He's only 23 years old, but he already has a YouTube channel with more than 450,000 subscribers.
For a total of 68 million views, if you'd like to applaud again.
And he...
He was very active with the College Republican National Committee, and he caused a nationwide scandal in 2018, just last year, when he was elected to a local position in the Republican Party.
So this is the kind of infiltration activism that I urge upon all of you.
So it's with a great pleasure that I...
I want to introduce both a thinker and a doer who will speak to us this evening on the question of Beyond Trump.
Please welcome James Olsen.
How's it going, everybody?
Well, this is actually my first conference in over a year and my first ever time at American Renaissance, either as a speaker or as a guest.
And I have to say, I am beyond impressed with the caliber and quality of everybody here.
So give yourselves a round of applause first.
And we would also be remiss not to thank...
From the bottom of our hearts, the fantastic staff, the state patrol, Tennessee State Patrol, and everybody doing their best to make sure this conference can go up without a hitch.
So thank you to the fantastic staff here.
So, hello to everybody here joining us in person.
Hello to the thousands that will surely be watching this speech online.
And I would be remiss not to say hello to the unfortunate victims of horse trampling that happened outside the venue.
You know, many of them drove...
Hundreds of miles for the privilege of screaming at an empty parking lot.
So, thank you to them as well.
You know, they put out a call on their Twitter, on the Jam City Antifa page, which I read.
I'm a regular reader.
And it said, please send updates of fascist activity to our Proton email account.
And I was thinking, you know, as I flew into the Nashville airport, I should send them a selfie from my email account.
Hey guys!
Here I am.
See you at Montgomery Bell.
Here I am eating Nashville hot chicken.
See you soon.
I didn't.
Unfortunately, I should have.
Ineffective, freakish, ghastly, and often diseased as they may be, it's significant that they chose to protest us.
It's significant they demanded this gathering be shut down.
The street-level Antifa...
Their allies in the media, Silicon Valley, and international finance have a special dislike of what we're doing here because we are building a network, a culture, outside of the purview of their censorship and economic terrorism and their 30-day bans for wrong think.
We have a community here that will praise you for having children and criticize you for pumping them full of gender conversion hormones.
They complete 180 from the cultural moors constructed for us by our friends in the media.
The title of my talk today is Beyond Trump, but as I was writing down what I wanted to say, I found that I didn't have that much to say about President Trump.
This is, after all, American Renaissance, not Israeli Renaissance.
Thank you.
We'll talk about why...
Why the president's electoral pitch was so appealing and why it appealed to even seasoned political veterans that knew better.
What are the bright spots, the silver linings?
What can we salvage from this Kushner-led administration?
And where does the dissident right go from here?
Should we be acting as a tug, guiding the oil tanker of conservatism in the right direction?
Should we go dark, start collecting wood pallets, become Charlie Daniels-esque long-haired country boys and buy our 80 acres and build a shed, secede from society as far down the highway as possible?
I don't think either answer is entirely correct.
We have the incredible opportunity to construct a nation within this shambling corpse of a once-great country held together by Marvel movies, Amazon two-day delivery, Sunday night football, and our values.
All of that ahead, but first your online privacy and security.
Just kidding.
So, why did we fall for Trump?
I'm not speaking for everyone here, but I think the majority of us voted for Donald Trump.
The majority of us had some faith in Donald Trump in 2016.
I'm 23 years old, and I grew up on conservative talk radio.
In middle school, I would actually set up recording software on my laptop before I left for school in the morning so I could record local conservative radio and listen to it when I got home.
I have hours and hours somewhere on a hard drive of the Glenn Beck program.
Since I was 12, I was hearing about rhinos, Republicans in name only, how Republicans do nothing after promising everything in elections.
In other words, in 2016, I was old enough to know better, but I was young enough for that bright-eyed idealism to creep in.
Many of us believe that Donald Trump was legit.
