The only way to combat this is to make propaganda that is more effective:
We need right-wing billionaires to produce movies and television that are right-coded. These do not have to be schlocky cringe-fest, in-your-face Christian movies; they can be like Lord of The Rings. The power lies in the subtlety. We do not (should not) hammer our message explicitly. The way the left does it is the right way: simply show the high-status characters in our films as having right-wing beliefs. The belief of the characters should be ancillary to the story itself. They need only a single throw-away line that shows (not tells) their belief in hierarchy, Christianity, traditional gender roles, HBD, etc. within the story as it unfolds. This is how the left won, this is how we will take it back.
Matt Walsh just showed it is entirely possible to create well produced films to compete with Hollyweird. People are sick of the unentertaining DEI/faggotry crap that is coming out of most film studios.
Thought-provoking and accurate (so far as I can tell) analysis through Carville-Rove colored glasses. The HickLib label is handy. I would already suggest a Part 3 to examine how external forces have minimized Party differences and now openly pursue the formal end to both country and Constitution.
Maybe rust belt and the Great Plains. Though “red” will probably change, too. I think the GOP hopes these incoming Indian immigrants will form a new Republican voting bloc.
At any future point where Tennessee and Alabama are voting Democratic (unlikely to happen before the country collapses), America will have already become functionally a single-party state decades previously and they will just be 'voting' alongside the other 40 blue states.
Interesting theory, but I think from my perspective it doesn't quite hold, because as I read your piece, you are still thinking left vs. right. I think the realignment of the population is the rather new understanding that the fedgov as constituted is a problem.The divide is now between those who think fedgov should be all powerful, and those who think it needs to be chopped down to size.
Free speech advocates, due process junkies, federal corruption haters, and 10th Amendment aficionados are coalescing into a new version of the GOP. It is where all the energy is, and where all the ideas are coming from - even if those ideas are over 200 years old. It is fueled by a rift between the billionaire club (think Musk vs Gates), and animated by upstart media streams (like this one) who are supplanting the big media companies.
I appreciate the democrats very well be waiting for 2028 by sacrificing very silly Harris and Walz. I think it is something that will perhaps save Trump in Michigan - and maybe Pennsylvania though I'm not sure he needs it there. Both Whitmer and Shapiro's political ambitions are better served by a Harris loss.
But this assumes that they are electable against whoever will come out of the GOP side post MAGA. The old school democrats are in the process of being purged. It is a white or black college educated single female. The rest of their coalition is on the move. If Trump flips any purple state to red, the built in election process the democrats have used to their advantage gets fixed. Think Florida in 2022. What becomes of the democrats I don't know - they certainly will still exist. But their communist coalition isn't viable long term. As the new GOP forms, we will probably see what the democrats will become based upon who isn't served in the new GOP coalition.
The southern girl born to a conservative dad who goes to college, earns a doctorate, becomes an educator. Names her daughter after the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the most liberal person I’ve met. She’s real. And she flies Rainbow flags in her North GA subdivision. She’s emblematic of the hicklib.
Hmm. Very very interesting assessment (speaking as a Southerner who hasn’t forgotten the Confederacy.). You’re right about the hicklibs. Awful people. I don’t know how many there are tho.
I dunno, as a long term Democrat who is going to vote for Trump for the first time, I don't see my values reflected in Harris, Warren, Pelosi, or Donna Brazille.
It looks to me like the parties have flipped. The Democrats now have all the big money donors, like the Republicans did in the 80s. The MAGA crowd has all the anti-war free speech types who in the past voted Democrat.
Damn there go my retirement hopes. I'm tired of living in the Blue Hell of Maryland. East Tennessee looks highly attractive. Only 3 years to go too.
I too think the Dems have conceded this election. They have Wes Moore and Andy Beshear waiting in the wings. What does the GOP have after Trump? Vance certainly is not it.
Great work man. I’m curious, as a northeasterner living in Texas- why you describe VA as the most conservative state in the south? What do you think drives this conservatism?
