Walt Right: Dixie, the Alt-Right and Charlottesville

I had a great time chatting with Walt Bismarck.

You should bookmark his Substack. I have become a daily visitor.

In a lot of ways, Walt reminds me of myself in an earlier phase of life. I had spent about 7 or 8 years identifying as a White Nationalist and posting on internet. I was single, intellectually curious and wanted to explore other topics. I spent the last decade exploring the roots of cultural differences between White Americans. Lately, I have been more interested in exploring my religion than in the past, especially since having children. I am sure that I will be focused on something else a decade from now.

Walt is still growing, maturing and mellowing out. He is more nostalgic for the Alt-Right because he has a shorter memory of it. He was only around for the highwater remark. I have been around for a lot longer. I look at the demise of the Alt-Right as more like Groundhog Day with this incarnation of the White Nationalist movement making many of the same mistakes as its predecessors.

I do not believe in throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I still believe in race realism. I identify with my own race. I oppose anti-Whiteism and the Great Replacement. I am still alarmed about the future of Whites in North America. I still associate with all the same people. I am pro-White. I just do not believe that every interaction between people of different races needs to be based on total animosity. I have moved toward a more classic Southern view of race relations. Race is a fact of life which we are skilled at navigating around and you will encounter more racial tension with some people than others. Strangely enough, the most intense racial tension in our society is between White people.

Anyway, enjoy the show.

Topics include:

• Prehistory of the Alt Right in the 2000s as a “post-paleo” right wing resistance to the Iraq War and neoconservatism centered around the Mises Institute
• The famous Libertarian to Alt Right pipeline
• Post-2012 distaste among Right Libertarians for people like Cathy Reisenwitz
• Ron Paul’s unfair treatment as a catalyst of antisemitism
• Why Hunter avoids identifying with labels like WN
• How Walt and Hunter have the same attitude on pro-White politics these days
• Why are northern WNs so crazy compared to southern WNs?
• Hunter’s interest in cultural differences between different groups of U.S. whites
• Why Castizo Futurism works for Florida but not Arizona
• Is the Post Alt Right in the Overton Window?
• Why Jared Taylor and Ann Coulter are pessimistic because the 90s was so intellectually free compared to even today
• Why are Zoomer WNs so incel compared to prior generations?
• How Walt and Hunter are still nostalgic for the 2015-2017 Alt Right
• Hunter’s increasing religiosity over time
• Walt’s survivor’s guilt after Charlottesville
• Hunter’s story giving Jared Taylor a tour of Selma, AL
• Can the rest of the country ever adopt the South’s chill attitude on race?
• How conservatives always choose “poor predictable rock”
• Can you encourage your followers to have a higher openness mindset?
• How Walt and Hunter handle eceleb beefs
• Leftist propensity for purity spiraling vs rightist brawling culture
• Is Hunter supporting Trump this year?
• Does Project 2025 have legs?
• Should we be imperialists to support the Petrodollar?
• Should WNs learn from Brahmins?
• Hunter’s moderate stance on the JQ
• Hunter’s interaction with Richard Hanania as “Richard Hoste” in the old days
• The intransigence and strategic idiocy of Pro-Life Maximalism
• Hunter’s conflicts with conformist German Lutherans on Twitter
• Do we need diversity to be Faustian?
• How southerners used to ally with northern immigrants against northern WASPs
• Is the “New South” a betrayal of southern principles?
• The CSA wasn’t a totally unindustrialized backwater
• Today the South has more industry than the north
• Has the South lost its traditional culture?
• Slavery as the “occasion” vs. “cause” of the Civil War
• Did the Cavaliers sell out the Borderers in the Civil War?
• Plans to bleach Dixie by draining slaves into the deep south and then southwest
• Does Hunter disavow the Cavaliers?
• From 1876-1964 the USA was a legitimate successor state to the CSA
• How can a black person psychologically grapple with HBD?
• Hunter’s thoughts on Ron DeSantis
• Walt’s horseshoe theory on antisemitism and philosemitism
• Has Florida becomes less crazy over the past 20 years?
• Dopamine traps—social media, porn, etc.
• Walt tries to convince Hunter to move his writing to Substack
• Why Joe Biden isn’t able to triangulate like Bill Clinton
• The James Fields situation at Charlottesville
• How soft WN has been normalized in conservative culture
• Porn addiction as a major social problem
• How Hunter approaches raising his Gen Alpha sons
• Early female puberty
• Repressing speech on any topic makes it more odious
• The oppositional culture among conservatives
• How being a married father makes you more “normal”
• Was the Alt Right’s overconfidence/poor tactics in 2017 inevitable?
• Hunter gives a personal narrative of his attendance at Charlottesville
• How the Alt Right collapsed in the months after Charlottesville
• Walt wants to moderate a debate between Spencer and Hanania