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Aug. 5, 2023 - RadixJournal - Richard Spencer
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The Last Election

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit radixjournal.substack.comIn this week’s sample, Richard foresees America’s final election in 2024: Trump vs. Biden—Win or Die! Both sides refuse to accept the outcome; J6 writ large ensues. In the “Members Only” section, the gang discusses the Ukrainian conflict. Is America preparing to sell out Ukraine out of a fear instability in Russia?

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I wonder the degree to which 2024 will be the last election in the United States.
And I know that sounds a bit much hysterical, etc., but I'm not sure it really is.
You could be a serial killer.
And get elected president from prison, hypothetically, at least.
But insurrectionists, no.
And he's not being charged on those matters, but he is effectively being charged as a traitor or coup attempter.
And these things are adding up to where...
His possible jail sentences are much longer than this 80-year-old man will be alive.
It's basically the election is pitched to the point of, and this is how it will be perceived, even if it won't quite work out this way, that it's pitched to the point of when or you die.
And I think there's always been an existential quality to Trump.
From 2016 and onward.
I mean, in 2016, there was a lot of talk of the wall, which is, of course, a kind of existential entity.
Even if it was used simply as a mnemonic for Trump to remember to talk about immigration, which is what I learned from Maggie Haberman's book.
Regardless, there was an existential quality to it.
Are we going to be a nation or are we not?
And yes, everyone always says this is the most important election of your lifetime, but there was a little more oomph to this one with that concept of the wall.
And it's funny, you know, when you look back on it, that this, you know, goofy reality show star, fraudulent internet celebrity Former real estate dealer who blew himself up doing casinos in Atlantic City.
I mean, it is kind of hilarious that such a person would speak to Americans on this existential level, but there you go.
In 2020, I think there was the general angst of COVID.
The general sense of something has gone wrong.
We don't trust the government.
You add to this BLM, which I think was not caused by COVID, but certainly catalyzed by COVID.
Beyond George Floyd, it came in the wake of everyone being locked up for three months.
And wanting to go outside and carrying this burden of extreme angst as well.
So it was all, there was an existential quality to 2020.
And of course, with the election and all that, you know, immediately afterward, everyone was patting themselves on the back.
Trump announced that, you know, we won and it wasn't even close or whatever he said.
And then it became this existential crisis of, you know, what do we think of elections?
Is it real?
Can we trust any of this?
And maybe there was a little underlying anxiety about demographic change.
You know, election fraud almost seems a kind of metaphor for demographic fraud or demographic change, you could say.
So there is another existential quality to this.
And now it's been pitched up to kind of a personal level.
But that's not to say that it is diminishing its quality.
you know, it's not all of these politicians are, you know, you could say rampant, uh, narcissist and, and, and egomaniacs, et cetera.
I mean, that, that comes with the territory.
There's not a, I think the people who are in the state house in Wyoming are probably rampant narcissists on some levels.
This is just a given with any politician.
But with Trump, the personal is bigger than that.
The personal is deeply symbolic.
And monumental.
And it becomes whether Trump is going to survive or whether he is going to be sent to prison.
Now, you could argue, if we do have another indictment coming down from Georgia about his phone call and attempt to capture, what is it, all we need is 50,000 votes or whatever he said, he can't pardon himself if he wins in a state crime.
Now, maybe there's a way around that.
Maybe once, if he were to be president, the Georgia district attorney would be just kind of at a loss to do anything.
It's, you know, how can we prosecute this person at this time?
It would get delayed indefinitely.
Who knows?
But there is this sense of, like, where can we go beyond this?
And you could say that this is all great theater, break out the popcorn.
That's true.
You could say this is a nightmare.
When can we go back to normal?
There's also some truth to that.
But I guess my view of this is where do you exactly go from here?
If Trump wins and pardons himself or something, I think there will be some sort of unrest on the left.
And at the very least, there's going to be a tremendous amount of anxiety.
Now, I don't think Trump will win, but does he have a 5% chance?
Absolutely.
It can be done.
He probably had a 5% chance in 2016, and he did it.
You know, very few teams go undefeated.
You know, like, at some point, just something is going to go wrong, and the best team in the league loses to the worst team in the league due to a fluke or...
Their best player got the flu, etc.
These things happen.
They always happen.
They happen regularly.
A 5% chance is actually huge.
You certainly wouldn't get on an airplane if they said there's a 95% chance that we're going to land safely.
5% chance is a real thing.
He has something like that in order to win.
Maybe it's higher.
Maybe it's 10. Maybe it's 20. I don't think it's 50, but it's something.
I think that that would create some sort of unrest.
Obviously, he loses.
I don't see how the conservatives can talk themselves out of this frenzy, this lather that they have about elections being fraudulent.
At the very mildest, they will say that the prosecutors and Jack Smith and the deep state, they just threw everything at the wall to try to get something to stick, and they destroyed this innocent man by just indicting him to death, effectively.
That will be the mildest thing, they would say.
We know that they are willing to use cockamamie legal theories in order to try to keep Trump in office.
There is an interesting kind of moment in the indictment as well where Trump was speaking with, I guess it's like co-conspirator six or something.
It's the guy who was like an environmental lawyer who was up for reform.
And they were talking about this.
They were saying, people are going to go nuts if you remain in office.
The Democratic coalition of all of these millions of people, they got excited about the election.
They were talking about it, obsessed with it.
They went out to vote.
More people voted in history.
If you remain in office, there is going to be rioting.
And the response to that was, that's when we use the Insurrection Act.
So, you know, as buffoonish as J6 was, it was very real.
It was very much an attempt to keep Trump in office.
If he had pulled that card, I think, you know, probably 90% or 95% of the bureaucracy would have resigned in protest.
I mean, who...
Obviously, God knows what would have happened, but that idea is in the air.
They have done this, and presumably they would be a little bit better at it or even more brutal about it.
Let's not even lie about it anymore.
Let's just force our way in.
And we'll use the election lies.
We'll use whatever.
Maybe we won't even use those at some point.
Maybe we'll just outright say, we cannot allow The evil Democrats in the deep state to control the country, it's 1776 time.
Now, I think they're going to fail, but where do you go from that?
There's no reason for me to believe that things are getting milder or softer or this is just going to be fun and games.
I don't know.
I wonder...
The degree to which this is the last election.
And I don't think I'm being hysterical about this.
I think this is a very real thing.
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