The conservative movement is degenerate and decadent. And no, I’m not saying this because the celebration is coming January 6, this actually features “QAnon Shaman. ”
My statement is actually motivated by a mass shooting in Denver last week. The shooter interacted with some of the “manosphere” authors in the alternate right-hand corner on Twitter. One The name that stands out to me is Jack Murphy, who used to go by the name John Goldman. A few years ago, he was in the news briefly, after being fired for writing some inferentially crazy stuff like “Feminists need rape. ”
Murphy believes he’s been canceled, but he’s spent the past year as a Lincoln Fellow at Claremont Institute. Claremont was once a highly regarded conservative intellectual organization, but now it’s Flight-93 all the time – and worse.
In addition to holding this once prestigious scholarship, this transaction Chad also runs a “men’s quarters” $99 a month “Liminal Order” whose members are said to teach each other how to be stronger, richer and more manly. It provides dubious advice like: “The world has always needed a villain, and today, that villain is a young white male who knows what he wants and isn’t afraid to get it. Is the antagonist. Grab it.”
Embrace it, he has! While he’s not responsible for the revenge murders a fan of him has committed, notable revelations about Murphy’s life resurface after those murders, including all the things he wrote in 2015 about share “hot young girlfriend“With a” stranger from Tinder. “Just before Christmas, Sydney Watson asked Murphy about it on Blaze TV and it didn’t go well. He cursed at her and tried to threaten her for bringing up the incident.
It To be amusing and ironic that the same type of “alpha” macho men call others “dollars“Continue turns out to be literal idiots.
Murphy is also clear was in a low budget porn movie movie. Based on conservative writer Rod Dreher, the film includes “a scene in which the super-masculine Murphy feeds himself a plastic penis, while at the same time satisfying himself. This is not a rumor, alas; I happened to see the picture online and couldn’t find it”.
I can’t read it either.
Listen, I’m not here to be a prude, or even to play the role of psychologist, but as recently as a decade ago, the conservative movement (with some notable exceptions) decided to be square, confusing, and involved in an error (admittedly, with some weirdness). strange happen below radar).
My experience, starting in the 1980s and ’90s, was that almost all geeks and wacky hippies were on the left. They are the railings on the establishment. They are anti-vaxxers. We would say that they are more public than obscene and libertine. This is pretty much the default, as they certainly won’t join the right-wing Christian Coalition — or form the worse Republican country club.
Donald Trump has essentially destroyed both wings, for better and for worse, by flooding the ranks of the GOP with many avant-garde (and apolitical) Democrats. It is Roseanne Bar vote. Many of these people feel miserable, left out, and moody. I don’t think it’s a complete coincidence that Murphy’s book is titled The Democratic Party deserves to be declared. This could be the perfect title.
If libertines conservatives were hypocrites before, they are now reveling in reprehensible behavior. Murphy’s mess is not the result of private videos or texts being hacked or leaked out of revenge. I’m writing about stuff he’s published and filmed. Whether we’re discussing Murphy, Jerry Falwell, Jr., Matt Gaetz, or Marjorie Taylor Greene, we can rest assured that they are proudly letting their monstrous flags fly. This is definitely not your father’s Republican Party.
“All the organizations that give us meaning and information are down. They’ve been compromised, damaged, demoralized,” Murphy said while selling his $99-a-month “Limital Order” as a “network to replace those fallen institutions “because of” There is no such net, you are alone in enemy territory. “
A conservative railing against institutions — all of them! —Means like an “alpha” “cuck” but here we are.
Because conservatism is currently under siege, there are few standards for joining the cause. Because it doesn’t trust media reports and information, it’s allergic to proofreading. And because Trump has ignored ethical conventions, anyone who tries to defend rights or impose standards will be seen as non-Trumpy and, therefore, non-conservative.
This probably explains why all those strong conservative leaders and organizations — you know, the people who organize all those meetings, own all those buildings, and write all of them? those self-respecting memos — don’t ask Claremont how this guy won their prestigious scholarship. For that matter, where is Claremont? Is this the type of person they want to represent them? Or did they make the mistake of not reading (or watching) the things he said or did in the past? (I reached out to their media team but got no response.)
These family values may have changed the window for many, but many of us still believe in traditional family values - even if we don’t fully implement them. – is the best for the development of each person, as well as a strong country. By elevating those who don’t even aspire to these standards, conservative institutions are sending the message that these values really don’t matter. This is, of course, a natural byproduct of having Trump (who Murphy called “Unflinching masculinity”) as the leader of your movement.
Now, I remain a conservative because of important issues like the right to life, the size and scope of the government, and the need for a strong national defense – especially as China becomes increasingly assertive. more encouraging. And I won’t let those Not Conservatism forced me to redefine my worldview. It is unfortunate that the so-called “leaders” in the conservative movement’s institutional infrastructure are allowing their brands to be co-opted. It’s obvious that they’re more interested in attracting people like Murphy than retaining people like me.
“There are people who have been in this movement for decades, proven their conservative credentials, lived conservatively, and deserved the big platforms — but never got them,” write Megan Fox (no, not Megan Fox) at PJ Media.
“Instead, ‘conservative influencers’ go after the likes of Murphy – the night-flying scammers that put us all to shame. Why so? Why is there no basic desire to check someone’s background? A simple Google search of Murphy’s previous articles will find this. He wrote them in 2015! It is not hidden; No one cares to even look! And the end result is that conservatives end up looking like stupid idiots.”
The Republican Party is full of weirdos, clowns, dark horses, scoundrels, perverts, and weirdos. Conservationism had an identity similar to Old Oakland Raiders. The only question that remains is whether Murphy will be cut – or end next week.
