I lived and worked in DC when I was just a right leaning libertarian. I worked for government contractors and nonprofits alongside political appointees, elected officials and career bureaucrats. You can hide your power level all you want, but eventually they will catch a whiff of nonconformity. You won’t laugh at the right joke, or maybe you laugh at the wrong joke, but everyone outs themselves in subtle ways and our enemies are hyper vigilant. When this happens you become quietly blacklisted and your career at that organization is effectively dead in the water. I'm not talking about hitler jokes, I was just a right leaning libertarian that didn’t hate white people and that made me an extremist in the beltway.
In the future, nationalists and the adjacents should learn to do what their opponents have done to them in the important institutions and even in the small forums and fandoms. This is the gatekeeping101. Rather than testing them with initiation, I think testing them with group dynamic every now and then is far better way to prevent them to act out of line. There is a place that does subtle gatekeeping pretty well and that is kiwifarms even though I may criticise that place a lot. They don’t treat kindly to autistic spergs in general and doesn’t matter if they have far-left ideology or they are muslim, so most members try to keep in line. Once they have history of sperging out, they get rewarded with pink triangles, a symbol that's more likely to give them lifetime ban. To me that’s the very least we should have done, so we can prevent totally avoidable incidents such as young republican telegram leak next time.
That quote was in response to Nick Fuentes telling his Groypers to infiltrate the institutions and take power from the inside.
I don't disagree with the quote, but at the same time, I think nominally right people should do it anyway. Why? To put progressives on defense, to make them react, to make them look over their shoulder, to take away their initiative, at least in a small way.
Conservatives have stopped trying to get into the places progressives dominate, and I think that is tactically erroneous. Sometimes it is tactically useful to charge headlong into your own destruction, which the role Torpedo 6 and Torpedo 8 served in the Battle of Midway. Those squadrons attacked with 12 planes each, and only 2 survived from Torpedo 6. Torpedo 8 was shot down entirely, and only one man survived, but, this attack drew the Zero air cover down to low level, which gave the arriving dive bombers a clear sky to attack the Japanese carriers, which sank 3 of them.
Yeah at best you can be a spy and sabotage or report what's happening to others, but you're not going to reform the mafia from within.
Agreed. I don't doubt the veracity of the quote, but it doesn't take away from the fact that we need right leaning people to infiltrate institutions en masse. Even if most get weeded out, if the influx is great enough, the ones that avoid detection can represent a meaningful power shift.