Yeah, other Republicans would talk about marginally reducing illegal immigration and reconsidering foreign policy, but Donald Trump was promising to build a wall to keep the Mexican job-stealing rapists out of our country and telling Jeb Bush that the war in Iraq was a mistake built on lies to his face.
For the first time since the great Pat Buchanan's campaigns for president, Here was someone recognizing immigration as the number one threat to American identity, and the first candidate in my lifetime that even flirted with cutting the levels of job-stealing, nation-destroying,
legal immigration as well as illegal.
One of my favorite things about going to conferences is the fact that I'm usually staying in a hotel, and I don't have cable TV at home, so one of the luxuries that I enjoy when I'm staying in hotels is cable TV.
And my favorite show is Live PD.
Have you guys seen this show?
Well, it's basically 13 to 50, the TV program.
And what you end up seeing, inevitably, in every show...
There is a car chase, okay?
And the driver, the very vibrant driver of this car, as they're trying to run away from the police, you'll start seeing plastic bags go out the window.
A bag of crack.
Here's a crack pipe.
Here's a high point, you know?
Nine millimeter pistol, for those of you who don't know.
And that is basically Trump's presidential motorcade at this point.
He's throwing these things out.
He's throwing out his promises.
And pretending like his base isn't going to notice.
Of course, the cop always knows what's going on, but Trump is like, what?
What? I never told you I cut immigration?
A wall?
What are you talking about?
Tune into A&E and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Well, he thinks his base won't notice, but here we are.
We notice very, very well what's going on.
Consider President Trump's recent immigration plan, or should I say, President Kushner's recent immigration plan.
This plan is not designed to become legislature.
It is designed to replace all of President Trump's previous promises on immigration.
That nice rhetoric about reducing legal immigration and protecting American jobs, forget about that.
The hours, cumulative hours of build-the-wall chants at his rallies, in which I engaged at several rallies, forget about that.
You know, three years ago, the president was deeply concerned with limiting the amount of H-1B and H-2B visas.
Visa applicants that come into the country.
After all, H-1B and H-2B visas are, by design, visas that are given to people who come into the country and steal good American jobs from Americans that should be starting families and building wealth for themselves.
Here's a quote.
Listen to this.
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working-class Americans to earn a middle-class wage.
We need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed.
Where do you think that quote is from?
Could be.
Is it from an Ann Coulter column?
Is it from an opinion piece published on VDAIR?
Is it a quote from the Strike and Mike podcast?
No, it's actually a quote from the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign website when Corey Lewandowski and people like Steve Bannon were running the show.
Now we get this.
President Trump's new stance on immigration is literally, and I quote, more immigrants than ever before.
Talk about a 180 in just three years.
His new slate of policy proposals drastically increased by four times the amount of job-stealing, wage-suppressing, supposedly high-skill immigrants to the U.S. that will allow in, while doing absolutely nothing to combat the illegal immigration happening at the southern border.
I read a report a couple days ago, 1.1 thousand people per day.
Caught and released into the U.S. Any time in history, this would be considered an invasion.
Now it's a jobs program.
The president may have given up on changing America's immigration system in any meaningful way, but that doesn't mean the project is over.
Far from it.
There are reasons to be encouraged.
Polling from Harvard University finds that two in three Americans oppose catch and release at the border.
They find that among Trump voters, and we know who Trump voters are, Building the wall and cutting immigration are the number one and two priorities.
Think about it.
Our position on immigration is more popular than the position any Republican politician advocates for.
They have the gall to call us fringe while they unveil deeply unpopular plans that dispossess Americans in our own country.
If censorship were based on how popular ideas were, Bill Kristol would be relegated to Gab, and FTN would be syndicated on terrestrial radio.
Thank you.
You know, I just got an idea.
Somebody with these ideas in immigration should run for office in the Republican Party.
Surely they'd welcome that with open arms, right?
They wouldn't strip their voting rights and kick them out of the committee.
We know how that turns out.
So, it's not all bad.
We did get some upsides from the Trump phenomenon.
Plenty, actually.
Immigration and race are now the topics in American political discussion.