The only way to combat this is to make propaganda that is more effective:
We need right-wing billionaires to produce movies and television that are right-coded. These do not have to be schlocky cringe-fest, in-your-face Christian movies; they can be like Lord of The Rings. The power lies in the subtlety. We do not (should not) hammer our message explicitly. The way the left does it is the right way: simply show the high-status characters in our films as having right-wing beliefs. The belief of the characters should be ancillary to the story itself. They need only a single throw-away line that shows (not tells) their belief in hierarchy, Christianity, traditional gender roles, HBD, etc. within the story as it unfolds. This is how the left won, this is how we will take it back.
Matt Walsh just showed it is entirely possible to create well produced films to compete with Hollyweird. People are sick of the unentertaining DEI/faggotry crap that is coming out of most film studios.
The problem is that Matt Walsh is not producing propaganda. Propaganda has to be pre-rational.
Hicklibs have enormous institutional power in West Virginia, even though we have less of them than probably any other rural state. Very sad.
Thought-provoking and accurate (so far as I can tell) analysis through Carville-Rove colored glasses. The HickLib label is handy. I would already suggest a Part 3 to examine how external forces have minimized Party differences and now openly pursue the formal end to both country and Constitution.
Where's the new red heartland gonna be...Great Lakes?
Maybe rust belt and the Great Plains. Though “red” will probably change, too. I think the GOP hopes these incoming Indian immigrants will form a new Republican voting bloc.
Grim
Great read, looking forward to part 2!
At any future point where Tennessee and Alabama are voting Democratic (unlikely to happen before the country collapses), America will have already become functionally a single-party state decades previously and they will just be 'voting' alongside the other 40 blue states.
Meh...I'm more than a bit skeptical of this.
Interesting theory, but I think from my perspective it doesn't quite hold, because as I read your piece, you are still thinking left vs. right. I think the realignment of the population is the rather new understanding that the fedgov as constituted is a problem.The divide is now between those who think fedgov should be all powerful, and those who think it needs to be chopped down to size.
Free speech advocates, due process junkies, federal corruption haters, and 10th Amendment aficionados are coalescing into a new version of the GOP. It is where all the energy is, and where all the ideas are coming from - even if those ideas are over 200 years old. It is fueled by a rift between the billionaire club (think Musk vs Gates), and animated by upstart media streams (like this one) who are supplanting the big media companies.
I appreciate the democrats very well be waiting for 2028 by sacrificing very silly Harris and Walz. I think it is something that will perhaps save Trump in Michigan - and maybe Pennsylvania though I'm not sure he needs it there. Both Whitmer and Shapiro's political ambitions are better served by a Harris loss.
But this assumes that they are electable against whoever will come out of the GOP side post MAGA. The old school democrats are in the process of being purged. It is a white or black college educated single female. The rest of their coalition is on the move. If Trump flips any purple state to red, the built in election process the democrats have used to their advantage gets fixed. Think Florida in 2022. What becomes of the democrats I don't know - they certainly will still exist. But their communist coalition isn't viable long term. As the new GOP forms, we will probably see what the democrats will become based upon who isn't served in the new GOP coalition.
The southern girl born to a conservative dad who goes to college, earns a doctorate, becomes an educator. Names her daughter after the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the most liberal person I’ve met. She’s real. And she flies Rainbow flags in her North GA subdivision. She’s emblematic of the hicklib.
Brilliant analysis
Hmm. Very very interesting assessment (speaking as a Southerner who hasn’t forgotten the Confederacy.). You’re right about the hicklibs. Awful people. I don’t know how many there are tho.
Y’all means nawl…as in “Hell nawl! Git these Haitians outta here!”
I dunno, as a long term Democrat who is going to vote for Trump for the first time, I don't see my values reflected in Harris, Warren, Pelosi, or Donna Brazille.
It looks to me like the parties have flipped. The Democrats now have all the big money donors, like the Republicans did in the 80s. The MAGA crowd has all the anti-war free speech types who in the past voted Democrat.
Damn there go my retirement hopes. I'm tired of living in the Blue Hell of Maryland. East Tennessee looks highly attractive. Only 3 years to go too.
I too think the Dems have conceded this election. They have Wes Moore and Andy Beshear waiting in the wings. What does the GOP have after Trump? Vance certainly is not it.
Great work man. I’m curious, as a northeasterner living in Texas- why you describe VA as the most conservative state in the south? What do you think drives this conservatism?