RadixJournal - Richard Spencer - The Coming "Holy War"
Aired: 2023-07-21
Duration: 07:14


=== Liberal Hegemony Dominates Media (06:21) ===

[00:00:00]  I think the right, as negative as they are and is lacking in clear policy proposals, in a weird way and in a kind of horrible way, they have the vision.
[00:00:19]  And so let me try to prove what I'm saying.
[00:00:26]  As we know, there's been a general trend of liberal hegemony.
[00:00:33]  There's liberal hegemony in academia.
[00:00:36]  There's liberal hegemony in the media.
[00:00:39]  There's liberal hegemony to a large extent, maybe not quite as much in corporate America.
[00:00:45]  I could go on.
[00:00:47]  And so the conservatives aren't entirely incorrect when they say that like, you know, The liberals are in charge.
[00:00:56]  They're the deep state or whatever.
[00:00:58]  And there's some interesting studies of voting patterns by profession.
[00:01:04]  And so I can go back and look it up and just take my word for it at the moment.
[00:01:12]  If you're a corporate manager, if you are working for the government, if you're working in a university, et cetera, you are...
[00:01:20]  A liberal.
[00:01:21]  If you own a small business, if you work with your hands, you're much more likely to be a conservative.
[00:01:28]  So there's a class dynamic at play there that is actually really significant because institutional power is what it is.
[00:01:38]  It's institutional power.
[00:01:40]  Getting rich, running a small business, you can go buy a jet ski.
[00:01:47]  You're not really impactful on the culture at all, in fact.
[00:01:53]  That person working for $30,000 a year at an art museum has more cultural impact, or a journalist working for the same amount for Politico or whatever, has more cultural impact than a guy with $10 million in the bank and three jet skis at his lake house.
[00:02:16]  Just is what it is.
[00:02:17]  It's maybe a real serious blind spot among conservatives that they are kind of more interested in that type of life as opposed to being an institutionalist.
[00:02:31]  So the liberals are kind of defending liberalism.
[00:02:36]  And one of my criticisms, and in fact, I've even gotten fairly caustic or...
[00:02:44]  Poisonous with some of my criticisms of these liberals are just wringing their hands and fretting about conservatives.
[00:02:52]  Like, in a way, conservatives are pushing the envelope.
[00:02:57]  Liberals are worried about, you know, J6 was a threat to democracy, and Trump's election is a threat to democracy.
[00:03:06]  And, you know, some of these...
[00:03:08]  Conservative gatherings just get out of hand.
[00:03:11]  They're basically just fretting over the conservatives being raucous.
[00:03:17]  But the question is, what is democracy?
[00:03:20]  What is it exactly that you're protecting?
[00:03:22]  What are you putting forward?
[00:03:25]  What is this threat?
[00:03:26]  To what is this threat?
[00:03:29]  And the reason is that liberals are kind of the conservatives at this point.
[00:03:36]  Managing and maintaining liberal hegemony.
[00:03:40]  And the conservatives are the ones who might be dumb and politically violent and crude, etc., etc., but they're the ones who are kind of directly confronting it.
[00:03:56]  They're the ones now talking about a fucking holy war.
[00:03:59]  I mean, you can't, against the deep state or against the enemies of Jesus or whomever, But you can't really put it more pointedly than that.
[00:04:10]  And so the left at some point had the Soviet Union as an embodiment of utopia, as the end of history, as something to shoot for.
[00:04:25]  Before that, it had a kind of idea of utopia that it could imagine.
[00:04:30]  And now it's really bereft of those things.
[00:04:36]  In a way, overly complimentary to say that AOC is a communist or a Marxist or something.
[00:04:44]  She sounds a lot like a liberal who's, I don't know, more favorable towards labor unions.
[00:04:54]  She sounds kind of like a, I don't know, suburban white girl who thinks trans is Kind of cool or something.
[00:05:06]  Or drag queens are cool.
[00:05:08]  There's no there there.
[00:05:10]  Stalin would laugh at an individual like this.
[00:05:14]  And to be fair, I'm not even completely hostile towards AOC.
[00:05:18]  I think she's fine.
[00:05:20]  But an actual leftist who understood himself as in a revolutionary scenario would just laugh at this bourgeois pretender.
[00:05:33]  Who claims to be a leftist or who's leading the left or whatever.
[00:05:38]  And so the liberals, precisely because they're in charge, don't really have a motive or a kind of revolution.
[00:05:48]  Now, the conservatives, there's no doubt that they have next to no policy promotions.
[00:05:56]  Their rhetoric is stupid and nuts, and their rallies are...
[00:06:03]  Dumb, whatever.
[00:06:05]  But they're the ones actually pushing for some kind of paradigmatic change, whether it's a national divorce, whether it's a holy war, whether it's firing half the government,

=== Banning Abortion Online (00:52) ===

[00:06:21]  whether it's banning abortion everywhere, even in the online space, whether it's sending women back to the kitchen and I mean, I don't support any of these things, and many of them are kind of LARP-y or silly, but there's something there.
[00:06:45]  There's a there there.
[00:06:46]  They're not just defending an establishment.
[00:06:49]  And so I do think that at the end of the day, if we are headed towards a chaotic situation, which I think might very well be the case, I do think it's going to be like all of these dumb energies that in many ways we make fun of.
[00:07:06]  I think that they will impact.
[00:07:09]  They're going to be the aggressor.
[00:07:12]  They're going to strike first.