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Aug. 21, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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James Edwards — "Reasons for Optimism." (2023)
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Our next speaker, of course, is James Edwards.
He is the host of the Political Suspool radio program.
Mr. Edwards got his first taste of the fight when he was 20 years old, year 2000, as a national committee member of the Buchanan for President campaign.
Two years later, he ran for a seat in the Texas Statehouse.
And in 2004 is when he started the radio program Political Cesspool.
I remember thinking, well, here's a promising young lad.
Let's see how far he goes.
Well, the Political Cesspool is now in its 19th year.
So I think we can certainly say that Brother Edwards is a seasoned leader.
Thank you.
And a dear comrade in this fight.
He wrote the opening chapter of a recently published book called The Honorable Cause, A Free South.
And he is here today with his partner in what may be an even more honorable cause.
That is to say his wife, Dani, who is the mother of his three children.
Please welcome Mr. Edwards, who will speak on Reasons for Optimism.
Thank you, Jared.
This is actually my third time to speak before an American Renaissance gathering.
And every time Jared calls me and asks me to speak, I think to myself, wow, a lot of people must have turned him down this year.
But I will do my level best not to blow it today or at least not fall off the stage.
But I should quickly make mention that one Samuel Jared Taylor has made more guest appearances on the aforementioned radio program than any other challenger.
And as you might imagine, we've become friends over that time.
So when I was in Washington back in January of 2017 with two press credentials to see Donald Trump sworn in as President of the United States, who do you think I asked to join me?
Of course.
If you're in Washington and you've got a press credential like that, you're going to ask Jared.
And so there we were, seated about as far away from the president as I am seated from Jared right now, as he was sworn in and took that oath.
And the press recognized Jared on site that day and came to interview him.
I think they were a little bit confused and perhaps a little bit disconcerted as to how we were amongst them that day.
It was in 2016, and Ameren had a spring conference that year.
I had just interviewed Donald Trump Jr., and the media was absolutely apoplectic about that.
For about a year, they were.
And actually, the New York Times and the Washington Post may still be writing articles about it.
It's a little bit like the Emmett Till case.
There's never really any updates, but that doesn't keep it from being breaking news.
But I said with confidence that year, That Donald Trump would be elected president of the United States.
In the spring of 2016, a lot of people didn't believe that, even people who wanted him to be.
And the message I'm going to share with you today, I share with an equal amount of confidence.
2016 was only eight years ago, but it was a world away from where we were then.
And in many respects, perhaps inadvertently, but because of Donald Trump and these changes that have come will present us with opportunities that previously didn't exist.
And let me also assure you, before I continue, that any youthful naivete that I may have once possessed has long since been zapped.
I have been attacked by virtually every media outlet in the world at one time or another, an incessant drumbeat.
I have an unblemished record of setbacks and defeats, and I have been denounced by name and on the record by the United States Congress, been banned by every social media outlet and every credit card processing company in the universe.
And Elon, if you're watching, Jared and I would like our accounts restored, sir.
But I've also been right about a lot of things over that time, and I am still brimming with zeal because I believe that our cause is just and that things are going to turn around for us.
Things do change.
Mark Webber is a man for whom I have an immense amount of respect.
He said a very simple but profound remark at his most recent address of the Scansa Forum.
Things won't always be this way.
When I first started, like all young lads, I thought that I could single-handedly turn the rudder.
The reason we hadn't won yet was just simply because I hadn't arrived yet.
But it didn't take me too long to figure out this nut was going to be a little bit more difficult to crack than that.
And so I dispensed with that thinking, and I adopted the mindset of I would happily serve as a faithful shepherd to whatever flock I've got.
But now, I am beginning to think that we have a real puncher's chance of witnessing something absolutely amazing come about in the very near term.
This corrupt and gluttonous empire that we live under will not stand the test of time as it currently exists.
That much I can tell you.
And no empire ever does.
The United States won't be an exception.
It is unfortunate for all of us in the room that we just so happen to be born during the nadir of the American experiment.
We've spent a lifetime watching things get progressively worse.
And when you ever hear the establishment media speak of progress, believe me, something just got progressively worse.
We've watched for years as society at large has circled down the drain with no end in sight.
But then, inexplicably, and within the past couple of years especially, whites in middle America started to show a pulse again.
Make no mistake about it, the GOP base, the average Trump voter, Are showing signs of a racial consciousness.
And there are mountains of statistical data and anecdotal evidence to back up my claim.
But first, take a trip back with me, if you would, to the mid-2000s, the late 2000s.
