People who obsess over the white nationalist label are not people I care to associate with. To some extent, I don’t care what people label themselves, so long as their ideas, behavior, and quality of character are sound.
But if you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed that there’s a pernicious, cult-like mentality that pervades white nationalism. Advocacy of violence, paramilitary LARPing, extreme policy proposals, degenerate behavior, unpersoning non-white people indiscriminately on the basis of their race—all of this is trash, and by opposing it, I am in no way sacrificing my opposition to demographic change, mass immigration, anti-whiteness, etc.
Most intelligent people on the dissident right get this, as do young people who are coming to dissident views post-Alt-Right. No one who reaches the truth thanks to me, Nick Fuentes, Jake Lloyd, etc. is going to be told that marching down the street with the NSM is a wise move; in fact, they’ll be explicitly told the opposite.
One last thing on labels. Like it or not, when you define yourself as a white nationalist, you’re linking yourself to the Turner Diaries, the Order, indefensible policy proposals, neo-Nazism, etc. In other words, the contemporary dissident right has merit largely because it’s something new—it isn’t the same old paramilitary LARPing WN idiocy. By define yourself as WN, you link yourself to that.
I really don’t see how anyone can look at the political landscape and self-described white nationalists are ever going to take power. It’s a dead brand.
Fortunately, though, the emerging populist movement consists of millions of white people who chant “Send her back!” in reference to a member of Congress—who boo loudly when the president mentions “Somalia” in reference to refugees. But these people don’t want to become white nationalists, largely because the subculture is largely toxic, outlandish, and crude. WNs think that they’re in a political ghetto because of the establishment; while this is partially true, the fact of the matter is that even if the establishment-imposed stigma didn’t exist, most white people still wouldn’t want to associate with such types—and for good reason!
