Reminder on why the left wins and conservatives are born and bred to lose
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Machiavellian guy here, the fuck is wrong with you conservatives. You are facing an enemy that wants to corrupt your young, neuter you and then be forced to watch as they burn the legacy of your grandfathers to the ground.
You take any power by whatever means possible, if that means omitting things that can easily get missed but gets you kicked off a jury, do that. Screw principles, focus on the win and eradication of your enemy. Then when dust is settled, you can live with the regret of how you won but the knowledge you spared your children suffering in the hands of demons.
The American right have been subjected to a psyop going back to at least the 1960s, where '''''principled leaders''''' like William Buckley Jr. (founder of the National Review) and an infestation of neocons (literal 'ex'-Trotskyists - little wonder these people seem to have so little to say on the culture war in particular) have brainwashed them into thinking that the only real conservative principles are to die for Israel and to choke themselves on corporate boots. Everything else - religion, the preservation of American culture in any meaningful sense, etc. - is at best a secondary concern next to those priorities, and that's if they're allowed to enter the conversation at all.
Oh, and above all, it is critical that they conduct themselves with 'dignity' (ie. being a limp-wristed cuck) and play the role of 'graceful loser' when the libs inevitably kick them in the balls and achieve a victory by hook or by crook. Literally every bit of social progress since the '60s was unpopular at the beginning, the left had to get them done through the courts rather than at the ballot box: abortion, affirmative action, busing, school prayer, etc. And once set in stone, conservatives weren't supposed to do anything but meekly and strictly vocally protest against these things, because they're 'settled law' now - meanwhile of course the progs and their pets were free to riot, intrigue and rig systems in their favor until they got what they wanted.
Groups that actually wanted to fight Communism and take a stand for God, the Stars and Stripes, not allow the American nationality to get buried under a tsunami of immigrants, etc. like the John Birch Society were ruthlessly demonized and driven out of the public sphere by these asshats. The '''''principled stewards of real conservatism''''' rejoice in every defeat, both because they got new ways to grift and because they have nothing but contempt for their purported base, who they deride as ignorant hicks at best. Trump, I believe, is but the beginning of the American right - no, the American people, because leftists have made no secret of how much they hate the concept of Americans and the existence of the United States of America - finally starting to wake up and push against their restraints in a very long time (notably the Dobbs case that killed Roe v. Wade was literally the first right-wing victory in the culture war since the fucking 60s).
And cucks like the man described in Posobiec's tweet up there? They have no place in an angry, militant Right that's woken up to just how badly they've been lied to & betrayed for decades. I would actually be a little more forgiving of them if they were boomers rather than young'uns from the newer generations because those guys were subject to a constant propaganda campaign to neuter & atomize them without having any tools available to even begin to open their eyes until talk radio got going in the 1990s. But regardless, they're too weak to be useful in any regard other than being browbeaten into voting for the furthest-right candidates possible for as long as the fiction of electoral democracy can be maintained & made to serve the Right.
Erickson's presence feels entirely artificial, tbh. He left RedState around the time when Trump was starting to make waves and while he went all-in on NeverTrump, that didn't work out too well for him or his blogs at The Resurgent & The Bulwark - his former coworkers on RedState have been piling shit on him, calling the latter site 'The Bullwank', etc. and theirs definitely seems the more successful site by far. And obviously, influential paleocons like Tucker (at least once he gets whatever he's planning for Twitter off the ground, if he's not immediately crippled by the new WEF CEO) can blow whatever numbers he scrounges up out of the water any day.
Certainly I don't believe Erickson has anything resembling a natural audience, no more than the child rapists at the Lincoln Project do. The Buckleyite 'fusion' consensus is dead and there's precisely zero passion on the right for more of the failed old 'deepthroat corpos, bomb brown people for Raytheon, let immigrants undercut American workers and don't worry about losing cultural ground to degens because Jesus said to love the sinner' bullshit. The base isn't buying that anymore and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Erickson's audience these days are made up of the most cucked of boomers and cheerleaders from the left, same as the Lincoln Project.