Right around the time where people like myself and Jared and Peter Brimelow were making our final appearances as guests on CNN and Fox News and C-SPAN and places like that.
Yeah, they actually used to have us on.
They still...
They don't talk about us.
They just don't talk to us anymore, and there's a difference in that.
But if you take a look at the state of so-called conservatism at that time, you saw disinfected whites being spoken for by people like Glenn Beck.
And thankfully, those days are gone, the days of the ridiculous Tea Parties.
Not that the people there necessarily were ridiculous.
Actually, Peter Brimlow and I were interviewed by CNN in tandem.
Our whites oppressed majority.
I think was the question.
But it was in response to the Glenn Beck rally that he had in Washington at the Lincoln Memorial.
And this is what was going on.
For that base that would eventually become the Trump base, Glenn Beck was saying things like, here we are, I stand here now where the great Martin Luther King once stood, but allow me to take a step down because I have no right to be on the same pedestal as Dr. Reverend King.
And so I can't win with a guy like that, ladies and gentlemen, which led me to write this book, Racism Schmacism, How Liberals Use the R Word.
Back then, people still didn't get it yet that...
And it was written on an elementary level for an introductory type of purpose, but people didn't get what they meant by the word racism.
They didn't mean it the way that a lot of people think they do.
They just want you to retreat from the field.
And so they do that to keep you spinning your wheels.
But people get it now.
And again, I think largely because of Trump.
Trump, every single day, from the day he came down that escalator in Trump Tower through today and every day between then and now, every article that has ever been written about him, racist, bigot, White supremacist, fascist.
And I think it numbed people to it.
They have overplayed that so much.
Trump could have cured cancer or walked on water.
The headline would have been Donald Trump is a racist.
And so we have come a long way.
The people now get what the late Bob Whitaker was talking about.
These people are not anti-racist.
anti-white.
But those days are gone and the cracks and fissures are beginning to be exposed all over the place.
Where are we now?
To answer that, I'm going to share with you some stats and some data that will help gird your loins.
Here's a headline.
73% of Trump voters think Democrats are trying to replace white people with immigrants and people of color who share their political views.
Shock new poll shows.
Now, those are numbers we can win with.
73%. Make me look good, Martin.
73% of tens of millions of people.
And these people are less naive about race than the post-George Floyd, Joe Biden era.
Blake Masters, who ran for Senate, as you remember, back in 2022, the GOP nominee for Senate in Arizona.
Here's the headline.
GOP nominee for Senate blames gun violence on, quote, black people, frankly, end quote.
And, of course, he is correct.
That is 100% factual.
But here's the thing about telling the truth.
Once some people start to do it, then other people start to do it.
It can be contagious like that.
Tulsi Gabbard, maybe the last honest Democrat or former Democrat, as it were, has added the...
There's nothing wrong with biding our time right now because people are rapidly catching up to us.
We don't have to go out and do anything because people are getting to us on their own schedule.
But to what extent are they catching up?
The ground is shifting as we speak, and it's observable in real time.
Politico headline.
Politico flagged a stunning poll.
Results showing that a quarter of Republican voters oppose Congress passing a federal law to protect interracial marriage.
As we're also seeing, millions of white Republican voters believe that having a strong leader is more important than protecting our democracy with a capital D, as the Washington Post now writes it.
Red state Trump voters are now more likely to say that they would be better off.
And worse off if their state seceded Yahoo News, YouGov poll.
We'll talk more about that in just a second.
But it's not just here that we're seeing these stirrings.
Hungary's leader, Viktor Orban, bashed Western Europeans for, quote, mixing with non-Europeans and said Hungarians do not want to become a mixed race.
That's not a failed candidate for the United States Senate, and that is not a former member of Congress.
That is a sitting prime minister of a major European nation.
In the meantime, people like Ben Sasse, thank God, are done.
They have been replaced.
Liz Cheney got rolled by 30 points.
The Bush-Cheney...
Clinton dynasty is over.
There's not one of them in office at any level.
Poof! It is gone.
And just like that, absolutely unfathomable to have believed that as recently as 2015.
But you want more polling data.
I know you do.
So here we go.
This was recorded just after Biden's inauguration.
87% of Trump voters are worried about anti-white discrimination.
80% of Trump voters reject white privilege.
64% of Trump voters believe that their race and ethnicity is important to their identity.
40% of Trump voters believe that their race and ethnicity is extremely important to their sense of identity.
Why is all this happening now?
Why now?
Our ideas are no more correct or right today than they were 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago.