Not the topics de jure, not the topics of the moment, but the topics that undergird every political conversation in this country.
Race is at the forefront of the political conversation.
And for that, we, in part, have people like Donald Trump to thank.
We also have the people.
There are hundreds of thousands of Zoomers, Zoomer gang, rise up, Gen Z, that trusted Trump and were genuinely shocked by his betrayal.
These are people who are young, idealistic, full of energy, with boundless potential.
It's not just the Zoomers.
There are hundreds of thousands of people all across this country that were brought into the political process, brought out of the shadows, like the left likes to say, by the Trump campaign, and are now politically homeless, looking for answers.
Why wasn't he able to accomplish what he promised?
These are people we can appeal to, and we must appeal to.
We can now do a retrospective and acknowledge what we knew before, that counting on any politician, any party, or any leader to save European Americans from extinction was asking too much from anyone.
Maybe it was my youthful exuberance, but I expected President Trump to do a lot more to at least get our country back on the right track towards, once again, becoming a nation.
The weight now falls on our shoulders.
But really, it always did.
How do we start thinking of ourselves as the change-makers instead of just along for the ride?
One of my hobbies outside of making political videos is car restoration.
And my project right now is a 1967 MGMGB.
Some of our older friends in the audience might know what that is.
And one of the questions I'm asking myself right now is what to do about the transmission.
It's laying in pieces on my garage floor.
I could spend the time to put it back together.
Should I restore the parts and put it back together?
Or should I just go on eBay and spend the money and buy a new one?
We could fight to restore formerly great institutions.
We could sit for hours out in the garage with a carved cleaner and a wire brush and steer these institutions to serve our ends.
In some cases, like with the Republican Party, that's our only means of engagement.
It was mentioned earlier.
Electoral politics can be productive and are going to be a necessity going forward.
City council, county commissioner, even local board positions, state legislature.
If you have the means and security, go out and run for these positions.
GOP party politics can still be productive, too, and local party organizations are still prime targets.
The future really does belong to people who show up.
And because of the public nature of this talk, I won't go too far into detail, but feel free to speak to me afterwards about how to do that.
And we can't forget about the importance of activism and strong activist organizations like American Identity Movement and others.
Confrontational. The Fiji water will be deeply ironic when I talk about capitalism later.
Confrontational, provocative, visually commanding, legal activism is essential.
And that's a topic covered well by Patrick and others.
For many, especially those with prestigious careers or families to protect, activism may not be the best use of your potential.
Or you may want to engage in activism, but you need to know that your life won't be effectively over if you are to be the target of a leftist media smear campaign.
Political institutions aren't the only institutions that matter.
Institutions like job networks, social circles, the modern family, the media, entertainment, all of these in a healthy society would serve the betterment of the people.
In clown society, none of these institutions can be relied on.
Institutions are crumbling around us.
Institutions that used to be unifying backbones for American public, family, civic, and political life are being weaponized against us.
I really enjoyed Patrick's talk earlier about woke capital.
It's undeniable that major social media and financial institutions are now acting as the enforcers of neoliberal morality.
That's a problem.
And beyond woke capital, the companies that actively engage in suppression of free speech and political dissent, I believe we have to interrogate our own assumptions about American capitalism and how it relates to us.
Is American capitalism, as currently conceived, an institution that benefits or hurts us?
Many of us in former lives as devout libertarians or traditional conservatives have extolled the virtues of unlimited free market capitalism.
A free market makes a free people.
If only it were that easy.
Along the way in the 1900s, it was decided that the purpose of the American state was not to protect the interests of the people, but to maximize productivity within the United States' economic zone.
The more GDP, the better.
American capitalism has brought us such freedoms as mothers forced into the workforce, away from their children, in order to make basic household needs meet.
Young people putting off having children until their 30s, when they feel like they can safely afford it.
The median home buying age increasing from 26 to nearly 34. As we know, real wages for the American people have been stagnant for nearly 40 years.
