Sorry man. Now I owe you a bunch of apologies. 1) I was trying to suggest it’s n

Sorry man. Now I owe you a bunch of apologies.
1) I was trying to suggest it’s normal for you to disassociate with me, us, whatever and go your own way, because you’ve stated you would walk away if I continued on this route of attacking the right. I understood. I expected it. Lots of people have decided they want to move on. You aren’t unique in this matter. You are just the most talented.
2) I acknowledge that for a long time you’ve been resistant to association precisely because I’ve not only given up on the ‘dysfunctional right’ I can read your facial expressions and see your repeated disconnection from the discourse. You’ve been checked out for a long time. So, I’m positively supporting you in your direction and disassociation even if I regret it. And I”ll keep supporting you.
3) As for authorities, the FBI simply stated that you were the vector they followed to us. I took this as consistent with your position that you wanted more right-wing advocacy. I understand that you want what you want. I don’t want to be influenced that direction nor influence you in mine. But I will support you no matter what. Maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned it. At the time I thought it was legitimizing for you.
4) As for me, I don’t feel like I’m in a corner. I feel like I”m trying to escape association with the fringe, because I feel I should have stuck to reforming libertarianism and restoring classical liberalism. I shouldn’t have taken the 18 months with John (though it was enjoyable) it was a tragic waste of time and reputation. That’s because the fringe is anti-intellectual, can’t possibly control their aggression and anger, can’t possibly learn not to take the bait, and frankly came after me full force from both Christian fundamentalist and Ethnonationalist and National Socialist directions. So given that I deal with avoiding these clowns every day, I just want to avoid the broken timber as much as possible. All it does is hurt me and my mission. So I’ll stop ‘disciplining the right’ when I stop having to defend myself by doing so. … Trying to organize the dissident right was a waste of time, a failure, and as is demonstrated over and over again, the purity spiral in each faction is so self-destructive that no one CAN organize that group of misfits into a political movement.

It’s not complicated. I just want everyone to be happy, and to have fewer people throw negativity in my direction, because it tires me out.

I should have stuck with academic work and then moved into political activism. Now I have to find my way back. And that’s what I’m doing.

Hugs always.