No matter how far back you go.
But it's really just in the past two to three years, not just during the Trump era itself, but the last two to three years that so much of this has crystallized.
So I would ask you to consider the following.
Since the summer of St. George, at least 200 Confederate monuments have been destroyed by an orgy of mob violence and the actions of left-wing governments.
This was an all-out assault on American heritage that ran from Robert E. Lee.
To the founding fathers, to Christian missionaries.
Donald Trump and his supporters have been censored and purged from the internet by big tech.
Six months of nonstop violence by Antifa and Black Lives Matter from the death of George Floyd to the 2020 election.
The FBI and the DOJ have turned a blind eye to this violence.
The FBI and the DOJ have in fact become weaponized against Trump and his supporters.
They've launched a domestic war on terror against non-existent insurgents.
The New York Times and the mainstream media have gone beyond Whatever level of bad they were in previous years to the point where now we have racial attacks on whites that have become a never-ending bombardment.
The definition of racism, as I saw in 2010 when I wrote this book, has been changed now and basically everybody gets it.
All white people are held to be complicit in systemic racism and white supremacy.
Racist means white person the way they use it.
The political, cultural, and corporate establishment embrace critical race theory and equity language.
Filifies whites on the basis of race.
Too many people to count have been doxed, fired, and silenced over differences of opinion.
Donald Trump has told his followers that the 2020 election was outright stolen from him, and 70% believe that it's true.
And finally, a simultaneous push to indoctrinate kids with critical race theory and transgender propaganda from kindergarten onward.
That list right there, those 10 points were compiled by my good friend Brad Griffin, which I borrowed with attribution today.
Now, yeah, Brad Griffith does a great job at Occidental Dissent.
It's an uncanny knack of saying things that I'm seeing and feeling or putting it into the written form.
But what effect do you think all of these things have had in such a short order on white racial attitudes?
Well, according to another incredible poll, nine out of ten Trump voters say that white people are under attack in America to a certain degree.
Now, these are their polls, mind you.
I didn't get the yellow pages.
Those still exist.
But I didn't call a bunch of people just out of the phone book and say,"Oh, I ran a poll." These are their polls.
These are the polls that the news media so often cites.
And I don't think the toothpaste is going to go back in the tube on these things.
Having a developing sense of white racial consciousness is becoming in vogue.
It doesn't make any sense to even label us hate groups or extremists anymore.
We're part of the mainstream now.
White nationalists, if you want to use that term, are polling better among Trump supporters in the media now.
And the work we've done for years, believe it, the work our collective has done for years to stoke those embers of the faithful have been essential and they're bearing fruit now.
But sometimes you have to wait for the right conditions to present themselves and for your enemies to overplay their hand.
Now, you might be wondering, well, what if the enemy sees what you're saying today and they pump the brakes a little bit?
They can't do it.
They won't do it.
They are so hopped up on hatred of our people that there's no brakes on their train.
They will continue to accelerate these things.
Here we go again.
92% of Trump voters.
And again, when I say Trump voters, you know what I'm talking about.
White Republicans, basically.
Middle America, 92% of Trump voters think that the mainstream media is identical with the Democratic Party.
86% want to build a wall.
77% feel as though they've been gagged by political correctness.
62% want to deport all illegal aliens.
Attitudes are changing.
Attitudes are changing.
And when you see someone like Ron DeSantis correctly say in a press conference that the Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre was an anti-white attack, which he did, pat yourself on the back, because you did that.
These politicians are just trying to keep up with where the voters are now.
I've got a pretty, I don't know if it's cynical or pragmatic, but I've got a theory on human nature.
There are very few people on either side of the political spectrum that have inflexible beliefs.
Those of us in this room are going to rise or fall with our beliefs come what may.
But most people, and certainly, there is a group of people on the other side of the political spectrum that want to see us destroyed at all costs.
But most people in the middle are simply looking after number one.
They will do and say whatever they need to do and say to get by in life.
They'll take the path of least resistance.
They'll conform to whatever the current trends are and fashions of society are.
Well, guess what?
They're going to do the exact same thing when we regain control of the levers of institutional power.
I would rather, of course, have everyone be true believers, especially our elected officials and titans of industry, but they're going to fall in line whenever the day comes when we can exert more leverage than our enemies.
It's just that simple.
Change doesn't have to be as far away as it seems.
As I said, politicians are trying to keep up with the base, so too are conservative influers like Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh.
They are actually saying things now, their own talking points now, they're saying things, the exact same things, that they were kicking people out of their meetings for saying as recently as just a couple of years ago.