Despite record economic productivity, Americans aren't making more than we used to.
But we feel like we are.
Cheap consumer goods have flooded the market.
Clothes, toys, electronics, things that would have been considered top luxuries just a few years ago are ubiquitous today.
A car hysteria you don't have to connect to through a tape deck, or a smart speaker that automatically orders with toilet paper.
I mean, come on, these are cool things.
Conservatives love to tout Americans' access to consumer goods as one of the country's crowning achievements.
Ben Shapiro will argue that your ability to purchase your fifth television means you have no right to complain about American society.
Americans used to derive our identity from who we are, our national characteristics, our attitude, our common ancestry, our spirit.
Now, we identify ourselves based around which sports ball team we cheer for on Sundays, and whether we're team iPhone or Android, whether we prefer Nike or Ideas.
Consumerism is a dehumanizing force that divorces us from the things that make us who we are and intertwines us with the things that we choose to purchase.
Marketing firms have spent billions of dollars researching the best ways to exploit our psychology and convince us that buying the next product is the missing key to bring us happiness.
All in my life will be well once I get the two-inch bigger television, right?
Or the phone with two more megapixels.
A good consumer is never satisfied with what they have.
And constantly is driven to buy more, and to buy outside their means.
Thankfully for the uber-wealthy elites and credentialed marketing executives, our society takes a very permissive view of high-interest loans.
Consume now and spend the next five years paying for it.
This presents a problem for America's capitalist elite.
Although America is, for now, the world's largest market for consumer goods, Americans aren't actually very good consumers.
How does that work?
A 2018 study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that only 23% of white households are rented, while 77% are owned or owned with a mortgage.
By comparison, 60% of black households and 55% of Latino households are rented.
The study found that white Americans build wealth and equity through home ownership, and non-whites, even Asians, tend to prefer to pay rent.
A study from the University of Chicago, this was very interesting, found that white people are actually some of the worst consumers imaginable.
In a paper titled Conspicuous Consumption and Race, researchers discovered that, quote, Black Americans and Hispanics spend up to 30% more than whites of comparable income on visible goods like clothing, cars, and jewelry.
Researchers discovered that Blacks and Hispanics tend not to put money in savings.
They save less money in case of emergency.
They save less for health care expenses.
They don't save for college.
Then again, if you knew you had a full ride to Harvard waiting for you simply because of your race, you probably wouldn't be inclined to save money either.
If you're a part of the neoliberal capitalist elite that strives to maximize profit, you want more consumers, and you also want to decrease costs.
That means decreasing wages.
It would make sense for you to demographically eliminate the people that demand things like vacation time, maternity leave, and fundamentally a fair and living wage that would allow them to raise a family on a single income, the way it used to be done in this country.
You would want to eliminate the people that save their money, own their homes instead of paying rent, and don't fall for predatory, usurious lending.
As our workforce becomes lower paid and lower skilled, quality of life for those residing in the U.S., Americans and non-Americans, will suffer.
You can't escape the fact that you get what you pay for.
For a glimpse into our country's wonderful future, take a look at the corrugated aluminum skylines of South American favelas, or the conditions in your average Indian hospital, or the academic environment, if you can call it that, in your typical South African university.
We hear from President Trump and the left that we need more high-skilled immigrants, right?
People who can become doctors.
That's apparently a big hole in the American market share.
We need more doctors.
Doctors, presumably, like Vaishnavi Laxman, an ostensibly British gynecologist of Pakistani descent.
Vaishnavi, while delivering a baby in March 2014, didn't understand how to properly deliver a baby in the breech position.
And some of you are already cringing because you know what happens next, when the baby's delivered foot down instead of head down.
As a result of her incompetence during delivery, the English baby was decapitated.
But don't worry, everything's okay.
The head was temporarily reattached by this intrepid doctor so the mother could say goodbye.
That's the future of health care we have in this country that the elites have in mind for us.
That's how they want us to live.
And that goes for everything.
Construction, engineering, software design.
You always get what you pay for.
