for Nick to be hurled into the outer darkness. On the other side, Stefan Molyneux, Michelle Malkin, Jesse Lee Peterson, and Paul Joseph Watson, among others, rallied to Fuentes’ defense.
The Groyper War has sent shock waves through the fake Right. TPUSA suffered a major casualty with the loss of their Kansas State University chapter.
How will this battle for the soul of the American Right end? The outcome remains unclear, but the groypers’ frog march from victory to victory shows no signs of slowing down.
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