And so all of this is happening in fits and starts.
But here are some more things that used to be taboo, and which only used to be discussed in gatherings such as this, That we've all watched enter into the conservative mainstream over the past few years.
And even you have elected officials, sitting members of Congress, saying things like this.
Journalists are the enemy of the people.
Abolishing the FBI.
I mean, Donald Trump has done so much to help us corrode.
This trust in the institutions, he's really accelerated things by decades in this regard.
Black on white crime, the great replacement, the term anti-white, as I mentioned, white advocacy, just in general, things like opposing affirmative action, race-based hiring, opposition to critical race theory, attacking the SPLC and the ADL.
Hey, listen, when I first got added...
When I first got added to the SPLC's hate watch list back in 2006...
Or have remained ever since.
That was still something that bothered a lot of people.
And it could cause you a lot of trouble.
It still can.
But now you have, I see it all over social media.
A lot of big-time conservatives saying, if you're not on the SPLC's list, what's the matter with you?
And then, of course, you had just recently 20 state attorneys general issue a joint statement that they sent to Merrick Garland saying that the SPLC is utterly discredited.
And, of course, they had that unfortunate incident earlier this year with one of their staff attorneys.
Got arrested and charged with domestic terrorism.
So people are getting it now.
They're not as afraid of these organizations as they once were.
But in the grand scheme of things, Humpty Dumpty isn't going to be put back together again.
And it's not just because whites are beginning to have this development of racial consciousness.
It's because diversity and multiculturalism has already made the decision for us, whether we want it to or not, that we're on an inevitable...
The United States is already comprised of many squabbling nations that are partitioned in halves, I guess, to make it simple, the red and the blue.
But not only can these two sides not agree on a similar faith, language, customs, folkways, and heroes, all the things that makes a cohesive society, they can't even agree on what a man or a woman is anymore.
And so you can rest assured that time is short for such a society.
It will not go on forever.
There's a considerable amount of stress being placed on the system right now, not the least of which involves the many arrests and indictments of Donald Trump.
This is a man getting hauled into court up and down the eastern seaboard.
Absolutely unprecedented in American history.
I'm not saying that nobody alive today has seen it.
Nobody in the history of the Republic has seen it.
From Jamestown to Plymouth Rock, this has never happened before.
And as things stand today, we're looking at Trump, who is currently leading in the polls.
He never led in the polls against Clinton or Biden.
He's leading in their polls today, winning the Republican nomination, being convicted on multiple felonies and being sent to prison for multiple lifetimes during the 2024 election cycle.
I think, as we said here today, it really is hard to wrap our minds around what next year may bring.
But this scenario and the chain of events it could unleash.
It's going to be something.
I think we're in for something next year that is going to change history.
And to be clear, and to reiterate, as a point of emphasis, the current President of the United States is using the Justice Department to take out his chief rival in the next election.
You cannot exaggerate how radical that that is.
Brad Griffin once again writes,"It could be a constitutional crisis." It is a vote for Trump could bring this to a climax.
After January 6th, the Democrats will never accept the legitimacy of a Trump victory in presidency.
The deep state will never accept a Trump presidency in light of his threats.
Trump supporters will never accept the legitimacy of his incarceration or removal from office as the result of this witch hunt.
No one is going to take the off-ramp.
All of the polarization and animosity that has been building up for decades could soon boil over, and I agree with that.
Events are moving at a faster pace.
than ever before.
Nearly every metric were objectively in the vortex of something that could be a historical crisis.
Former president leading the Republican presidential candidate, former president and leading Republican presidential candidate being indicted, as I said so many times.
There's still more to come, by the way.
He's not done yet.
Biggest land war in Europe since World War II has broken out.
That could spiral out of control at any moment.
Don't forget to keep your eyes on Taiwan and China, too.
Normies have radicalized in the best sense of the word over the past three years under Joe Biden.
Most people in the country now expect there to be a civil war in their lifetimes.
Polarization is off the charts.
We could very well see the end as the greatest generation, silent generation.
They're all dead and gone now.
This post-World War II order could soon be destabilized.
The entire system is losing its legitimacy.
In the eyes of millions of people, they're poised for some sort of a revolutionary change.
And things like this, changes like this, can often occur very gradually and then all at once.
Public trust in institutions is simply vanishing amongst huge swaths of the population.
They have lost their confidence in the media, the military, federal law enforcement, the judicial system, elections themselves.
There's a deep distrust, to say the least, of the federal government.