But the elites don't mind.
They'll be in their gated communities.
They can pay to have the good doctor.
They'll be in their coastal enclaves.
They'll have expensive contractors to build their homes, private ambulance services, and foreign passports waiting in their nightstand at home.
But we, the proles, will be forced to experience diversity, and we will appreciate it because it is our strength.
We aren't the easily controllable worker and consumer automatons that this capitalist neoliberal system demands.
And so, they have to replace us.
Inconveniently, for the users and media elites, we are not going quietly.
People in growing numbers are standing up and rejecting the liberal morality pushed upon us by the powerful elites and technocrats.
I mean, we have no other choice.
The elites tell us that they are the moral ones, they know better than us, and we are backwards.
And, I love this one, they tell us we are ignorant.
They never tell us what we are ignorant of.
It's enlightened to give your child hormone treatment and mutilate their reproductive organs at a young age.
That is enlightened.
It's progressive to allow pedophiles unfettered access to your young children.
The most stunning, beautiful, feminist bravery of all is never to even have a child.
Instead, have his head crushed with a pair of pliers and dissected limbs sucked out with a vacuum.
They claim that we are evil while they sexualize every child they cannot kill and call us hateful for defending our families.
No, they are the evil ones, not us.
And that is why it is imperative we don't let them win.
Thank you.
The evil empire has already bitten off more than it can chew, and its decline is inevitable.
With that in mind, for us and our family's sake, we have to be prepared and make ourselves resilient.
When I say make ourselves resilient, I'm not talking about anything illegal or extreme.
As we all know, misguided illegal activities do nothing to make any of us better off.
How is your family going to be better off without you around?
Isn't it the whole reason we're doing this?
For the sake of our progeny?
And our people?
As I mentioned earlier, political institutions are not the only institutions that matter.
Institutions like job networks, social circles, the modern family, these matter too.
And as our political process weakens and our system loses credibility, these institutions, local institutions, will actually matter more than national politics or who the chairperson is of the Republican or Democrat parties.
We need to have an infrastructure that can get someone a new job if they get fired for doing activism or having the wrong opinion, like children should be raised in the gender they're born.
We need support groups for young families to help them handle the prohibitive cost of having children.
Those of us with means need to feel comfortable helping those of us who fall on hard times.
We can look to many Mormon churches for inspiration, and I'm not advocating for Mormonism here, I'm not a part of the church, but there's an understanding amongst members of certain Mormon churches that if one person loses their job, they'll be helped out financially.
With the understanding that as soon as they're back on their feet and again have the means, they will pay back into that system to help out the next person who loses their job.
We need to have that same sense of community.
These networks are already being built to some degree across the country.
One of the best examples comes from TRS with local groups known as pool parties in cities across the country.
They regularly raise funds for people with medical expenses, friends in need, help with childcare, and most importantly, they meet regularly to form real, genuine local communities.
That's something we can all learn from.
I'm not calling for the establishment of a new national organization or telling other people how to do their jobs.
In fact, it's the opposite.
All of us gather here on a national level, and I think we can take the spirit of local organizing back with us to our communities when we return home.
National organizing is great, but what I'm talking about must be done locally.
Community is built through regular, face-to-face, in-person fraternity, away from the surveillance of big tech and the scrutiny of hostile media.
I encourage you all to look around the room and find at least one person from your state, or when you return home, set up a gathering for your local friends with sympathetic views.
We can't rely on internet-based communities, especially as censorship tightens.
Local support.
Definitely. My speech at the first Identity Europa conference was called Internet to Institutions, and I think that takes on a new meaning in the context of the growing censorship we face.
Local support, local connections, and real-life engagement is not only good for us, it's crushing for the opposition that wants us dependent on hostile tech platforms they control.
It makes it exponentially easier to shut us down if they control the means on which we organize.
We're now granted a great opportunity.
As this neoliberal clown empire collapses around us, we have the opportunity to build a nation out of the wreckage.
We have the power to lead an American renaissance.