The Mythical Far-Right

 

Just a brief jumping-off point here. A Politico article begins with the following sentence-graph: “Republicans have been feuding for months in Nevada’s largest county after a pro-Donald Trump insurgency with ties to far-right activists threw the party into chaos.” Well, I haven’t conducted a study of the thing, but informally, I cannot recall the last time I saw the supporters of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, ACORN, Organizing for Action, or any of the rest of that stuff referred to as “far-left activists” in an ostensibly balanced news outlet, especially when casually name-dropped as “tied to” a prominent figure on the left, such as a former president. Perhaps you can educate me, but I figured that likelihood of juice isn’t worth the squeeze, so I certainly did not bestir myself.

I don’t know what is going on in Nevada. Don’t care. Never heard of whomever it was mentioned in the article. I support the Trump guy. Hope he doesn’t suck.

You are allowed to support somebody without having to vouch for every blooming thing about him. As the left used to say of Clinton, “We’re voting for [office], not for [role in community].”

When you think “far-right,” please think of me. That’s what I tell my young relatives who are hypnotized by the left. And by the way, my young relatives are about evenly split between conservative politics and the other. Which is not bad, considering what Churchill (I guess) said about political positions of youth versus age.

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  1. The Reticulator Member
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    BDB (View Comment):

    Another example nymag.com, via roundabout sourcing:

    From Richmond to Virginia Beach, it is Democrats who are working to nationalize the campaign […] while right-wingers are trying to turn voters’ focus toward the hyper-local.

     

    I thought nationalism was bad.

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  2. Mikescapes Inactive
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    @BDB 

    The so-called far right has not been embraced by the Republican Party. And not by conservatives. The KKK, neo-Nazis, etc. are not even close to  main stream on the Right. Rational Conservatives want no association with them.

    Not so with the Left. Progressives have great power on the Democratic side. The left of left are not rejected by Liberals.

    The Biden administration wants to divert attention from radical groups in and out of government by labelling events as domestic terrorism.

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  3. BDB Inactive
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    Mikescapes (View Comment):

    @ BDB

    The so-called far right has not been embraced by the Republican Party. And not by conservatives. The KKK, neo-Nazis, etc. are not even close to main stream on the Right. Rational Conservatives want no association with them.

    Not so with the Left. Progressives have great power on the Democratic side. The left of left are not rejected by Liberals.

    The Biden administration wants to divert attention from radical groups in and out of government by labelling events as domestic terrorism.

    Right, but most of the time when you see “far-right”, it’s soccer moms.  Per my recent comment here, you know who the “far-right” is, trying to “hyper-localize” the election in Virginia?  It’s people who don’t want their daughters raped in school by trannies, only to have the tranny rapist student quietly transferred.  This just happened in Loudon County.

    I do not even know a single KKK-er, or neo-Nazi.  Gee, you’d think I would, with how often people like me are called “far-right” in acceptable media outlets.

     

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  4. Spin Inactive
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    Mikescapes (View Comment):

    @ BDB

    The so-called far right has not been embraced by the Republican Party. And not by conservatives. The KKK, neo-Nazis, etc. are not even close to main stream on the Right. Rational Conservatives want no association with them.

    Not so with the Left. Progressives have great power on the Democratic side. The left of left are not rejected by Liberals.

    The Biden administration wants to divert attention from radical groups in and out of government by labelling events as domestic terrorism.

    That’s because the so called “far right”, and by that I suppose we mean the neo-nazis and KKK folks, aren’t of the right.  The natural progressing from the middle through Conservatism out to the extreme results in anarchy.  We go from some government to limited government to anarcho-capitalism.

    The great lie perpetrated upon the minds of young college students is that the extreme right is populated by militant socialists.

    Oh that’s good.  That’s real good.  If I do say so myself.

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  5. Terry Mott Member
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    Spin (View Comment):

    Mikescapes (View Comment):

    @ BDB

    The so-called far right has not been embraced by the Republican Party. And not by conservatives. The KKK, neo-Nazis, etc. are not even close to main stream on the Right. Rational Conservatives want no association with them.

    Not so with the Left. Progressives have great power on the Democratic side. The left of left are not rejected by Liberals.

    The Biden administration wants to divert attention from radical groups in and out of government by labelling events as domestic terrorism.

    That’s because the so called “far right”, and by that I suppose we mean the neo-nazis and KKK folks aren’t of the right. The natural progressing from the middle through Conservatism out to the extreme results in anacrchy. We go from some government to limited government to anarcho-capitalism.

    The great lie perpetrated upon the minds of young college students is that the extreme right is populated by militant socialists.

    Oh that’s good. That’s real good. If I do say so myself.

    Yes, it is good.

    It’s been said by others, but I maintain that racism is a collectivist ideology.  You can’t be racist (in the traditional sense) without being a collectivist.  If your fundamental worldview is individualist, it’s virtually impossible to judge or stigmatize people collectively.

    If “liberals” really wish to minimize racism/sexism/etc., they should start railing against collectivism in favor of individualism.

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  6. kedavis Coolidge
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    Mikescapes (View Comment):

    @ BDB

    The so-called far right has not been embraced by the Republican Party. And not by conservatives. The KKK, neo-Nazis, etc. are not even close to main stream on the Right. Rational Conservatives want no association with them.

    Not so with the Left. Progressives have great power on the Democratic side. The left of left are not rejected by Liberals.

    The Biden administration wants to divert attention from radical groups in and out of government by labelling events as domestic terrorism.

    I never thought the KKK were conservative, remember who led and fought for racism and slavery in the south.  And the Nazis were the National SOCIALIST Party.  Not “conservative” either.

     

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  7. DaveSchmidt Coolidge
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    This has perhaps already made the rounds: 

    “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago, and a racist today.” 

                                                       Thomas Sowell

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  8. TBA Coolidge
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    BDB (View Comment):

    Another example nymag.com, via roundabout sourcing:

    From Richmond to Virginia Beach, it is Democrats who are working to nationalize the campaign […] while right-wingers are trying to turn voters’ focus toward the hyper-local.

    Only evil people pay attention to their hyper-local focused lyin’eyes. 

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  9. TBA Coolidge
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    BDB (View Comment):

    Another example nymag.com, via roundabout sourcing:

    From Richmond to Virginia Beach, it is Democrats who are working to nationalize the campaign […] while right-wingers are trying to turn voters’ focus toward the hyper-local.

     

    I thought nationalism was bad.

    It was, but that was last admin. 

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