This is absolutely necessary, though.
This is absolutely necessary before any real change can occur.
You have to divest yourself of this trust in these institutions.
And this is another gift, I say again, that Trump has given to us.
To further illustrate just one example.
And a lot of this inadvertently.
I don't think he meant to do this, but this is just how it's going.
Trump has repeatedly said that he cannot get a fair trial in New York or Washington, D.C. And he's absolutely right.
If you don't mind this point of personal indulgence, I will say that I have a modicum of experience with this as well.
Now, anybody and everybody who's been on the stage this weekend and still to speak this weekend has been called all of the names, you know.
Racist, white supremacist, on and on and on.
I wonder often if the people writing these things and saying these things really believe that or if they're just doing it to have a negative effect on the intended target.
I kind of think it's the latter, but nevertheless, whatever it is, that is constitutionally protected speech.
So what does rise to meet the level of libel?
People talk about libel, defamation, slander.
What's a libelous statement?
Well, the Restatement of Torts gives us an answer.
It gives us an illustration.
And if one of the many attorneys in the room today can correct me, but I believe the Restatement of Torts is sort of like a guide to help judges and lawyers along.
And it lists...
Membership in the Ku Klux Klan would be the textbook definition of what constitutes libel.
You say somebody's a member of the Ku Klux Klan and in fact they're not.
There's no evidence that there ever have been.
That's libel.
In 2016, a magical year, the Detroit News, which is the daily newspaper that services Detroit, wrote in an article that I was the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
And I contacted a brilliant attorney in Michigan, Kyle Bristow, who did just an amazing job on this particular case, his briefs, his being able to cite precedent.
A lot of lawyers looked at it and said nobody could do better than this.
And, you know, I live in a majority non-white area, so you don't want to be known around there as the leader of the Klan.
That was, I felt, a damaging statement to be sure, and it met the threshold of legal libel.
I asked Sam Dixon, I said, Sam, I think, you know, we should file a lawsuit.
He said, James, it doesn't matter what the law said.
The system is never going to give someone like you a victory.
And I put my hand on Sam's shoulder and I said, Sam, we're going to restore a little bit of your faith here.
I think we can win this one.
And we got blown out of court on the trial level.
Just absolutely dismissed out of hand.
And I thought to myself, well, surely they jest.
And so we appealed to the Court of Appeals in Michigan.
And what this was was a panel of three judges.
It wasn't a jury trial.
A panel of three judges decided whether or not this could proceed.
And they issued a published opinion that came down on Halloween Day 2017.
And as I read the decision, I thought, I knew it.
I knew we could pull this off.
I thought we would win.
justice was served.
decision, now reading straight from the decision right here.
The restatement of tortsless membership in the Ku Klux Klan is the quintessential illustration of a defamatory statement.
In his opinion piece in the Detroit News, columnist Van Cole Thompson asserted that radio show host James Edwards is a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
There is no record evidence to suggest that Edwards holds a formal leadership position in the Ku Klux Klan, nor is there any record evidence to suggest that he is even a member.
Sounds pretty good so far, right?
Well, here's the next line.
Notwithstanding this lack of formal relationship, the courts must be mindful of Aesop's lesson.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Therefore, we hold that Edwards cannot make claims of defamation and affirm summary disposition in favor of the defendants.
So what company did I keep that could tie me in as a leader of the Klan?
Well, once again, Sam Dixon, who I think at one time, maybe one time in the 1970s, 50-year legal career, he...
Defended a client that had an association with the organization in question, and so there you go.
And they also said, well, you've got to understand, when we say he's a leader, that doesn't mean he's actually a leader of the organization.
He says things on the radio that they might agree with, so in that sense, he's a leader.
This was a published opinion, which means that it was binding on the lower courts, essentially rewrote the precedent of defamation law in the state of Michigan in some ways.
On Martin Luther King Day 2018, In Detroit, they flew Jesse Jackson in for a gala where he presented a free speech award to the columnist who so libeled me for his incredible victory against all odds in court.
So that's it.
I mean, the law is whatever they want it to be.
They're doing the exact same thing now in Charlottesville, by the way.
I mean, coincidentally, and it is a total coincidence, but that event took place six years ago to the day, August 12, 2017, and six years after the fact now.
You have men, only now, Being arrested for lighting tiki torches with the intent to intimidate.
They're facing five years in prison while at the same event, at the same day, at the same time, you had a black man with a homemade flamethrower who was actively firing it towards people.
And to my knowledge, he never had a problem.
And that's what the law is now.
