From James Kilpatrick’s post “Economism Not Enough—Third Party Needs To Defend White Base“:
A civil war is raging within the Republican Party, with major donors and Amnesty/ Immigration Surge supporters mobilizing against Tea Party candidates. The bitterness is so great that there is finally MSM realization that a Third Party might well emerge from the convulsion. Of course, a Third Party would be pointless if it just espoused the same old ideas louder. But possibly, just possibly, the climax of 2013 Amnesty Offensive might result in new ideas—and even a new leader…
[I]t’s important to note that, up to now, this Third Party talk has been tactical and emotional, rather than strategic and driven by substantial policy difference. Grassroots conservatives are obviously tired of supporting a party leadership that is constantly in retreat. After years of voting Republican and watching the country get worse, ordinary activists are beginning to understand that the Republican Establishment is complicit in the drive to dispossess Americans. Conservatism Inc. and the Obama Regime are objective allies. The historic American nation is their common enemy.
Unfortunately, unfocused opposition can lead to political disaster. Thus, instead of empowering a populist revolt against the Republican leadership, the government shutdown has led to a pushback by business groups and Republican officials against grassroots conservatives. Business groups are enthusiastically backing Speaker John Boehner and even preparing to fund primary opponents to elected Tea Party officials. In the words of a corporate lobbyist with the priceless name Dirk Van Dongen: “I don’t know of anybody in the business community who takes the side of the Taliban minority” (by which he means the Tea Party). [Business groups stand by Boehner, plot against tea party, by Jia Lynn Yang and Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, October 17, 2013]
Similarly, Karl Rove and other Republican officials have long been mobilizing against “Tea Party” groups. Rove’s “Conservative Victory PAC” is designed to beat back Tea Party challengers—earning the ire of movement leaders like Erick Erickson of Redstate.com, who says that Conservative Victory Project is “painting targets on the backs of a lot of candidates, marking anyone they support suspect and ripe for defeat.” [Conservatives War of Rove super-PAC, by Alexandra Jaffe, The Hill, February 5, 2013]…
The implicit politics of white identity—what we used to call American patriotism—is fuelling the Tea Party movement, even if it is funneled into foolish or tangential causes. Both liberals and Conservatism Inc. know the Tea Party could turn into something genuinely new—even if the Tea Party itself doesn’t see it…
A real Third Party would represent an ideological departure from the stale economism ideology of contemporary American conservatism. A useful model would be the patriotic message of Marine Le Pen in France, whose “fringe” party the National Front is now the most popular party in the country because of its exploitation of National Question issues about sovereignty, immigration, and anger at France’s post-national elite…
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow predicted back in 2006 that immigration may be “one of those rare epochal issues with the potential to break the two-party system.” Before it can do that, it has to break the Republican Party.
In the end, the historic American nation must coalesce into a Right Opposition organized around the National Question if it wants to survive. The emotional resentment against the failures of Conservatism Inc. needs to solidify around a new patriotic agenda—not just more mindless slogans on Fox News.
This requires intellectual independence, political courage, and of course a leader.
Will one emerge during the Amnesty battle to come?
The answer will determine the future of the American Right—and of the historic American nation.
