Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

@Xistance I don’t see the value in knowing. If I (we) just came out and said that it’s what I (we) believed, the hard right would believe it because it fits their narrative. Unfortunately I’m not the kind of person who does such things, because first, I woldn’t want to be caught in a lie, and second because it’s a violation of my ethics and morals.

So, Instead, I’d say the truth: john and I (and our entire team) were (a) deeply concerned that trump would lose the election and the right would be incrementally silenced (as I predicted correctly), (b) foolishly optimistic that we could convert the ‘mad boys’ of the right out of violence and into protest-with-specific-demands, (c) and to show how it was done without taking the bait of the left, (d) and that we could demonstrate it with a soft launch with a few hundred of our followers. (e) We thought we’d had a victory by showing how it was done. But the nazis, white supremacists, and the groypers, all undermined us instead. We had no negative reviews from the major media. And that demonstrated our strategy was right. But we were undermined by the right.

We did not even imagine, in our wildest dreams that the right would turn on us. That they would not understand my playing with the BLM guys, that they ould take my sweat as urine, or that they would interpret the wisdom of not taking the left’s taunts and baiting, when the BLM group had alraedy paid off the host in cash right in front of me, and caused the police to bring up the armored vehicles in preparation for a clash.

I could have easily told the guys to start either fighting or shooting. They would have. But they did as directed, which was to hug them as ‘fellow rebels against a tyrannical state’.

So I have one failing. I can’t understand the simplicity of the mob. It’s how I fail every single time. And it’s why I’m suitable for intellectual production, governing, and judging but not for activism.

And so john and i agreed to abandon the right. We believed, and I still do, that the majority middle will become exhausted by the left’s abuse, and that the they are the only viable market for solutions. And when the mad boys are needed, they’ll opportunistically follow that middle as ‘troublemakers’.

But the right cannot produce leadership – for the reasons I’ve stated over and over again in great detail: they will undermine any adult who isn’t promising rage.