The only thing that matters is whose side you're on.
I brought up that example to double down on what Trump is saying.
Trump can't get.
Trump's Moby Dick.
He can't get a fair trial.
A little fry like me can't get one either, and neither can you.
So at this late stage of decline, I believe that reform of the system is utterly out of the question.
Utterly out of the question.
And I didn't feel this way in 2017, but I feel this way now, and I have for some years now.
I've come to the point where I don't want to make America great again.
I want to leave it behind and learn from the mistakes.
And the legitimacy of the system must be destroyed before that change can occur.
Thankfully, we're well on our way.
People have lost, as I said, the confidence in this system.
Both sides see each other now as mortal enemies in an existential conflict.
Again, this wasn't as bad as it was four or five years ago, Trump's first term.
It wasn't like it is now.
They're not going back to normal.
An event must occur that alleviates...
This pressure, this stress, one way or another, and I think we're due for an upheaval or a war or some sort of an economic resorting.
That discontent that is simmering just below the surface will be vented.
And it has become increasingly clear, surely by now, that we cannot vote ourselves out of this.
This country is dysgenic in many ways and degenerate in just about every way.
Blue State America continues to arrest the president of Red State America and is surely going to put him in prison.
Conservative state legislatures routinely pass laws, only to have them overturned by rogue federal judges from other parts of the country.
But if these things can further widen the divide, then we should welcome it, because at least that gives us the opportunity to consider alternative solutions.
The Balkanization of America may not be a pleasant prospect, but it's happened to so many different nations throughout the course of history.
Why should we be any exception?
But under the present arrangement, you have to understand that our people We have no future on this continent, the way things are going.
If we continue down this track, we have no future.
That is a demographic reality.
Our salvation may vary lie.
They very well lie in separation.
And if a national divorce, I think that's what they're calling it now, you can call it secession if you so choose, but if a national divorce or balkanization is what is in our future, then we might as well begin to seriously consider it.
And I have, with the book that Jared mentioned, I had the opportunity to write the opening chapter in this book, The Honorable Cause.
It is looked at through the lens of Southern identity, but the ideas...
That I and my 12 co-authors put into this are applicable for all people.
And it debuted on Amazon on April the 1st at number 11 in the nationalism category, number 19 in political science.
And it held its ground there in the top 20 for over three months.
And I'm very proud of it.
And I'm very proud that it has been favorably reviewed by so many of our movement stalwarts, such as countercurrents and The Occidental Observer, The Barnes Review, some international magazines and journals, and of course, most importantly,
American Renaissance.
Thank you, Jared and Roger Devlin, who wrote the review.
He's out there somewhere.
And I just so happened to bring with me about 20,000 copies, and they're over there by the adult watering hole, so maybe you want to go and take a look.
But it's a serious book that raises a serious question.
But why did it find an audience now?
Why did this message in this book, why did it find an audience?
Why did it get so many reviews?
Rasmussen Poll, 47% of Republican voters support a national divorce.
I told you we would come back to this.
And that was the majority, by the way.
The question wasn't, do you support a national divorce or not?
It was, do you support it, do you not, or are you unsure?
And out of those three options, 47% was by far and away the majority.
So Republicans, more and more now, are supporting this than oppose it.
Whether it's opposing anti-whitism, with a great replacement, or desiring a national divorce, our extremist ideas are sure up and off and running.
The country's more polarized than at any point since the war between the states.
We have irreconcilable differences, I think that would put it mildly.
Millions of people are open to secession now, and the public is beginning to accept this.
Secession movements are sprouting up all over the country, and none of them in theory.
Now, I'm sure you have probably heard that parts of Idaho are voting on a county level to, excuse me, counties in Oregon are voting on a county level to break off and join Idaho.
That's been widely discussed.
But did you know that this happened in Texas just last summer?
Salon Magazine, the wretched Salon Magazine.
Last weekend in Houston, and when they say last weekend, they're talking about, again, this is an article from last summer, but last weekend in Houston, the article reads, Texas Republicans got a taste of just how far right their party has become.
At the state GOP convention, delegates officially declared Joe Biden an illegitimate president and proposed repealing the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
That is the...
That's not the Republican Party of Massachusetts where they're sort of like the Washington Generals.
This is the biggest state Republican Party in the country, the Republican Party of Texas.
And yes, the topic of secession has a heartbeat in Texas.
Rolling Stone Magazine said that Texas State Representative Brian Slayton has introduced a bill that would place a referendum for Texas' secession from the United States on the 2024 ballot House bill.
3596 would allow Texans to vote on, quote, whether or not the state should investigate the possibility of Texas independence and present potential plans to the legislature.
In a statement, Slayton wrote that after decades of continuous abuse of our rights and liberties by the federal government, It is time to let the people of Texas make their voices heard.
Now, do I think that it's going to happen next year?
No, I don't.
But the fact of the matter is, it's not just people at the Sons of Confederate Veterans talking about this.
These are members, elected officials in state legislatures and in county governments.
I got one more example that I almost can guarantee that you have not heard about.
Did you know that the question of secession has already reached the floor of the New Hampshire State House?
The Portland Press Herald headline, "New Hampshire House Votes on Seceding from the United States." The proposal called for "independence from the United States and all references to the United States in the New Hampshire State Constitution, statutes and regulations be
nullified."
Now, as you probably guessed, it failed, or you really would have heard about it, but 13 lawmakers did vote in favor of it, and in doing so himself, Representative Matthew Santa Saso argued that it was just a matter of time before the union collapses.
"National divorce is going to happen.
It's inevitable, and we have an opportunity to get ahead of this." Oregon, Texas, New Hampshire, county governments, state Republican parties, sitting representatives of state legislatures, something's happening.
These are just mere tremors right now, but something's happening.
Secession, by the way, is polling at 20% in New Hampshire.
That's one out of five the last I checked.
Our issues are no more or less valid today than in previous decades or generations, as I said earlier, but the timing wasn't right.
Conditions weren't favorable yet, but they're getting there.
The political rhetoric has become so much more strident and apocalyptic on both sides.
The present trends of cultural disintegration...
Polarization and political instability cannot continue forever.
Once it reaches a certain threshold, instability devolves into conflict.
Conflict resolves polarization by vanquishing one side or the other and establishing a new normal.
That's what's coming, and we don't need to do anything to hasten the day.
Do not go out and do anything stupid, like engaging in or advocating for violence.
So why haven't we won already, though?
Why haven't we won already?
All of these people agree with us now.
Conditions are becoming more ripe.
So why haven't we turned the corner yet?
Not so fast.
There's a lot of reasons for that.
Not the least of which is the fact that our people are still entirely too comfortable.
Our people are going to have to suffer a little bit more first.
I don't think our people, not the people in this room, but our race at large, I don't think we deserve some sort of deus ex machina event to...
Bail us out of the mistakes that we've made.
I think we're going to have to learn from them, and we may have to learn some tough lessons, although, of course, we would all hope that maybe Trump will be like Sampson and bring the house down with him.
But we're going to have to be tested.
We're going to have to be made tough again.
Because rare is the man willing to take risks when he is relatively content.
But a group of people that suffer together become bound together.
But an event's going to have to happen first.
I don't think it will be quite as easy as Trump's election, although I think that's going to take us further down the road.
But an economic collapse here, a nuclear war there, hey, who knows?
Wait until these people, here's the point, all these people who agree with us now and are agreeing with us more by the day, becoming a little bit more brave, wait until these people are faced with the reality that they can't pay the rent.
They can't feed themselves.
They can't keep their kids warm.
Not every crisis like that leads to a favorable resolution, but some crises can make it possible, and that's all that we can realistically hope for is the chance.
This bloated system that governs us will not go down easy.
This system of soft totalitarianism is going to get a lot more rigid when real pressure begins to get applied against it.
That is when you would do very well to remember that you are not an individual.
But part of a collective that exists within a continuum that links us to our distant ancestors and our future descendants.
Our individual lives mean very little compared to something so grand and so wonderful.
And if you allow yourselves to get separated from all of that, this is something that should steal your nerves.
If you allow yourselves to be separated from all of the things that make us who we are and who you are, your traditions, your heroes, your holidays, your faith, your culture, all of that, you get separated from that and you're basically dead already.
So what are you worried about?
And sometimes things get hard.
I mean, that's not a joke.
You may lose friends.
You may have problems with work.
You may lose a job.
Hey, that's a tough thing.
Sometimes these things happen.
But whatever comes, never betray a brother.
Never behave in a way that brings dishonor to our cause and to our people.
Especially when you're under attack.
Especially when you're under attack.
This is an animating thing and an engaging thing to engage in the struggle of one's time.
It stirs that Faustian spirit that exists within the hearts and the minds of the men of the West.
Great men are never made except through great trials.
Adversities aren't obstacles, but rather our greatest opportunities to get better, to forge our character, to work harder, to become smarter, and to prove our worth.
I know it sounds cliche.
It is cliche.
But the future hasn't been written yet.
And during our finite time on Earth, we have a say in how it goes.
So you should welcome that.
We tend to see things only through the lens of our very short time on Earth.
Only the things that we have experienced personally.
It's hard to see before or beyond that.
I'm sure that at some point during the 700 years that...
The Iberian Peninsula was occupied by the Muslims.
Those people surely must have thought that this is the end.
It will always be this way.
It will never get any better.
But it did get better.
And when they finally unshackled themselves, it launched the age of exploration and our people conquered the world.
The Aztec Empire was at the height of its power about five minutes before Cortes landed on the shore with 600 men.
And I'm sure that the people of Russia, those beautiful people, Who suffered and were murdered and starved by the Bolsheviks and the Communists, brutalized.
I'm sure they thought that the sun was never going to rise again.
But suffice it to say, there's a new sheriff in town now.
Am I comparing apples to oranges?
Am I oversimplifying it?
Maybe. Those were different times, different people, and different situations.
But things do change, and they will change here.
We're going to need a leader.
We're going to need a leader who will step in and harness the energy.
Revolutions are top-down.
They are not bottom-up.
We're going to need that man to step into the moment, that moment where time and circumstance intersects and change can occur, that moment, that intersection where you find the place where the message meets the people.
I know not everybody can be up front.
I understand everybody's situation is different.
Not everybody has the same opportunities to serve, but everybody can support or serve in some way.
Support the people in this room.
There are so many people on this podium this weekend and in the crowd itself that are deserving of your support.
So do your part to be part of the team.
There are people here doing phenomenally great work.
Support the work of good men.
Get involved in whatever ways you can.
It will make you feel good to be a stakeholder.
I've been in this my entire adult life, 19 years old, 20 years old.
I'm in my early 40s now.
My wife is here with me today.
She has been with me since before the very first step in this.
And so never let people tell you that you cannot have these beliefs and be resigned to a dysfunctional home life.
I have three young kids.
I have really led a full life already in many ways.
I've lived, I've loved, I've fought.
What an incredible journey it's been.
And I do think.
Things are going to turn around.
I'm not even thinking about anything else.
I think that our people are too talented and too wonderful to go out this way, and frankly, the current system is too absurd to endure.
I don't know.
I can't tell you exactly the time or the place or the catalyst that would bring about our pivot.
But I want you to believe that a window of opportunity will soon open where a lot of wrongs can be righted.
But if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong, and we are about to Enter into the last good fight Western civilization will ever know.
Let us meet it with the same resolve that the Confederate General Patrick Claiborne met the battles of his day when he said,"If this cause that is so dear to my heart is doomed to fail, I pray heaven may let me fall with it while my face is toward the enemy and my arm is battling for that which I know to be right." Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
I look forward to spending the rest of the weekend with you.
And I had a stopwatch.
I made sure.
I know Jern's got the...
He'll pull me off stage.
Thank you.
So I just want to let you know that I agree with you 100%.
But if I was going to give you a contrarian critique, what if the American regime falls?
Wouldn't the Chinese, the Russians, our geopolitical enemies use this opportunity to take a bunch of our territory and in fact occupy us while we are going through this time of troubles, as it were?
I don't concern myself so much.
I hear what you're saying.
I don't concern myself so much with...
The country, per se, the government or the 50 states as they exist on the map, the only thing that matters to me is our people, our races, our nation.
Our people can endure all kinds of things, different forms of governments, even occupations.
Maybe we will have to go through something like that, I don't know.
But as long as our people endure, the country can...
God's will be done on that one.
Hi, thank you for your comments.
Quick question, just...
Interested to hear a couple of your bullet points on secession specifically, and there's some overlap with, let's say, Identity Dixie, right?
And just curious to hear what, in your mind, that might look like, just ideas.
Yeah, well, I mean, that's the million-dollar question.
I know people have been talking about the collapse is inevitable, the collapse is imminent since at least the 70s in our cause.
But, yeah, the idea of secession, I mean, just look at it.
I think when the word secession has mentioned you...
Immediately go to 1861 to 1865.
And that's fine with me.
I had ancestors that I'm very proud of who fought that war.
And we fought on the right side, although it was the losing side.
But... Thank you.
The idea of nations falling apart and splintering and, I mean, as we saw with the fall of the Soviet Union, I mean, this is just almost as natural – this is just something that is natural with the ebbs and flow of history.
I just – it's – America's had a run for a pretty short time, what, 250 years in 2026?
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